Jeff Yates's questions

It is necessary for several of our laptops to operate on both our own and customer-based networks. This often involves switching proxy settings, which we did via a custom proxy.pac file at first (after some help from you here). Now, one of the networks we use has their own proxy.pac that we must use which means that currently, we have to manually change our proxy.pac location for that network.

So, is there a way to write a proxy.pac such that it defers to another proxy.pac in some circumstances?

We are looking to update our intranet with a content management system that provides wiki and forum support, as well as (hopefully) support for auto-generating content from files controlled under SVN such as Word documents. The aim is that we don't need to update the intranet each time a working practise changes and that we don't need to change the format of all our existing procedures to something more web-friendly.

I have already asked a question more specific to a particular CMS with no answers so far, but what I'd like to know is whether there is ANY CMS out there that can achieve what we'd like, free or otherwise?

I am considering Joomla for use on our intranet and I was wondering if there was a plug-in for it that would allow pages to auto-generate content from SVN files like Word documents. We have a number of processes and working practices in documents controlled by SVN and rather than move each one to a different format, I'd rather have them directly imported. Also, that way, we don't need to update the Joomla site every time a file changes in SVN.

So, is there any way to do this?

I have looked around but all I find is how to control Joomla site development using SVN, rather than how to link Joomla pages to auto-generate content from files under control in SVN.

I apologise if this question is somewhat naive, this is not my area of expertise.

There are a number of users in our organization that use their laptops on multiple networks. Each network has its own proxy setting requirements for accessing the Internet and currently, the users must manually change these settings in Internet Settings whenever moving to a different network.

Is it possible to script the changes so that the user can just run the appropriate script for the network they're on?

This is primarily for Windows XP but might also be required for Vista and Windows 7.

I have several files on my ASP.NET site that are for use solely by the application. Currently, they can be viewed in a browser by just using the URL. Is there a way to prevent this without actually moving the file or do I need to move the files to a different directory, such as _private?