Checklist for first time user of ThinkPad/IdeaPad

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The article below will be useful for those who own their first ThinkPad/IdeaPad systems. There are some useful tips that help you to familiarize yourself with your system faster.
First time ThinkPad or IdeaPad user checklist
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Do's, Don'ts and Never for first time users

I work within a global organisation - with many people turning to Captivate for the first time. We all share the same LMS.
I want to create a short "check-list" of the most important Captivate Preference / Settings or ways of working to help new users (and old users) get the best from Captivate and to ensure the projects they upload the our LMS run pretty much trouble free.
For example:
1. Always work locally (local C drive)
2. Edit /Preferences - select Generate Project Backup
3. Set slide quality to High 24-bit
4. Dont copy paste images, use Captivate Image>insert and .PNG format
What in your opinion, would you suggest the most important "Do, Don't and Never" new users need to be made aware of?
We have different versions of Captivate being used, ranging from v4 to v7 - so I appreciate this will all have to be fairly generic.
Many thanks
Noel

Hi all
WRT working off a server, this is something I've always admonished as a huge thing to avoid. I've always used the analogy of working in my kitchen and preparing a recipe. Your captivate project and all the ingredients are stored in your local C drive which is similar to your fridge and pantry, Need to add an image? (egg) As long as your project is on the C drive, it's similar to opening the fridge and grabbing an egg. As long as there is an egg in the fridge, no problem. Instant access. But nothing says you MUST work this way, Sure, I can just go to the store any time I need an egg. But I have to stop what I'm doing, get in the vehicle, drive to the store, purchase the egg, drive back and finally I can use the egg. And to me, that's EXACTLY what it's like when you work with your project on a server.
My recommendation is always to keep the project on your local drive and periodically make backup copies of the project on a server for safekeeping.
Just to note that this is really more of a common thing among many applications. Some apps are more sensitive to where files are placed than others, but it's a characteristic shared by many.
Cheers... Rick

Multiple install issues for first time user of 10gRelease2

Despite doc which said 10g Release 2's certification with Windows XP Professional (> SP 1), clusterware install fails with OUI-1-8001 (Error - needs XP ver 5.0 or 5.2). My XP Prof Ver 5.1.2600 apparrently isn't compatable. Error msg suggests upgrading Service Pack.
Tried to install Personal Edition, but never saw the oppty to selection it after downloading individual zip files (clinet, gateways, clusterware) into separate folders and then running setup.exe's in each folder. Don't know if I'm running Personal Edition.
This is my first time attempt to install Oracle dB. Appears that my installation of client and gateways went ok, but I'm not doing something right to start SQLPLUS or my clusterware issue is causing a problem.
When starting SQLPLUS, entered by username (email), passwd, not sure what to enter for host string. Leaving blank, a timeout occured. Do I need a connect identifier? SQLPLUS hangs if I try to then click File.

user11971328 wrote:
Despite doc which said 10g Release 2's certification with Windows XP Professional (> SP 1), clusterware install fails with OUI-1-8001 (Error - needs XP ver 5.0 or 5.2). My XP Prof Ver 5.1.2600 apparrently isn't compatable. Error msg suggests upgrading Service Pack.
Tried to install Personal Edition, but never saw the oppty to selection it after downloading individual zip files (clinet, gateways, clusterware) into separate folders and then running setup.exe's in each folder. Don't know if I'm running Personal Edition.
This is my first time attempt to install Oracle dB. Appears that my installation of client and gateways went ok, but I'm not doing something right to start SQLPLUS or my clusterware issue is causing a problem.
When starting SQLPLUS, entered by username (email), passwd, not sure what to enter for host string. Leaving blank, a timeout occured. Do I need a connect identifier? SQLPLUS hangs if I try to then click File.Am curious - which version of Oracle DB 10gR2 did you download? Did you take 10.2.0.1 or did you grab the 10.2.0.3 for Vista or 10.2.090.4 for Win 2008? The questions sound suspiciously like the latter.
If you have the right one for WIndows, the Personal Edition selection shows up on the very first screen - you select whether you want Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition (which also includes the SE1 variant) and Personal Edition. No selection implies wrong download.
Under normal circumstances, you ONLY install the database CD. That gives you pretty much all you need for learning, including the SQLPlus. Then if you want more - such as the sample data, because you deliberately did not include it at database install, or the Apache front end - you get the Companion CD and install it after the fact. The Client CD is used for those computers that do not have the database CD. Gateways are used on the database much later, when you want to connect to DB2 or SQL Server and the like. And the clusterware is when you are really advanced ands want to get a high availability cluster operational.
Edited by: Hans Forbrich on Oct 4, 2009 8:17 AM
On rereading your question, it sounds like you installed everything instead of just the database CD. You need ONLY the Database download for learning.

