Wedding Anniversary

Today (12/12) is mine and my honey’s wedding anniversary.

I still remember it was so romantic and wonderful when we said “I DO, I DO” during the moment in the ceremony.

I love you, honey!!

Mobile messaging for Lotus Domino

Now, the Lotus Notes user can look forward to have the push mail service using a mobile device if the following criteria are met:-

- Lotus Domino 8.0.1 server or later (Lotus Domino 8.5 will be required for Nokia S60 support).
- Mobile device running under Windows Mobile (WM) 5.0, 6.0 and 6.1 releases. Or, Nokia mobile device running under S60 (Symbian OS platform).

To support pushmail access on the mobile device, you just simply need to install the IBM Lotus Notes Traveler software onto the device. After that, with some simple configuration on the device itself, it will be able to do the real-time replication (automatic) of Lotus e-mail (including attachments), calendar, address book, journal and To-Do-Lists.

With this major development of IBM's efforts, IBM has expanded the mobile support for the Lotus software portfolio (at no additional cost). In other words, the Lotus Notes user no longer needs to reply on Blackberry to pull email from Domino server, which requires additional infrastructure, overhead and cost.

To have a better picture about Lotus Notes Traveler on mobile, you may refer to the video clip below:-

References:-
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21856/1127
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes/traveler.html

How To Update Virus Definition

Virus definition file (also called signature file) is basically a database that contains the virus code (the signature) of those known viruses. To detect a virus, the antivirus program looks for these code strings in executable programs.

In addition, the virus definition file also contains repair information about all the discovered viruses so that the antivirus program knows how to remove the virus from the directories and registry in the inflected computer.

There are many new viruses and security risks being introduced into the computer community every day. In order for the antivirus program knows to how detect and clean the most recent viruses, the virus definition file must be updated regularly to have the latest information.

For Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition (for Norton as well), there are two ways of update the virus definitions:-
1. Live Update
2. Intelligent Updater

Live Update
It is the preferred method for the virus definition update as it is easy to use.

If your computer is configured as an unmanaged client, then it can be configured to get the update automatically from Symantec virus definition’s server.

If your computer is configured as a managed client (Live Update option may be grayed out), the “virus definition” update is most likely getting from a central, internal server in your company.

In any time, if you need to get ad-hoc update from the server, you can just simply click the “Live Update” button to trigger the download (as shown below).

Intelligent Updater
The Intelligent Updater file is an executable file (EXE file) to use as an alternative to LiveUpdate for updating virus definitions.

It is less convenient as compared with LiveUpdate, because it is a manual process. It also needs a larger download (say, bigger than 35 MB) that may be inconvenient if you have a slow internet connection (e.g. dial-up).

If your Symantec AntiVirus on your computer is configured as a managed client, it will not able to get the virus definitions from the company’s server when your computer is not connecting to the office network (for example, working on your notebook from home).

In that case, the only choice is to download the Intelligent Updater directly from the internet server and get the update.

The URL to the Symantec Security Response Web site to download the Intelligent Updater is as follows:-

http://www.symantec.com/business/security_response/definitions/download/index.jsp

Create a Pivot Table in Excel

The “Pivot Table” is one of the most powerful features in Excel.

In particular, it is very useful to use it to present information in a report format.

Assuming you have an Excel data file about the sales in different regions, with the Pivot Table created, you can click the “drop down” lists and change the data that is being displayed based on Month, Sales person, Product or geographic location.

Create a Pivot Table
In the Excel worksheet, go to toolbar and click “data”, and then “pivot table and pivot chart report” to follow the instructions given. Essentially, you just need to select the whole data set and create the pivot table in the new worksheet. All the column headers from your dataset should appear in a control box on the right of the screen. You can drag-and-drop the field buttons on your table.

For step-by-step procedures on how to create a Pivot Table, you may refer to the URL link www.homeandlearn.co.uk/ME/mes9p5.html for details.

I bet you… it is easier than you might think.

Opening of EPS file (How To)

To open an *.EPS file (Encapsulated PostScript) directly, you would need either of the following software installed onto your PC:-

Adobe Illustrator
Abobe PageMaker
Adobe Photoshop
CorelDRAW

However, there is still a work-around solution to open it using the normal Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

The steps are:-
- Launch Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint
- Click "Insert" menu then Picture, and select the From File (to point to the *.EPS file).

Find command in Linux

I suppose the “find” command is properly the most useful utility in UNIX/Linux.

The following are a few examples showing how to perform some common tasks using the “find” tool. I will add more as time goes on.

Basic syntax: find pathname... expression

#If you want to find files that are 7 days old, use the -mtime option
find . -mtime 7 -print
(Assuming today is 23-Dec, the command will show the files that are only dated 16-Dec.)

#An alternate way is to specify the range of periods
find . -mtime +6 -mtime -8 -print
find . -mtime +6 -mtime -8 -exec ls -lt {} \;

#Find files based on 7 days ago (atime means last accessed time)
find / -atime 7 -ls

#List old files and delete them (mtime means last modified/creation time of a file)
find -mtime +60 -exec rm -f {} \;

#Find core files in the directory and remove them
find . -name "core" -exec rm -f {} \;

Note:-

When using with “-exec” command, it should be used together with {} and ; (semicolon), where {} is used as a variable whose name is the file “find” found. As for ; (semicolon), it represents the end of command which must be punctuated by a quoted or escaped ; (semicolon).

*** df -h (human readable)

du -sh * | sort –nr

du -hsx * | sort -rh | head -10

Send Large Email Attachment Over Internet

In most of the organizations, they usually have a policy in place for E-mail system to restrict people from sending or receiving mail with very huge attachment.

You can’t use the personal E-mail account to do the task as well because they also have a control for maximum attachment size rule. As far as I know, Gmail can accept up to 20 MB whereas for Yahoo, it can only take up to 10 MB.

In that situation, perhaps you can consider using the online file storage services like Rapidshare, Megaupload to send the mail.

I have tested Rapidshare before using their free service. Even though the upload speed is not fast but at least it serves the purpose. For information, the file kept on their server will be automatically deleted if it has not been accessed for 90 days.