Erik’s Brain - Project Journal and Tech Notes

iphone web development notes

Erik Welch — Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:41:30 -0500

The iPhone allows you to initiate a call directly from a link on your web page. It will convert the phone number from clickable link that initiates a call:

BigDaddy 555-1515

CSS

iphone specific css - test

Older browsers ignore the only keyword and won’t read your iPhone style sheet. To specify a style sheet for devices other than iPhone, use an expression similar to the following:

href="http://blog.inetfusion.com/A55CF7/technotes.nsf/dx/not-small-device.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />

Default Zoom

Instruct mobilesafari to zoom into website content by default to minimize panning. set a viewport width to the width of the device at the head of your html file:

Set initial scale and turn off scaling in the html head as well:

Create a custom ’thank you’ page on web form submission with a simple URL pass through.

Erik Welch — Wed, 7 Jul 2010 16:25:04 -0500

Lets say that you want the fields for "Agency Name" and a 'Transaction Number' field passed through to a thank you page where the end user can print off a basic receipt notating that they filled out your fancy online form for their future reference.

On the form, you need to build a URL containing field values in your submit button. For this example, the fields to capture are:

agencyname
transactnum

Your submit button will need the following code:

@Command([FileSave]);
@URLOpen("/YOURDATABASE.nsf/YOURCUSTOMTHANKYOU.html?OpenForm&agencyname=" + agencyname +"&transactnum="+transactnum+"")

Next you need to set up your thank you/receipt form.

Create a Computed For Display (CFD) field called 'Query_String_Decoded', and set it's value to 'Query_String_Decoded'.

Create a CFD field called 'QueryList' and set it's computed value to:
sParams := @ReplaceSubstring(@RightBack(Query_String_Decoded;9);"%20";" ");@Explode(@Explode(sParams;"&");"=")

Now you just need to set up CFD fields for agencyname and transactnum.

The default value for agencyname should be set to:

loc:=@Member("agencyname";QueryList);
@If(loc=0;"";@Subset(@Subset(QueryList;loc+1);-1))

The default value for transactnum should be set to:

loc:=@Member("transactnum";QueryList);
@If(loc=0;"";@Subset(@Subset(QueryList;loc+1);-1))

That's really all there is to it. You can obviously add more values to your URL and fields to catch the information.

Synchronize your Lotus Notes address books for remote access

Erik Welch — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:20:11 -0500

If you use a web browser or mobile device to access your electronic mail, you will probably want your contacts in your Lotus Notes address book available for your use remotely.

Doing so requires enabling synchronization between the address book on your workstation, with the one in your web mailbox. The procedure is to first turn on the option to synchronize, and then you need to run the synchronization.

Enable Synchronization on the Replicator

On your Lotus Notes client menu, you need to go to File -> Preferences -> Contacts. Click on the box 'Enable Synchronize Contacts on the Replicator'.

Next, you need to enable Replication for your address book (Replication is the Lotus Notes synchronization).
Go to the 'Open' button, and then click on 'Replication and Sync'.

A page listing databases that are replicated for you will open up. Locate the one called 'Synchronize Contacts'. Click the 'Enable' box on the Synchronize Contacts line.

If you want to force replication right now, just click the 'Start Now' button. Otherwise the Lotus Notes client will ask you when shutting down if you want to send any changes to the server (assuming you haven't disabled that option). If you've recently made changes to your address book, then click 'Yes' so that it makes a backup and sends changes to your web interface. If you haven't made any changes, you can just click no which will save you some time shutting down.

If you'd like to view your 'web' version of your contacts to make sure everything is synchronizing, open your mailbox, and on the menu go to 'Actions -> Lotus iNotes -> Open mail file copy of Contacts'. Alternatively, you could just open your address book when logged into your mailbox via the internet access.

Dell EqualLogic web interface java crashes.. unless running a really old version.

Erik Welch — Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:07:36 -0500

After quite some time of the EqualLogic interface not running, with no results from dell, a sysadmin at work discovered the solution.

If you're running a high end Nvidia card, and possibly dual monitors, it seems java eats all your memory.

[Note, this is WinXP and IE or Firefox browsers]

The fix:
- Go into Control Panel -> Java -> Java tab.

- Click on View

- on the Java Platform line, click in the empty 'Runtime parameters' box and enter: -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false
- Click 'OK' and then 'Apply'
-Voila! finally no crashing. Only dealing with that for a year...

