is the folder in which the Resource Kit is installed
3) You probably want to start the service automatically on boot, so goto the Services applet in the control panel, select the locking service and set to automatic.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
QUICK ACCESS TO REGULARLY USED FILES IN WORD
Great for accessing standard documents.
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Nope, not the recently used file list (though that is something I use all the time), but a more hidden feature that lets you keep up to 9 files for use at any time for a single menu option.
1) Select Tools, Customise
2) Click on the Commands tab
3) In the left panel, select Built-In Menus
4) In the right panel, drag the Work menu up to your toolbar (or menu)
5) Close the customise dialog box.
Now, click on the Work menu you've just added: you can add your currently open document. Now click it again and you can add another, or select a previosly added document.
You can add up to 9 items, then the oldest one drops off the list. The list stays permanently, unlike the Recently Used list of course.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
Following on from our earlier tip about using web pages as your desktop background. You could also add a live video to your desktop as well.
Create your HTML document in Word (remember to save as HTML). Use Insert Picture and select a video file (will end in a .AVI suffix). Save the file and open it on the desktop. Voila.
Now, word of warning, since your CPU is going to be using all its cycles to display the video, even when you are working on something else, this might not be the best thing you've ever done, but what the heck!
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
CONVERTING UPPER CASE TO CORRECT CASE
The StrConv function in VB
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When dealing with either migrated databases or more often bought in databases it is common to end up with data which is all in UPPER CASE which you would really have using just Initial Capitals.
You can use the StrConv() function with the vbProperCase argument for this. For example:
[FullName] = StrConv([FullName], vbPropercase)
This does capitalises the first letter of each word and lower cases the rest. It's not smart in anyway so MACDONALD will come out Macdonald instead of MacDonald, but nevertheless it does mean CENTRELINE 2000 will come out Centreline 2000 and so on.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
DELETING LOG FILES FROM EXCHANGE
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Those LOG files just chewing up space in your Exchange data folder look so ripe for a deletion don't they? Well don't!! They are part of the Exchange database available for roll-back operations on Exchange if there are database problems.
Instead you should run an Online Backup using NTBackup or your preferred Exchange aware backup software. This allows Exchange to consolidate the database and it will remove the LOG files for you.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
ALARMS OR EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS HAVE STOPPED
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The popup boxes that notify you of alarms or received emails are controlled by a process called uclock. In fact uclock also handles the processing of inbound email as well - so you may find loads of mail in the Unix system waiting to be picked up by Uniplex.
So, when one or more of these symptoms show it is usually because uclock has stopped running.
1) Run ps to see if any uclock process is there. If it is, kill it.
2) Restart uclock with the correct environment (very important) - this should be set in your startup scripts. If it isn't see the installation guide for instructions.
3) Check the uclock alarms file, maybe it is corruped, use "uclock -l" (ell) to list the file. It is usually obviously corrupted and you will see garbage in the entries. Print the file for reference and delete and re-create UAP/diary/diary.alarms with the correct permissions.
4) Mail files may be corrupt or the mail process in hanging. Try disabling mail entries umd_clean and umd_runix in alarms file. Uclock may need killing and restarting also. If alarms then start, check mailboxes for errors.
See http://www.c2000.com/uniplex for more information
PAGE WIPES IN EXPLORER
Fancy page transitions on the web
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A very quiet feature found in Microsoft Internet Explorer is the ability to do "slideshow" type transitions between pages - just like in PowerPoint.
They are easy to code, you just need to enter this line in the
section of your page:
This Duration means the effect takes 10 seconds, the Transition in this case does a dissolve screen. There are 22 effects available:
0 Shrinking Box
1 Growing Box
2 Shrinking Circle
3 Growing Circle
4 Wipes Up
5 Wipes Down
6 Wipes Right
7 Wipes Left
8 Right-Moving Stripes
9 Downward-Moving Stripes
10 Right-Moving Boxes
11 Downward-Moving Boxes
12 Dissolve Screen
13 Horizontal Curtain Closing
14 Horizontal Curtain Opening
15 Vertical Curtain Closing
16 Vertical Curtain Opening
17 Left-Down Wipe
18 Left-Up Wipe
19 Right-Down Wipe
20 Right-Up Wipe
21 Horizontal Bars Dissolve Screen
22 Vertical Bars Dissolve Screen
23 Random Effect, for the adventurous!
We recommend you use these sparingly and/or with short durations, slow wipes are just more irritation, but they do look different and - for the moment - are not a web cliché.
