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May 2005 - Posts

ERP Gantries at Wisma Atrium a feasible idea?

Ha ha... Just came back from lunch, and my colleauges and I were talking about the new ERP gantries at Orchard Road. He made a comment, which I'm going to paraphase and expand. Wonder when the authorities are going to put two gantries, one at linkway Read More...
Posted Monday, May 30, 2005 12:47 PM by kitkai | 2 Comments

The Shoes of Happiness

This is taken from my church's bulletin, something that spoken to my heart even before the powerful service starts. I won't comment much, but let the Holy Spirit speak directly into your heart as only He can speak. [Update:] Click here to listen tothe Read More...
Posted Monday, May 30, 2005 8:22 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Some links for me to look into when I got some free time.

Enterprise Template Booklet Read More...
Posted Monday, May 30, 2005 8:20 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

SDAasia.Net 2005 Conference

I was able to attend the SDAasia.Net 2005 Conference at the last minute because I was given VIP pass, one of the privileges of being a council member of SGDotNet. Learn many things there like… Updated Design Patterns Neal Ford looks at the updated design Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 29, 2005 3:39 PM by kitkai | 1 Comments

Netscape 8 will break IE's XML rendering

Netscape will break IE's xml rendering, more specifically, the XSL handling. http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ Read More...
Posted Friday, May 27, 2005 1:17 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Promoting Paladin @ SDA.Net conference

I heard Stephen was promoting Paladin at one of the pre-conference session. I don't know the exact details, something like he mentioned to the audience that Paladin can do this (something which I'm not sure. I heard it from someone else), and he basically Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 25, 2005 3:26 PM by kitkai | 1 Comments

Some onenote utilities.

One of the onenote mvps prepared this page that listed downmost ofthe onenote plug-ins. Check it out. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:13 AM by kitkai | 1 Comments

Need to attend some webcast in pacific time, but do not know what is the local time?

Here is an app that I used to convert the time. It's called Time Zone, written in .net framework. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:26 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Cell Leader's Wedding...

Today, I attended my cell leader's wedding. As its always a "tradition" that cell members help out with each other's wedding, I was there early... You know what, their guest-of-honor was even earlier... His presence was tangible. The wedding was simple, Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 21, 2005 11:24 PM by kitkai | 1 Comments

Improved MSDN Harddisk Update Software...

The update software for msdn harddisk is upgraded... Now it is more responsive, and doesn't hang (yet) when updating the harddisk content, and it remembers the subscription number :) Cool! Now the harddisk is more usable :) Read More...
Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 7:03 PM by kitkai | 4 Comments

Any Jason Wu Out There?

Hi Jason, if you are reading my blog, please note that your thumb drive is waiting for you to pick it up at Boon Lay Bus Interchange or is it MRT? A guy called me, saying that your thumbdrive is found, and inside contains my handphone number. BTW, why Read More...
Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 4:07 PM by kitkai | 4 Comments

Fire drill??!!

Today, the building I'm in is conducting a fire drill. Well, you know the usual yada yada... But my company has her own procedures for fire drills... Step 1: Off the lights. Step 2: Lock the door. Step 3: Stay out of sight! Read More...
Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 3:50 PM by kitkai | 3 Comments

SSL on a specific virutal directory confuses sharepoint

Something that capture my attention, though I haven't met this problem yet... [quote user="Daniel Larson"] "That is a bug that SP2 (part of Windows Server 2003 Release 2) will address, and something I've seen in my config at www.portalbuilder.org. I am Read More...
Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 10:24 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

A bit of plans for the upcoming Office

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5712784.html?tag=nl.e589 Microsoft released some details about office 12. Office 12 will be focusing on improving collaboration. Here is another link to the pre-press release of CEO summit. Man, I wonder whats the plan Read More...
Posted Friday, May 20, 2005 12:25 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

How to build extensibility in to your javascript.

Just wanted to put this down so I can find it easily. Basically, this is copied from SharePoint's javascript. Say you have a function that generates a menu. function AddDocLibMenuItems(){//Whatever things you want to do.} Yet, you want to allow people Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 11:46 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Task Scheduler

There is a need for me to write a demon to do some tasks every day in the background. My boss suggested that I use task scheduler, hence I went to research on it. Came across the documentation of the task schedulerAPI here on msdn. However, it's COM objects. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 10:31 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Eiger, another edition of windows XP

Basically its based on windows xp embedded, but is meant to run on PCs, low end PCs that are pentium 2, with 128mb ram. It is targeting customers that are running windows nt or 98, who are unwilling to upgrade their hardware. Check it out here. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 10:26 AM by kitkai | 2 Comments

From the Earth to the Moon

I took up a msf course offered by mvp academy. The course provided video that was recorded in an actual msf class where various Microsoft employees attended. The instructor did talk about how NASA's vision of being the first to put a man in the moon, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:49 AM by kitkai | 2 Comments

GAC API Wrappers

Found this while trying to find out how to detect whether certain assemblies is installed in GAC. I'm trying to use it now, and see if it helps. [Updates] The code above works. So now, I can do use the same codebase, but render the UI differently according Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2005 5:01 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Red-Carpet Subscription