Questions for first time user

I have two problems. 1st....I downloaded pictures on my ipod and I can't get them to save to my computer. 2nd...I downloaded a movie on my ipod and it appears to be there, but doesn't play on the ipod. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Windows XP

If you copied photos to your iPod using the full resolution option, enable disk use, open your iPod in "my computer", open the photos folder then open the "full resolution" folder and drag the photos out of that folder to your desktop. For enabling disk use look here.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131
If you only copied the photos as thumbnails, you can't do this so you'll need a program such as this one.
http://www.copypod.net/copypodphoto.php
Photos as thumbnails won't be very good quality when copied back to your computer.
For the video, see this for help: Guide to converting video for iPod (Mac/Windows).

Trial Photoshop CS6 - can I access it as a first-time user?

I downloaded trial Photoshop CS6 on my iMac as a first-time user, knowing that my serial number for CS1 was out of date (I'm retired and haven't used Photoshop for years). But I can't activate it. Is it not available for first-time users and if not, how can I uninstall it safely? I really want to try it out before I buy the full version, and was unaware that I needed a serial number until the install.

You don't need a serial number for trielas. if it timed out, something went wrong.
Adobe trial software expired early
Uninstall it using the uninstaller that comes with the program.
Mylenium

HT1349 i have just bought an ipad2 from usa. now i am in dia. i am a first timer user of ipad. i have charged for three hours, when i start iti.e. on the device it shows a plug in icon with itunes. then the screen turns black. i am not able to use the dev

i have just bought an ipad2 from usa. now i am in india. i am a first timer user of ipad. i have charged for three hours, when i start iti.e. on the device it shows a plug in icon with itunes. then the screen turns black. i am not able to use the device. kindly help

You need to plug the iPad into your computer that has iTunes installed on it, and activate it.
The User Guide would be good for you to read:
http://support.apple.com/manuals/#ipad

Opening premier elements for first time. Been "gathering user info" for 15 minutes...what to do?

Opening premier elements for first time. Been "gathering user info" for 15 minutes...what to do? Previously hit "organize", ran for 25 min till hit 100%, then "had to close"?

Unfortunately, there's not enough info listed to give you an effective answer.
Can you give more detailed system spec's. There are a lot of differences in RAM, & Hard Drive Technologies. Is your 2TB a single hard drive, or multiple drives in RAID? While a single 2TB drive is nice for the storage capacity, they also sacrifice some performance to reach that capacity... What speed is the RAM, & I'm assuming it's properly opperating in Dual Channel mode (watch your POST screen to be sure). Which Core i7 CPU are you running, & what Operating System are you running. Finally, bring up your task manager, & see what processes are using CPU cycles. Also, are you starting up PrE8 through the default shortcut which uses the Welcome screen?
A quick guess is that Auto Analyzer & the Welcome screen are behind your troubles, but can't be sure till more info is available.
There is a current thread about Auto Analyzer, & I've posted a way to bypass the Welcome screen in several threads.
See my post in this thread to bypass the Welcome screen http://forums.adobe.com/thread/516524 (2nd post in thread)
Message was edited by: chaosdsmFL - added link

