Wednesday, March 30, 2005

PC preventive maintenace

SECURITY

  • Check antivirus for updates
  • Check windows for patch and updates
  • Scan for spyware
  • Scan for adware
  • Check firewall is on

ERROR CHECKING

  • Scan disk (at least basic scan)

PERFORMANCE

  • Defrag hard disk
  • Check for unused auto-loaded software (on startup)
  • Check for unused software in hard disk using add/remove program
  • Delete temporary files
  • Clean up registry (advance)

CLEANLINESS

  • Clean up mouse (for wheel mouse)

CHECKLIST before formatting PC’s

  1. Check for drivers – display, sound, modem any internal/external special devices
  2. Backup data to different partition/disk
  3. All necessary CD’s are there
    1. Windows (OS)
    2. OS patches
    3. Antivirus software
    4. Drivers
    5. Other basic commonly used software

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Website maintenance

Articles related to maintaining website.

Page cache using PHP
http://www.developertutorials.com/tutorials/php/php-caching/page1.html

Friday, March 11, 2005

Business plan outline

Company objective
Mission
Keys to success
Company Summary
Company Ownership
Start-up Table (startup costs)
Start-up summary
What you are selling
Your market analysis
The business you are in
Sales forecast
Your marketing plan
Your management team
Start-up funding
Cash flow chart
Break even analysis
Financial Plan summary
Strategy and Implementation
And executive summary

Thursday, March 03, 2005

Using pear DB class

// Load the DB code
require 'DB.php';

// Connect to the database
$dbh = DB::connect('mysql://ipms:nopass@localhost/ipms');

// Send a SELECT query to the database
$sth = $dbh->query('SELECT * FROM IPMS_LEAVE');

// Check if any rows were returned
if ($sth->numRows()) {
print "";
print "";
// Retrieve each row
while ($row = $sth->fetchRow()) {
// And print out the elements in the row
print
"\n";
}
print "
IDLeave DateNotify Date
$row[0]$row[1]$row[2]
";
} else {
print "No results";
}

?>