Monthly Archives: December 2008
Disable RSS in Outlook
The new Outlook 2007 have a feature that allows it to read RSS feeds. However, that feature does slow Outlook down. It is not possible to remove that feature, but the sync can be disabled. Here is how to disable … Continue reading
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Screen Locking in Mac OS X
On Windows and Linux, it is simple to set up one’s workstation to have the screen locked when one steps away from the console. On the Mac however, there is no explicit way to achieve that. The following site has … Continue reading
Keyboard Remapping on Mac OS X 1.5
I’m trying to map my Mac iBooks keyboard to mimic the Happy Hacking keyboard (CapsLock = Control, Fn + Tab = CapsLock, and swap delete and ). While this was trivial to accomplish on Windows Vista, I’m having a hard … Continue reading
Grep Exclude
Ever wondered how to exclude a string from grep? Last week I decided to dig until I find the answer, as I had to find a “lost” DB2 script in a pile of archives. It turns out that grep has … Continue reading
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VoIP Trouble Shooting with tcpdump
I got a couple of WiFi VoIP phone to test with. The Linksys WIP330 and the DLink DPH-540. Both phones are a pain to set up, and they are not ready for prime time. However, for someone that travels and … Continue reading
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DB2 Epoch Conversion
As we have progresses with our move from PostgreSQL to DB2, we discovered that DB2 doesn’t have internal Epoch functions to deal with the epoch time format. Luckily, we are running DB2 on AIX, and most Unix tools are readily … Continue reading
BillMax Nextusagedate is ’0000-00-00′
When entering new services, I was having this error, and I couldn’t figure out why: Checking Table ‘service’ ERROR: 10813…service(number=XXXXXXX): Nextusagedate is ’0000-00-00′ (FIX MANUALLY) BillMax support promptly acknowledged that it is a bug that cause this behavior under rare … Continue reading
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