I am on a Mac in OS X 10.4.10. I have Palm Desktop 4.2.1 installed. I want to switch to Studiometry 5, which syncs with iCal. iCal wants to import vCal format,...
Hi all, The nonprofit website we helped launch, www.ChangingThePresent.org provides personal fundraising pages and widgets. Supporters can raise money for any...
Dear ISF Colleagues, Heads-up, e-philanthropy fans! ModestNeeds.Org is inventing the future. Here's a link to my blog article about why I think that their...
Hi, The first meeting of the Boston Joomla Users Group has been scheduled. We'll be meeting on Thursday, November 8th from 7:00p to 9:00p. The meeting will be...
Scott Samenfeld
s-samenfeld@...
Nov 5, 2007 4:02 pm
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Hello group. My name is Steve Foreman and I wanted to introduce myself. I am one of the creators of MyiCourse, a site that allows people to create their own...
Dear Colleagues, Here are a few tips for making your contributions to the list more readable: - Trim, trim, trim! Unnecessary repetitions of previous posts,...
Dear ISF Colleagues, What are your thoughts on Open Social, which was recently launched by Google? Is this going to be a boon to nonprofits, or a passing fad ...
Dear ISF Colleagues, I was just browsing through the ICT4Peacebuilding blog <http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/> when I happened upon an intriguing term that is...
Hi Deborah, There's a few short examples and some links about Online Dispute Resolution tools in the Idealware article Building Peace Through Information and...
Laura S. Quinn
laura@...
Nov 6, 2007 4:48 pm
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If you haven't already taken the IT Staffing Survey, please take a few minutes to complete the survey today. NTEN and The Nonprofit Times are making it easy...
Brett Meyer
brett@...
Nov 8, 2007 8:26 pm
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Recently, someone on the list recommended a couple of micro-lending and/or grant making sites, the names of which I cannot recall. I do believe they were...
I'm putting together a story on accounting software integration with other applications - everything from automating imports from online sales or donation...
Friends, Here at the Quixote Center we've been accepting online donations for several years, using a merchant account from Redwood Merchant Services and the...
Folks: I am working with a nonprofit group that accidentally dropped a critical table from their MySQL database (hosted on a Linux box). I would appreciate...
NZ Bear
bear@...
Nov 11, 2007 7:26 pm
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(Dear Colleagues: Here's a heads-up for those of you who are working with nonprofits that support civil society with e-democracy strategies! It was original...
I suspect they are out of luck, but if there is any hope of recovery at this late date they should immediately cease any use of the database! Any write...
mwalls@...
Nov 12, 2007 2:17 pm
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Good advice; I've already advised them to minimize use of the server (up to shutting it down if they can). MySQL itself doesn't offer any help, I'm afraid ---...
NZ Bear
bear@...
Nov 12, 2007 2:19 pm
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Tim, I’d love to know more about the “integration” part – I’ve long been a believer that financial records ought to have GREAT reconciliation...
Hi NZ, You probably wont consider this very helpful right now, but the best way to recover a dropped table is to get it from the most recent backup of the...
Jim Cory
jcory17@...
Nov 12, 2007 2:23 pm
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The latest issue of Round-Up is now available for download from www.lasa.org.uk/circuitriders This issue has an open source contains articles on: - What is a...
... Your one possible hope is the utility mysqlbinlog. See: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqlbinlog.html It allows you to read mysql binary logs in...
Hi Rob, It shouldn't be too hard to recover the table as long as the data has not yet been overwritten. After all, mySQL stores database information on the...
Dear ISF Colleagues, Take a look at this: < http://lolnptech.blogspot.com/2007/11/it-infrastruction-at-our-nonprofit-is.html ... Seriously, now. This is a...
Andy, I don't know if they have all the options you need, but several years ago we used www.vancoservices.com <http://www.vancoservices.com/> when we needed...
Hello All, I've been reading the Tech Serve for a couple of years and find it interesting and useful. Until now, I've never had need to contact, but I hope...
The binary log is definltely the way to restore the database, if it exists. It stores enough information to walk back through changes and restore the...
Interested in how to better manage technology projects? I'm thrilled to announce a first-of-its-kind Nonprofit Technology Project Management event, hosted by...
Laura S. Quinn
laura@...
Nov 15, 2007 4:33 pm
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Tech Networks is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner specializing in IT solutions for small business and non-profits. Our leadership in the business community...
Hi everyone, As you know, a couple of months ago, the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative (NOSI) released the updated version of the Primer, which we produced...
Folks, I work for a 211 call center in upstate New York. Earlier this year, we switched our DSL service from a local Verizon re-seller to One Communications,...
