Challenge #148

Ward Grant is the presenter of this week's Challenge and for those that want
colour you have colour. Good luck. With a bit of luck I will be finished
my shut down before the end of this challenge.
Since my hard disk failure I have had some wonder Challenges
suggestions submitted by a few people . I need more suggestions from more
people to be able to mix up the choices. Please send me *your*
suggestions for the Challenges. Part of what makes the Challenge great
is your input. Also please don't forget he Photo Challenge as
presently I have only one suggestion although it is a great one but I do
need more.
http://www.cavesofice.org/~grant/Challenge/Challenges.html
Present and Past Challenges will remain Until tomorrow at 7:00 pm the then
the Present will be Past and new images will be posted.
* Important notice to all the new people in this forum. This is not a
close shop you are all invited to submit an image. If you don't think you
are good enough this is your first mistake, I think most have found that
working on the Challenge has improved their personal level. So young and
old, hot shots and cool dudes now is you time to post.
Grant
Home Pages: http://www.cavesofice.org/~grant/Challenge/index.html
Challenge Pages: http://www.cavesofice.org/~grant/Challenge/Challenges.html
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while
discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and
better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
Alexander Osborn (1888 - 1966)

Thanks for everyone for their great entries this week. This is one of the rides at the inside amusement park at the Circus Circus Casino in Lost Wages.
ALEX: Nice use of the frog in your animations. Your #2 has a 60s light show effect to it.
BARBARA: Love the color scheme throughout the series. I think #3 is my favorite of the series. How did you get such crisp folds?
BEN: I love the contrast between the soft butterfly and the
harsh symbolism of the chaotic world. Nicely done.
BOB: I love the colors in your #1. Nice flashing lights in
#2.I like the way you pulled the triangle patterns and colors
from the columns into your #4.
CLIFF: The essence of minimalism
DAVE: Another good mixture of the frog and animation.
MARILYN: Great cut-out on the parasol. Is this what they mean by "giving the cold shoulder?"
MARY LOU: Loved the way you preserved the details in
your toppers in #1. Nice chip stack with the CHAOS logo
in #2.
MIKE H: I get dizzy just looking at your #1. What filter did
you use? Are frogs in a queue the same as ducks in a
row?
MIKE R: I missed the No Dangling sign the first time I
looked at this. Nice blending of the hands with the track.
RITA: I liked the way you incorporated the lines into the
background. How did you create such a wonderful looking
plant?
ROBERT: Work good enough to hang in a museum...oh,
wait, it is.
ROBIN: How did you get such dramatic swirls? It looks like
a floating top being sucked into a water vortex.
TAB: Nice way to emphasize the frog--also liked the way
the outside is now night. How hard was that to change?
TERRY: Your #2 is my overall favorite this week. I love the
texture and the colors. Is this a jump of pleasure or
desperation?
TOM: Two nice images. Love the theme of #1, but how did
you get such a wonderful relief look for #2?
TONY: My hat's off to you in #1. I love the butterfly and
flowers in #2. Did you create the butterflies from scratch or
are they somehow stretched and bent from the original?
WENDY: I like the way your series gets progressively
darker. How did you get such clean color changes with so
many crossed lines in the background?

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First of all is the question, what is the leading system for the creation of users by now. If possible, put the IdM in charge of that in the future. Hopefully everyone agrees on that. 
So you have done the Initial Load and there a several tables in the database with all users and their UIDs of each system. You need now to figure out how the persons and their users in the IdM shall be created and how the individual accounts of each persons will be consolidated. 
If possible, make an Excel list of persons with their usernames in all systems. OK, it would be sure annoying to everybody, to fill out excel list, but that would be the easiest way for you, and the savest. Even if you could only gather 50% of all employees that's quite a bunch then. 
If this is not or only partly possible, figure out how at least, let's say, 99% can be merged correctly. Firstname, lastname, mail is a good start. More attributes can be cost center personal number, company address, telefon number not to forget.
Then I would write me a script or better an sql statment for a view, which tries to merge the user accounts into one person each. Not easy and time consuming in additon, but I guess that's worth it. 
Then create the users. The ACCOUT<system name> atributes, which are created in the ToIdentityStore passes of each Initial Load of each target system hold all account names of a person. Thee will no need to change these. What you need to do for the MSKEYVALUE of the IdM to ensure that there are no problem, is as follows. Define a hierarchy of all systems. You mentioned the edirectory. I would place it in the first position. Then descending depending on the importance in the company and/or number of users. 
Why you need this? Well, assume there is a user named millera in ERP and one in BW, but they are not the same person. If your hierarchy says ERP before BW, the millera of the ERP will be the MSKEYVALUE of that person. The MSKEYVALUE of the other millera has to be set to a different username. For this, you have to detect if the BW millera has another username avaliable, if so, check if this can be the one for the MSKEYVALUE. The fallback strategy for the initial creation of the MSKEYVALUE of all existing users in the IdM as well as of the MSKEYVALUE of all future person would be like: Built a view upon all user tables AND the SENTRIES (and OENTRIES if you want to cover all "deleted" persons) view MSKEYVALUEs (of persons, requests for persons, pendings on persons, etc.). In this view there are now all usernames. Combine them, in that view, with the repository. During the initial writing of users in the Identity Store use this view to check the names. 
A wee bit easier is the creation of completly new employees. Use a rule (script-based!) to create the username, with a combination of surname, givenname and middlename and if needed numbers, or whatever comes to your mind. During the creation script do a check on the view created. If that username already exists continue the script. Oh, and take care of lastnames of nobels like "von, van, del, dos, ..." or double names, wtc. Not to mention umlaute, graves, accents or even chinese, cyrillic or other nice things which can mess up the creation of users in the target systems. 
One last hint: Use the test mode check box in the ToIdentityStore pass(es) to avoid creation of users, etc. in the Identity Store until everything is fine. 
I do not know if anyone found a better solution, but that should be a good plan to start upon. 
Best regards 
Dominik
Edited by: Domink Trui on Dec 19, 2009 4:49 PM
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Can i block game center challenges?

