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Drivers: HP Compaq Presario 707TU
2007-12-24 20:42:00
I bought a new HP Compaq Presario 707TU Notebook few days back. To my surprise there was no driver CD comes with it. I installed Windows XP Professional Edition in it and couldn?t find the driver on HP?s website.  They have only provided the drivers for Windows Vista Operation System. Later, I found that there are so many people having the same issue. Now the best part is that, today, I got all drivers for it. Thanks to HP Technical help desk. Here are the links to download the drivers. Please remember that these drivers are for window XP OS. You can find the driver for windows Vista on the HP website. Video driver: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/14388/a08 /win2k_xp14311.exe Chipset driver: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13799/eng /ChipUtil.exe Realtek RTL8100CL/RTL8110Sb NIC Driver: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp30001-3050 0/sp30156.exe Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC Driver: ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/Driver_5671_X P_0703.zip Intel Pro Wireless: ft...
More About: Personal , Drivers , Misc

Shoutbox: my first macro for dasBlog
2007-12-23 10:01:00
I have just finished modifications in my first dasBlog macro. This macro will add a shout-box to the dasBlog. You can see it on the right side of this blog. I have tested it successfully with Firefox an IE 5.5+. This macro is written for new dasBlog v2.0 (runs on .Net framework 2.0). If you want to add this custom macro to your dasBlog, make sure you are using new version dasBlog 2.0. On the best part of it, macro uses Ajax calls to update the shout-box. You can disable this behavior, if you don?t want to update it silently. To make the configuration easy I didn?t want to use any database to store the shout-box entries. It will store entries in a XML file on web-server. Apart, it is very customizable with the help of a CSS. To add it to your dasBlog, all you need to download macro. Then make some configuration settings given below. 1. Copy aakashjain.dll into the bin directory of your blog. 2. Edit the web.config file to make the following changes.     a) ...
More About: Technical , Macro , Shoutbox , Acro

Open Mind Index
2007-12-22 15:02:00
OMI stands for ?Open mind Index ?, as they said it. Here this utility can actually help you to calculate your openness for the variety of music.  All you need to enter your last.fm username to generate this graphical statistic given below. For this, of course you need to have a profile on last.fm, those who don?t know what last.fm is, it?s a social music site where you send data of about whatever you listen on your computer. This is done with the help of a small plug-in available for download after you sign up for service.  When you enter the username, your music data (most specifically, top artist of last 12 months) is downloaded from the last.fm site and used for calculation. The following table lists the OMI values and there corresponding description. (Mine is 119) Below 20:        an extremely small bandwidth of tags; a faker or fanatic of an artist 20 - 39:          a small bandwidth of tags; a fan...
More About: Personal , Misc , Mind

Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 Released
2007-11-22 08:25:00
Visual Studio 2008 with .Net 3.5 has been released on November 19, 2007 and available for download at Microsoft ?s Website. It is not an ordinary release with some common updates and extensions. VS2008 comes up with lots of exciting features for developers. Some of the main features are: VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support. ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript Support. VS 2008 Web Designer and CSS Support. Language Improvements and LINQ. Data Access Improvements with LINQ to SQL. Browsing the .NET Framework Library Source using Visual Studio. You can find the detail explanation of above features at ScottGu?s Blog.
More About: News , Visual Studio , Visual , Released

dasBlog Shoutbox Macro Testing
2007-11-18 19:57:00
I?ve finished my first dasblog macro that was created by me. It?s an Ajax enabled Shout -box. Still it is under testing and enhancement. Let me tell you it took me two full weekends to get this done. It was quite a good work behind this. But I am happy that I am seeing it running and working perfectly. Initially, I have added it on my blog (see the right navigation) for testing purpose only. Some of the main features are:- a) XML Database (All entries are stored in XML File. It can be kept under the content directory of blog) b) Ajax Enabled ? No Iframe or refreshing of whole page. Update shoutbox silently and regularly after specified interval. c) Customizable CSS ? I tried to make it very customizable. It can gel with any theme perfectly. d) Support New dasBlog version 2.0 (with Asp.net 2.0) I?d appreciate any feedback, comments or error from you. It will be available for download, once I make necessary changes on the basis of feedback received.
More About: Testing , Macro , Shoutbox

