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Security Clearance Levels in the United States

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Secret or Level 2 Clearance
A secret clearance (also known as ‘collateral secret’ or ‘ordinary secret’) is broadly similar to the UK SC clearance. There are a number of things that can complicate obtaining secret clearance:
- Residences in foreign countries
- Relatives outside the United States
- Significant ties with non-US citizens
- Bankruptcy and unpaid bills
- Criminal charges of any kind.

Poor financial history is the number-one cause of rejection and foreign activities and criminal records are also common causes for disqualification. A secret clearance requires an NACLC check. It must also be reinvestigated every 10 years (though, in practice, it tends to happen more often).

Top Secret or Level 3 Clearance (more…)

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Download SAP R/3 Ruby Cheat Sheet

Saturday, November 15th, 2008


Ruby is a reflective, object-oriented programming language. It combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like object-oriented features, and also shares some features with Python, Lisp, Dylan and CLU. Ruby is a single-pass interpreted language. Its main implementation is free software distributed under an open-source license.

The language was created by Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, who started working on Ruby on February 24, 1993, and released it to the public in 1995. “Ruby” was named after a colleague’s birthstone. As of June 2006, the latest stable version is 1.8.4. Ruby 1.9 (with some major changes) is also in development.

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database, Rails gives you a pure-Ruby development environment. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server. Ruby on Rails was created by David Heinemeier Hansson. “Rails”, “Ruby on Rails”, and the Rails logo are trademarks of David Heinemeier Hansson. All rights reserved.

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Download IBM Insight for SAP R/3 – Utility for anyone running SAP R/3

Friday, August 1st, 2008

The IBM Insight for SAP® utility program and its subsequent reporting and analysis process provide a convenient, high-level, workload analysis for in-production SAP system landscapes. This service and utility are provided free of charge by IBM America’s Advanced Technical Support (ATS) and America’s Techline organizations.

The Insight Collector is a Windows® executable which communicates with the in-production SAP system. The Collector gathers performance workload and utilization statistics through the SAP Netweaver® RFC interface while having minimal impact on SAP performance. These statistics are then provided to IBM for processing and analysis. The user will very quickly be provided a detailed performance report detailing the workload and utilization of the SAP system.

The following Applications are supported by both versions:
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Business Warehouse (BW)
- Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO)
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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Quick References for SAP R/3 and Microsoft Office Integration

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

The following sections provide simple step-by-step instructions for executing many of the reporting processes just discussed. Use the following sections as a quick reference to speed you through each respective reporting process. And remember, if you need more information, refer to each process’s respective detailed sections provided earlier in this hour.

Quick Reference for Exporting Lists to Microsoft Excel
Quick Reference for Exporting SAP Query Reports to Excel
Quick Reference for Creating Form Letters with Microsoft Word
Quick Reference for Exporting Lists to Microsoft Access
Quick Reference for Exporting SAP Query Reports to Access


Quick Reference for Exporting Lists to Microsoft Excel


The following is a recap of the steps required to use the System List function to export SAP lists to Microsoft Excel.

  1. Navigate to the SAP screen containing the list you want to output.
  2. Follow the menu path System, List, Save, Local File.
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How to use Microsoft Access Report Wizard to download SAP R/3 Data

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Creating reports in Microsoft Access is easy using a tool called the Microsoft Access Report Wizard. The use of reports wizards simplifies the layout process of your fields by visually stepping you through a series of questions about the type of report that you want to create. The wizard walks you through the step-bystep creation of a report, while behind the scenes Access is formatting, grouping, and sorting your report based on selections you make.

Instead of having to create a report from scratch, Microsoft Access provides a number of standard report formats. Some of these, like tabular and columnar reports, mail-merge reports, and mailing label formats, lend themselves to meeting basic reporting requirements. Reports created using the Microsoft Access Report Wizard can also be customized to fit your needs. To use the Report Wizard, perform the following steps: (more…)

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