How to disable chanllenging questions while user log in for first time

Hi All,
How to disable challenging questions while user log in for first time in OIM 10g and OIM 11g
also i need to know how to change the Oracle logo with custom logo in both versions

In 11G:
To disable challenge questions at start up: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/doc.1111/e14308/system_props.htm#BABBDCJH (System Property Named: "Force to set question at start up)
To change logo: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/doc.1111/e14309/uicust.htm#CHDIFJEJ
In 10G:
Dig the documentation.
A suggestion, please go through the documents first as they have quite a bit of information.
HTH,
BB

HT204380 help. tried for first time to use FaceTime with another iPhone user & it would not work. "FaceTime failed". we are both on wi-fi networks & iTunes accounts are set up correctly.

help. tried for first time to use FaceTime with another iPhone user & call refused to connect. Call would dial, allow us to accept call, then error message "FaceTime failed" would appear & call disconnect. we are both on wi-fi networks, both phones have updated software & both enabled FaceTime with iTunes logged in. don't know what else to do to get FaceTime to connect. Someone please help.

Thanks Helen for the response. At least you can get some of the contacts to work. Absolutely none of mine will. Feel like my phone is cheating me out something it should do. Think I'm going to just have to dump all the Apple products in general because this phone hasn't worked right since I got it.

Hope I'm in the right place. First time user. Not tech savvy. Just upgraded to OSX Mavericks. Box keeps asking me to enter my iCloud password. I keep entering my password but box keeps popping back up asking for password?! I selected cancel but what

Hope I'm in the right place. First time user. Not tech savvy. Just upgraded to OSX Mavericks. Box keeps asking me to enter my iCloud password. I keep entering my password but box keeps popping back up asking for password?! I selected cancel but what should I do next time it asks for my iCloud password? Is my iCloud working? How do I retrieve my password?
Thanks

In the iCloud pane of System Preferences, uncheck the box marked Mail and check it again.

Several questions for first time Aperture user

Hello all, first time user here. Downloaded the trial and am thinking about purchasing the full version. I have a few questions here;
1. If I click buy to get the serial number, after authorizing the program, will the "Trial" word disappear from all the menus and setting? And will the library name changed from Aperture 3 Trial Library automatically to just Aperture 3 Library?
2. When I start importing photos from camera into A3, will I be able to use iPhoto to view or edit if I delete the original iPhoto library? In short, will iPhoto be able to share the same library when I start using A3?
3. After importing all existing photos from iPhoto, should and can I delete my iPhoto library?
4. Will I be able to use and install A3 on both my laptop and iMac at the same time or is it restricted to 1 computer?
Thanks all.

Jaryl wrote:
Hello all, first time user here. Downloaded the trial and am thinking about purchasing the full version. I have a few questions here;
1. If I click buy to get the serial number, after authorizing the program, will the "Trial" word disappear from all the menus and setting? And will the library name changed from Aperture 3 Trial Library automatically to just Aperture 3 Library?
I don't think it will change the library name, but you should create a new library and import the trial library anyway IMHO
2. When I start importing photos from camera into A3, will I be able to use iPhoto to view or edit if I delete the original iPhoto library? In short, will iPhoto be able to share the same library when I start using A3?
In short: no, but you can view the images from one library in the other and drag them in if you like.
3. After importing all existing photos from iPhoto, should and can I delete my iPhoto library?
You can, but wait until you know everything is working right and backed up.
4. Will I be able to use and install A3 on both my laptop and iMac at the same time or is it restricted to 1 computer?
Yes the EULA allows a desktop and a laptop but not simultaneously. (If they're on the same network, it won't allow you to run them simultaneously.)
DLS

Performance issue in browsing SSAS cube using Excel for first time after cube refresh

