Answer My Searches

Here are two new and intriguing search engines I’ve come across recently. If you’re a searching-tools-early-adaptor or you’re just stuck in a searching rut, you may want to try them out.

Huckabuck gives you sliding equalizers enabling you to choose how many of your results come from each of the major search engines (even includes Technorati, Digg and Del.icio.us).


Seth Godin’s review inspired me to try it out:

I like the way Huckabuck lets you get past the first page problem. Most searchers look at a page or two of results and then give up. If you use the sliders, though, you can radically change the texture of the first page, exposing you to ideas you would have missed otherwise.

The other tool is Rollyo which lets you build your own search engine by selecting various websites for it to search. (Heh, it doesn’t let you put in google.com though.)

I built one here that searches the Ubuntu forums, Linux Forums, and the Ubuntu Guide. It hasn’t proven itself too useful yet as it has missed a few results that a search of the actual Ubuntu forums did find.

If you have found any new search techniques or tools that have improved your search results, be sure to leave a comment. I’m always on the lookout for ways to improve my searches.

[tags]Search, Search engines, Digg, Del.icio.us, Rollyo, Huckabuck, Searching rut[/tags]

This page walks you through the setup on the phone (For Sprint but may help for other providers too).

Here are the GMAIL settings you will need:
Step 1:Enable POP access
Step 2:The information your phone will ask for

Yes, you must do step 1 AND step 2!

If it still isn’t working for you I reccomend you call your cell phone provider’s support line and ask them what to do. Please leave a comment here on any additional steps required.

[tags]Gmail, Gmail settings, access Gmail, sprint gmail, gmail palm, palm 700p[/tags]

I tried out QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 6.0 today in hopes that upgrading from version 5.0 would allow us to have more user defined / custom fields. These let you store extra information for various entities. For example you could store the color of an item, or the tracking number for an invoice. However version 5 and also version 6 limit you to 5 new fields for items and 7 new fields for customers and believe it or not, we are all maxed out.

Here are some screen shots in case you don’t believe me

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If your question is how to find out the username and/or domain of a user logged onto your web site protected with integrated windows authentication, then in Python the answer is:

os.environ['REMOTE_USER']

Other Languages?
Since IIS 5.1 is putting this as an environment variable available to my script, I’d imagine this is standard for any CGI based language. Just do a search for [Your Language] + REMOTE_USER

My Search Queries:

1. integrated+windows+authentication
2. integrated+windows+authentication+cgi
3. python+integrated+windows+authentication
4. python REMOTE_USER

[tags]Python, CGI, Python CGI, REMOTE_USER, IWA, NTLM, Python IWA, Python NTLM, Python Authentication, Python IIS, IIS 5.1[/tags]

Answer:
This MozillaZine Profile-in-use article will tell you everything you need to know to solve this.

Note: In my case using Ubuntu Dapper I located these “locked” files in this directory:
/home/chiefinnovator/.mozilla/firefox/q5ocj63r.default
More generally that pattern is:
~/.mozilla/firefox/[some random looking letters.default]

And the quickest way to delete this files is to open up a terminal and run these two commands (altered for your respective locations):
$ sudo rm /home/chiefinnovator/.mozilla/firefox/q5ocj63r.default/lock
$ sudo rm /home/chiefinnovator/.mozilla/firefox/q5ocj63r.default/.parentlock