Given that by default anyone can see a user’s presence and Personal Note, I thought it’d be an interesting challenge to see if I could turn Lync into a remote indicator panel to provide distributed monitoring of a process or an application. All we need are some sensors to interface to the real world, and …
Coming back from holidays and finding your Inbox with hundreds of new messages is something I think we all dread, especially when you KNOW many of them are no longer relevant because the sender received your OOF message and took their issue elsewhere. (Thankfully Outlook 2010’s “MailTips” have helped to reduce that figure). If you’re …
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With two USB peripherals in the market providing an external LED that mimics your Lync presence status, I thought it’d be good to compare the two. First off: the disclaimer. My employer [when I wrote this review in 2013] is the supplier of the Blynclight. It’s always difficult to write a completely fair and impartial …
The Christmas / New Year break is when the host servers here (a pair of Dell PE-2950s) get their annual updates of BIOS & firmware, etc. This year the downtime might have been all that little bit more noticeable to you (sorry) as I also took the opportunity to upgrade the o/s on one of …
Here’s a shameless re-post of someone else’s great work. I’m just adding some references to Arduino and Clipsal C-Gate, Toolkit and PACA in the hope that a search engine will help guide others in similar circumstances to the fix. Arduino Driver I’m tinkering with a little Lync project to add a real-world “telemetry-style” interface to …
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