Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Google Apps really a valuable tool

Eric Schmidt and Doublas Merrill Talk about Google Apps and this can really prove very userful for any one who believes in organised way of communication with parent companies and end users

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Tally Migration from 4.5 to 7.2

We all know that to convert tally data from 7.2 to 8.1 Tally is providing a data migration utility with Tally 8.1. You can get more details about migrating Data from How to migrate Data from Tally 7.2 to Tally 8.1. or Get the FAQ's on data migration.

But what if you have data in Tally 4.5 and you want to convert it to Tally 7.2 or 8.1. For this a free utility is available on Tally's Site which would convert data from Tally 4.5 to Tally 7.2 You can get this utility Here .Simply unzip the file. You would find three files. Copy these files to directory of Tally 4.5.Now run the utility and convert the companies one by one.

After converting all companies you would see different folders are created . Copy these folders to the directory where your Tally 7.2 is installed. Open Tally and rewrite the companies you want to open in Tally7.2. Wollah !!! the process is complete.Before migrating data make sure to take backups of files. so that in case of data corruption you can recover it.

AMD Drops Processor Prices By Almost 50 %

AMD's restructuring is being accompanied by dramatic drops in the prices of its microprocessors, according to new official information released Monday.

In an update to its microprocessor pricing page, AMD announced high-end price cuts on the AMD Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 X2 microprocessors. The fastest Athlon 64 X2 processor, the 3.0-GHz 6000+, is now priced at $241, slightly more expensive than Intel's midrange E6400, a 2.13-GHz chip that sells for $224.

AMD said Monday that it plans to cut 2007 capital expenditures by about $500 million, limit hirings to "critical" positions, and report revenues that will be significantly less than Wall Street estimates. Further details of the restructuring will be made available on April 19.

AMD has eliminated the AMD FX-62 and FX-70 from its product portfolio, selling the AMD FX-74 and AMD FX-72 chips at $799 and $599, respectively, eliminating the $999 price tier.
Most of the remaining chips on AMD's price list use the Socket AM2 or Socket F form factor, rather than the older Socket 939 interfaces.

AMD's flagship Athlon 64 X2 line, meanwhile, received significant cuts. The price of the 6000+ was cut by 48 percent, while the 5600+, now priced at $188, was lowered by 42 percent. The AMD 5400+ was removed from the price list, while the price of the 5200+ dropped from $232 to $178, a more modest 23 percent decrease. Cuts were made down to the slowest 3600+ part, which was reduced in price from $102 to $73.

AMD also trimmed the prices of its older Athlon 64 chips, which previously ranged from $102 for an AMD 4000+ part to $78 for the AMD Athlon 64 3200+. Today, those prices now range from $94 to $58. Slight cuts were made to the Sempron line as well.
AMD left the prices for its Turion chips unchanged.

While the processor prices generally refer to lots of 1,000 units, the lowered pricing generally trickles down to single-unit retail sales. The lower prices also affect the prices and configurations of PCs, although price adjustments can occur over a period of weeks

as said by By Mark Hachman reporter extremetech.com

Carry Forward Closing Balance to new year in Tally 9

As new financial year has started tally users are busy finalizing their books. Some of ApniTally users as well as my own customers have raised query related to accounting in new financial year. They are asking if they should start a new company for new financial year. Then they have query how to put last year's closing balance in new financial year.

We face few questions while entering new year data like :-
1. How to put opening balances as closing balances for last year are not available at this moment?
2. What to do with those ledgers which are not going to be used in next year?
3. How to get rid of last years mistakes or errors?
4. How to include inventory in this year's books?

There are many solutions to this problem but we have to choose the best. Creating a new company can be one solutions as you would get rid of all those ledgers which have zero balance. In this case you can continue entering vouchers as they come. You have to feed opening balances of each ledger manually when ever your last year balance sheet is finalized.

Splitting the company :

Another better solutions is to continue entering data in existing company by changing the period in gateway of tally. When ever you have to make changes in previous period just enter the last year's period and record the entry.When ever you get you company balance sheet finalized after entering the closing transactions just split the company on 31 march.This way you would automatically get the opening balances of the all ledgers and there would be no difference in opening balances. But a word of caution here is that do this after finalizing the balance sheet, because once split you will not be able to make changes in last years company. What ever entries you would make would reflect only current company. Later on you can delete all those ledgers which are having zero balance or dead.This method has all the advantages.

Monday, April 9, 2007

Hiding your C: drive from users and also changing path of user profile

Hiding “C:” Drive from the Users, and changing Default Path for User Profile Path of Users:

Introduction:
Two things every administration requires, but it is very difficult to achieve.
1. Hide C: from the users
2. Change location of UserProfile Data. (i.e. my documents and other items)
Enjay Network Solutions feels immensely happy to announce a utility for the same namely hideC.exe

Benefits of Changing Default path of UserProfile:
1. Easy Data Management.
2. Easy Data Backup.
3. Since No USER-Data is on C: Drive, you can any time format C:\ without fearing data loss.
4. All the settings, even desktop picture or I.E. Favorites are saved in new location.
5. So if you take backup of USERDATA (e.g. – e:\users), All the data pertaining to users is backed up automatically.

