Archive for May, 2009
IT Announcement
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on May 10, 2009
We, the IT department, would like to thank you, our end users, for being such an exceptional bunch by introducing a fun contest. Yes, as you may have suspected long time ago, we IT, have nothing better to do 
- MRR: The Most Ridiculous Request! AHA, initially we thought of having it on monthly basis but since you, our beloved users, are providing us with so many, we have enough for a weekly draw! Isn’t that exciting. Pick up the phone, send us an email or drop by, increase your chances.
- NER: Never Ending Request, how many ways can your problem be solved till you are satisfied! And at peace with the solution, keep them IT going round and round and wooohoooo win a fabulous prize.
- FA: Frequently Asked, it is your right as a user to ask the same question over and over again and to receive the same answer over and over again. So what, your IT provided you with guides and FAQ page on your personal webpage. Each time you ask the same question, you’ll go up a notch, what’s waiting up there … well loop away with the same question and find out.
- MOR: Most Outrageous Request, log in the date and time you call your IT personnel. It’s their duty to pick up the phone, this is why IT people are hired. Facing problems with your DSL link at home, can’t connect from a coffeeshop on the weekend, your messenger stopped working on your personal laptop, call any of the listed IT people and don’t forget to tell the IT person to submit your form for this thrilling category.
- Double I’s: Ohhhh, that’s a tough one, The Impossible Idea, whatever you have in mind, do not hesitate, nothing it too hard, too far, or impossible to conquer!
Guidelines:
- Think of any IT person as a machine, they look like humans but don’t be fooled, these people, stand in the freezing cold functioning on coffee only for several days and btw only take bathroom breaks!
- IT people gave up having a personal life upon accepting their positions.
We have created an application form to submit to all of the above, but why waste your time, you have to click the link and fill out the empty box and then click submit .. oh yes we do know you have better things to do, so again drop us a call, email and we’ll fill it out for you, or as one of the brilliant Double I’s that qualified, we are working on reading your minds and predicting what it is you want before you say it ;D
Send To Mail Recipient Error
Posted by Bloggylife in troubleshooting, windows on May 10, 2009
I get this error when trying to Send To Mail from within any application or using right click -> Send To -> Mail Recipient option for a file on the desktop for example.
mapi32.dll is an invalid Extended MAPI Library
To solve this problem. Since I still have my old machine running – it’s still doing me good – with the same office version 2007. I copies the dll file, mapi32.dll from (C:\WINDOWS\system32) and placed it the exact location of the new machine, closed outlook and opened it again and problem solved.
كلمات أعجبتني
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on May 8, 2009
لا يمكنك إسترجاع الحجر بعد إلقائه
لا يمكنك إسترجاع الكلمات بعد نطقها
لا يمكن إسترجاع الفرصة بعد ضياعها
لا يمكن إسترجاع الشباب أو الوقت بعد أن يمضى
Sane Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on May 8, 2009
Talking to yourself is one “sane” thing
Letting others catch you while doing that … is another “insane” thing!!
Outlook Address History
Posted by Bloggylife in troubleshooting, windows on May 7, 2009
I’ve transferred to a new machine. As my email client, I use outlook at work and I was annoyed that all my address history that I didn’t store in my contacts, aren’t displayed any more. After a quick search, I knew which file to transfer from my old machine to the new one to get this problem fixed.
C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.NK2
Copy the .NK2 file to the exact location of your new machine, but becareful that it’ll overwrite your cached addresses on your other machine!
Of course I had my outlook closed during the whole copy paste process, then I opened it to take in the new file, it detected that the outlook wasn’t closed properly and tried to repair. After the process finished, I typed in my old address and out they come 
IT Thoughts
Posted by Bloggylife in thoughts on May 6, 2009
One way to bring down a business …
Blow up their data center!
PS: I know, if you are an IT, you’ll have ‘n’ ways to null this argument, but it’s a valid assumption wouldn’t you say
Image Spam
Posted by Bloggylife in technology on May 5, 2009
Of all the emails we receive within 24 hours, around 95 % is spam! Of course we deploy a mail filter to go through all these emails and pass the legitimate ones only.
Now we are introduced to some emails that are clearly spam but get through, you’ll see the email with an image attachment of Viagra products for example.
If your filter box is text based, it won’t detect this kind of spam, the image spam. A brief overall description, of how a message is considered valid or spam, is it goes through several tests, based on the overall score, the verdict is issued.
The email can be blocked based on a number of things other than the email content, you can block all emails with images except coming from your whitelist for example, but this is not acceptable, especially if you have what I like to call the “Friends Spam”, employees using their work account as personal mailing account.
Your filter needs to include a special image filtering feature, that goes, even if not quite efficiently, through the image and detects text. I don’t think it understands the image itself, because we are still advancing in that arena.
What you can do, is add the sender’s address or domain to your blocked list.
On a lighter note, if there is a small little tiny chance that a spam message passes through, your main mail filter appliance and the end user’s email scanner, which employee’s inbox will it end up in ?????
Read More on Email Spam: Link
Eye Sight Issues
Posted by Bloggylife in personal on May 5, 2009
For a couple of weeks now, I’ve been having eye sight problems, letters and images are a bit fuzzy and I’ve been having headaches. I tried going to the Dr. to have my eyes checked but didn’t find the time till today.
First of all, I have an idea, not because I’m an IT person, but to get an appointment for eye sight checkup, you’ll go through these steps.
- See the general Dr. She’ll give you a reference to the ophthalmologist – just Googled that term ;P -
- Take that piece of paper and only in mornings to set an appointment for your eyes check
- Go to the eye Dr. to get your sight checked out
Since I’m only looking for an appointment, why isn’t there an automated system to register my request?? See I didn’t say generate an appointment, just register my request. I can login a website and input my civil ID, name and contact number, they can store the information and the next day, after the person responsible sets an appropriate appointment, sends me a message and I can reply to confirm or call up. Wouldn’t that be more efficient! This is the lowest level of solution, or just have a person answer the phone and write down requests. Look at the bright side, more jobs will be created!
So I went to the “مستوصف” and as I was standing this lady goes ahead and cuts in line!!! I’m thinking coooooool down, many people do that, it’s NOT worth it, but this what comes out of my mouth:
لو سمحت هل في سبب انج عديتيني؟؟؟
wait … wait for the finaleeee ;P
من اللباقة انج توقفين بالدور
LOL, I don’t know where the hell I come up with stuff like that! Everyone was sweet and apologetic, maskeeenaaa the woman who cut in line and the person behind the register counter ;P
Anyway I go into the Dr’s office and of course, sitting in the chair in front of her, fighting the urge to push her aside and use the oracle forms she keeps exiting and opening! She ends up puffing her cheeks and writing on a piece of paper.
I hope I can get out of work tomorrow and set my eye appointment and then I reaaalllly hope I don’t have to wait that long to check my eyes out. Last time, I had eye sight issues, were in my graduate year, the Dr gave me some eye drops and advised me to blink!
I just need to rest for a while, it’s been hectic for some time now and I need a break … Don’t we all …
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