Disabling ’Recent Contacts’ for end users in Notes 8.5 personal address books

Erik Welch — Tue, 6 Apr 2010 09:36:46 -0500

While it seems like a good idea in theory, the Recent Contacts view has been nothing but trouble for many administrators. If you don't have the option turned on to give the user a choice between similar addresses, it always picks the wrong one. Even with the option, users often get confused and send email to the incorrect address if the names are the same.

Recent Contacts even gets selected prior to the Directory Address in the address type ahead. Temporary forwarding addresses get added here. Internal groups get added here and then don't route properly. It's just a mess.

Thank goodness there's a simply Notes.INI setting you can roll out to via a policy to disable for users across the organization. Unfortunately, it's going to take a bit of work. You need to create a policy option, enable it, and then have users clear their recent contacts view once it's in place.

Edit your Address Book template to create a policy option

Open your Domino Directory Template (pubnames.ntf) in Designer, and open the SubForm $ClientPreferenceSubform.
On the Basics tab, you can add a row on the bottom under 'Enable scheduled local agents.
In the first column, make yourself the label: 'Add Names to Recent Contacts View'
In the second column, create a new field called $PrefDisableDPABProcessing, make it 'Dialog List' type, and for it's choices give it Enable|0 and Disable|1 This is the only field that is required, the next three columns (next two steps) are optional.
In the third column, create a new field called $PrefDisableDPABProcessing$HA as a combo box, and give it the same options as the field above it ($BP080000000$HA).
Continue with the fourth and fifth columns creating fields $PrefDisableDPABProcessing$IP and $PrefDisableDPABProcessing$PO and give them the same options as other fields in their columns.
Save and Close your subform

We can't anticipate what IBM is going to do, but I imagine they may update the template design to resolve this issue or others, so you have to decide if you want to risk future updates overriding your customization. You can 'prohibit design refresh or replace to modify' for this subform, or alternatively you can copy the subform and rename it as a backup and apply your changes again if needed. I personally just make a backup and keep a separate log of what I modify. Then I check it against any new address book modifications rolled out by IBM and just copy my design changes back into the template when needed.

Next, replace the design of your Domino Directory with your modified template, and go into your 'Desktop Settings' of your policies and choose Disable on your new field. After the policy is set, then as users log into their mailbox with their Notes client a line containing DisableDPABProcessing=1 will be added. This will automatically check the option 'Do not automatically add names to the Recent Contacts view' in their Contacts Preferences.

The end user will need to restart their Notes Client before this setting gets applied, so you may need to wait a couple of days to allow the policy to get fully rolled out to everyone. When your confident that you can move on, then...

Delete all Recent Contacts from your users Local Address book
The simplest way to do this is just send them a button in an email containing code to purge all those pesky recent contacts.

Compose an email explaining what's going on
In the body of the email, choose 'Create -> Hotspot -> Button' on the menu
Change the button to LotusScript and enter the following:

'-------button code-----
Sub Click(Source As Button)
Dim nab As NotesDatabase
Set nab = New notesdatabase("","names.nsf")
Dim view As NotesView
Set view = nab.GetView("(Recent Contacts)")
Dim vc As Notesviewentrycollection
Set vc = view.allentries
Call vc.RemoveAll(True)
Msgbox "Finished. Removed " & vc.Count & " temporary entries from your personal address book."
End Sub
'----- end code -----

If everything worked as anticipated, your users should now be Recent Contacts free.

Setting up Sametime Business Card Photos

Erik Welch — Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:12:02 -0500

I finally got SameTime to properly display photos consistently. It's not like I spent a whole lot of time on it before, but the 'Now it's Working!', 'Now it's Not!' was getting a bit annoying. I think I tinkered with it once or twice over the past couple of years when I had some free time, but I couldn't get the photos to show for everyone, much less all the time even on my own machine. This last week I decided it was time to be able to eliminate a custom phone list that did have photos, and migrate all the information to the main address book so that folks could just use their Sametime contacts to get all the business card information.

I think it's now working properly, and I've compiled a task list that is a combination of two sources (mainly IBM documentation of course), as well as a couple of little things I picked up elsewhere.

For reference, I've made my notes from: IBM's Technote and a how-to from Grant Bingham who points out a trick (from a Greg Walrath?) to allow customization to the address book template while still getting updates as IBM rolls them out.

