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Today I got complains from one of my co-workers saying he could not open the Leave Request Outlook form, which designed by me a long while ago and put in the Oragnization Form library.
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In recent news the Internet is talking about how a college guy hacked Sarah Palin, 2008 USA vice president candidate, personal Yahoo email account. Actually there was no technical scripting or coding involved in this hack issue. What the “hacker” did was to use Yahoo’s password recovery function by answering 3 security questions. For example, Sarah Palin set up the following three security questions to help her retrieve forgotten password (actually pre-set by Yahoo!). 1), what is her birth date; 2), what is her house zip code; 3), where did she meet with her husband; In the event of her forgetting her email password, what she needs to do is to answer these three questions and reset the password.
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Sometimes it is very funny to see how the Internet work. The Internet is great with its powerful penetration degrees, it can reach to anyone, anywhere and anytime. That is why we are happy to get all these unlimited information we need from the Internet. But if we did not pay attention to the information date, things will be different. I remember weeks ago, a undated news about one Airline merging had been ranked top in Google News even it was an old news. But this news item caused the stock market moving crazy for a while because people thought this airline would talk acquisition again.
But of course, today I am here not talking about something like that crazy. I just wanted to mention one blog post which has been pop-up on the Internet recently and referred to me by co-workers a couple of times.
This blog is about Hacking a commercial airport WLAN with a simple Image handler manipulation. It is great since everybody wants Free Wi-Fi. That is why it was becoming popular in digg and introduced in Lifehacker blogs. But everyone was just blindly excited and forgot the most important thing: check the publish date of this blog!
Continue reading ‘Hack the Wi-Fi network of Atlanta Airport is the old news’
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Not from TV, but I viewed these Commercials from TechCrunch Website. Although there were some “do not understands” on these TV commercials, but I believe Microsoft Public Relation and their hired ads. talents. Let us wait and see what the next serials of these commercials. And most of important part, both of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld are idols to me. It is great and funny to see both of them in such long minutes commercials. Do not you think so?
I put both of the serial 1 and 2 in the post to share with you.
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Today one of my friends asked my helps on tracing or finding out another people’s IP address. He indicated this guy(s) had his Yahoo! Messenger account and email address from some ways, then started to harass him in instant messages and emails with nasty words and graphics. My friend tried to know who this “bad ass” is(are) and where he(they) is(are) from. So a basic IP will be a starting point.
After researching and testing, I offered him some tips to find out the IP addresses from emails and messengers. But I could not guarantee the accuracy of my recommended ways since IP addresses alone could not identify anyone, especially dynamic IPs, ISP routers, and proxy could be used at the another end. So the best way is to report to the law force team and let them co-operate wit ISPs if the damage is serious. Of course, you can try these recommended ways to find out some information first anyway.
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Can not resist the media teasing about the new browser from Google - Chrome. Here is the installation I conducted today.
First of first, you need to download it from Google Chrome website which is hard for the public to find from its main site or the link from Google’s main page. The link is http://www.google.com/chrome
And you can choose Save or Open when you see the download dialog window. For me, I just used Save in case I need to install on other machines too.
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I need to post a serial how-to in Outlook for some of my clients. This one is part of “how to create email distribute list” and copy & paste from this website.
If you have e-mail addresses or other contact information in a program and want to import the data into Microsoft Outlook, follow the steps below.
Export and Convert the Data
Use the program’s export or save as feature to save the data into a “Comma Separated Value (.cvs) file to enable it to be imported to the Outlook Contact list.
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Open the .csv file with Microsoft Excel or another program to prepare the data for export.
- The open file should be similar to the image shown below.
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To successfully import these addresses over to Outlook proper labels must be assigned to the enteries in the Excel file. Insert a row above the current list of entries. Name the three column headings as Nick Name, Full Name and E-mail Address appropriately.
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The Excel file should look like the image shown below.
- Save the Excel spreadsheet as a ” Comma Separated Value ” file with a .csv extension on to your Desktop.
- Click Yes if prompted to retain the format of the Excel file and then close the Excel program.
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Since only NBC has the exclusive authorization to broadcast all Olympics 2008 games in America, and it only shows American team games at evening prime times. It is very hard to watch some interesting games at real time if they do not have American team participation and not take part in American prime time. I thought I could do it from the internet like before. But this time unfortunately the normal way of watching stream video online does not work since all official Olympics partner websites only open to China region users. That means these video sites block all overseas IP addresses from watching games live.