Hello Group Members,
This is a continuation of my earlier blog question -
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/a1e424a2-f102-4165-a597-f464cf03ebb5/cache-and-performance-issue-in-browsing-ssas-cube-using-excel-for-first-time?forum=sqlanalysisservices
As that thread is marked as answer, but my issue is not resolved, I am creating a new thread.
I am facing a cache and performance issue for the first time when I try to open a SSAS cube connection using Excel (using Data tab -> From Other Sources --> From Analysis Services) after daily cube refresh. In end users system (8 GB RAM but around
4GB available RAM), for the first time, it takes 10 minutes to open the cube. From next run onwards, its open up quickly within 10 secs.
We have daily ETL process running in high end servers. The configuration of dedicated SSAS cube server is 8 core, 64GB RAM. In total we have 4 cube DB - out of which for 3 is full cube refresh and 1 is incremental refresh. We have seen after daily cube
refresh, it takes 10 odd minutes to open the cube in end users system. From next time onwards, it opens up really fast with 10 secs. After cube refresh, in server systems (32 GB RAM, around 4GB available RAM), it takes 2 odd minutes to open the cube.
Is there, any way we could reduce the time taken for first attempt ?
As mentioned in my previous thread, we have already implemented a cube wraming cache. But, there is no improvement.
Currently, the cumulative size of the all 4 cube DB are more than 9 GB in Production and each cube DB having 4 individual cubes in average with highest cube DB size is 3.5 GB. Now, the question is how excel works with SSAS cube after
daily cube refresh?
Is it Excel creates a cache of the schema and data after each time cube is refreshed and in doing so it need to download the cube schema in Excel's memory? Now to download the the schema and data of each cube database from server to client, it will take
a significant time based on the bandwidth of the network and connection.
Is it anyway dependent to client system RAM ? Today the bigest cube DB size is 3.5 GB, tomorrow it will be 5-6 GB. Now, though client system RAM is 8 GB, the available or free RAM would be around 4 GB. So, what will happen then ?
Best Regards, Arka Mitra.

Could you run the following two DMV queries filling in the name of the cube you're connecting to. Then please post back the row count returned from each of them (by copying them into Excel and counting the rows).
I want to see if this is an issue I've run across before with thousands of dimension attributes and MDSCHEMA_CUBES performance.
select [HIERARCHY_UNIQUE_NAME]
from $system.mdschema_hierarchies
where CUBE_NAME = 'YourCubeName'
select [LEVEL_UNIQUE_NAME]
from $system.mdschema_levels
where CUBE_NAME = 'YourCubeName'
Also, what version of Analysis Services is it? If you connect Object Explorer in Management Studio to SSAS, what's the exact version number it says on the top server node?
http://artisconsulting.com/Blogs/GregGalloway

Error when launch MaxDB studio for first time

Dear, Experts
I faced with one issue for launch MaxDB studio for first time.
It reported:
Connect user failed
SAP DBTech JDBC: Cannot connect to jdbc:sapdb://.../.UMDB [Restart required].
Creating default user management failed
Could not create database ".UMDB": [C:\sapdb\clients\DatabaseStudio\pgm\dbmcli.exe] > ERR, -24832, ERR_SHMNOTAVAILABLE ...
Could you please help me on this?
Thank you in advance.
Best Regards

If not solved yet...
What says appsrv.log ? Which user are you using to start the appserver ? Which user have you specified when sreating the database ?
Nicolas.