By the way, Netscape users see nothing, but the tags will not cause an error.
We used them to enhance our Digital Imaging Tips site, a graphically oriented site to begin with we quite liked the way the vertical wipe worked.
See http://www.justkiss.com/psp for more information
GREENVALE AP PLEDGEIT FOR RED NOSE DAY
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I was at Greenvale AP this week discussing networking strategies when they mentioned their PledgeIT campaign for Red Nose Day this year.
Every caller to the support desk was asked to pledge a donation to Red Nose Day while they logged their call. What a great way of generating some cash for Comic Relief.
A big Red Nose "Phhaarrrpppp!" (how do you spell a raspberry?) to the both the collectors and donators at Greenvale.
See http://www.greenvale.co.uk/ for more information
FAXYOURMP
Email to fax gateway for pestering politicians
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With the election (probably) coming now is an ideal time to hassle your MP - and now you can Fax them direct from a web site as well as writing to them.
www.FaxYourMP.com takes a simple 4 step process to sending your fax:
1) Enter your postcode, a form letter for your MP is automatically setup
2) Enter your message
3) Click OK
4) An email confirmation is sent to you, which you confirm - the fax is sent.
Although originally setup by Stand.org.uk which campaigned against the RIP bill it is now used for more general purposes.
As technology progresses it no longer needs to be politicians telling you, but you can tell the politicians.
We've been chasing our MP for many years over hunting with dogs, he's a Tory MP and obviously not going to agree with us, but his position has changed over time. Of course you can also use the service for more specific issues too - no reason why they should be just national.
The site has some details on what it is and is not worth contacting your MP for. After all, they are not that powerful and often have no direct input into local affairs.
See www.FaxYourMP.com for more information
MOVING AROUND LARGE GRAPHIC IMAGES
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When working in Adobe PhotoShop with an image larger than the screen you can use the following short cuts to move around:
Home - move to upper left corner
Page Down - Moves down one screen
Ctrl-Page Down - Moves right one screen
End - to bottom right hand corner
For PaintShop Pro users the results are different:
Home - scroll left
End - scroll right
Page Up/Down - scroll up and down
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
TOPIC: WET TUESDAYS
Seen on the Internet - a slice of real Net life
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Editors note: This entry is very, very Unix geek stuff, if you don't know Unix this entry will mean absolutely nothing. Normal general surreal service will be resumed next issue.
Topic: Wet Tuesdays
From: Madi
Newsgroups: aus.culture.gothic
It's quiet. Too damn quiet. Behind me a mouse seeks attention but I sit and stare moodily into this big fish bowl on my desk. Outside the rain has stopped, for a moment. The wind still whistles through the gap between the window and the pane that the workman came in to fix two weeks ago. My vision swims...
I'm surrounded by people who speak an incomprehensible language. They gibber and point and are obviously very emotional about something. I can do nothing to help them. I do not want to help them. I'm reading a book - a nice friendly one with a picture of a fluffy animal on the cover.
I try to speak but find myself unable to communicate in full sentences. My vocabulary has been reduced to that of a toddler. "Cat!" I cry out, for no good reason. I find myself unable to do anything but spit out random strings of apparently unrelated nouns.
"Man! Finger! Pipe! Tail!" The people around me grow more frustrated. I desperately try to answer them but my speech
becomes even more unintelligible. Suddenly I grep a single word that makes sense to me. My head comes up from my book and they are all silent. "Awk?" I ask.
They all begin to speak again, a different language this time, one I faintly understand. I seek a common ground. "Man talk?" "Yacc!" "Who sed man talk?" "Fsck! Gcc! Init!" "Which man?" "Lex! Diff! Zic!" "Who? Whereis man who talk? What man who talk sed? Who make nice man leave?" "Dbx! Cron!"
Again it's all fragmented, as though the world has dumped on me. I feel miserable to the core. I feel corrupted, compromised, cracked, as though I need to picked up by my bootstraps. And suddenly I am alone. All around me is darkness. I whisper into the ether "Who am I?"
It's still cold and wet outside. The wind's still hanging around like an awkward house guest. It's an hour until home time.
See http://www.c2000.com/fun for more information