Received a package yesterday from www.nsoftware.com. They gave me a free red-carpet subscription. Contains lots of licensed software for my personal use... :) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:24 AM by kitkai | 2 Comments

Credential-less impersonation is not working for me

I'm still figuring this out... Apparently, when I impersonate using this method, when I access sharepoint's object model, I'm getting funny errors like "Cannot complete operations" and "Catastrophic failure". These errors are not catchable, to make things Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:21 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

How to restore missing network cards in virtual pc / server

Something happen two weeks back, where my lan network card suddenly disappear from my virtual server, making it quite impossible for me to transfer between the virtual machines and my actual one, unless I switch to wireless. But that wasn't an option Read More...
Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 12:50 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Credential-less impersonation

Received this in my mailbox. Its the preview version of sharepoint advisor. Quite a few articles that you won't find in the internet. The article that caught my eye is this. Going to try it tomorrow and see if it works. Read More...
Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 12:22 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Today service was wonderful

Woke up, very tired, because the night ended kind of late for me yesterday. Was a great bbq, having lots of fun with netassist people, Howard, and sgdn guys. Other weeks shouldn't take the toll, but last week was especially stressful for me. Went to my Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 15, 2005 1:56 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Practicing Better than Best: Getting and Staying Secure the Right Way

Check out these videos by none other, Steve Riley, Jesper M. Johansson Read More...
Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 3:13 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

PDC2005 Tracks are out

The tracks are out at PDC2005's website. Man, it sure looks more interesting than... (Some of you guys will know what I'm refering to) Read More...
Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 9:31 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Some links to about pear pc

Pear PC Pear PC Control Panel Pear PC Wiki Step by step installation of Panther by Robert, MVP. Alex & Prasys' Pear PCEmulation enjoy :) Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 12, 2005 12:39 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Useful tools for sharepoint

This page contains some free useful tools. I copy the content here just in case... SharePoint Database Explorer STSADM Graphical User Interface SharePoint Site Hierarchy Explorer SharePoint Portal Server RSS Generator DevHawk SharePoint Syndication Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 2:25 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Almost down with flu

Yesterday, when I woke up, I got a terrible headache, and I got all the symptoms of flu, like a terrible aching body. I quickly went to take extra strength panadol. Took 6 throughout the day. Thank God I didn't fall sick. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:34 AM by kitkai | 1 Comments

There is a new mvp award category

Its for the class server. There are currently 5 worldwide. Microsoft is holding a live meeting sessions. MVPs, check the new private newsgroup. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 10, 2005 9:58 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

"Hacking" the code paladin generated

Currently, Paladin's BEWizard cannot handle a table with two foreign keys referencing another table (maybe the same table also cannot. Didn't try that yet). I wrote my experience in "hacking" the code here. Let's hope firedancer finishes her studies soon, Read More...
Posted Monday, May 09, 2005 9:24 AM by kitkai | 3 Comments

Working on two pcs?

My boss passed me this link. Supposed to integrate the two machines into one.Anyone tried? Read More...
Posted Monday, May 09, 2005 9:21 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

My First "Mac"

Yippe! I finally got panther running on my T42! :) I'm feeling excited, as well as lost... Ha ha... Its very wierd, when my right click don't work Kind of slow though... Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 08, 2005 5:37 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments

New version of PearPC

PearPC 0.4 is out. I hope this can work properly with my keyboard. Yesterday nightI was trying to install Panther, but I couldb't type anything. I can only use the mouse. I couldn't install Tiger as well. I also hope PearPC would have expanding disc. Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 08, 2005 11:03 AM by kitkai | 6 Comments

Reporting Services Webpart

Not sure if you can do this in service pack 1, but now you can use reporting services with sharepoint. Download reporting services service pack 2 and check out this article on how to haveyour reports in sharepoint Read More...
Posted Friday, May 06, 2005 10:44 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Want to customise sharepoint's look and feel?

Check out this resource! Read More...
Posted Friday, May 06, 2005 10:01 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Lotus Notes Webpart

Triplez found this website that contains lots of lotus notes stuff... There is also a lotus notes webpart. Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 05, 2005 3:10 PM by kitkai | 1 Comments

Queue at the restroom (both male and female)

The level that my office is in has a male restroom and a female restroom, shared with another company. Today, there is a group of females waiting outside the toilets during lunch time. When I need to visit the toilet, I found my colleagues (guys) waiting Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 6:42 PM by kitkai | 2 Comments

Sending Email via Exchange results in exception

I was trying to send out email via my company's exchange server, but I keep hitting the "could not access ‘CDO.Message’". The erroris so generic that both wei-dong (ms support engineer helping me outvia the microsoft newsgroup) and I was thrown off track. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:14 AM by kitkai | 0 Comments

Heart beat skipping a beat

Don't know why these few days my heart beat is irregular. It will grow softer and softer, until it misses a bit, and comes with one or two stronger beats. So strong that its uncomfortable at my chest area... Sigh... whats happening... Read More...
Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 10:56 PM by kitkai | 3 Comments

Restrictions in customising sharepoint

Check it out here Read More...
Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 9:31 PM by kitkai | 0 Comments