Note that you must have Sys Admin rights to the Domino and ST servers.

1. Modify the Domino directory to store photos.

Open your names.ntf (domino directory template ) in the domino designer.
Open the Subform $PersonExtensibleSchema. (This is a subform that displays in the 'Other' tab of the person document and is here for modifications.)
Create a field on this subform. You can call it whatever you like, but I followed along and named it 'UserExtPhoto'.
Make this field Rich Text.
Put a label or a comment next to the field so that folks in the future know why it's here.
On the $PersonExtensibleSchema, design properties, make sure to click 'Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify'. You don't want to have to do this again later.
Refresh the design of your address book to apply the changes you made to your template.

2. Import your pictures.

Prepare your photos. They must be thumbnails. There is a max size, I believe around 40k. I set mine at 120px wide and scale to retain proportion. You may be able to adjust to 200px or so wide to eliminate potential whitespace in some cient versions.
Edit a user's person document, and go to your fancy new field on the 'Other' tab.
Import a photo into this field. You can use 'create picture', or just paste from your clipboard. This will allow you to view the person in your address book, without having to click on an attachment.
Save the person document. Repeat for other folks.

3. Server Side:

Browse to your STCenter.nsf (http://SametimeServer.domain.com/stcenter.nsf)
Log in, and click on "Administer the server" link on the far left.
Click on Configuration -> Business Card Setup.
Select the "Photo" attribute from the left hand box and click Add.
At the bottom, in 'Attribute Value' for the photo, type in the field name you used earlier (UserExtPhoto). Note that this value is CASE SENSITIVE, so verify.
Click Update and get out of there.
Shut down the SameTime service either via console command, or with your Admin client. You can shut down the whole domino server if you'd like.
Go to the domino directory on your ST server and edit the file 'UserInfoBCardUpdate.xml'. Check the 'Attributes' line and make sure 'Photo' is last. I don't know why it matters, but I've found it gets out of order and the photo quits working. i.e.
Start your Sametime Server back up. Log into your SameTime client, and navigate to a user for which you've added a photo. Right click and choose 'Refresh Person Info', and then right click again and choose 'Business Card'.

Troubleshooting

I still occasionally have trouble with the business card information just vanishing, or just not updating even when clicking to Refresh Person Info. You can manually check if the ST server is pulling the current data from the source by using a browser and going to http://your server name.domain/servlet/UserInfoServlet?operation=3&userid=your login id&setid=1

If the information is correct, but your client is still not displaying properly, you can restart the STConfiguration and HTTP tasks on the Sametime server and usually this resolves the issue.

Revision to my Offline Domino Server Maintenance

Erik Welch — Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:01:47 -0500

Note to self:

-WEEKLY -
schedule Fixup, updall, and compact

-MONTHLY-
Review server stats for performance and availability (statrep.nsf for this review)
Run a cluster analysis if cluster servers.

--SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE - server services unavailable

Stop mail routing, and any other unneeded services.
Tell SMTP Quit
route all
Tell Router Quit
Tell HTTP Quit
Tell IMAP Quit
Traveler, etc.

When server down, rename log.nsf, mail.box, delete busytime.nsf

Run maintenance commands (nfixup, ncompact, etc. for running command line on Windows while server down)
nfixup names -f -J -v -l
nfixup admin4 -f -J -v -l
ncompact names -c -i -K -F
ncompact admin4 -c -i -K -F
nfixup -F -J
nupdall -R -X
ncompact -c -i

Defrag drives if Windows machine
Start/Restart server and ensure all tasks (router, http, etc.) are running. Copy any unrouted mail from renamed mail.box to new mail.box

Mapping templates on my thumb drive under the NotesData directory.

Erik Welch — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:03:55 -0500

Call me paranoid, but I just don't like leaving my development tools and notes templates that I've built over the years on personal time, or at other jobs on my current work computer. I still need access to them though, as I have built up quite a little knowledge base for myself. Paltry by other people's standards I'm sure, but important to me nonetheless. It's not that I don't trust others that I work with, as I'm the only developer here. It's just a really political environment, and you never know when they'll be sending the 'box brigade' around to pack someone up and toss them out.

I usually keep these templates on a separate thumb drive and just navigate out of Notes Data to access them. It's been a pain, but nothing worth spending any time thinking about. It occurred to me that on all my servers that I simply map the external san drives as a subdirectory under NotesData when I need more space for something. Regular old shortcuts don't do the trick in Windows, but maybe you could map a drive to a subdirectory. I've been running windows for years and never even bothered to try. Lo and behold, you can and it's fairly pain free.

