A fun cute addictive game… kid safe
Highly addictive... Feed your fish, keep them safe, and buy an egg to get extra things for your tank... this game is free!
Exchange mailbox manipulation from the command line
Here is a quick link to a tool that might be useful for creating the Resources and Conference Rooms for migration.
http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/exchmbx.htm
'ExchMbx' Mailbox Manipulation Tool
Summary
"Command line tool for doing various Exchange tasks such as mail enabling/disabling users, contacts, groups. Mailbox enabling/disabling users. Moving mailboxes." (via bink)
vCalendar and iCalendar and vCal and iCal
Well as I move forward with a project at work to get Exchange Calendaring working in our environment. I am faced with understanding how email invites from an Outlook user show up on non-outlook email readers. Apparently Microsoft formats an email with a iCalendar attachment. The other names for representing it are wrong, or refer to other technologies. Here is the link to RFC-2445 which defines iCalendar, which is based on vCalendar. vCalendar came first, and iCalendar adds extensions to it to support things like recurrance, attendees, etc. Here is the IMC's definition of vCard and vCalendar which also links to the above RFC. All iCalendar items are saved with the ICS or .ics file extension, you can also save as vCalendar, which is VCS and .vcs.
You also can't save recurring meetings in vCalendar format. iCalendar seems to support more features, and is definately the more powerful of the two, or atleast more verbose.
The articles I found the most helpful were:
Dissecting the vCalendar File - which also links to Creating Clickable Appointments
How to Manually Process a vCalendar File As a Text File - From microsoft, in reference to how Outlook 2003 processes the file. Quickly defines key fields such as date formating and time.
The hope is to be able to develop internal applications that can have links to pop meetings into people's calendar. 🙂
Sample vCalendar from Microsoft
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:19980114T210000Z DTEND:19980114T230000Z LOCATION:My office CATEGORIES:Business DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:This is a note associated with the meeting=0D=0A SUMMARY:Meeting to discuss salaries PRIORITY:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
Sample vCalendar from eVite.com
BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT URL:http://www.evite.com/r?iid=WPOICERTYUEPRWVV ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[email protected] DTSTART:20041113T200000Z DTEND:20041113T200000Z SUMMARY:Group Gathering CATEGORIES:Party_top DESCRIPTION:For details, click here: http://www.evite.com/r?iid=WPOICERTYUEPRWVV DXJV LOCATION:TBD END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
Microsoft activity in vCalendar format
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:1.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20041018T233000Z
DTEND:20041019T000000Z
LOCATION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:This is the Location
UID:040000008200E00074C5B5656A82E0080000000070D1878F3AB5C4010000000000000000100
00000917681A7B41ED145BC577ACE43920723
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:This is the description of the meetin=
g.=0D=0A
SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:This is the subject of the meeting
PRIORITY:3
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDARMicrosoft activity in iCalendar format
BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;CN="Lastname, Firstname";ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:[email protected] ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[email protected] DTSTART:20041018T233000Z DTEND:20041019T000000Z LOCATION:This is the Location TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 UID:040000008200E00074C5B5656A82E0080000000070D1878F3AB5C4010000000000000000100 00000917681A7B41ED145BC577ACE43920723 DTSTAMP:20041019T004739Z DESCRIPTION:This is the description of the meeting.n SUMMARY:This is the subject of the meeting PRIORITY:5 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
Meeting with invites in iCalendar format and reminder and guestBEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;CN="Lastname, Host";ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:[email protected] ATTENDEE;CN="Lastname, Guest";ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:[email protected] ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[email protected] DTSTART:20041018T233000Z DTEND:20041019T000000Z LOCATION:This is the Location TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 UID:040000008200E00074C5B5656A82E0080000000070D1878F3AB5C4010000000000000000100 00000917681A7B41ED145BC577ACE43920723 DTSTAMP:20041019T005542Z CATEGORIES:Categories DESCRIPTION:This is the description of the meeting.n SUMMARY:This is the subject of the meeting PRIORITY:5 CLASS:PRIVATE BEGIN:VALARM TRIGGER:-PT15M ACTION:DISPLAY DESCRIPTION:Reminder END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
Game: Kings of Chaos
I'm inviting you all to join me in an on line game, that is turn based, and could be played for about 5 minutes a day and still be fun. CLicking on the link below of course helps me, but if we work together, we should be able to have a big army to run around with. I am an ORC.
KhanTheOrc to join in.
In Kings of Chaos, you are in command of an army of either humans, elves, dwarves or orcs. The aim of the game is to achieve the highest overall ranking - worked out by taking a combination of your attack, defence, and covert (spy) rankings - whoever has the lowest combined ranking will be 1st in the overall rankings. This makes it important to keep your army evenly balanced in all these areas.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO... be sure to Click Here to join up.
Blackberry to do VoIP over Wi-Fi
from www.gizmodo.com
BlackBery 7270: Voice Over Wi-Fi
The BlackBerry 7270 (7290 pictured) is being shown off at the Gartner ITXPO Symposium by Research In Motion (RIM). The 7270 incorporates 802.11 support for both voice and data applications, and while it's only going to work with RIM's backend (targeted mainly at big corps) it seems to portend other 802.11 VoWLAN devices in the future. It's already hard for many people to draw a firm line between phones and PDAs. It's only going to get worse (better).
BrainGell Radio
I got this link from a coworker, but its not really safe to play at a loud volume at work. Its for BrainGell internet radio. Think of it as Ozzfest radio. 😀 Enjoy.
Figure out what runs on startup on your machine
Recently I have been helping alot of people remove spyware, trojan horses, and viruses from their machines. One of the first things I do is login and look at all the things thrown into their registry and startup folder. These two utilities do alot to help you find out what is set to run, and who the publisher of the file is.
msconfig.exe - is free, and is installed on all Windows machines. Use MSConfig.exe from the Start->Run to see what services and registry keys are being set to launch when you login to the computer.
AutoRuns - is free, but you have to download it from the SysInternal folks. Its hosted on www.spychecker.com autoruns
It is important to run this util from the start menu not the command line. It would be useful if it could be found from the command line. See my other articles on spy ware, trojan horses and modifying and searching the registry.
Transformers meet paper
An interesting site where a guy has created paper cut outs of the Transformers Series. He calls them Paperformers.
I have yet to print them out and see how they work. Its very simular to the guy that made small arcade games for his daughters doll house. 🙂
Sinfest – Kung Fu
What can I say... it works! Kung Foo!!!!
And I'm sure they aren't talking about anything Political...