Is there a way to block Game center challenges? I have many friends in one application but i am constantly recieving other app challenges. I hate recieving them in FB and blocked every one, i would like to do the same here ut keep the friends. (yes, i relaize i can unfriend them to get rid of the challenges but why should i penalize them for another app's blatant push challenge. Aside form a formal complaint to apple, i was hoping there is already a feature to prevent these annoying notifications?
Thank you,
Dean

Under restrictions you can turn off multi-player games and adding friends in game center.
Beyond that you cant' block it.
I don't have any friends in game center, but you could try signing in, removing all of them, then disallow adding more. Perhaps if you have no friends in game center you can't receive challenges
You can also go into the settings and notifications and turn everything off for game center. THen you won't see them on the screen

I have a nano and want to transfer my music from it to my new iPad. Unfortunately upon the excitement of setting up my new iPad I created a new apple Id and now cannot sync. Can I do it another way. Step by step pls I'm technologically challenged!

I have a nano and want to transfer my music to my new iPad, in all the excitement of setting up my iPad I created a new apple Id and now I can't sync my music!
Can someone please advise if there is a way to transfer my music to my iPad manually? If so, please detail step by step, as I am technologically challenged! Thanks in anticipation.

You can search within your music folder on your pc, or within documents folder for a music folder.
In any case, you would need to sync with itunes
IOS: Syncing with iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
Apple - Support - iPad - Syncing
http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/syncing/
If the music was purchased from the itunes store, you can also download it directly from there to the ipad.

Qosmio X500-148 freezes from day 1

I just bought a X500-148. Started freezing from day 1. I thought it was the sharescope software I was using. However the vendor tells me the software has no issues, so I began to suspect it was my 1800 quid X500. I updated all the drivers, but it still would freeze intermittently. Then one day I powered it down and it froze whilst in the power down mode and I had to remove the power cord and battery to fully switch it off.
After this, it would often not even go through the boot process. When it did boot up and load windows, I tried the re-install windows to earlier date option. Needless to say it froze during the middle of this and so windows 7 is now also totaly corrupt and knackered.
I have been told by an expert it has to be the Toshiba hardware, i.e. the laptop itself as the fact it was freezing during booting means it could never have been windows or any of the software. To my horror I checked out the web site here and find Toshibas idea of service is to return it to PC World and let them fix it. They collected my laptop on the 23 December but have lost it. I have spent hours on the phone on a 0844 rate number to no avail.
Im back on the Toshiba web site trying to find a email address to write and complain to. Guess what, I cant even seem to find an email address for the computer division.
Had I known Toshibas idea of service is to return it to the Dixons cowboys to fix, I would never ever have bought it. I doubt I will ever see the lap top again, I put a load of expensive software on it and also I had down loaded 11 hours of family video which i was in the middle of edditing. Hours of work and expense all seem to be up in smoke now.
Its early days, but I rather suspect I am going to regret this purchase.
If anyone has an email address for Toshiba in the UK, please let me know, I wish to repeat the above but in more detail to them.

Another update no joy. After establishing this was fault which i first reported to them on the 16th Dec, now many more times / hours wasted on the 0844 number, I have established its actually the 64GB SSD disk they want to replace, but they claim they dont have one and cant get hold of any to fix the fault.
This Toshiba laptop aside from being faulty from day 1 and the worry caused (Claiming the PC was lost, then later claiming the disk with my data is defective) is a real big problem now. I've now been without a laptop for over 1 month now and its starting to interfere with my work I am unable to do on it.
I am trying to get PC World repair department to return the PC so I can recover the disk drive with my data on it myself. I will then begin the process to take Toshiba / PC World to task in order to cover my expenses and losses and buy a new laptop obvoulsy of a different brand.
I was thinking DELL because I understand that is a manufacturer that actually deals with its customers and indeed if service or repair is needed undertakes such work themselves. (my reasoning that you are then dealing with the organ grinder rather than the monkey). What do other people think?

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