By samnyc
At work, the PC Windows 7 goes to screen saver mode after 10 minutes. I don’t have access to change that. It’s grayed out for me. After 10 minutes, the IM will say ” AWAY” and my email status will say ” AWAY “. Email and IM both are from Microsoft.
My question is there any work around such as some software which will not enable the screensaver.
Thanks
From: http://www.unix.com/windows-dos-issues-discussions/221285-screen-saver-mode-work.html
HowtoForge: This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 12.3 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
The software I propose as default is the one I found easiest to use and best in their functionality – this won’t necessarily be true for your needs, thus you are welcome to try out the applications listed as alternatives.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
To fully replace a Windows desktop, I want the OpenSUSE 12.3 desktop to have the following software installed:
The software provided in the above list covers most of the basic tasks one might need to do on their desktop computers, sometimes there are multiple choices for same functionality. If you know which one you like best, you obviously don’t need to install and test the other applications, however if you like choice, then of course you can install more than one.
I’m using the OpenSUSE 12.3 Live-DVD in this tutorial to set up the system. You can download it from here: http://software.opensuse.org/123/en
I will use the username howtoforge in this tutorial, and I will download all necessary files to howtoforge’s desktop which is equivalent to the directory /home/howtoforge/Desktop. If you use another username, please replace howtoforge with your own username. So when I use a command such as
cd /home/howtoforge/Desktop
you must replace howtoforge.
Download the OpenSUSE 12.3 Live-DVD iso image, burn it onto a DVD, and boot your computer from it. Select Installation.
Continue reading this article at it’s original source:
http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-opensuse-12.3-gnome-desktop
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Linux Today
By Maynard Paton, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
LONDON — The shares of BowLeven have bounced 3.4% to 98.5 pence as of 9 a.m. EDT after the oil and gas explorer revealed a $9 million first-half loss.
The half-year income statement showed revenue of zero, administration costs of $6 million, and adverse currency movements of $3 million. The AIM-quoted company also revealed that its net cash position had dropped from $142 million to $90 million during the six months to Dec. 31 following capital expenditure of $46 million.
Kevin Hart, chief executive of BowLeven, said:
The recent IM-5 results, which significantly exceeded our pre-drill expectations, have placed us in great stead to deliver the staged development of Etinde. The substantial uplift in both gas and liquids volumes ensures we can move forward with the development plan and gas sales agreement knowing we are underpinned by an extremely robust project. … We remain convinced that Bowleven is ideally positioned to become a major contributor to Cameroon‘s hydrocarbon production for years to come and we have the funding flexibility to deliver this potential.
The drilling results of IM-5, a well off the coast of Cameroon, were published earlier this month and showed the amount of “wet gas initially in place” rising 162% to 1.2 billion cubic feet.
The current share price values BowLeven at about 292 million pounds, which, given the group’s cash reserves, suggests that a fair amount of the market cap is based on the amount of gas that could be recoverable from the waters off Cameroon. Indeed, since its 2004 flotation, the company has never sold any gas (or oil), while some $780 million has been raised from shareholders and losses of $165 million have been accumulated. The balance sheet shows capitalized exploration expenditure of $479 million, too.
Still, BowLeven saw its shares surge from as low as 33 pence to as high as 390 pence during 2009 and 2010, while news of a bid during 2012 prompted a sudden 50% price spike. That sort of share price potential is always possible with resources shares such as BowLeven.
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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
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8×8 Enhances Virtual Office Business Phone Service With New Native Desktop Application
Never miss a call again, with improved audio quality
SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– 8×8, Inc. (NAS: EGHT) , provider of innovative cloud-based communication and computing solutions, today introduced a new Virtual Office Desktop softphone application for its award-winning Virtual Office business VoIP and Virtual Office Pro unified communications solutions.
