Hibernate feature in Windows XP

<-- Yuiyuan (豫园 in Shanghai)

Do you get frustrated while you wait around for the slow WinXP computer to startup? To speed up the process, you should considering using hibernate.

When you put the computer to hibernate when powering off the system, the hibernate feature saves everything in memory on disk and then turns off your computer. When you restart your computer the next time, your desktop is restored exactly as you last left it. In other words, you can save some times in reopening the programs again when startup the computer.

To enable the Hibernate feature, go to Control Panel, double-click Power Options, and then click the Hibernate tab. Click to select the Enable Hibernate check box.

To put the computer to hibernate when shutting down, you just need to press ALT + CTRL + DEL key and it will give you the option to hibernate.

How to set default ACL on mail file when registering user on Domino

For the Lotus Domino, lately, I found out a way to set the default ACL for the user mail file when registering the new user.

1. In the Domino Administrator client, select the "Template only option” in the "Show me" combo box.

2. Find the mail template used to create mail files, say iNotes6.ntf. Right click on the template, and then select Access Control -> Manage.

3. Click the Add button.
- From name lookup select the administrator's group.
- Select that Administrator's group in the ACL, and click Rename.
- Add brackets to the group name. For example, if the group name is "AdminGroup", rename it to "[AdminGroup]".
- Click OK.
- Assign the group manager access.

4. Now when mail files which are created is based on the modified template-- the administrator's group will automatically appear in the ACL with manager access.

Proofpoint anti-SPAM

I have just tested an anti-SPAM product called Proofpoint for the E-mail system lately for a couple of months.

Before that, I have tried the Symantec, Trend Micro & Barracuda and it is the best among these few. Till now, there is not a single false-positive detected for mails.

According to my research, it is the third generation product which uses MLX technology for mail scanning. It is really GOOD!
Reference:- http://www.dominopower.com/issuesprint/issue200408/00001340.html

SUSE Linux -- good alternation to Microsoft

I attended a seminar about Novell Work Group Tour yesterday.

After seeing all those demo, I feel that SUSE Linux can be considered as a very good alternation to the Microsoft product. It is worth to explore further…

As for their OpenOffice which is the equivalent of MSOffice, it also looks impressive.

To try it out, go to the http://download.novell.com

水至清则无鱼

“水至清则无鱼，人至察则无友” 意思： 水太清澈就没有鱼，人过分精明就没有朋友 做人不能太较真，这正是有人活得潇洒，有人活得太累的原因所在。

How to save Flash (SWF) file from web page onto your PC

Someone ever asked me a question on how to download the animation or cartoon game was created using Flash from the Web page onto his own hard drive.

The answer is that... it can be done regardless whether you are using Internet Explorer or Firefox as a browser even though the technique is not straight forward (because there is no option to save the flash file when you right-clicking the item).

Here is the method to save flash in IE browser...
- At IE, click Tools - Internet Options
- In the General Tab, click the "Settings" button available in the Temporary Internet Files group.
- Click "View Files" to open your Temporary Internet Files folder.
- Once you find the right flash file, right-click & choose Copy. Then paste the swf file in any other directory... Now, you are done.
- After that, you may go to that directory to do off-line viewing.

As for Firefox browser, these are the steps…
- Click Tools - Page Info.
- Click "Media" Tab and scroll down the list to locate the SWF file.
- Click the "Save As" button to save the file onto a directory on your hard disk.

Happiness

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on you.