27. March 2008

Uninstalling Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Stalls !

I have windows Vista as my primary OS on my PC. Some days back i installed Windows Service pack 1 which was just released then . To be honest i didn’t buy Windows Vista because i frequently change my OS from Windows XP , Linux , Windows Vista , now i m loving Apple Mac Leopard X . To bypass the activation i had used stoptimer crack so that i didn’t have to register the windows vista and the 30 days trial remain 30 days always .But it was till i installed Vista service pack 1 .

Unistall stalled

I thought i will get back the 30 days stoptimer thing back if i uninstall Service pack because stoptimer only worked on the fresh windows vista install ( as i had tried it after someday i had newly installed vista it was not able to stop the 30 days timer though i am not sure if this is same for everyone ). This was also because while installing service pack 1 i had noticed windows vista had taken a system restore point .It was a pain uninstalling service pack 1. Vista service pack has three stages . Two are installed/uninstalled at the right time u initiate it but the 3rd one requires a reboot . I got stuck in the 3rd one. First two got uninstalled within half an hour but the third took more than 2 hrs for me and it was just 93% after some 2 hrs . i couldn’t wait to see it uninstalling so slowly and restarted my PC but then again it was the same it was again slow . Firstly it had stopped in 84% for more than 15 minutes after the PC restarted it again stopped at 84% and then again the story was same. I am thinking of putting this uninstall thing while i am going for sleep . Then after only i will be able to see the Timer thing if its stalled at 30 days which was my sole purpose of uninstalling the Vista service pack 1.

14. February 2008

How to sort Gmail messages by Read/Unread

All of us must have noticed that there is no such thing like sort mails by Read/Unread in Gmail ( at least i didn’t find it ) as compared to YahooMail. There is a simple trick we can do so .

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Just type “is:unread” in the search box of gmail at the top to only see unread mails or “is:read” to only see read mails.

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03. September 2007

Unfortunately You cant Have folder structure exceeding 260 Character in Windows XP

Today at my work i found out a very weird thing. It took me some hours to identify that this was the Windows XP limitation. Actually My project has long nested  folder hierarchy ( Organised java Packages ) . Today i faced problem that i couldn’t create a .java file in a package which had a long hierarchy and along with the .java file name it was exceeding 260 character limit and some kind of error was thrown. Later i found it was not my mistake but was a Windows XP limitation.

For Example say you have folders inside folder inside folder…. then a file. like C:\LongFolderName\LongFolderName\LongFolderName…..\afileName and if this exceeds 260 total character u will not be able to create the file name.

or else try creating a txt file having file name which is 260 character long. You wont be able to create it.

At the end of the day i was little happy and relieved but little tensed that i have to change the package names ( or remove some of them ) or put my project folder in C:\ .

I dont know how many of you knew this but i found it worth sharing.

17. August 2007

List of Proxy sites to use from Office/Work

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02. August 2007

How to Find a Strangers name - an Example

After months of negotiation with the authorities, a Talmudist from Odessa (in Russia) was granted permission to visit Moscow. He boarded the train and found an empty seat. At the next stop a young man got on and sat next to him. The scholar looked at the young man and thought: This fellow doesn’t look like a peasant, and if he isn’t a peasant he probably comes from this district. If he comes from this district, then he must be Jewish because this is, after all, a Jewish district.

On the other hand, if he is a Jew, where could he be going? I’m the only Jew in our district who has permission to travel to Moscow. Ahh ? But just outside Moscow there is a little village called Samvet, and Jews don’t need special permission to go there. But why would he be going to Samvet ? He’s probably going to visit one of the Jewish families there, but how many Jewish families are there in Samvet? Only two - the Bernsteins and the Steinbergs. The Bernsteins are a terrible family, and a nice looking fellow like him must be visiting the Steinbergs. But why is he going? The Steinbergs have only daughters, so maybe he’s their son-in-law.

But if he is, then which daughter did he marry? They say that Sarah married a nice lawyer from Budapest, and Esther married a businessman from Zhitomer, so it must be Sarah’s husband. Which means that his name is Alexander Cohen, if I’m not mistaken. But if he comes from Budapest, with all the anti-Semitism they have there, he must have changed his name.

What’s the Hungarian equivalent of Cohen? Kovacs. But if they allowed him to change his name, he must have some special status. What could it be? A doctorate from the University. At this point the scholar turns to the young man and says, “How do you do, Dr. Kovacs?”

“Very well, thank you, sir.” answered the startled passenger. But how is it that you know my name ?”

“Oh,” replied the Talmudist, “it was obvious.”

01. August 2007

How Computer Works in a Simple Way

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