Offline IM in Trillian

Uncategorized — Titus Barik on February 15, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Does anyone know how to receive these AOL Instant Messanger messages?

[15:35] Random User: [Offline IM sent 48m ago]

I can’t find a way in Trillian Pro to receive them, and the Internet searches have proved unhelpful. The only thing I can think of is that I’ll have to switch Instant Messaging clients.

oXygen XML Editor

Uncategorized — Titus Barik on February 12, 2009 at 8:34 pm

I recently purchased a copy of oXygen XML Editor for my course on Electronic Commerce Technology. This editor is fantastic — it’s light-weight, cross platform, easy to use, and supports XML Schema, XPath, and a host of other XML capabilities that any budding XML developer would need. As a bonus, the company offers an academic version at a steeply discounted price.

Tuffmail Down

Uncategorized — Titus Barik on February 9, 2009 at 10:58 am

Tuffmail, my mail host, appears to be down at the moment. They’ve provided some more information on their system status page, indicating that there is some sort of internal routing problem. Until it’s corrected, I won’t have access to e-mail.

Update: It’s back up. Hooray.

Non-Destructively Convert FAT32 to NTFS

Uncategorized — Titus Barik on February 5, 2009 at 9:41 pm

FAT32 may seem like a perfectly fine option for an external drive, but eventually you may encounter the 4 GB maximum file size limitation, for example, when storing an ISO file of a DVD. However, we can convert a FAT32 partition to NTFS without formatting using the convert command in Windows:

convert e: /fs:ntfs

The above command converts drive e to NTFS. Unfortunately, there is no built-in command to perform the reverse operation of converting NTFS back to FAT32.

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