My First Dasblog Theme and Macros
2007-11-16 07:39:00
I have created my first dasblog theme. I am using the same at the time of writing this post. Theme : Geeks This theme contains single style-sheet. You can download it here. Apart, I am creating some macros for dasBlog . Few of them are listed below. LastFm Recent Tracks List - This macro will display the last n tracks played by you. LastFm Top Artist - This macro will display a list of top artists played by you in last few days. dasBlog Shoutbox - A AJAX enabled shout-box for dasblog. This will allow the visitors of your web-blog to directly chat with you.
More About: Macros , Acro

Diwali Greetings to all of you
2007-11-08 14:46:00
H a p p y   D i w a l i May the Festival of Lights - Diwali Dispel Darkness, Ignorance and Evil from the World.
More About: Personal , Misc , Ali G

Error: Failed to access IIS metabase
2007-10-30 18:07:00
If you install IIS after .Net 2.0 or Visual studio 2005, you may receive ?Failed to access IIS metabase? error. To resolve this issue either you need to install .Net framework again after IIS or you can do the following... You can use the aspnet_regiis utility comes with .Net framework 2.0. This is an administrator utility to install or uninstall Asp.Net on local server/machine. To run this utility through command prompt move to C:WindowsMicrosoft.NetFrameworkv2.0.50727 and type (without quotes) ?aspnet_regiis -i ? This will install the ASP.Net and update and upgrade the scriptmaps at the IIS metabase root and in below the root. In certain cases, a particular user account doesn?t have access to IIS metabase. Such condition will result the same error. However, in this case you can simply grant access to user account using? ?aspnet_regiis ?ga (user_account_name)"
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Resolution: Failed to access IIS metabase
2007-10-30 18:07:00
If you install IIS after .Net 2.0 or Visual studio 2005, you may receive ?Failed to access IIS metabase? error. To resolve this issue either you need to install .Net framework again after IIS or you can do the following... You can use the aspnet_regiis utility comes with .Net framework 2.0. This is an administrator utility to install or uninstall Asp.Net on local server/machine. To run this utility through command prompt move to C:WindowsMicrosoft.NetFrameworkv2.0.50727 and type (without quotes) ?aspnet_regiis -i ? This will install the ASP.Net and update and upgrade the scriptmaps at the IIS metabase root and in below the root. In certain cases, a particular user account doesn?t have access to IIS metabase. Such condition will result the same error. However, in this case you can simply grant access to user account using? ?aspnet_regiis ?ga (user_account_name)"
More About: Access , Resolution

My new Intel DG965WH Motherboard with 8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem
2007-10-27 19:04:00
Few weeks ago, I bought new DG965WH (Media series) Intel Motherboard . It?s an ultimate piece when power, performance and media are taken in account. I?m not listing the full specification but you can find them here. The most tempting is its 7.1 Audio Output support. I?ve been using a number of Intel motherboards, i.e. 810e, 845, 945 GNT, 965 RY. I can comfortably say this have the best audio output quality with Dolby Home Theater certification and based on Intel® Viiv? technology. Intel DG965WH Motherboard (Media Series) Yes, one this to note here is that this motherboard doesn?t support Windows 2003 server Ent. Ed. It?s mean some of driver may fail to install with this OS. Like in my case I am not able to install display driver.
More About: Personal , Channel

