Monday, April 20, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Ryde, Isle of Wight
This was a beautiful place. The sea side was quite (may be because we visited it after 6:00 PM :)), peaceful & beautiful. The beach was not as great as Sandown. But the sea side walk was quite good.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Lost confidence in Google
All of a sudden I am now unable to logon to any of google applications - gmail, orkut, blogger, youtube. Even google talk is not working. Nothing is wrong with my machine. Everything else is working fine. I am getting google's infamous 502 server error when I try to view any login page from google.
Google help team recognized the problem, but it has been four days and the issue hasn't been resolved yet.
In over 10 years of my using web, never once I have experienced such issue with yahoo mail. I've already seen google getting shut down for a few times, and now this issue. Extremely annoying & discouraging...
Friday, April 3, 2009
After a few system crashes XP suddely takes ages to boot
http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-xp/very-slow-9minute-boot/170618.html
http://winhlp.com/node/10
Apparently, when XP registers 6 failures over the time on hard drives, it shifts hard drive access mode from DMA to PIO. PIO is extremely slow compared to DMA. So, you suddenly start experiencing this delay. A quick fix mentioned below solved the issue for me.
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I have resolved the problem with a fast boot time. It now takes 2 minutes.
I did the registry fix for the DMA and it worked;
1. Open RegEdit
Find the following KEY: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\
Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\000x --- where x is a variable for 1,2,3 etc...
Under each subkey [0001, etc] delete all occurences of the following values:
MasterIdDataChecksum
OR
SlaveIdDataChecksum
Reboot the computer. Windows will now redetect DMA settings.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx
PsTools v2.44
By Mark Russinovich
Introduction
The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Resource Kits come with a number of command-line tools that help you administer your Windows NT/2K systems. Over time, I've grown a collection of similar tools, including some not included in the Resource Kits. What sets these tools apart is that they all allow you to manage remote systems as well as the local one. The first tool in the suite was PsList, a tool that lets you view detailed information about processes, and the suite is continually growing. The "Ps" prefix in PsList relates to the fact that the standard UNIX process listing command-line tool is named "ps", so I've adopted this prefix for all the tools in order to tie them together into a suite of tools named PsTools.
Note: some anti-virus scanners report that one or more of the tools are infected with a "remote admin" virus. None of the PsTools contain viruses, but they have been used by viruses, which is why they trigger virus notifications.
The tools included in the PsTools suite, which are downloadable as a package, are:
- PsExec - execute processes remotely
- PsFile - shows files opened remotely
- PsGetSid - display the SID of a computer or a user
- PsInfo - list information about a system
- PsKill - kill processes by name or process ID
- PsList - list detailed information about processes
- PsLoggedOn - see who's logged on locally and via resource sharing (full source is included)
- PsLogList - dump event log records
- PsPasswd - changes account passwords
- PsService - view and control services
- PsShutdown - shuts down and optionally reboots a computer
- PsSuspend - suspends processes
- PsUptime - shows you how long a system has been running since its last reboot (PsUptime's functionality has been incorporated into PsInfo)
The PsTools download package includes an HTML help file with complete usage information for all the tools.