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HOW TO : View Chat logs in Adium

Adium is a multi protocol instant messaging application for the Mac OS X. I have been using it on my MacBook for a while now and think it is a fantastic example of how powerful open source can be. I was trying to figure out how to look at the chat logs on Adium. Some Googling helped me figure it out.. :). To view the chat logs on Adium, you can type “Apple Button + l” or click on “Contact -> View Chat Transcripts” in the menu.

April 4, 2007 by Mac Technology Uncategorized Web 0

HOW TO : Cognos Installation

I tried setting up Cognos (Business Intelligence tool mainly used for reporting) on a test machine for Lakshmi to play around with. After going through the install, I can say with confidence that Cognos has some of the worst documentation :). Here are some quick tips that you won’t find in the official documentation for someone trying to configure Cognos BI 8.x on a Win2k3 server running MS SQL 2005 and IIS 6.0.

  1. After installing Cognos, run the “Cognos Configuration” tool and change the “Gateway URI” setting to “http://servername:portnumber/cognos8/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll” in the environment section.
  2. Edit the default.htm and index.htm file in the “< cognos install directory >\cognos\c8\webcontent” directory and replace cognos.cgi with cognosisapi.dll
  3. Open ISS manager and go to Web Service Extension. Add a new web service extension called isapi and add cognosisapi.dll as a required file. Make sure to set the extension status to Allowed.

This should enable you to launch cognos and log into the web interface.

March 13, 2007 by Networking Programming Technology Uncategorized Web 1

HOW TO : Linksys SRX200 + Emule

Quick guide to configure your Linksys SRX200 router/switch to support emule.

  1. Assign a static IP address in the range assigned to you by the wireless router. In this case, Linksys assigns the 192.168.1.0/24 range. I will use 192.168.1.50 as an example.
  2. Open a browser window and go to http://192.168.1.1
  3. Log in with your admin credentials (it is admin/admin by default).
  4. Click on the “Application and Gaming” tab.
  5. Make sure that you are on the “Port Range Forward” page.
  6. Enter the following information

    7.    Application : Emule
       Start : 4660
       End : 4712
       Type : Both
       IP Address : 50
       Enable : Checked

  7. Click on “Save Settings”
  8. Launch Emule and you should be in business 🙂
November 14, 2006 by Networking Technology Uncategorized Web 3

Yet another site powered by the masses

www.soapboxit.com is a website where anyone can write/search reviews about anything. I came across it when I learnt that one of my old colleagues is going (looks like I got the wrong company. The company he is going to work at is www.soapboxreviews.com) to work at this company. I think it is an interesting idea. As with all social networks, the challenge will be to gain momentum.. As I was browsing the site, I noticed that each new user is given a ID. At this point, the ID seems to just be an increasing integer. I found that my ID is 212 🙂

http://soapboxit.com/person/212

September 6, 2006 by Uncategorized Web 0

Chatting at 35000 feet!!

I flew Lufthansa, on my recent trip to India and was very impressed by the hospitality and the services offered. One of the coolest service on the flights was “Wi-Fi” hotspots offering Internet service. While the service was a bit expensive at $10.00/hour, I tried it out just to satisfy my geeky urgings. It was a blast chatting with friends and telling them that I am doing it from 35000 feet in the air ;). For anyone wanting to try this, I would reccomend getting the “unlimited” access for the entire duration of the flight for $29.95. I would love to look at the technology behind this setup. I am sure they are using satellites for the Internet access. Just interesting how they make sure that the connection stays steady while the flight is moving, since satellite service is very dependent on “point-of-view” access to the satellite.

August 8, 2006 by Networking Technology Travel Uncategorized Web 1

Gmail musings.

I have been maintaining my @kudithipudi.org address for some time now. I had all my E-mail from 1998 saved on my laptop until I had a hard drive disaster (ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR DATA), and lost all that E-mail. Ever since then, I have been trying to come up with a method to make my E-mail “crash” proof. I could have moved to using any of the popular free mail platforms (hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc.), but I didn’t want to loose the ability to send E-mail from my personal @kudithipudi.org address.

Google to the rescue – I was checking the settings on gmail the other day and noticed that I could setup a different E-mail address (which has to be verified) as my default “from address”. So I started forwarding E-mail from my domain to gmail. The problem now was to upload all the E-mail I have in Thunderbird up to gmail. That way, I would have all my E-mail in one single place and allow me to search through it. Google to the rescue again :), a query for “upload mail from thunderbird to gmail” returned this cool utility by Mark Lyon. It allows you to specify the source of your email and uploads the mail to your gmail account.

The next challenge was to find the directory/file where Thunderbird stores all the email. Google to the rescue again. You can get the location of the mail files from the account settings screen –> Local Folders in Thunderbird.

I am in E-mail bliss now. Use Gmail for all my messaging purposes. Next task would be to start using the Google Calendar.

June 22, 2006 by Networking Technology Uncategorized Web 0