Concerning this Organizational Forms Libraries (used to store the Outlook Forms since at least Exchange 2000) an official procedure existed for Exchange 2007: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/933358

Trying to complete this procedure, you’ll find out that the PR_URL_NAME property is not available for an Exchange 2010 Organizational Forms Library. So, here you the missing steps, that you shall execute right after the 2.g step in the official Microsoft procedure:

• On the Property Pane menu, click on Modify “Extra” Properties
• Click Add, then type in the Property Tag textbox the value 0x6707001E
• In the Property Type textbox the value PT_STRING8 appears. In the Property Name box the PR_URL_NAME string appears along with some other characters
• Click OK twice
• Double click on the PR_URL_NAME property.
• Type in the Ansi String textbox the value /NOM_IPM_SUBTREE/EFORMS REGISTRY/[The Name Of Your Organizational Forms Library]
• Click OK
• Now you can complete the official procedure starting on the step 2.h

This has been the first step of a hiring process which included a second technical test. This further test has been taken in a ‘solo’ condition, which excluded the use of Internet/computers/manuals. This test included some code samples that I’ve had to correct, a couple of small programs to perform basic operations (OOP, memory allocation and developer logic are the examined subject) and some general computing knowledge questions (what certain technologies are, how to perform a typical action on an Unix system, et cetera).

(somebody calls this test, or its equivalent ten years ago, a ‘test technique assez poussé’… http://emploi.journaldunet.com/magazine/1168/)

• it allows you to change the paper format or resolution of a pdf,
• it allows you to convert it to other electronic formats, among which tiff
• it allows you to change its properties, and to optimize it for different usages

in the last weeks, I’ve used gs to change the resolution of an input file, while converting it to tiff. then I’ve discovered other options, among which the one which allows me to force the output paper format. on the web you find a lot of spam about proprietary tools which allow you to do this same operation, veiling the underlying gs technology.

thus I’ve published a bash script, which supposes the existence of gs in your execution environment, and which converts any paper format to any other common paper format. I’ve named it letter2a4, since its default behavior is to change the current paper format of the input document to a4.

feel free to download it. you’ll only need to copy aligntop.ps to /usr/local/share or wherever you like. feel equally free to read the man page for gs(1).

Update: this morning I have had also the time to write a gs wrapper to merge all the files (in the given directory|passed as arguments). Download it, if you like.

(thanks, mehul, for this idea)

You will need an EskerOndemand account to use it, but format conversions are free (thanks again, Esker!)

Converter can as well convert all the files contained in a given folder to the wished fomat, have a look at its README

The folder where you can download its binaries and a pair of sample command lines: http://nilleb.com/pub/opencode/Converter/. If you want to have a (look at|copy of) the sources, simply ask (or have a look at the referenced webservices online help).

• regular expressions to design files to be merged
• default parameters (ie. no argument is required)
• file format detection
• unit tests on command line
• online manual

Note: tiftool and pdftool are not included, since they’re proprietary software.

Download

cxfinder is an XPath evaluator, a sort of grep which knows XML. you can give him a complete xpath pattern or a simple string. it will evaluate the pattern/text against the document that you pass as second argument. then it will format a report about the elements satisfaying the pattern, with their unique and reversible path.

the code is available on nilleb.com, as usual. a partially completed GTK interface is available on assembla.com, even if based on the last year code/conception. a QT based graphical interface will probably born, in the next year.

runner2 is an engine to execute operations defined in an XML recipe.

it executes your operations according to their priority (priority is an attribute of each operation node). runner2 fires the operations at the same priority level at the same time, then waits for the completion of each operation in the same priority level before the switch to the next priority level.

no importance where your operation nodes are on the XML tree: runner2 will find them. make only sure that you’ve filled their priority.

runner2 logs all the actions taken, and it prints out a nice-to-see report. and if you don’t want to see the report, you can simply save it to an sqllite file.

it is easily extensible, and quite difficult to break. (the engine code is separated from the extension code.) the extension code can be written in python.

I could as well tell you that Runner2 is an automatic tests engine, or an installer, or a software deployer. Or all this at the same time. But that’s not me that will say that. It’s you.

so somebody sent you a huge GIF image, and when you try to print/convert/* it with eog or gimp, you’re getting a “unable to fork” or “not enough memory”? well, you should give a try to gifsicle!

http://linux.die.net/man/1/gifsicle

quick, does its work, spending practically nothing of your memory.

good luck!

This kind of CD will let you boot Linux/Windows systems, perform a quick memory check, install a copy of grub to your MBR in order to be CD independent, and edit all of the above options. This copy of the CD can be used on i386 compatible systems[5].

I have followed the instructions present in the GRUB manual[1] to prepare a CD image. Then, I have uploaded it to nilleb.com[2][3], just in case. The included menu.lst took the most of the R&D time.

If you know a good, standards compliant, open source disk image editor, please let me know.

Update: Well, after a few hours, while going home by feet since the “grève générale” affected also my metro line, I have understood that GParted already contains such a grub-rescue-CD. Then, I have also realized that the “ghost”-like software is simply dd | gzip. Once arrived home, I have had the possibility to verify that other tools exist: I’m going to add them among the post references. Ubuntuforums are the usual source of knowledge

I think that the topic has been analyzed in an acceptable way, even if the Linux system is an open and exterminated vault of Parnassus I can go back to work, once more extremely satisfied about using Linux.

prolunga is an user oriented solution. it is provided with a plain README file which will help you understand the concept and its implementation. with a pair of minor changes you will also be able to daemonize it. the readme file contains also ideas for further developments. I haven’t still tried to compile it on windows, but it works on gnu/linux

bidipipes is the minimal solution. a pragmatic readme is provided, and it won’t help you setting up the environment. in this case, the only help will be the image on the previous post. this software is fully tested on windows/cygwin.

Once compiled, both softwares will need as well nc(1).

so far, here are the links towards the code:

• prolunga-0.1-src.tar.gz
• bidipipes.tar.gz

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