Need I say more - funny !!

written by Arné

A thing that irritated me on our Sharepoint server was the fact that the PDF documents were not indexed and as most of our documentation is uploaded into Sharepoint one want to have a quick search through certain libraries to quickly find a word or phrase, and thus it is essential to have this facility working.

So first, I went into the Central Administration->Shared Services and chose the service, and quickly checked under the “Search Settings” if pdf are listed in the list of files that needs to be indexed.

1. Go to Central Administration->Shared Services and choose the relevant service.
2. Select Search Settings
3. Show the list of file extensions to be indexed
4. If PDF is not on the list, add it…. (you’ll notice that it will just say PDF document and not “Adobe Acrobat Document“) type of name)

5. If it is showing just “pdf document” it means Sharepoint cannot read the files yet(or dll’s not loaded)
6. Go to http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611 and download the Ifilter, and install on the server where indexer is running.
7. Now go back to the File Types and re-add pdf as an extension and it should resolve and show the application type as “Adobe Acrobat Document“

To re-index documents in the library use the “Reset all Crawl content” and got to Schedules and do a run again, it should take 10-60 minutes(or more!!) depending on your settings and size of libraries.

The next thing that needs to happen is you need to set an icon for PDF documents otherwise it will just show a blank icon or the default sharepoint one.

To do this you need to do 2 things

1. Copy a gif/jpg/png file for the icon to

\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\4\TEMPLATE\IMAGES (the 40 could be a 60 as well …)

2. Edit the following file and add one entry into the xml

<Mapping Key=”pdf” Value=”pdf.jpg”/>

You should now be able to index and have the results show a nice pdf document icon next to it.

written by Arné

I joined GENI.com today, is actually a very fast and effective way to collaborate with family and quickly build your family tree. Each member of the tree can give their input and before you know it you have a very large family tree built. You could say it is almost facebook, just a more concentrated flavour of it.

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written by Arné

Amazon is releasing a new Web Service again, this time SimpleDB.

Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in real time. This service works in close conjunction with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), collectively providing the ability to store, process and query data sets in the cloud. These services are designed to make web-scale computing easier and more cost-effective for developers.

Now I just wonder what the performance would be like, they they they’ve simplified it to be very quick and reliable and very lightweight, would like to checkout the API’s abit more to see what they’ve done. And see some stats after beta testing is done.

written by Arné

Again a rant rave from my side.
In the past 2 weeks I’ve watched two movies at Ster Kinekor, on at a Ster Kinekor Junction and the other at a Ster Kinekor Classic.

First movie was the BEE Movie which was at a Ster Kinekor Junction, which was awesome(check out this trailer(1 - 2) - funny as hell), which we paid I think R14 for this movie. That is relatively a good price for a movie, BUT is the price really worth it to watch 25 minutes of advertisements before the movie.

Second movie was 30 days of night which we watched at Ster Kinekor Classic, which we paid R40 per person.

Again, now we are paying so much for “Classic”, but whats the difference, a much emptier cinema, and still there is at least 15 minutes of advertisements before the movie this is a total ripoff, same advertisement time just maybe more comfortable seats, or whats the deal with Ster Kinekor’s Classic cinemas.

Are the cinema houses just getting plain money crazy! Or do they have lots of overhead costs to push in so many advertisements before the movie…?

Don’t get me started on the snackbar prices, I reckon they make 200% profit of everything at the snackbar.

Again, just my 2 cents on Ster Kinekor cinemas.

written by Arné