1. Create a new subdirectory on your computer under your NotesData directory.

2. Right-click on My Computer and select Manage from the menu.

3. Click Disk Management on the left under the Storage category.

4. Right-Click the drive you want to map to the directory you previously created and select Change Drive Letter and Paths. A box should open, and then you click the Add button.

5. Select Mount in the following empty NTFS folder, and use the Browse button to navigate to your folder.

6. Click OK when needed to navigate out of the dialog boxes. Verify in Windows Explorer that the contents of your thumb drive now show up in your new NotesData subdirectory.

Notes deployment

Erik Welch — Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:55:51 -0500

Per IBM recommendations, and borrowed from www.andypedisich.com. Here for my reference, as I need to throw away the printed piece of paper I'd been hanging onto.

1. Use Multi-user client install as default unless unique situation requires the users to switch ID and maintain the rest of the desktop

2. Seamless setup on first startup. Include the redesign of the mail file with desktop policy.

3. User ID fetched from ID Vault

4. If migration step needed, use startup utility with script.

5. User settings and data populated through roaming user. Makes easer to manage core config, and restore data after workstation failures.

6. Notes settings driven through Domino policies.

Those silly cluster commands I only use once a year

Erik Welch — Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:51:58 -0500

Notes to self...

Show status: Cluster Resources

turn off resource: i.e.: Cluster iPrint offline, or Cluster iFolder offline

Cluster iPrint online, etc.

To turn off and restart:
cluster leave
cluster join

For that pesky ifolder, a quick restart script:

------------------

#!/bin/bash
echo "Stop Apache"
rcapache2 stop
echo "Remove temp files"

rm -rf /tmp/.wapi
rm -rf /tmp/mod_mono_server*
rm -rf /tmp/wwwrun-temp-aspnet-0/

killall mono
killall simias

sleep 10
echo "Starting Apache"
rcapache2 start

Sync your Gmail Contacts with Thunderbird Address book

Erik Welch — Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:57:30 -0500

I'm terribly cluttered when it comes to keeping track of addresses and phone numbers. It's not my fault. I use WordPerfect, Lotus Notes, Gmail, and a Moto phone that I can only push contacts to it via it's Moto Tools software.

In Moto's defense, I can sync my Notes contacts with it's address book. Pretty slick in fact... when the software want's to recognize my phone. It's buggy as hell, and has never worked acceptably on MS NT, XP, or Vista, through my V400, V600, or A1200 motorolas. Then getting all that to my WP address book? Don't even bother, I've had enough of tinkering with that. I've had it working, but don't remember how.

In my quest to be more productive, I think I'll be moving to an Android based phone. I love my A1200, it makes great calls and the clamshell design is superior to those candy bar phones. I really have no complaints. If only it had wifi, and I could get away from the crippled motorola linux.

Ok, I'll admit, I've had it 3 years and I want a Droid. I'm not completely sold I NEED a new device. I'm still feeling a bit burned from my Palm T3 that has sat in a drawer for five years now that didn't live up to expectations.

Regardless, the first thing I needed to do was start organizing my Address book. For that, I found 'Zindus', a google and Thunderbird contact sync tool. You just add it as a plugin to Thunderbird, and start adding and syncing all your gmail addresses. It's a mess, but I'm getting there.

Search your Lotus Notes Mail Journal archives

Erik Welch — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:55:44 -0500

Part 1 of 2

The ability to archive all mail traffic with mail journaling is a very powerful tool that can be used either by a private company to monitor mail, or perhaps a government agency that is required to keep all mail for Open Records purposes. In addition, it's a lot easier to go through mail journals from a document production standpoint if you're involved in a lawsuit, than it is to go through hundreds of individual user mailboxes. This assumes of course that your organization has determined that it's best interest is to maintain this documentation, and you have some kind of document retention and disposition schedule in place.

As you probably know, by default the journaling process encrypts the body and recipient fields in the mail documents when journaling, and can only be accessed with the proper user id that contains the encryption key. While this is great for super tight security, it's a bit overkill for many situations where you need to search across multiple archives, and a tight control of the mail journal ACL would suffice. The following procedure is an overview of what I've done in my organizations, but you'll need to weigh the pro's and con's and determine if it would be appropriate in your situation.

