Comment Isn't there an old addage? (Score 1) 592
Those who can do, do... those who can't do, manage!
(or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cushy Job)
(or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cushy Job)
Comment Re:Just Don't Use Livelink (Score 1) 438
It doesn't return search results because you haven't configured Livelink properly, or you are using a very old version of Livelink.
Searching on the DataID can work. You should read up on 'Best Bets' functionality, or how to use the Livelink Query Language.
Regarding your second comment, is not called the favourites box, but instead 'Featured Items' and this behaviour is configurable in later versions, too.
Upgrade Livelink to version 9.7.1 if you are not already there.
Livelink is incredibly powerful and can be configured to do anything you need it to do, but the key is knowing how to do it. A skilled administrator is definitely needed.
Full Disclosure:
I work for Open Text and am a certified Livelink Systems Administrator.
Searching on the DataID can work. You should read up on 'Best Bets' functionality, or how to use the Livelink Query Language.
Regarding your second comment, is not called the favourites box, but instead 'Featured Items' and this behaviour is configurable in later versions, too.
Upgrade Livelink to version 9.7.1 if you are not already there.
Livelink is incredibly powerful and can be configured to do anything you need it to do, but the key is knowing how to do it. A skilled administrator is definitely needed.
Full Disclosure:
I work for Open Text and am a certified Livelink Systems Administrator.
Comment Open Text - Document Management Solutions (Score 1) 438
This is built for the exact situation you described:
http://www.opentext.com/2/global/sol-products/sol-pro-docmgmt-collaboration.htm
You can either import the files into the system, or leave them in place, index them and use the search engines to locate the needles in your haystacks...
About Open Text:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Text
Hummingbird is a subsidiary of Open Text, the solution mentioned above...
Full Disclosure:
I am an Open Text employee.
http://www.opentext.com/2/global/sol-products/sol-pro-docmgmt-collaboration.htm
You can either import the files into the system, or leave them in place, index them and use the search engines to locate the needles in your haystacks...
About Open Text:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Text
Hummingbird is a subsidiary of Open Text, the solution mentioned above...
Full Disclosure:
I am an Open Text employee.
Logitech Makes 1 Billionth Mouse 456
Smivs writes "Logitech has hailed as a major landmark the production of their one billionth computer mouse.
The news comes at a time when analysts claim the days of the mouse are numbered.
'It's rare in human history that a billionth of anything has been shipped by one company,' said Logitech's general manager Rory Dooley.
'Look at any other industry and it has never happened. This is a significant milestone.'
The computer mouse will achieve a milestone of its own next week when it turns 40.
It was 9 December 1968 when Douglas C. Engelbart and his group of researchers at Stanford University put the first mouse through its paces."
Submission + - Wikimedia moves to Ubuntu (computerworld.com)
David Gerard writes: "Wikimedia, the organisation that runs Wikipedia and associated sites, has moved its running-on-the-smell-of-an-oily-rag server infrastructure entirely to Ubuntu from a hodge-podge of Ubuntu, Red Hat and various Fedora versions. (There's also a small amount of OpenSolaris on the backend. All open source!)"
Comment LIES!!! (Score 1) 595
"Science magazine speculates that deaths from this event could exceed the 240,000 killed in the Tangshan quake in 1976, though the estimated death toll is below 10,000 at this writing"
ACTUALLY... nowhere in the articles at Science Magazine does it say they think it could exceed 240,000 deaths.
It says 10,000 so far. Period.
Talk about FUD!
ACTUALLY... nowhere in the articles at Science Magazine does it say they think it could exceed 240,000 deaths.
It says 10,000 so far. Period.
Talk about FUD!
Earthquake In China 595
Several readers sent in links on the earthquake that hit 10 hours ago near the Sichuan city of Chengdu in China. The Telegraph focuses on the citizen journalism that got word on the quake out on the Net instantly (the first report was via Twitter). Science magazine speculates that deaths from this event could exceed the 240,000 killed in the Tangshan quake in 1976, though the estimated death toll is below 10,000 at this writing. Hundreds of videos are up on YouTube, including this footage from a security camera — keep your eye on the goldfish.
Aging Security Vulnerability Still Allows PC Takeover 282
Jackson writes "Adam Boileau, a security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password. By connecting a Linux machine to a Firewire port on the target machine, the tool can then modify Windows' password protection code and render it ineffective. Boileau said he did not release the tool publicly in 2006 because 'Microsoft was a little cagey about exactly whether Firewire memory access was a real security issue or not and we didn't want to cause any real trouble'. But now that a couple of years have passed and the issue has not resolved, Boileau decided to release the tool on his website."
Industrial Robot Arm Becomes Giant Catapult 149
wintersynth brings us a story about a group of enthusiasts who made a catapult out of a 2,800lb industrial robot arm. They used it to launch bowling balls, fireballs, and cans of beer toward a stationary target, and they controlled the catapult's aim with a graphical UI on a laptop.
"I wanted to be able to control the rotation of the robot so we could aim the robot from the laptop, but I quickly realized that since the desert is so flat, we could do some basic ranging on the target too. I also wanted the targeting to be overlaid in 3d over a photograph of the target area. The software needed to control the robot like an MMO or RTS game. I suspect that video games, in general, have some of the most optimal control interfaces. I wanted to try a control scheme similar to the area effect spell targeting in World of Warcraft."
Microsoft Buys Search Engine, Going After Google? 256
obsolete1349 writes "Microsoft has just bid 1.2 billion dollars for FAST (Fast Search And Transfer [Microsoft to use a self-recursive acronym?]), an enterprise search company. 'Microsoft can bundle FAST with its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server' with its soon-to-be-customers Comcast, Disney, Microsoft, Pfizer, and UBS."
Wikipedia May Require Proof of Credentials 317
narramissic writes "According to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, a new policy is currently under discussion by the community of users who regularly write and maintain Wikipedia that would require contributors to the site who claim certain credentials to prove they really have them. The new policy comes after one of Wikipedia's most prolific and respected editors, who went by the pseudonym 'Essjay,' was found not to be the 'tenured professor of theology' he claimed to be but a run-of-the-mill 24 year-old from Kentucky. Said Wales, 'To discover that someone had been deceiving the community for a long time really was a bit of a blow to our trust. Wikipedia is built on the idea of trusting other people and people being honest and we find that in the most part everyone is, so it was a real disappointment.'"
Wikipedia's Wales Reverses Decision on Problem Admin 241
ToiletDuck writes "Wikipedia co-founder Jimbo Wales appears to have changed his mind concerning Essjay, the administrator who was caught lying about his academic credentials. Wales issued a statement today on his User Talk page requesting that EssJay voluntarily step down. Wales defended his earlier comment about EssJay, claiming 'I only learned this morning that EssJay used his false credentials in content disputes ... I want to make it perfectly clear that my past support of EssJay in this matter was fully based on a lack of knowledge about what has been going on.' Wales did not comment on whether EssJay would continue to serve in his paid position at Wikia, the for-profit cousin of Wikipedia."
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