I recently installed the latest pidgin for windows which comes bundled with GTK.  One of the features that I require in an instant message program is that I can start typing someone’s name and it find the contact based on what I’m typing.  In the latest pidgin this is broken, but it’s not a pidgin [...]

I ran into an issue where I needed to recreate a Shared Service Provider for a SharePoint environment. The original admin setup the SSP admin site inside of an existing Web Application/Site Collection. Besides manageability, this kind of configuration can cause problems with the search provider and mysites.
There are a lot of blogs and instructions [...]