Tuesday, August 31, 2010

TXSeries for Multiplatforms

What is TXSeries for Multiplatforms?

IBM TXSeries for Multiplatforms is a general-purpose online transaction-processing software for handling security, data integrity, and resource scheduling. it helps to create a Customer Information Control System (CICS) environment on distributed environment for deploying CICS applications written in C, C++, COBOL and PL/I.. For More Info visit TXSeries for Multiplatforms.

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5 Tips to Popularize your Blog..

Need More Hits for your blog???

1. Make sure you blog settings are changed to allow search engines to list your blog as follows. Login to your blog and then Goto Settings -> Basic tabs, modify the settings for following options as shown below.











2. Add your blog to google search if it fails to list Blog Search.

3. Add your blog to BlogoSphere Catalog sites like

                          Blog Catalog
                          BLOGZ
4. Add Gadgets like Sociable  to your blog. This will help the visitors to share the post information to his friends on Wykop, Flaker, Blip, Pinger, Develway, GoogleBuzz, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Facebook, Twitter.
     This gadget can be add by 
                Goto Design ->Page Elements
                Click on Add a Gadget in page Layout
                Search for Sociable and click on + to add to your blog.
5. Add as many as relevant Labels to your post.           

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Enabling X11 Forwading for AIX Server

Forwarding the X11 display from AIX machines to client machine:

     1. Use putty to connect to AIX machine with SSH Protocol
     2. Open Putty from your client machine.
     3. On left panel, click on Connection -> X11. On right panel click on Enable X11 forwarding check box.
     4. On left panel of putty, click on Session and then click on save option shown on right side
     5. Enter AIX machine name on Host Name field  and choose SSH as protocol. Click on open.
     6. Provide root user credentials to login
     7. In root prompt enter folling
        cd /etc/ssh
         vi sshd_config

     8. Change following options.
        Un comment following lines and change the arguments as follows for all occurences in the file.
         X11Forwarding yes
         AllowTcpForwarding yes
     9. Stop the ssh service as
         stopsrc -s sshd
    10. Start the ssh service as
         startsrc -s sshd
    11. Start the XWinServer or any X server on client machine.
    12. Take a new session for the AIX server and try xterm after logging in.           

Friday, August 20, 2010

Different ways to copy the content from a blog

Different ways to copy the content from a blog

1. Select the content using mouse. Use "CTRL + C" to copy and "CTRL + V" to paste.

2. Use "CTRL + A" To select all the content in a web page, "CTRL +C" to copy all the content. Open a notepad/wordpad, Paste the content in it using "CTRL + V" and select the required data from the pasted content.

3. If the Copy option is disabled,  Click on Edit tab -> Click on Select All option to select all the content on the page. Use "CTRL +C" to copy all the content. Open a notepad/wordpad, Paste the content in it using "CTRL + V" and select the required data from the pasted content.  Use "CTRL + C" to copy and "CTRL + V" to paste.

4.if the Select All option is also disabled, still you can copy. Click on File tab -> Click on "Save Page As"/"Save As" option. Enter a name to save the content. Now right click on the file saved and choose an editor to open the file. Once the HTML file is completely loaded, select the content that you want. Use "CTRL + C" to copy and "CTRL + V" to paste.

Enjoy Blogging... 

Note: If the copy is disabled on a particular post for a blog means, the author is not willing to share the content or trying to protect the data from misuse. So don't copy such data or duplicate the data in another blog/site.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Disable Copy Option for the Blog Posts

Follow these steps for disabling the copy option for the blog posts:

1. Goto Design -> Edit HTML
2. Make sure Expand Widget Templates check-box is not selected
3. Search for </head> tag
4. Copy the following Java script and Paste it before the </head> tag
<script language='javascript'>
var browserName=navigator.appName;
var is_chrome = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(&#39;chrome&#39;) &gt; -1;
window.onload = function() {
 if (browserName==&quot;Microsoft Internet Explorer&quot;)
 {
  document.onselectstart = function() {return false;}
 }
 if (browserName==&quot;Netscape&quot;)
 {
  document.onmousedown = function () { return false; }
 }
 if(is_chrome)
 {
   document.onselectstart = function() {return false;}
   document.onmousedown = function () { return true; }
 }
}
</script>

5. Click on SAVE TEMPLATE

6. Click on View Blog to verify the changes made.


Enjoy Blogging... 

Note: Still there are some workarounds to copy the blog post contents. At least disabling direct copy, gives the intention of blogger to the visitors.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Converting Labels to Drop Down

Simple way to convert the Labels in a blog to drop down menu
1. Goto Design -> Edit HTML
2. Make sure Expand Widget Templates check-box is not selected
3. Search for following line
<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'>
4. Replace the above line with following content
<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'>
<b:includable id='main'>
 <b:if cond='data:title'>
   <h2><data:title/></h2>
 </b:if>
 <div class='widget-content'>
<select onchange='location=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;'>
   <option>Choose a label</option>
   <b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
      <option expr:value='data:label.url'><data:label.name/>
         (<data:label.count/>)
      </option>
   </b:loop>
</select>
 </div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>


5. Click on SAVE TEMPLATE button to save the changes made.
6. Click the View Blog option to verify.

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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Adding photo in orkut forum messages

Simple steps to add photo in orkut forum messages:

Steps for older orkut version:
1. Go to your scrap book
2. Click on Add Photo option
3. Browse and upload a photo from your system
4. Once the image is uploaded, link will appear in the window..
5. Copy the link and paste it in forum messages.

Steps for newer orkut version:

1. Go to your scrap book
2. Click on Insert Image option
3. Browse and upload a photo from your system
4. Once the image is uploaded, photo preview will shown
5. Click on the HTML option shown on top right corner of message box.
6. Copy the http address (Ex: img src="http:<...>/sample.jpg" )
7. Paste it in forum messages

Enjoy orkuting...