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A good “how to” on playing your iTunes music in Ubuntu from your Mac.
Works great for playing my music on my Dell at work from my Powerbook.

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If you get any messages like this when opening an older powerpoint there is a MS point release to fix it. Click Here to download it. Had fun finding this one.

Description from MS’s Sites:
” This update fixes a problem that occurs when you try to open or to save a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 file, a Microsoft Office Word 2003 file, or a Microsoft Office Excel 2003 file that includes an OfficeArt shape that was previously modified and saved in an earlier version of Microsoft Office. When a PowerPoint 2003 file, a Word 2003 file, or a Excel 2003 file is opened in an earlier version of Office, empty “complex” properties may be introduced into the file and a bit may be changed in the file record that describes these properties. Earlier version of Office will ignore this bit value but when this bit value is detected in Office 2003, you may experience the following symptoms:
• The document may not open completely.
• The document may be corrupted.
• The document may open but with missing content.
• You might receive an error message.
PowerPoint can’t read filename.
PowerPoint can’t open filename because part of file is missing.
PowerPoint can’t open the type of file represented by filename.”

If you get any messages like this when opening an older powerpoint there is a MS point release to fix it. Click Here to download it. Had fun finding this one.

Description from MS’s Sites:
” This update fixes a problem that occurs when you try to open or to save a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 file, a Microsoft Office Word 2003 file, or a Microsoft Office Excel 2003 file that includes an OfficeArt shape that was previously modified and saved in an earlier version of Microsoft Office. When a PowerPoint 2003 file, a Word 2003 file, or a Excel 2003 file is opened in an earlier version of Office, empty “complex” properties may be introduced into the file and a bit may be changed in the file record that describes these properties. Earlier version of Office will ignore this bit value but when this bit value is detected in Office 2003, you may experience the following symptoms:
• The document may not open completely.
• The document may be corrupted.
• The document may open but with missing content.
• You might receive an error message.
PowerPoint can’t read filename.
PowerPoint can’t open filename because part of file is missing.
PowerPoint can’t open the type of file represented by filename.”

I’m starting work on the companies new website and I’m using Mambo. Mambo is very powerful, but with out a good book or “how to”; it’s just another language. In my search for books I found a great publisher / series. Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit Press is great! Most under $25, well written, screen shots in the center and text columns on the out side for ease of use. I have 6 books now and have been happy with each one. I’ve found these at Boarders and Barnes & Noble. So the next time you’re looking for a good book at an afordable price keep these in mind.
Photoshop 7
Photoshop CS
Photoshop CS 2
PHP second edition
Fireworks MX 2005
Dreamweaver 8

http://www.peachpit.com/series/series.asp?ser=335245&rl=1

I’m sure all IT departments share folders on a server. Some times, after a long time, you cannot remember where that share really is on the server. Like EMS might really be e:\shares\departments\ems. There is a real easy way to find where as share truly is and what your server is sharing. Right click on My Computer and then go to Manage. Next under the System Tools level you will see Shared Folders. If you click on the + you see Shares. Next click on Shares and you will see on the left all of the folders you are sharing and there drive paths. Very handy for locating a folder to set folder permissions.

Being the “graphics” guy for the company I was asked to put our logo on a CD. Now from past experiences of cups coming back looking really bad I’ve starting doing this. Give them more then they ask for. Most sales people are not graphics guys and do not know the difference between an illustrator file and a BMP. Give them every file type know to man and it’s a chance they can find one that works. On one cd I burn off these common types, .jpeg, .eps, .ai, .wmf, and .pdf. I always include the .pdf, this way they can see what the logo normally looks like. Last and most important, I include a full-page print out of our logo. After this, there should be no reason for any item to come back looking blurry, stretched, and or pinched.

We recently had a staff member go into a different career and I need to forward his email to a different staff member. After digging around I found out you right click on the user in active directory. Next go to the Exchange General Tab and click Delivery Options. In the middle of this screen you can click on Forwarding Address. Then add the Exchange user you want to forward too. Looks like you can only forward to one person at a time.

Using Quick Books in a school environment can be difficult to administer. When opening Quick Books Pro 2005 I ran into a license / registration problem. I imaged the computers a few weeks ago and Quick books had not been used since then. Some how over time the registration file became corrupt. When starting QB it would crash and report a fatal error in File:..\.\scr\LincenseUtility.cpp Line 431. Well after two hours on the phone with India I was told a fix. Rename these two files to .old.

C:\Program Files\Intuit\QuickBooks 2005\Data\qbhsPro.da
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit\Entitlement Client\EntitlementDataStore.ecml

If you use start up scripts you can do a simple .bat file like this.

@echo off
echo Fixing Quick Books 2005

echo Finished

This will force Quick books to re-register and you will be able to enter your registration information again. Thanks Steven for the log on script.
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I noticed that because of cost and other reasons the front office does not stock toner or ink cartridges. Normally we order as needed, but I noticed the money savings is mostly lost when we run out and a department can’t wait for the shipment. Next thing I know I’m asked to run down town to by a supplies at a much higher price then online. I understand why we don’t carry stock, it’s expensive, and can be wasteful if we don’t use it before expiration.
So here comes the great idea! HP makes a free program called Web Jet admin. I installed it on our old 400mhz Dell Power edge server, which turned out to be a bad idea. I had to move it to a faster server because it was causing print jobs to fail. Once it was moved to a faster server thing were great. This program will let you monitor all your hp servers from one spot! Not only can you monitor them, you can have the printers email you messages. Without much work I now have it setup when a printer gets low on ink/toner it emails the staff in the front office! You can even customize the email template to include location, printer name, printer type/model, which toner/ink color is low, toner/ink model number, and much more. So instead of the printer running completely out of ink and then the front office staff being told, it will email out it need new supplies about 1-3 weeks before hand. This give the front office time to order more in and it only sets on the shelf for about a week at the most!
This has saved our IT department a lot of headache. You can also set up the program to email you when a printer is opened, paper jams, image drum replacement, errors, and other problems. The web interface is great for seeing printer status, firmware updates, name changes, total pages printed, and more.
Here is a link to Hp’s site. Hope this will help someone as much as it did me. Hp’s Website for Webjet Admin