Posted by mganapa on July 2, 2008
I am one of the top 25 contributors in the EMC support forums. That’s a nice honor to have and I am glad that I have been able to help people find solutions to their problems. Having dealt with EMC’s official support, I know how important the forum is. I have added two pages with links to important support notes and forum discussions. I will be updating my site with information on Documentum especially WDK/DFC development.
I am eagerly waiting to see the t-shirt that EMC had promised to send me for being one among the 25. The last time I got t-shirt from them was in November 2005 when I was at their Pleasanton office. I will post a picture of it when I get the t-shirt.
Posted by mganapa on July 1, 2008
I have seen many forum posts on missing JavaDocs for the com.documentum.services.* package. This JavaDoc can be found at
C:\Program Files\Documentum\help\bpm\api
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Posted by mganapa on July 1, 2008
I saw an interesting post in the documentum support forums today. This person wanted to construct a DQL to find the list of documents that were created in the last 15 minutes. However when you do a subtraction from a DATE attrinbute, content server assumes that the integer refers to a say. Thus DATE(NOW) – 15 would be 15 days in the past from today.
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Posted by mganapa on August 17, 2006
I just saw a bubble on my system tray telling me that XP sp1 will not be supported after the 10th of October 2006. Can’t believe 5 years have already gone by since service pack 1 was released!!!
Posted by mganapa on June 5, 2006
SWEET ! is one word for calendar. It’s fast and amazing.. Simple GTK like widgeting (on both), and I can download my calendar to evolution. The only feature that would complete my experience is a two way sync. Evolution complains that the calendar is read only. I hope google rolls out this feature soon.
As for notebook, I have just downloaded it to my system. Last month, when I first tried it, it was so unstable (the server) and was quite a frustrating experience. During the past week, I have not been having even any issue with it. I see that they have also released the linux version of it.
Open Source rocks!!!
Posted by mganapa on April 24, 2006
NAS @ Home
For a while I have been tinkering with a few extra boxes I have had with me. The two spare desktops I have are both Pentium 1.2GHz + and one is overclockable (Yeah one of those rare overclockable Intelware!). The idea of NAS has been on my mind for almost a year now. With 400 GB+ of data, I would like to have them available in a centralized vault.
Right now, I have a full suite of RedHat (shrike) but I still feel that is too heavy for a NAS. I should probably look (more) into NASLite, OpenFiler and FreeNAS.
Posted by mganapa on August 25, 2005
Gmail has recently changed it’s email policy. Now you can sign up for an account using your cell phone. But you do need a US number! No more waiting for invites 
Posted by mganapa on March 17, 2005
Mandrake – Wizard of woes!
I am quite exasperated with this server buisness. It all started when I got a new free P7 1.7GHz and decided to move my server to this new system. Also I wanted to venture into linux full time. Well everything started off so well. My Laptop was working well with Mandrake 10.1 and I installed the same on my PC. I guess the ISO was corrupted (It makes me wonder how the PGP keys verified!). The server kept rebooting itself for no reason and the syslog had too many entries of the “term” signal being issued. To worsen matters, the mouse will never be detected on startup. After every system startup I had to manually install the mouse; sometimes as generic PS/2 and other times as microsoft 3 button. why? I have no clue!. To add to my woes my Laptop crashed on Linux. I lost my data .. my assignments.. Damn! I had to work on them again!
Here come SUSE
I moved on to SUSE 9.2. I liked this one better because it had newer versions of KDE and Kernel. This time I had no problems with the system. Everything was running smoothly. Unfortunately my semester had began and I lacked the luxury of time to update my site content.
Aaha! Spring Break is here
I was telling myself “Wait for Spring Break”
Spring Break was here and the first day of the break, my HDD crashed! I frenziedly looked for a backup system and found a P3 lying around. After moving around a few components from the P4 system, I managed to get this system up and runing. Spent three days on this problem.
What is it now?
Everything worked so well for the first 24 hrs. I decided it was time to move all my mp3′s and videos; Luckily I always make backups; after 10 hours I managed to fill ~40 GB of my HDD space. The site even worked on the internet. Just when I thought everything was fine, My server has stopped responding. My guess is its because of DoS. What a pain!
Dynamic IP
This is like a prick in your seat; Never lets you rest in peace. My ISP resets my IP atleast 5 times a month at varying frequency. Thankfuly ddclient running in my PC helps me track the changes but I need to manually update the mapping on /maheshganapathy.net/
Is this all worth the effort? I dunno but I defenitely like the idea of running my own server. I have learnt so much in the past year and all the trounles have been worth it.