Virtual Office Desktop provides all of the same functionality of the Virtual Office Online browser application in a more robust native Windows and Mac application. Integrating a business softphone with one-on-one video calling, web and video conferencing along with visual voicemail, 8×8’s update to Virtual Office Desktop also includes enterprise grade IM (instant messaging) and presence along with fax, and social media feeds, all found in one easy to use application.
Benefits of Virtual Office Desktop include:
“8×8 strives to provide the best communications tools across all connected devices,” said 8×8 Senior Product Manager Phillip Liu. “While customers appreciate the convenience of quickly accessing 8×8’s unified communications app through any web …read more
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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
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Orange Business Services and Microsoft strengthen their cloud partnership through the integration of Office Together Select into Business VPN Galerie
PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)– For the last two years, Orange Business Services, a Microsoft partner, has been selling Office Together Select, a communication and collaboration solution based on Microsoft Office 365 with its own professional services. As of June 2013, Office Together Select will be available on Business VPN Galerie.
The objective of this integration is to provide companies with the combined benefits of Office Together Select and Virtual Private Networks.
Launched in 2011, Business VPN Galerie extends enterprise VPNs to the cloud via fully-secured gateways, providing the high standards of end-to-end performance and reliability. Today, this solution interconnects more than 8,000 facilities in the world and provides access to a wide range of cloud solutions developed by Orange Business Services and its partners.
Orange Business Services and Microsoft have implemented a secured, dedicated connection to the Office 365 datacenters throughout the world for Orange Business Services customers. With this new integration, Orange Business Services customers will benefit from the level of performance and security of their VPN when accessing the Office 365 desktop and collaboration services of Office Together Select: electronic messaging with Exchange, IM and Web Conferencing with Lync, collaboration portal and access to enterprise social networks with SharePoint. Office Together Select streamlines the daily work of employees and provides permanent implementation and management support for the solution.
“With Business VPN Galerie, we were among the first in the world to launch a ‘Cloud Service Hub‘ providing secured access to enterprise private networks and end-to-end customer support,” said Nicolas Roy, head of the Network Solutions Business Unit, Orange Business Services. “We plan to stay ahead of the competition by increasing permanently our cloud application ecosystem and by partnering with innovative leaders. This new development of our cloud partnership with Microsoft maximizes the value of both Business VPN Galerie and Office Together Select for our mutual customers.”
“For Microsoft, the availability of Office Together Select on Business VPN Galerie consolidates the strategic partnership initiated with Orange Business Services with Office 365,” concluded Laurent Schlosser, Senior Director – Operator Channel, Microsoft France. “This is also the recognition of Microsoft cloud services know-how and of its capacity to support its partners on the long term providing them a flexible offer for their customers.”
About Orange Business Services
Orange Business Services, the France Telecom-Orange branch dedicated to B2B services, is a leading global integrator of communications solutions for multinational corporations. With the world’s largest, seamless network for voice and data, Orange Business Services reaches …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
With the latest Plasma Active rootfs tarball for Nexus 7 there is also working Jabber/XMPP. I didn’t notice this at first as the system time was set two years in the past and due to this the certificate for the Jabber server was silently failing.
Essentially, instant messaging functionality is provided via telepathy. This way different IM protocols (like Jabber/XMPP or ICQ) can be used. Right now there is “just” support for Jabber/XMPP working in the current Plasma Active version.
The tools/apps used for getting everything to work are the apps from Nemomobile: accounts-ui and qmlmessages (“Messages” in apps view). Both come pre-installed with the latest Plasma Active Nexus 7 rootfs tarball.
I set up Jabber/XMPP as follows:
Make sure that your system time is set properly and that your jabber-server has a valid SSL certificate. Self-signed certificates (e.g., as is the case for jabber.org) won’t work. Also note that you won’t get feedback if something with the certificate is wrong. It will simply appear to be stuck in changing your presence.
