Where Does NeatWorks Store Your Data?

If you use NeatWorks by the Neat Company, you may be wondering where it actually stores your data.

NeatWorks is a document organization software for Windows and Mac that comes bundled with the NeatDesk and NeatReceipts scanner, but on the Mac is also available for purchase standalone.

Once you have scanned your documents in, it puts them in its own proprietary database, but where that is depends if you are running Mac or Windows.

HP Scan Application has stopped working Windows 7 64-bit

I've been experiencing the exact same problems as y'all so tried a new tactic.

I used their on-line chat. They fixed the problem - with a workaround...

Here ya go:

Find this file on your PC - Hpiscnapp

Make a shortcut on your desktop

When you want to scan, use this rather than the HP Solution centre. THis is the scan application itself without the HPSC front door.

When you hit Finish, it gives you the usual options - TIF, PDF, file location...WIth HPSC, you do all that selection up front.

I'm now happily scanning.

Now if my Canucks wouldn't have bombed in the NHL playoffs my week would be completely happy.

Shrink Your Virtualbox Dynamic Expanding Storage

by David J Henry on Jan.17, 2010, under Uncategorized

Thanks to Michael Cole’s Blog on Slimming down a Linux VirtualBox machine for this important nugget of knowledge.

I wrote a bunch of files to a dynamically expanding virtual disk in VirtualBox.  After I deleted the files, the dynamic virtual drive on the host was still huge.

This is because the files on the virtual disk are not really gone, they are just unlinked from the file system, waiting to be overwritten with new data.
To get rid of this unwanted unlinked data (Linux), write over them with zeros like so:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/zerofile; sudo rm /zerofile

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/zerofile; sudo rm /zerofile

Then shutdown your virtual OS and tell VirtualBox on the HOST machine (Windows in my example) to compress the virtual drive.


Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\Documents and Settings\djh>cd .VirtualBox
C:\Documents and Settings\djh\.VirtualBox>”C:\Program Files\Sun\VirtualBox\VBoxM
anage.exe” modifyvdi "F:\CentOS-cf7.vdi" compact
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.1.0
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
0%…10%…20%…30%…40%…50%…60%…70%…80%…90%…100%
C:\Documents and Settings\djh\.VirtualBox
That freed up some space, nice!

Check Oracle Version

There are several ways where you can query or retrieve the version number of installed Oracle products:

1.    If you just want to check the version information of the Oracle database, simply connect and login to the Oracle database with SQL *Plus. Upon login, you will see:   

SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.6.0 – Production on Tue Oct 18 17:58:57 2005

Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.

Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 – 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.6.0 – Production

The first italic number is the version of the SQL*Plus client and the second italic number is the version of Oracle database which you are connected to.

2.    Retrieve the version information from v$version table by using SQL*Plus. In this table you can find version information on Oracle, PL/SQL, etc.

To retrieve the version information for Oracle, you execute the following SQL Statement:

select * from v$version where banner like ‘Oracle%’;

It should return something like this:

Banner
————————————————————————————–
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 – 64bit Production

3.    Version information can also be checked from Installed Products from the Oracle Universal Installer. It will tells you what products is installed on the machine and also its version information too.

In Unix, the installer is located at $ORACLE_HOME/bin/runInstaller.
In Windows, access the installer by Start -> All Programs -> Oracle Installed Products -> Universal Installer.

Interview Tips for Aspiring Junior DBAs

Finally, after countless hours of scouring the Internet, you have come across a job posting for a junior Oracle DBA position, which includes the words you have been waiting for all this time: 0-2 years experience (zero being the operative word or number here). Armed with your fresh, just out of school knowledge of Oracle (and combined with virtually no workplace or on the job experience), what can you do to improve your odds of being hired? Obviously, no one expects you to be the world’s next Oracle Certified Master, but on the other hand, if your academic background includes several database administration courses, no one expects you have a blank stare on your face when asked to name five types of constraints on a table. If you find yourself going off to la-la land, try to minimize the damage by not drooling and hope everyone else stumbles on that question.

How to hide 'More:' clause from b2evolution

Go to %BLOG_HOME%\inc\MODEL\items directory, open file _item.class.php and make the following changes:
Change :
$more_anchor = ‘[’.T_(’More:’).’]';
to
$more_anchor = ‘’;

How to change Default Google Chrome Directory

Right Click on your Google Chrome Icon and select Properties and then click the Shortcut tab.

In the target field, at the end of "…chrome.exe" add  "–user-data-dir=" .

After this it looks some thing like

target="C:\Program Files\Google\Google Chrome\Chrome.exe" –user-data-dir="C:\Chrome\"

That Changes your Google Chrome profile to your new path. If you want to have the old profile in the new location then copy your old profile found at Windows Xp Users:

C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\default Windows Vista Users:C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\default

to the new directory. Remember that you have to copy all the contents of  "default" folder to the new profile directory but not the "default" directory itself.