Yesterday I received a new motherboard for my HTPC: it’s a Zotac ION C which has a passively cooled Atom N230 CPU and a NVIDIA 9400 GPU which supports hardware-accelerated H.264/VC-1 1080p video with very little CPU usage. It’s so quiet now I will take pictures and post them eventually.

As part of work I’ve been doing for a customer who was quite disappointed with Jira’s LDAP shortcomings, I’ve implemented an alternative OSUser LDAP CredentialsProvider. Because of serious limitations, proper integration is not possible (although planned for Jira 4.1), but my implementation covers most problems.