1) You will need to set this up on a server that isn't mission critical if possible. Your mail archives and their corresponding indexes will take up a whole lot of space, and you might want to consider some expandable storage. Security may be an issue and you may prefer to put this on a server that only certain administrative folks have access. In addition, with hundreds of mail archives you probably don't want this on your production mail server as they consistency checks on a restart could take an uncomfortable amount of time (See the 'Fast Restart' IBM Technote as it may help if you can't run another server).

2) If your just setting up journaling, or modifying a current environment, the first order of business is to ensure you are archiving all mail, and that the fields are not encrypted so that the server can index those fields for Full Text search queries.

Exclude fields from encryption that you will want to search.

Set up your mail rule to journal all messages.
See your Administration help for specifics.

3) After journaling is set up the way you want it, you'll need to update your journaling template, and then unencrypt all your old mail archives so that the server can index them.
- Replace the design of your mail journal db with the custom template you can download below that is based on the R8 journaling template. Make sure that you select the properties "List in db Catalog", and "Include in multi-db indexing".

4) Copy all your mail journals to a subdirectory in your Notes Data directory (for organizational purposes) and the run the designer process on the server console to update them (load design).

5) Log in with your Journaling ID that has the authority to read the mail documents (has the encryption key), and one at a time go through the databases and unencrypt the docs by clicking the 'Process Encrypted' view, selecting all the documents and clicking the 'Unencrypt' button (as shown in the picture below).

This is tedious and will take some time. I suggest doing this on a secondary workstation as it will be tied up while the agent works. In one instance, I had over 200 databases to process, and it took me a week and a half of off and on attention to it to get this done.

Note: I suspect there should be a way to give your server ID the encryption key from your Journaling ID, however I was unable to find anything in the Notes Help databases. It would sure save some time by eliminating the task of processing all the documents.

6) Under domino administrator, select all the journaling databases and modify the ACL (Access Control Level) to include the current server, as well as any relevant employees that need to Read this database.

7) Run the domain index process.

8) You should now be able to go into catalog.nsf, and if you are an authorized user, click on Domain Search and run a multi-db query on all of your mail journals. Pretty slick huh? Except that now you'll notice that as fast as a multi-db search is, you can't search by specific fields (ie From, or Sender), and the results are not in any useful order. Additionally, you can't grab the results and throw them into another container/mailbox for production purposes. The multi-db domain search is still very handy for getting just a few narrow results, but for advanced needs we now need to build on it and actually do something with our search results.

->Part Two: Advanced Actions Coming Soon...

Download custom template

Rebuild the Domain Index for the Domino Server

Erik Welch — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:35:57 -0500

Lotus� Domino� server's Domain Index needs to be recreated due to corruption, or other reasons.

From the admin client, verify the desired databases to be indexed have the properties 'List in Database Catalog', and 'Include in multi-database indexing' selected.

At the domino server console type:

tell domidx q

Navigate to the domino data directory and delete ftdomain.di directory.

From the Admin client, delete the catalog.nsf from the files view.

Restart the Domino Server. If your catalog isn't already set to run in your Notes.ini, type:

load catalog

To speed things up, you can go into the server document, change 'Server Tasks -> Domain Indexer ->Repeat Interval of' to a shorter indexing interval. You can verify with Show Schedule at the console.

Note that the domain indexing process can take a considerable amount of time to create, and the server will be taxed heavily. You may need to temporarily stop any server tasks that aren't critical until finished.

You can verify the database is indexed by going to the admin client, opening catalog.nsf and moinitoring the domain indexer status. When everything has indexed, don't forget to go back into the server document and lengthen the indexing interval so as not to unnecessarily use resources, and re-enable any tasks that were temporarily terminated.

Lotus Rooms and Resources Manager - fix busytime.nsf issues

Erik Welch — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:10:09 -0500

Most issues with the Reservations database can be tracked down to duplicates, improperly removed rooms and resources, or a corrupt busytime.nsf database. Verify that your resource names are correct, and that they are no longer in the 'mail in databases' section of your Address book if they have been deleted.

A corrupted busytime.nsf database can take quite some time to rebuild depending on how big your reservations database is, so look for other problems first.

