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Re: How to migrate users in Oracle Webcenter Interaction

guestInNeed — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:39:24 -0000

Have you found the script that updates the CRC field?

Re: Full Text Search with Dropbox

Peter Steier — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:12:22 -0000

To have this as a hosted service would be very useful (if it means I can find a file on my smartphone in my 47,000-files heap pushed onto DropBox, which has grown over 20 years).

Re: No timezones / no daylight savings time

techopener — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:58:37 -0000

eBeats is based upon the assumption that we all base our time off of UTC or GMT time. Swatch is similar. So instead of calculating time based on lat/lon, time is the same around the world. Similar to epochs in Unix, but more human readable.

Re: No timezones / no daylight savings time

Yash Ranadive — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:27:36 -0000

this sounds cool but it wont help in understanding references of time while describing events at that time...For eg. "There was a blast in swedish railyway station at @916" doesn't tell you if it happened in sweden in the morning or evening. but this is trivial. Overall im up for an overhaul of stating times.

Re: No timezones / no daylight savings time

Bill from the Blogroll — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 20:58:14 -0000

I'll give you that DST is odd, but timezones? Totally necessary in a world of social, collaborative creatures. If people didn't agree on regions to share the same time, which is reasonably done with assistance from government, then every longitudinal location would have its own time. If I have friends 10, 100, and 1000 miles west, each would have a different time. If we wanted to meet, without 24 timezones, we would all have to convert our own locations' time to the time of the meeting place. If it's at my house, and if we're at the equator, then the adjustments for my friends are about half a minute, six minutes, and 60 minutes respectively. It's more complicated if I live away from the equator. And if one of the friends lives 100 miles to the northeast? Get our your calculus text books. Or maybe Swatch would have something like those old calculator watches that would help me out.

http://www.amazon.com/Casio-Me...

Re: Location history reporting

Yash Ranadive — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:11:24 -0000

Nice! I'm eager to know how this goes. On a separate note, I was thinking it'd be cool if you can get the google calendar event locations and show a simulation of the events you went to

Re: Windows services crash after restoring from Standby mode

techopener — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:29:27 -0000

I never went back to WZCSVC. I continued to use the Intel Wireless connection software. At this point im using a new laptop. Sorry I do not have a better answer, this issue was certainly frustrating to say the least.

Re: Windows services crash after restoring from Standby mode

Rob — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:42:52 -0000

I am having the same EXACT problem on my IBM Lenovo Z61p. It has the same wireless card model. I did the exact things you did. I also tried using the Intel Wireless connection software, but my the Intel software will lose the connection and won't reconnect (this happens in a couple minutes upto a hour of use. So I am still having wireless issues. Did you ever find a solution that allowed you to go back and use WZCSVC?

Re: Effective Meetings 101

Yash — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:35:11 -0000

Couldn't agree more on
"Take notes and distribute them after the meeting to all attendees. This makes sure everyone is on the same page and does not forget any conclusions. Often handy for any follow-up meetings."

This is absolutely important task especially in consulting where people usually are working on short-lived ad-hoc teams and are not familiar with the working styles of each other.

Re: Effective Meetings 101

techopener — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:25:38 -0000

I need to start enforcing the food rule! As for OpenID, I thought I would take a break and try Disqus as that is what all the cool kids appear to be using these days.

Re: Effective Meetings 101

Jena — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:44:11 -0000

This is brilliant! I agree with Omid about lunch. And I would add:
-- if you expect me to present information at a meeting, let me know more than 10 minutes before the meeting starts!

Re: Effective Meetings 101

Omid — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:15:47 -0000

-if you are going to have a dial-in, please set that up before the meeting rather than making everyone watch you fight the conferencing system for 10 minutes.
-If the meeting is from 11-2 have food or I will leave

ps. NO OPENID OPTION FOR COMMENTING!!! ARE YOU KIDDING?!?

Re: Clever Web Design at Refresh DC

Yash — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:34:40 -0000

didnt know FedEx had a arrow in the logo!!!

Re: Gmail Signature Plugin to display Recent Blog Entries

Jordan — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:11:13 -0000

I'm quite surprised that Gmail would not support HTML-based signatures. I mean Outlook supports it and we all know Gmail is superior to Outlook. I'm sure they must have a reason for not including the functionality, unless they are working on it through Gmail labs.

Re: HTC Touch Pro with Sprint

Jordan R — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:12:14 -0000

Since I work with Kenan I have the same phone. While it's not an iPhone, it's pretty darn close. So far I made some tweaks to extend the wallpaper to all pages of the TouchFlo 3D interface and removed the annoying Sprint Music Store icon from the music player.

Good apps are:

TCPMP video player for watching movies
Fring for connecting to GTalk
and SlingBox Player for watching my DVR away from home (need to have a slingbox though).

Re: No car, no problem

kenan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:20:50 -0000

Sweet. Im sure your prices are similar to ZipCar.

Re: No car, no problem

hross — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:36:02 -0000

I'll rent you my Mazda when you get sick of taking the bus =).