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-- Log in Home Projects Home Projects External Link -- SUBSCRIBE TO RSS : Nav's Home on the Interwebs 5 Sep 2010 by Nav No Comments Internet Gmail introduces Priority Inbox Gmail recently introduced “Priority Inbox”. It basically puts all the important emails in a separate section at the top of your inbox window. How Priority Inbox works In order to predict which messages are important to you, Gmail uses some of the same technology that it uses to weed spam out of your Inbox. If it incorrectly predicts which messages are important you can help train it with the importance buttons just like you can help Gmail’s spam filter by using the Report as spam button. More » 11 Jun 2010 by Nav No Comments Projects OpenParallel Week3 / Week 4 Has been a pretty busy few weeks. We have had meetings during the past week to decide on our various roles within the team. We divided up the work for Phase 1 of the project as much as we could tonight and are working towards our goals for next week. 10 Jun 2010 by Nav No Comments How-To Workgroup Manager showing 1000 results only Today at work we had an issue where our snow leopard Mac server was only showing the first 1000 users in Workgroup Manager. This was obviously a problem as we have more than 1000 users in out Active Directory. This also caused an issue when trying to set permissions for a particualar file, as all the users are not displayed on the userlist. So, to workaround this 1000 user limit issue we had to change the number of records that Active Directory places in 1 page. Active Directory by default will place 1000 users on one page, then any additional users on the next page and so on… Workgroup Manager does not understand this paging system very well so it only displays the first page. What you will need to do is go on to your AD server and run the ntdsutil util. Here are the steps More » 28 May 2010 by Nav No Comments Projects OpenParallel – Week 2 Had the call to Intel this week. Overall a very positive outcome – got introduced to James Reinders and Vasanth Tovinkere . We have also managed to get a custom function “yo” to work with hip-hop. It basically does the same thing an echo does, but this small step has allowed us to learn a whole lot more about the inner workings of the hip-hop beast and will hopefully have a for loop going soon-ish. 21 May 2010 by Nav No Comments Projects OpenParallel – Week 1 I am part of this great team of people who are currently working on a project for intel. We are basically trying to make large scale php based web sites such as facebook and wordpress work better by utalizing multicore processors. It is an extremly interesting project escpecially for me since I have always been curious about multicore technology and it a privilage to be working on this project with a bunch of great guys. So far it has been a week since the project kicked off and we have made some interesting discoveries about how TBB (Thread Building Blocks) and Hip-Hop works. Currently we have made progress in the following areas: Hip-Hop : – made Hip-Hop compile and work on a 32-bit machine – figured out how the functions are defined such as the for statement and echo – passed in a php file to get c++ code at the end TBB : – Made first Parallel program today – Learnt a bit more about how the parallel_for fucntion works I will try and keep posting our progress on this blog every Friday(NZST) Wish us Luck! 31 Mar 2010 by Nav No Comments How-To , Projects SMTP Relay Server with Gmail This is a brief guide on installing a SMTP relay server on Fedora 12. I have taken these instructions from various sites and tried to merge them into one. These are the sites I used in my research: Soup to Nuts G-loaded Journal Carlton’s Online Notebook The commands and things used in this guide are explained in more details on those sites. If you want to know what the commands are for then please feel free to visit those sites. Here is the guide: More » 28 Feb 2010 by Nav No Comments How-To , Projects , Software Add Custom source to IPCOP Cache Inorder to cache updates with IPCOP you need to download and install the update accelerator plugin. By default the plugin will cache Adobe, Apple, Avast, Linux (deb/rpm), Microsoft, Symantec and Trend Micro updates. While this is a pretty good list of vendors there might be situations where you need to cache other updates, for example if you are using the free version of Avira, you might wish to cache the updates for that. Firstly, what you need to do is figure out where the updates are being downloaded from. In this example I will be adding Avira Free edition to the update caching list. In my case Avira gets all its updates from http://dl[0-9].avgate.net. If you are unsure of where your updates are being downloaded from URL Helper is a great utility to use, as this will also tell you which extensions are being downloaded which will be usefull later on. More » 20 Feb 2010 by Nav No Comments How-To , Software KB977165 Blue Screen of Death Today I was fixing a PC which would restart randomly during xp boot. It showed a BSOD(Blue Screen of Death) and would instantly restart, this did not give me much time to study the error and figure out what was going on. So to prevent the system from restarting on BSOD I booted up the pc with UBCD4Win and opened up the registry editor Once in the regedit utility I browsed to the following reg key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM_on_C\ControlSet001\Control\CrashControl and changed the AutoReboot Value from 1 to 0 Note: System_on_C will show up only if you are using the UBCD4Win regedit, to do this without UBCD4Win microsoft had a pretty good writeup about it on their support site. Once I rebooted I could see what the BSOD was saying and it turned out to be the good ‘ol PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA issue. This kind of error usually occurs when there is a memory fault, but I recently read on computerworld that one of the microsoft updates( KB977165 ) caused random BSODS. So, to remove this update I booted into UBCD4Win again and did the following: Open Command Prompt go to C:\WINDOWS So at this point the command window should read something like C:\WINDOWS> then CD $NtUninstallKB977165$\spuninst once in the spuninst directory run the uninstall txt file as a script by typing BATCH spuninst.txt In my case this did not work.. so I just renamed the spuninst.txt to spuninst.bat by running “ren spuninst.txt spuninst.bat” After running the batch file rebooted into windows and everything was fine. 20 Feb 2010 by Nav No Comments How-To , Software Moving a Window in Windows 7 Recently I came across a problem where one of my windows opened on a non-existent monitor. In windows XP you could right-click and move the window to the correct monitor but in the default 7 setup there is no such option So, to get around this, there is a handy keyboard shortcut you can use. Select the window that not on the monitor and press win + shift + left to move it to a monitor on the left if you press the right arrow key it will move it to the right. Here is a handy list of shortcuts from windows7news Managing Windows 1. [Win+M] – Minimize all open windows 2. [Win+Shift+M] – Undo all window minimization 3. [Win+D] :- Toggle showing the desktop 4. [Windows+Up] – Maximize window 5. [Windows+Down] – Minimize windows / Restore 6. [Windows+Left] – Dock window to the left side 7. [Windows+Right] – Dock window to the right side 8. [Windows+Shift Up] – Maximize vertical size of window 9. [Windows+Shift Down] – Restore vertical size 10. [Windows+Shift Left] – Move window to left monitor 11. [Windows+Shift Right] – Move window to right monitor 12. [Win+Spacebar] – Aero desktop peek 13. [Win+Home] – minimize/maximize all inactive windows 14. [Alt+F4] – Close the active window 15. [Alt+Tab] – Switch to previous active window 16. [Alt+Esc] – Cycle through all open windows 17. [Win+Tab]- Flip 3D 18. [Ctrl+Win+Tab]- Persistent Flip 3D Taskbar 1. [Win+Any number (1, 2, 3, .., 0)] – open the correspondin...