To chat open the qmlmessages (“Messages” in apps view) app and start a chat with someone. The “To:” name is your-buddies-username@your-buddies-jabber-server.org.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE
With KDE Telepathy 0.5.3 out the door out our entire focus is on 0.6.0 our next major release. We have just entered a hard feature freeze to allow for a solid month of bugfixing.
A hard feature freeze is when no new features can be added to the code. All work has to be on fixing bugs and polishing.
We will make a public beta release so you can see all the new features and provide useful feedback before the full release.
String freeze – 16th March
After this date we are not able to change any of the text used by our applications, It gives our translator team a stable set of text (strings) to work with without us changing them the whole time.
The release – 30th March
Hopefully self-explanatory 🙂
Find out yourselves by running the latest code 🙂
A real announcement will come with the official beta release.
KTp is generally really stable as all the developers use IM on a daily basis always running the latest code. It helps us to have lots of people running the latest code before we release a piece of software so we know about, and can fix, issues from a wide variety of set ups as we introduce new code, before it hits the general masses.
It helps us, and you get to be on the “bleeding edge”. Please report all bugs as they come in.
We have instructions in our wiki at http://community.kde.org/KTp/Getting_Set_Up
If you use Kubuntu we have a PPA of our latest code.
Install instructions are:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:telepathy-kde/daily-builds
sudo apt-get remove kde-telepathy-minimal plasma-widget-telepathy-presence
sudo apt-get install ktp-desktop-applets
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Playground:/Tel…
zypper in telepathy-kde
Join our mailing lists and IRC channels and get hacking on any outstanding bugs. Note that we are in a feature freeze, but any bugfixing/polishing is always a really good way to get involved in a project.
For contact information see our wiki page http://community.kde.org/KTp/Getting_Involved
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE
By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool
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Sonus SBC 1000, SBC 2000 Session Border Controllers Microsoft Lync 2013 Qualified
Session Border Controllers Serve Critical Role in Enabling and Activating Microsoft Lync within Enterprise SIP Networks
Key Takeaways:
WESTFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Sonus Networks, Inc. (NAS: SONS) , a global leader in SIP communications, today announced that the Sonus SBC 1000 and Sonus SBC 2000 are Microsoft Lync 2013 qualified for session border controller (SBC) and survivable branch appliance (SBA) deployments.
A Microsoft Gold Communications Partner, Sonus helps enterprises optimize Microsoft Lync voice deployments by securing Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking services at the network border and providing a more seamless flow of SIP-based multi-vendor media for Unified Communications (UC) deployments. Access to UC applications such as instant messaging (IM), collaboration, conferencing and voice empowers enterprises to communicate in the most efficient and cost-effective ways – whenever and wherever.
The Sonus portfolio provides the industry’s only end-to-end SBC solution delivering SIP-enabled applications from the enterprise headquarters to the branch office. SBCs are the critical access technology to enable customers to unify disparate UC architectures across an enterprise.
According to the January 2013 Webtorials study, “Enterprises Place 2013 Unified Communications Bets: How Many Horses in This Race?” there is considerable enterprise awareness and interest in Microsoft Lync as a platform for UC and enterprise voice. A full 58 percent of those surveyed already plan to deploy Microsoft for IM and presence, and it appears to have the inside track with many buyers when it comes to more advanced UC functions like Web meetings, desktop sharing …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
Microsoft will demonstrate on Tuesday for the first time an integration between its Lync enterprise IM, audio and video conferencing server and its Skype consumer counterpart, the latest Microsoft response to the consumerization of IT trend.
At its Lync Conference in San Diego, Microsoft officials will show the ability for Lync and Skype users to contact each other, launch IM text sessions and communicate via audio calls.
Microsoft plans to deliver that capability to Lync and Skype users in June, with a similar video-conferencing integration feature coming later.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld
Microsoft Tuesday will demonstrate for the first time an integration between its Lync enterprise IM, audio and video conferencing server and its Skype consumer counterpart, the latest Microsoft response to the consumerization of IT trend. …read more
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So Akonadi is already a “cache” for your PIM-data, and now we’re trying hard to feed all that data into a second “cache” called Nepomuk, just for some searching? We clearly must be crazy.