Error when booting app server for first time

Hi All,
My OS is OEL 6,PT 8.53 and HCM9.2 after creating the app server domain and booting it for first time i am getting an error as below,
exec PSWATCHSRV -o ./LOGS/stdout -e ./LOGS/stderr -A -- -ID 221921 -D TESTSERV - S PSWATCHSRV :
CMDTUX_CAT:816: ERROR: Cannot exec, executable file not found
tmboot: CMDTUX_CAT:827: ERROR: Fatal error encountered; initiating user error ha ndler
exec tmshutdown -qy
Any help appreciated.
TUXEDO LOG Says,
162253.wipcoe1234!tmloadcf.5379.1098766080.-2: 05-03-2013: client high water (0), total client (0)
162253.wipcoe1234!tmloadcf.5379.1098766080.-2: 05-03-2013: Tuxedo Version 11.1.1.3.0, 64-bit
162253.wipcoe1234!tmloadcf.5379.1098766080.-2: CMDTUX_CAT:879: INFO: A new file system has been created. (size = 1197 512-byte blocks)
162253.wipcoe1234!tmloadcf.5379.1098766080.-2: CMDTUX_CAT:871: INFO: TUXCONFIG file /home/oracle/psft/pt/8.53/appserv/HCMDM92/PSTUXCFG has been created
162253.wipcoe1234!tmloadcf.5384.2986219264.-2: 05-03-2013: Tuxedo Version 11.1.1.3.0, 64-bit
162253.wipcoe1234!tmloadcf.5384.2986219264.-2: CMDTUX_CAT:879: INFO: A new file system has been created. (size = 1197 512-byte blocks)
162253.wipcoe1234!tmloadcf.5384.2986219264.-2: CMDTUX_CAT:871: INFO: TUXCONFIG file /home/oracle/psft/pt/8.53/appserv/HCMDM92/PSTUXCFG has been created
162258.wipcoe1234!PSADMIN.5355: Begin attempt on domain HCMDM92
162302.wipcoe1234!tmadmin.5392.1509406464.-2: TMADMIN_CAT:1330: INFO: Command: boot -A
162304.wipcoe1234!tmboot.5393.2297452288.-2: 05-03-2013: Tuxedo Version 11.1.1.3.0, 64-bit
162304.wipcoe1234!tmboot.5393.2297452288.-2: CMDTUX_CAT:1851: INFO: TM_BOOTTIMEOUT is set to 120 seconds
162304.wipcoe1234!tmboot.5393.2297452288.-2: CMDTUX_CAT:1855: INFO: TM_BOOTPRESUMEDFAIL option is selected
162306.wipcoe1234!BBL.5394.2180380416.0: 05-03-2013: Tuxedo Version 11.1.1.3.0, 64-bit, Patch Level (none)
162306.wipcoe1234!BBL.5394.2180380416.0: LIBTUX_CAT:262: INFO: Standard main starting
162308.wipcoe1234!tmboot.5397.3909768960.-2: 05-03-2013: Tuxedo Version 11.1.1.3.0, 64-bit
162308.wipcoe1234!tmboot.5397.3909768960.-2: CMDTUX_CAT:1851: INFO: TM_BOOTTIMEOUT is set to 120 seconds
162308.wipcoe1234!tmboot.5397.3909768960.-2: CMDTUX_CAT:1855: INFO: TM_BOOTPRESUMEDFAIL option is selected
162308.wipcoe1234!tmboot.5397.3909768960.-2: tmboot: CMDTUX_CAT:827: ERROR: Fatal error encountered; initiating user error handler
162311.wipcoe1234!BBL.5394.2180380416.0: CMDTUX_CAT:26: INFO: The BBL is exiting system
162314.wipcoe1234!PSADMIN.5355: End boot attempt on domain HCMDM92
Edited by: ajith on May 3, 2013 5:39 PM

If not solved yet...
What says appsrv.log ? Which user are you using to start the appserver ? Which user have you specified when sreating the database ?
Nicolas.

Itunes application error when attempting to open for first time. HELP

Running windows xp pro, just bought new ipod classic, installed itunes software. When attempting to open for first time i get an itunes.exe - application error, error message that reads "The instruction at "0x100001040" referenced memory at "0x100001040". The memory could not be "read". Click ok to terminate the propgram. Click on CANCEL to debug the program. I have tried re-installing several times, cleaned temp etc. Nothing. Please help, i really want to start using my new ipod.

You have to unhide your library folder and adjust the user permissions to allow write access.
Mylenium

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