- You may have users that no longer exist in your domino directory but have outstanding calendars and reservations. Resolve these first. Check the schedule db with: Tell sched validate

-Additionally, check the RnRmgr with: tell rnrmgr validate

To recreate busytime.nsf, you can simply shut the server down and delete the file. Most often however, you can't afford any downtime on that server, so the procedure is to shut down services using it, and delete the file quickly after forcing the server to release the file for a moment.

- Verify that you have the busytime.NTF template on your server before continuing.
- Stop the sched, calconn, and rnrmgr tasks
- Navigate to the notes data directory containing your busytime.NSF database.
- Enter dbcache flush into the server console, and then quickly alternate back to the data directory and delete busytime.NSF
- Once successful, load sched, calconn, rnrmgr and busytime.nsf will begin rebuilding.

Domino Blog - RSS publishing Fix

Erik Welch — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:37:53 -0500

Appears Syndication does not have a default ISO type thus throwing the following error

XML Parsing Error: XML declaration not well-formed
Location: http://domino-69.prominic.net/A55CF7/technotes.nsf/3F36F5CACBC314CB802571690058604F
Line Number 1, Column 31:
------------------------------^

[Domino Blog 8.x template]
Note that this is when the RSS option is set to pull from a view, as none of the others worked either. Appears the computed form and value it's referencing doesn't exist.

It's the computed value after 'encoding', and has the Formula: @DbLookup("";"":"";"vConfig"; 1;"config_xmlencoding")

This form (vConfig) does not exist in the DB. The Form "Config" does.. however the default value for config_xmlencoding appears to be blank.

The Fix
- Added the value 'ISO-8859-1' to the configuration document, under the Syndication tab, field " XML/Content Encoding:" down towards the bottom.

When replacing the computed value with "ISO-8859-1", it appears to be working. Have not changed the lookup form value. This is probably in some documentation somewhere.. but there's no documentation with the template.

Airstream Office updates

Erik Welch — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:25:18 -0500

My home office is being commandeered for a quick trip. Have to go visit the in-laws for a couple of days. Our choice is to stay on location in a tent or the trailer, or in a hotel 30 minutes away from the family we're hassling.

The idea of a tent sounds a bit uncomfortable considering the cold weather, so I'm now clearing my computer and other peripherals out of the Airstream.

In preparation, we've also:
- Replaced 2 tires ($250)
- Replaced the main front window glass (rock damage - $58)
- Replaced the hot water thermostat (old one wouldn't shut off) ($20)
- Updated the tag ($25)
- Replaced a fuse in the Univolt so all the lights in the front will work (free!)
- Replaced the door hold-open mechanism. ($8)

I'm now questioning my judgment as to why I don't want to stay 30 minutes out of the way, in a maintenance free hotel room for less than I'm putting into this old girl to get her back on the road.

Run multiple instance of Google Talk

Erik Welch — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:46:48 -0500

Run second instance of Google Talk. (windows)

Modify (or make) your desktop shortcut with the switch /nomutex to allow work and personal accounts accounts to run at the same time.
"c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

Embed Google Talk status on your website.

Erik Welch — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:39:50 -0500

Embed your Google Talk status in your website.

A Google Talk status notification will let visitors to your web page chat with you whenever you're signed in.

Possibilities? Set up an accounts specific for customer service and display who is online? Not only do you get online status, but it will launch a direct chat without the user needing a google account.

Go here to build your link: Google Talk chatback badge

Embed your Skype status in your website

For Skype, Go here to build your button.

Wordperfect - Restore Printer Defaults

Erik Welch — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:44:29 -0500

Reset Printer page types | setup

Regedit
Scroll to the top to 'my computer'
Drill down to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER' -> 'Software' -> 'Corel'
Right click on folder 'PrintEngine' and Delete or Rename
Move to 'WordPerfect', and then the version '12' or X3
Delete the folder 'Envelope' (or rename)
Close the registry editor and test the changes

If this procedure fails, next thing to try is remove and reinstall the printer driver. -Make sure the driver is available before re-installing.

Change an asset number on a Dell PC

Erik Welch — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:39:00 -0500

[This is information from my old tech notes, have not verified if still valid but worked in 2006]

Change an asset number in a Dell PC.

1. Boot to the Dell Utility CD.

2. Choose Quit in the Utility.

3. The PC will kick you out into DOS.

4. Go to the csd/tools/bios folder using the "cd /" command.

5. Inside the folder run "asset209 /sSERVICETAG#". Make sure that there is no space between the /s and the Service Tag #.