The process of keeping these to caches in sync is not entirely trivial, storing the data in Nepomuk is rather expensive, and obviously we’re duplicating all data. Rest assured we have our reasons though.
Now there would of course be simpler ways to build an index for searching than using Nepomuk, but Nepomuk provides way more opportunities than just a simple, textbased index, allowing us to build awesome features on top of it, while the latter would essentially be a dead end.
To build that cache we’re doing the following:
This results in networks of data stored in Nepomuk:
PersonA [hasEMailAddress] addressA
PersonA [hasEMailAddress] addressB
emailA [hasSender] addressA
emailB [hasSender] addressB
So this “network” relates emails to email-addresses, and email-addresses to contacts, and contacts to actual persons, and suddenly you can ask the system for all emails from a person, no matter which of the person’s email-addresses have been used in the mails. Of course we can add to that IM conversations with the same Person, or documents you exchanged during that conversation, … the possibilities are almost endless.
Based on that information much more powerful interfaces can be written. For instance one could write a communication tool which doesn’t really care anymore which communication channel you’re using and dynamically mixes IM and email depending on whether/where the other person is currently available for a chat or would rather have a mail, which can be read later on, and doing so without splitting the conversation across various mail/chat interfaces.
This is of course just one example of many (neither am I claiming the idea, it’s just a nice example for what is possible).
So that’s basically why we took the difficult route for searching (At least that is why I am working on this).
Now, we’re not quite there yet, but we already start to get the first fruits of …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE
By Amy Spreeman
Can one be a Buddhist, Hindu, or Muslim believer of Jesus? And can they do this without persecution?
A growing number of Christians and church leaders are stopping to consider that this idea may actually be possible, thanks to “Insider Movement” groups that have been pushing this idea forward for the past decade, especially in the Muslim mission field. Now those ideas are gaining ground in the West, as Christians embrace these controversial methods.
The most recent issue of Christianity Today is giving a whole lot of print space to Insider Movement (IM) proponents, who believe that it is not necessary for believers to convert to Christianity, a term often associated with baggage and most certainly persecution if outed as “Christian.”
This should immediately send you running for your Bible and asking some key questions about what Scripture has to say about the blending of two very different and opposing faiths vs. a full conversion to Christianity.
“Therefore go out from (among unbelievers), and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you.” (2 Cor 6:17)
The January issue of CT contains the headlines Why Evangelicals Should Be Thankful for Muslim Insiders, arguing that “Insider followers of Jesus may not have changed religions, but their lives have been changed by Christ,” and the provocative headline Worshiping Jesus in the Mosque, in which a reporter interviews a “Muslim follower of Isa.”
But instead of comparing what IM-ers teach to what the Bible says and asking questions, Christians are saying, “cool!”
“Where is the outcry of pastors in America because of this? Nobody is challenging these methods, and it boggles my mind that churches subscribe to this,” says Elijah Abraham, a born-again Christian who was raised a Muslim believer in Iraq, and today is the founder and executive director of Living Oasis Ministries, reaching Muslims with the Gospel.
Abraham is part of Biblical Missiology, the think-tank group that recently petitioned Wycliffe and its partners for removing familial terms like Son and Father to describe God and Jesus from Arabic Bible translations used to reach Muslim communities.
Abraham points out that John Travis (the writer of Why Evangelicals Should Be Thankful for Muslim Insiders), is one of godfathers of the Insider Movement. Abraham encourages readers to examine the IM leaders through the lens of a video he highly recommends titled Half Devil Half Child, in which even the Muslim Imams say these teachings are not Christianity.