Continue reading ‘How to watch Beijing Olympics Games live overseas online’
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Last Friday, I spent half of my day on helping my friend to clean up its Outlook files. The main reason was that he kept all his emails since day one and the mail box was too huge to accept any new incoming emails (not sure the limitation on PST file from Microsoft is now still 2GB or not). I understand the importance of archiving correspondences between clients and my friend, so my strategy was to split all emails into a few PST (Personal Folders File) files which would be under the size limitation. And at the meanwhile, I set up an auto archive mechanism to move old emails to other pst file in the future automatically.
I know I was supposed to send him a detail instructions on how to do such things as my promised. But I could not get close to the computer during my busy weekend. So I am publishing all my steps here today, for him it will be a instruction via URL; and for all of you (include myself), a future reference post.
Continue reading ‘How to organize the large email boxes in Microsoft Outlook’
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I tried to write up a 3-step How-Tos for getting VOIP through broadband 3 years ago, but never got a chance to finish them. Today, one of my friends asked my help on setting up his home networking over Comcast cable broadband. Then I decided to use some time now to point out one or two important things in the should-be-published-early first step - "how to set up a home network over your broadband without paying extra to your provider".
Usually the broadband providers only provide one computer network service with the regular price and will charge extra for residences to get more than one computers online. But if you already have purchased a router, you should be fine to get the home networking by your own. Just remember some extra steps you need to pay attentions to.
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Yesterday (7/28/2008) all media were talking about a new launched search engine called CUIL (pronounce cool). Does it really become a threat to Google or other search engine? I say no, at least now. The conclusion was based on my own tests and comparisons. What is Cuil anyway? Cuil was founded by a former Google employee named Anna Patterson along a few other former Google engineers. Instead searching keywords in web pages like Google is doing, Cuil is trying to analyze the contents of all web pages and give the search results. The following is what it says about itself.
About Cuil
Cuil (pronounced COOL) is a search engine that combines the largest Web index with content-based relevance methods, organized results, and complete user privacy. The company’s next generation approach to search is the result of proprietary breakthroughs in search architecture and ranking algorithms. Cuil’s employees have extensive experience in search, having worked at Google, IBM, eBay, AltaVista, Stanford University, the Internet Archive and other technology companies and research centers. Cuil is located in Menlo Park, California and has received series A funding from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners, and series B funding from Madrone Capital Partners. Cuil derives its name from an old Irish word for knowledge, reflecting the background of co-founder and CEO, Tom Costello, who hails from Drogheda, Ireland. For more information, please visit www.cuil.com.
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Since this late noon, all of my domains on the Microsoft Windows Hosting server at 1and1.com could not be accessed. I called the tech support and was told all A records of my domain names have been pointed to an external IP address (82.165.204.153). Even I swore to the tech support that I did not make any changes on my DNS setup, but she insisted that only the owner of my account (of course, me) can do such changes. And I asked whether they could do some investigations to see who and when made such changes from logs, but I could not get any satisfied answer from her. Anyhow, the important part at this moment was to get all my domains back. So I had to manually change all A records back to my hosting server’s IP addresses. I was glad I only host less than 20 domains on this Microsoft platform, image I would have to change my Unix hosting domains (Shhhhh).
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Have you recently used Google Maps? Maybe you already noticed its new feature from the maps, yes, it is called Street View. What can it do? well, when you browser the maps (of course, on the website of http://maps.google.com) and click the Street View button on the map. You will see a little man icon on the map, and some street view photos will appear when you drag “you” (the little man) on some blue line highlighted roads. These photos just like what you can see when you walk or drive on the road of the Google maps.
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By Scott Morrison
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) is hoping to boost revenue and steal market share from rival Google Inc. (GOOG) with a new plan that opens its search technology to third-party developers who want to build their own search engines.
The initiative lets partners tap into Yahoo’s back-end search technology - the algorithms and infrastructure that power its search engine - as a Web service, but allows them to control the presentation and ranking of the search results. Those partners, in return, would be required to run Yahoo search ads on their pages, with the two sides sharing revenue.
The Sunnyvale, Calif., company announced the program, dubbed Build Your Own Search Service, or BOSS, early Thursday.
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