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What is interest rate risk?
Submitted by GeorgeS on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 17:53Risk is either of increased funding cost for borrowers, or of reduced yields for investors. Short-term volatility and the unpredictability of interest rates led the banks and the financial exchanges to create ' an explosion' of financial instruments. Each of these instruments has a different set of characteristics for hedging interest rate risk on both loans and deposits, in different global currencies in both the short and long term.
Downloading and Installing Python
Submitted by GeorgeS on Sat, 10/03/2009 - 17:58Python can be downloaded from http://python.org
For unix platforms download the .tgx file , extract the files and go to the main directory. Build Python by performing the following:
- ./configure
- make
- make install
Python is usually installed in a standard location so you can find it rather easily. It has become quite common place for systems today to have multiple versions of Python installed. While it is easy to find the binary executable, you also have to deal with where the libraries are installed.
Installing Drupal Activity Stream
Submitted by GeorgeS on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 13:56Activity Stream builds a lifestream for you by aggregating your social activities all in one place.
Twitter,FlickrFacebook,Digg,Delicious,YouTube and more
Download module,
Http://drupal.org/project/activitystream
and install into ../sites/all/modules
once installed then activate it.
Admin/sitebuildsing/modules/activitystream, activate all modules and save
configurations.
goto site configuration. and install username and password
- Configure the stream's title
- Configure Username and Rss Feeds.
- Refresh Cron.php
- Add the activity screen in a block
Advance uses
OG Details Block
Submitted by GeorgeS on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 13:19In order to get better control of OG details Block. For example
To hide "invite Friend"
Change a string where it sayd Group to Classes
Uploading large files Drupal settings
Submitted by GeorgeS on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 13:13Uploading large files via filefields.
You need to changed the memory limit in php.ini and modify the drupal root .htaccess file to permit this
The start of the .htaccess file now looks like this.
php_value post_max_size 51m
php_value max_input_time 2680
php_value upload_max_filesize 50m
php_value upload_tmp_dir /tmp
php_value memory_limit 110m
additional settings in php.ini
max_execution_time,
max_input_time,
post_max_size,
memory_limit
Installing Drupal on local host
Submitted by GeorgeS on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 08:20
- Download the latest release from drupal.org
- Save the release to a directory on your harddrive
- unzip the download.
- download wampserver at www.wampserver.com to install Apache, MySQL, PHP on windows and install on your local machine.
- After you installed wampserver you should have an icon on your desktop.
- Ensure Wampserver is online
- goto phpmyadmin. Create a database
- drop the drupal directory into your www directory
- Goto Apache modules. make sure the rewrite modules is checked. to allow cleanr urls
- from explorer http:/localhost/drupal
- now install drupal
- insert the database name.
- Configure drupal and install.