We know that Christians in Islamic nations are being brutally slaughtered simply because their identity is in Christ. Persecution is on the rise, and that’s risky for Muslims who embrace Christ yet want to stay within their Islamic community. Yet the core doctrines of belief, repentance, and preaching Jesus Christ and HIM crucified (not the Muslim “Isa”) for the forgiveness of sins is not the focus of IM methodology.
CT conducted an interview with one insider named “Abu Jaz,” a key leader in a movement that describes itself as the People of the Gospel. CT reports that this group represents several thousand Muslims in eastern Africa who have converted to faith in Christ during the past decade, but who have remained in their Muslim communities.
Abu Jaz describes his conversion after dining with a guest in his home, and their sparse meal of macaroni began to multiply in the bowl.
Afterward I lay down on the bed, and as I slept, Isa came to me and asked me, “Do you know who multiplied the macaroni?” I said, “I don’t know.” He said, “I am Isa al Masih. If you follow me, not only the macaroni but your life will be multiplied.”
He didn’t tell me that he was God; he didn’t tell me that he died on behalf of me; he didn’t say, “I am the Son of God.” He didn’t talk to me about any complicated theological issues. He only told me that if I followed him, he would multiply my life. Isa al Masih came to my home with the kingdom of God. He didn’t completely explain theological issues, he only said, “If you will follow.”
Abraham, who has interviewed hundreds of converts in many nations, doesn’t doubt Abu’s story of dreams and visions. In fact, he says true converts do have dreams and visions; and they’ve paid a heavy price. But the Jesus they encounter is never confusing or vague about who He is. And the fact that Abu maintains a Muslim rather than an African identity troubles him. “You would think after Bible school, Abu would reject Islam,” Abraham says. “Abu never contradicts the Qur’anic version of Isa, and the interviewer didn’t even challenge the convert to ask if the Allah he was talking about was the triune God of the Bible or Allah of the Qur’an.”
He points out that the title, Worshiping Jesus in the Mosque is very misleading, since the reporter does not mention anyone actually worshiping Christ in a mosque. “The Christianity Today title is only intended to persuade the readership that it is possible to worship Jesus in the mosque. Three problems: Any mosque will be offended if Jesus is worshiped inside its walls. Second, any Christian from a Muslim Background will tell you that the mosque is not the place to go to worship Jesus. Finally, if you go to a mosque, you have already denied Him.”
But, a church isn’t a building; it is people. Abraham contends that the so-called Muslim-culture church is an oxymoron.
“Muslim-culture church? What in the world does that mean? If their identity is Islam, and not Christianity, are they really set apart?
Abraham says insiders who say they are converts are the most confused individuals he has ever found. “They are confused in their theology and identity, and they’re still loyal to Mohammad, so you’ve got problems there.”
As for Christian churches embracing these methods, he says there are many missionaries and leaders who will try to cover up their IM connections from their congregants so as to diffuse critics. He says church members who do question the Insider Movement methods in their churches are often met with a guilt trip for criticizing them for not actually traveling overseas and meeting Muslims.
“To that I would say, ‘you know, you are right. But I read your article and compared your methods to Scripture, and it does line up.’”
Photo credit: biblevector (Creative Commons)
Cryptocat, a project building an instant messaging platform that provides more privacy and security for activists, plans a host of improvements this year, including developing an application for mobile devices.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Computerworld Latest
Microsoft plans to shut down Messenger (formerly Windows Live Messenger) on March 15, according to numerous reports. The concrete date comes after the company in late 2012 said the longstanding instant messaging client would merge with Skype during the first three months of 2013. The software giant is reportedly notifying Messenger users via e-mail but it has yet to announce the Messenger deadline on its blogs or social media accounts.
News of the Messenger official shut down date was first reported by The Next Web and widely reported by others.
Until March 15, Messenger users will see a notification on their desktop client asking them to “upgrade” to Skype and merge their Messenger contacts with the popular video chat and IM app. The desktop program will continue to work until March 15, after which you won’t be able to use Messenger at all and must move over to Skype to continue chatting with friends.
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