That’s a lot of P’s!
After months of using (and really liking) the purple plugin pack for pidgin on my Windows machine, I wanted to get it working on my Linux machine as well.
HP Laptop running Ubuntu 9.10 x64 fully up-to-date (2.6.31-17-generic)
Pidgin version 2.6.2
All I did was:
sudo apt-get install pidgin-plugin-pack
Then all of the plugins were installed – I just had to activate them.
I recently built a fairly nice NAS system for a customer:
0.7 Khasadar (revision 4919)
2.5GHz Dual Core Pentium
4GB DDR2 PC1066
5x hot swap 2TB SATA
10/100/1000 Intel Pro NIC
10/100/1000 Full duplex switch connection
After formatting the drives in SoftRAID 5 (1.8TB x 4 = 7.2TB – 5% for defragmentation = 6.84TB available), I started to backup many of their ISOs and daily computer backups and other logs. Everything was going smoothly using Windows File Sharing (Samba) until I got to the larger files.
Initially the files would copy at 80+MB/sec, but then they’d slow down to 50… 30… 20… even down to 8 or so MB/sec. Ouchies when you’re talking about a 40+GB file to transfer. FTP yielded the same results. I noticed that sometimes the drives on the NAS wouldn’t even be blinking, so it had to be another issue.
If you login on the web panel of the FreeNAS, under Services you will find CIFS/SMB.
Check under Advanced Settings
You’ll see Send and Receive buffer sizes – by default they are 16MB (16*1024 = 16384)
I changed the buffer size to 128MB (128*1024 = 131072) and checked the results
120MB/sec, slow down to 80… 70… 60… So 60MB/sec. That’s over 6 times faster at a cost of 8 times the RAM. I can live with that.
So just for jollies I increased it to 512MB and then to 1024MB. Both stopped around 70MB/sec. Then, as a final test, I dropped it down to 256MB (256*1024 = 262144), which seemed to be OK.
Have you ever noticed how great the auto complete function is for Outlook? Just start typing a name and all the contacts that you’ve ever emailed in the past will auto show up. That allows you to select from the list – which is especially helpful when you’ve forgotten part of someone’s name but know you’ve emailed them before.
The file that allows for this to happen is called the NK2 file. To see this file you may want to make sure you can see hidden files (In any Windows window, click Tools then Folder Options. Then under the view tab, click Show hidden files, folders, and drives. If you can’t find the Tools menu, hit the Alt key)
Windows 2000/XP
C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.NK2
Windows Vista/7
C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\Outlook.NK2
Problem 1:
I have a new computer and want to move this over.
This is the easiest to accomplish. Just make sure that Outlook is closed (fully closed, check the task manager if you have any doubts), and copy the NK2 file from the old system and paste it into the new system.
Problem 2:
My auto completes stopped working.
This has a fairly high success rate, but no guarantees. Basically this happens when your NK2 file becomes corrupt. Now, I think there are some utilities out there that are “supposed” to fix this, but the best bet I found was to just:
Close Outlook fully
Copy Outlook.NK2 to OutlookCopy.NK2
Delete Outlook.NK2
Open Outlook, send an email, close Outlook fully
Delete Outlook.NK2 again (it should have made another because you sent an email)
Rename the OutlookCopy.NK2 file to Outlook.NK2
Open Outlook
Your auto completes should now work!
I honestly haven’t come across any other problems regarding NK2 files. And I’ve only tried them from the same versions (2007 to 2007, and 2003 to 2003), so if you’re trying to move from 2003 to 2010 Outlook and this doesn’t work… sorry?
Tested OK on Windows XP, Vista, 7. Using Office 2003, 2007.
Undeliverable NDR:
Several users were complaining that whenever they’d send a calendar invite to a specific person that they would get an NDR back saying that a user was not found in the organization. Unfortunately the user that does not exist was not in the original calendar invite.
Server is 2003 Enterprise running Exchange 2003 Standard. Clients are using Office 2007 (outlook) SP2 fully updated.
Actual message is as follows:
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: Rehearsal: School Play @ 4:30pm – 6pm
Sent: 1/7/2010 11:19 AMThe following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
Robert LastName on 1/7/2010 11:19 AM
The e-mail account does not exist at the organization this message was sent to. Check the e-mail address, or contact the recipient directly to find out the correct address.
It’s obviously been edited as to not show the real names of people and servers. But you get the general idea.
The problem was with a delegate assigned by a current user pointing to the non-existent user. When a user is deleted in AD they do not automatically get removed from delegation on Outlook. So here’s the fix with a few screen shots:
In Outlook on the offending system (the person who you are sending invites TO when receiving the NDR), go to Tools > Options.
Click on the Delegates Tab
Remove the offending user