Benefits of Hiding C: Drive:
1. User cannot see C: drive.
2. User cannot access / Change / delete system information, hence system is SAFE.
3. It is not just hidden but it is secured. (Users don’t have permission to access it)

Features of HideC.exe (from www.enjayworld.com):
1. Changes UserProfile path which is by default “C:\Documents and settings”, to some other location.
2. UserProfile includes following items, which will be moved to new location say E:\data\user1 (network Path is not supported as of now)
i. Desktop
ii. Application Data – Outlook Express & M.S. Outlook.
iii. My Documents
iv. My Pictures.
v. Favorites (I.E. and Windows Explorer)
3. Hides C: drive from the user.
4. User has no access to C:\ from any where, i.e. not even command prompt or software (open/save) window
5. Works on following Operating Systems:
a. Windows 2003 Server Family (with or without Active Directory.)
b. Windows 2000 Server Family
c. Windows XP (all versions)


Important Note:
6. The Program does not copy data to new location.
a. If your user already has some data in his old profile path, you need to copy that data manually.
7. Network Path for UserData is not supported as of now. However you may use mapped network drive for the same. (It works well).
a. We recommend using local path, till we come out with new version.


How to get HideC.exe:
1. You may download it from http://www.enjayworld.com/utils/hidec.exe
2. or You may request it from support@enjayworld.com
3. HideC.exe will be available as standard content on the Enjay ThinClient CD also.



Usage:
1. Double Click HideC.exe file (to start the program)
2. Please Enter User Name:
a. User should be existing on the server / PC system.
b. User should NOT be logged on currently.
c. User should NOT be logged on currently, using TERMINAL SERVICE.
d. User should have logged in at least once, on the system.
3. Enter New User Profile Path
a. Enter the location where you want to create or move User Profiles
b. Pl. don’t enter Network Path here.


1. Final Warning –
a. If you want to cancel your request, press cancel here.
b. PROGRAM TAKES SOME TIME HERE TO MODIFY SYSTEM, PL. BE PATIENT AND WAIT. .
2. User Profile changed successfully.
3. Now Hide “C:” from the selected user.
4. Final Confirmations.
Enjay Brings you the CLASSROOM VERSION,
Salient features are as follows
1. In schools (all educational institutions)
it is many times required that what
teacher is teaching on his/her computer
SHOULD BE VIEWABLE FROM ALL THE CLIENTS (STUDENTS)
COMPUTERS.

2. Keyboard / Mouse of the students are disabled
during the "CLASSROOM MODE"

3. Screen of the teacher "SERVER COMPUTER"
is shown as it is to the Students "CLIENT COMPUTERS"

4. Enjay ThinClient "CLASSROOM VERSION" can be used
as normal ThinClient also

5. Sound will be available from the Teacher "SERVER COMPUTER"
only.

>> Any way it is no use producing "SAME" sound
from many pcs.

6. Even multimedia can be played from the server
it will be displayed correctly @ the client machines.

7. No movies Please.
FOR MORE QUERIES PL. WRITE TO chetan@enjayworld.com

1000 MBPS Thin Client

Have you ever wondered why non of any big Thin Client vendors have yet launched 1 Gbps Thin Client.

Well, the reason is quite obvious, and that is the Thin Client technology itself.

Thin Client technology works on following BASIC PRINCIPLES:

1. Keystrokes and Mouse movements are sent from the
CLIENT to the SERVER PC.

2. The Server does ALL THE PROCESSING, on behalf of CLIENT.

3. Then SERVER send "BITMAP IMAGE" of the screen for the
client.

From above Principles you can draw following conclusions.

1. If you Open "a 500 MB file" on a thin client
PC, 500 mb is not going to FLOW FROM SERVER TO CLIENT.

2. It is only images of the apps that will flow from
the SERVER to the CLIENT machine.

3. ONE OF THE MAJOR BENEFITS OF THINCLIENT TECHNOLOGY
IS "VERY VERY LOW REQUIREMENT OF BANDWIDTH"

4. This is the reason, when people want to use
applications in WAN Connectivity, they use
Thin Client technology.

We are not even using 100 mbps:
-------------------------------------------------
Yes that is true, when we use ThinClients
We generally use 20-200 kbps "YES KBPS"

Actually Network bandwidth is not bottleneck for
ThinClient Technology. BottleNeck may be your SERVER.
So if you want MORE SPEED, GET FASTER SERVER.

So if someone is telling you speed of ThinClient
is better because of 1GBPS, then,
NOTHING CAN BE MORE FAR FROM TRUE, than this.


Pl. understand the technology before using / buying selling it.

If you spend some time to understand it, you will end up using
It much better and efficiently.

If you any doubts / queries regarding above, pl. write to me
I WOULD LOVE TO DISCUSS (OR DEBATE) ON THIS issues.