Tips & Tricks

Nokia released new firmware v023.002 for Nokia E72

After the launch of Nokia E72, Nokia seems to receive a lot of complaints and feedback from users that make Nokia quickly fix some critical bugs and release new firmware update. The first firmware update v022.007 was released on 11st Jan 2010, but this update only available for US users (i guess model E72-2 / E72-3). For Asian users which using model E72-1, the new firmware v023.002 was available to public on 7th Feb 2010 ( i notice on this date). The firmware information mentioned that this firmware released on 25th Jan. So far, im not able to get official changelog for this firmware update but the firmware quick note says that this firmware update bring performance improvement, software updates and bugs fixed.
 

How to enable IM / Chat in Nokia E72

Nokia has its own software called "Messaging" that provide seamless all-in-one application that include email, im/chat and social networking. This makes it easy and affordable to connect to your email, IM, social networking communities, wherever you happen to be. For more information, please refer to http://messaging.nokia.com

How To Set Time Using NTP In Solaris

What is NTP?

NTP is stand for Network Time Protocol. It is used for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. NTP uses UDP on port 123 as its transport layer.

Keeping the date/time synchronized throughout all computers / servers is really necessary. Solaris already comes with the ntp daemon, called "xntpd".

  • Check whether NTP daemon is already running / not

root@server:~# svcs -a | grep ntp
disabled       May_11   svc:/network/ntp:default

Tips for Linux / Unix Systems Administrator

1. How to unmount the unresponsive media drive

First, simulate it. Stick a disk in your CD/DVD drive, open up a terminal, and mount the CD/DVD drive.
If your system automatically mount, then you can skip the mounting part.

root@server:~# mount /media/cdrom
root@server:~# cd /media/cdrom
root@server:~# while [ 1 ]; do echo "All your drives are belong to us!"; sleep 30; done

How to make Microsoft Outlook prompt on empty subject?

It’s important and mandatory that the emails we send have relevant "subject" to it. Almost all email clients have this feature, where it will prompt user about the empty subject.

Unfortunately, when i started using Ms Office Outlook (previously i was using Thunderbird) as this is what my new company using, i notice that Ms Outlook doesn't prompt if i miss out the subject.

How to change Gmail theme?

Do you ever think to change the Gmail theme/skin? Or are you wondering whether it is possible or not? If yes, this blog will show you how to do this. Yea, as you see the "Gmail loading" screen below, you might interested to start changing your Gmail!

Gmail loading screen

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