Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Young Manager 17thAug

O- Ego Management

Understanding People
   Strengths/Weaknesses
      Functional/technical
      background
      Friends/colleagues

White Hair and PotBelly can help at times!

Beat the drum but dont beat around the bush

Long run tactic: Keep strong personal relations
   Categorize relationships/friends into categories and use a PRP tool
   use the following metrics to categorize:
      Known since
      Closeness Level
      Realm (so that things get automatically adjusted according to environment change...so that current colleagues become ex- when u change company)






General Matter:
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Self Talk- how to do self talking and make it postive. Controlling one's physche

Do not carry you office tensions home

manage (striked) Play Office politics
-carry your dagger but dont show it

The key is temporary--Bad, good situations

growup Vs growing Old

Orientations: Job, ppl, self-management, flexibility

Judging situations, signature srv cust reaction- irate, confused, comfortable, insistent

Saviness

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Best video/audio editing freeware toolz

Have always been a big fan of this tool....have seen it grow evolve and prosper. Recently it has been put to sourceforge and this has helped make it better. After reading this if you happen to try it out and like it, dont forget the plugins!

Some of the useful stuff I do with it are:

1. Compress vidieoz from my handycam, digicam
2. Convert video and audio formats
3. Add audio to a video stream and viceversa
4. Video Editing

For audio editing there are many good free tools...one of them is audacity

For this video editing tool...Google for VirtualDub

shutdown,restart shortcuts on winxp http://aumha.org/win5/a/shutcut.php

Shutdown & Restart Shortcuts for Windows XP & Windows 2000

Windows 2000 (with the Resource Kit installed) and Windows XP (natively) have an actual shutdown command that can be launched from a command prompt — and which, therefore, also can be launched from a shortcut. To see all available options for this command, click Start, click Run, and type:

SHUTDOWN /?

You can also study the available options in the Microsoft KB 317371, “How to Use the Remote Shutdown Tool to Shut Down and Restart a Computer in Windows 2000.” (The article is basically suitable for Win XP also.)

This command starts a 30-second countdown for a shutdown or restart, which permits you to abort it (with a shutdown -a command). It you want the command to execute, use the -t flag, which lets you set the time lapse in seconds. The examples below use a 1-second delay.

For a shortcut to RESTART Windows XP:
SHUTDOWN -r -t 01

For a shortcut to SHUT DOWN Windows XP:
SHUTDOWN -s -t 01

Unfortunately — especially on Windows XP — this option only shuts down Windows. It does not shut down your computer, at least on most hardware. For that, on Win XP (and form most Win 2000 users also) I recommend the freeware utility Shutdown.exe (not to be confused with the Windows utility by the same name) by MS-MVP Andrej Budja. I’ve seen several shutdown utilities recommended, but this is the only one that I’ve seen actually shut down Windows XP and then powerdown the computer behind it. For more information on the tool, see here. After you place this utility in the root folder of C:, the commands for a shutdown or restart (respectively), each without a time delay, would be shutdown -u -t 0 for shutdown and shutdown -r -t 0 for restart.