Happy new year 2008

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For all those out there, Happy New Year 2008, Wishing you success in your life for this year.

IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition 8.4.2

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Quoted from OmniFind website.

IBM and Yahoo! make information actionable with a simple,
no-charge enterprise search solution.

I have been able to play a few month with the OmniFind Yahoo! Edition from IBM, it’s quiet some powerful tool offered for free compared to the other search engines that are offered on the net such as Google Custom Search Business, Google Mini, ISYS Web, Mondo Search, and some other tools that are listed here(http://www.searchtools.com).

Here are the features of OYE (OmniFind Yahoo! Edition)

Search internal web sites, local and remote file systems, and the public web

  • Search up to 500,000 documents and 5 separate collections
  • Support for 200+ file types
  • Search in 30+ languages
  • Translated into 15 languages View Screen Shot

Intuitive out-of-the-box user interface with advanced features

  • Based on Yahoo! Search UI View Screen Shot
  • Easily customized with graphical tools to configure look-and-feel, UI elements, branding View Screen Shot
  • Spell suggestion
  • Full wildcard support

Increased relevancy of results

  • Configurable synonyms and featured links View Screen Shot
  • Tunable relevancy controls View Screen Shot
  • Top queries, no results, and result click through reporting to enable fine-tuning View Screen Shot

Easy to deploy, configure, and maintain

  • No prerequisites
  • 3-click installer
  • 1-click startup
  • Go from the installer to searching in minutes

Open and extensible

  • Built on Apache Lucene
  • Open URL-based APIs (REST)
  • Define, populate and search your own custom fields
  • Easily embeddable and customizable UI output (XML/XSTL/HTML, HTML snippets)

From my point of view the only inconvenience with this tool is that is not open for any plug in or add in functionalities. That could really help make it much much better for users. But again, this tool is complete and contains all the needed functionalities for an Entry Level Enterprise Search Engine.

Here are some screen shot of the new version of the new version of OmniFind that i just upgrade from the 8.4.1
Home - Default Index

Meta Tags section - New to the 8.4.2

OmniFind Custom Search Page Designer

Lenovo 3000 N100

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I just bought a Lenovo 3000 N100 6 month ago. Now it’s time for some review on this piece of hardware.

The hardware specification is as follows:

Model: N100 0768-FFG
CPU: Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83 Ghz
Memory: 1Gb DDR2 PC5300
Hard Drive: 120 GB HDD (Fujitsu) SATA
Screen: 15.4″ WSXGA+ 1680×1050 Glossy
Optical Drive: DVD-RW Matshima
GPU: NVIDIA 7300 Go 128 MB (dedicated)
Network/Wireless: Intel Wireless 3945A/B/G, Realtek 10/100 Ethernet Card, Modem and Bluetooth
Inputs: 84 Key Keyboard with Two Button Touchpad with Scroll Bar
Buttons: Power, Lenovo Care, Power Up and Down, Mute, and WiFi/Bluetooth On/Off Switch.
Ports:

  • Four USB 2.0
  • Four-Pin Firewire
  • 4-in-1 Card Reader
  • Ethernet
  • Modem
  • VGA Out
  • S-Video Out
  • Microphone
  • Headphone
  • Security Lock
  • Power Connector

Integrated Camera (1.3 MegaPixel)
Fingerprint reader
6c Li-Ion

It was delivered with Windows Vista Business Edition. And some other software that makes it run slower than it should. Thus after the 1st month having Vista on it, i decided to downgrade back to Windows XP SP2 Pro. And this is just so fine. Beware before doing this operation make sure that you download any Driver that are needed. Since the set is not delivered with a driver CD. I found all the drivers on the Lenovo website.

Here are some stats and test that i did.

Using CPUz(http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php)

CPU

Cache

SPD

Mainboard

Super Pi Calculation (http://www.overclock.net/downloads/28044-definitive-super-pi-thread.html)

Will be coming soon… let me get some time.

Happy Halloween

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Happy

Halloween 2007 to everyone !!!

Halloween Pumkin

Vinivi, the Team

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Goodbye are always sad, but last week we made a little party for the departure of Noelette from the Vinivi Team. here is a small video introducing all the members of the team.

[kml_flashembed movie="Vinvi the Team" width="425" height="335" wmode="transparent" /]

Time for change !!! new wordpress theme

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It’s been while since i last wrote something on my blog, and also make some changes, these last month have been quiet busy. I first step to get back to the blogging community is to get a lighter look for my blog, and start writing some more post. :) since i have been doing many interesting things lately.

So how does my new theme look like ? ( I still have to make some changes thought to accept some ads and so on )

Sweet monday morning…

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This morning, I woke up early as usual… had a good night sleep and all :)

Got to the office, did my usual morning check and opened my mail.

Suprise, suprise I see that i am really needed :>

My Inbox

SEO Quiz

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SEOQuiz determines your aptitude in being an SEO Expert, even though SEO is not really what i do the best, i took the test just for the fun of knowing how good or (BAD is this case) here is my result:

SEO Novice – 52%

Are you an SEO Expert?

Here i am a novice, thus i must seek more knowledge or just leave it be and get the work done, by real experts :)

simpsonize me

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After the release of the The Simpsons Movie, last July there are has been lots of site base upon it that have been release. One of them that I just found out is simpsonizeme.com, its a really cool website where you can make yourself a simpson character based on your own photo. I have tried it and here is the result.

Me version simpson

So how do i look it !!!!

Copy custom object in C#

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There are several ways to clone custom object in .NET.

  • Using reflection to get information about each field and properties in the custom class, create a new instance and assign the proper value.
  • Manually implementing the clone method and assign each field and method and then return a new object
  • Using serialization and deserialization.

I have tried the third method, that can be found here, it seems to be working fine for the time being, more test need to be done for performance overhead.

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