Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Nimbuzz - Free international mobile call chat messaging with skype, msn & yahoo messenger, Icq

you can use this app on your iphone and use a SIP (voip) account
so you can make calls from your iphone over wifi using voip
Nimbuzz - Free international mobile call chat messaging with skype, msn & yahoo messenger, Icq

Safe Mail - Protect your email address, make it an image! - Free tool to make your own email image.

Use this to safely put your email address on your website
Safe Mail - Protect your email address, make it an image! - Free tool to make your own email image.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

IT Professionals

The economic rewards that an IT professional will enjoy is governed by a few basic economic principles. The most important of them all is the effects of supply and demand.
Any commodity such as your wage is goverened by demand.  Thus you would like to be in high demand.
So how do you get yourself in a position where you will be in more demand? - find where there are high barriers to entry.
e.g. The tougher it is to get a certification, the higher the barrier is and thus the higher the rewards (wage).
A great way to earn a higher wage is to earn a certification that is in high demand such as the Cisco CCIE.
(This is all well and good if you are after a higher wage, but what if you want more time? a better lifestyle, work less and earn more, stop trading hours for $$$, etc)

However there are always upper limits to earning a wage, you can only work so many hours in a day to earn $$$.
No matter how hard you work, there is still a limit to your earning power.
However, if you look at a software vendor, they can release a product to market and sell thousands of copies, (and each copy has very little to no extra effort to sell once the system is setup).  Thus the limit to earning is only limited by the demand or how many people require that product.  The initial work is all at the beginning - creating the product, but one that system is setup - it can be duplicated to be a cash machine.

Applying this to the IT Professional, get yourself in a position where you are raising the upper limits to your income:
  1. If you are working for a wage, work on contract instead.
  2. If you are selling your labor, try to leverage this by getting multiple sources of revenue for the same labor. For example, if you have a contract to install Linux on 100 different machines, do it by getting paid per machine. Then set up one machine (your hours of labor) and then use a utility like Norton's Ghost to replicate this to all the other machines. The more machines you do this to the bigger your rewards.
  3. If you are selling your knowledge, sell to many for a small amount each as compared to selling to one for a lot. For example, if you are an Exchange expert, write a book where you could earn $5 per copy as compared to doing one large install contract that pays a flat fee.
What are you selling to earn your income? - if you sell your labor, you will never get as far as someone selling a "thing" a.k.a. renting your capital.

Being in IT, you have opportunities to see how new technologies can impact and solve problems for clients.  There may be a more efficient way to do something, a new product that is more efficient, a better way to achieve a goal, etc.  Look for these opportunities!  If you can provide a way of doing something even 10% better then currently implemented, then you are solving a problem that can save $$$.  The initial returns may be low, but the long term potential is unlimited.

Modified from: http://www.cramsession.com





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Monday, October 19, 2009

Atassian - Aust software co. - Check out this video

Atlassian - an AUS software co - check out this video -http://bit.ly/465Or5
I really like their values - sounds like a really cool place to work.
The video is awesome too.
This is how Australian software company Atlassian present their values on their web site’s about page:

What we stand for


Atlassian is an Australian software company specialising in collaboration and development tools.
Our mission is to build a different kind of software company — one that listens to client needs, values innovation in development and solves customer problems with brilliant simplicity.

What we value


Open company, no bullshit

Atlassian embraces transparency wherever at all practical, and sometimes where impractical. All information, both internal and external, is public by default. We are not afraid of being honest with ourselves, our staff and our customers.

Build with heart and balance

Everyday we try to build products that are useful and that people lust after. Building with heart means really caring about what we're making and doing — it's a mission, not just a job. When we build with balance we take into account how initiatives and decisions will affect our colleagues, our customers and our stakeholders.

Don't #@!% the customer

When we make internal decisions we ask ourselves “how will this affect our customers?” If the answer is that it would 'screw' them, or make life more difficult, then we need to find a better way. We want the customer to respect us in the morning.

Play, as a team

We want all Atlassians to feel like they work with Atlassian, not for Atlassian. We think it's important to have fun with your workmates while working and contributing to the Atlassian team.

Be the change you seek

We think Gandhi had it pretty right when he said “We need to be the change we wish to see in the world”. At Atlassian we encourage everyone to create positive change — we're constantly looking for ways to improve our company, our products and our environment.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

MSN Messenger Bot

LOL
I got added by a bot called
elizabethzurama@hotmail.com

conversation:
hi
me: hi

how are you?
me: how are you?

my name is paris blah blah blah....

me: block user

How to remove joomla 1.5 copyright info

First:
in cpanel > filemanager

Go to the root folder Of Joomla > languages > en-GB/ en-GB.mod_footer.ini
FOOTER=Footer
FOOTER_LINE1=Copyright © %date% %sitename%. All Rights Reserved.
FOOTER_LINE2=Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License.
MOD_FOOTER=mod_footer
THIS MODULE SHOWS THE JOOMLA! COPYRIGHT INFORMATION=This Module shows the Joomla! Copyright information


Second:
Go to yourtemplate/index.php > bottom of page
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Joomla - Changing the main title "welcome to the frontpage"

This will guide you on howto change the 'Welcome to the Frontpage' title on your Frontpage.

Go to your Joomla! 1.5 Administration site and login. In your administration site go to:
  • Menus - Main Menu
  • Click on 'Home' link to edit this link.
  • Click on Parameters System and change or delete the Page title.
  • Click SAVE.
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Joomla - SEF not working (404 - Component not found)

Joomla - Search Engine Friendly URLs in the Global Configuration of Joomla 1.5.2 and tested and verified to be true for 1.5.3 as well.

" ... edit configuration.php as var $live_site = 'http://www.mysite.com' "

Note that default configuration.php is var $live_site = ''

Wave hello to the future

WOW google wave is looking awesome.  I never really took notice until recently.  but wow!
http://wave.google.com

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Windows 7 - Show Deskop button

I was always wondering how to "show desktop" in Windows 7.
I only found it by accident!
It's in the bottom right hand corner.



Saturday, October 03, 2009

IIS asking for windows password

IIS was being stupid.
asking for (windows) authentication password
even though the site was setup to be anonymous access.

so I went into IIS manager
right clicked on the site > properties > directory security > Auth and access control
disabled anonymous access
clicked ok

then went back into it and re-enabled anonymous access

that seemed to fix it
:)

LDAP Browser

This tool comes in handy when you need to test LDAP connections - and its free!
Softerra LDAP Administrator & Browser: Directory Management Tool Download
LDAP Browser 2.6

Type
Free
Version
2.6
OS
Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003
Upload date
12/07/2003


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