Info: View State
2007-10-25 12:41:00
Recently, I have joined NIIT Technologies Ltd, New Delhi (http://www.niit-tech.com/). It?s well known around the world for its remarkable software services in Travel and Transport domain. It?s been few weeks since I have joined but no project allocated to me yet. So I decided to brush up my skills and drill down in State Management Techniques in ASP.Net. I have planned to cover it all gradually. I have started with View State, here are some important points about it. View state is state management technique at the page level. (between the round-trips on same aspx page.) Veiw state save the information by serializing it into base64 encoded strings. View state can be saved in another location such as SQL server database by implementing the cusom PageStatePersister class You can save the information in ViewState (is a dictonary containing key/values pair) between page round trips. View state data is first converted in to XML and then encoded using base64 encoding. View Stat...
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Info: How to open a Package
2007-09-17 12:01:00
In .Net Package Class act as a container that holds multiple types of objects in the hierarchical manner. Each object in hierarchy of Package is known as its Part. Essentially, this Class eases the access of a package and its parts in more efficient and useful manner. .Net 3.0 introduced a new assembly named windowsbase.dll which contains the System.IO.Packaging Namespace. This assembly is required for accessing the functionality of Packaging Classes. You may need to reference the assembly in Visual Studio before adding the namespace in your Asp.Net page. The default location is C:Program FilesReference AssembliesMicrosoftFrameworkv3.0 Once reference is added you can use open method of Package class to open a package. Given below is the method to open a XLSX Document using the Package class open method. Public Function Open Package(ByVal XLSXPath As String) As Boolean     Dim oXlPackage As Package     If XLSXPath <> "" Then  &nbs...
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Possible Code Injection Hack on my Site
2007-09-09 17:07:00
Recently, my site is put on warning by the Google. What I mean by put on warning is that when people search my site on Google, result lead to a warning page of Google instead of the targeted page of my site. The warning page of Google said that there is a badware/malware on my site. Google also suggest visiting stopbadware.org for more information. As shown in the pictures below I have been experienced some delay in opening the home page, even sometime my I.E crashed. But I never thought that this could be due to some hack that had already taken over my website. It was only just two days, even before I could go deep into the details of error, When finally I got this mail from Google stating that they have identified my site as that one who distribute malware or badware. Now I found that some hack have happened to my site. It is trying to download some plug-in in background that is off course not from my domain. So I decided to redirect the user of my site to a main...
More About: Personal , Hack , Site , Code , Ossi

dasBlog v2.0 is Released
2007-08-16 06:02:00
Finally, much awaited dasBlog v2.0 is released.  I have been waiting this for a long time. The new version can now be hosted on ASP.Net 2.0 with Medium Trust. (download dasblog v2.0) In the past, dasBlog can be hosted on Asp.Net 2.0 but only with Full Trust. This limitation of dasBlog create hosting issues as most of hosting companies doesn?t allowed .Net applications to run with Full Trust for security sake. Those who have faced this trust problem know what this new version mean (figured out in my previous post.) This release completely supports Asp.Net 2.0.  Now I can integrate those application which I wanted to but couldn?t due to the version incompatibility. Umm, I got some work this weekend. :-)
More About: Technical , Misc , Released , Ease

Asp.Net Shared Folder: App_Code
2007-08-14 21:45:00
Points to remember about APP_CODE Directory Asp.net handles the files in bin and app_code folder in a special way. The compiled classes (dll) placed in bin folder are automatically available to all the pages in application. We don?t need to register the assemblies to use them. Asp.net automatically detects the new version of assembly and start using the new one. Assemblies in the bin folder have application scope. They cannot access the resources outside the current web application. The access levels of assemblies are determined by the trust level specified by the local computer. By default code run in full trust under visual studio development environment. We can store and create as many folder and files (class files) in app_code folder. But Asp.net still compile all in a single assembly. As Asp.net compiles all the code (App_code) in a single assembly, all files must be of same programming language. Ex - App_Code folder cannot contain code in both VB.Net and C#. How...
More About: Fold , Folder

dasBlog Theme Contest
2007-07-23 14:18:00
Ben Scheirman is hosting a dasBlog Theme Contest (http://www.flux88.com/dasBlogThem eContest.aspx). Theme should be original and should be created/developed using valid XHTML and CSS. Winner of contest will get A $100 (US) Amazon Gift Card ! I wanted to update the theme of this blog with a better one. I believe this contest would bring up some original creative work of participants. I hope I would be having best theme for this blog.
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.Net Popular Interview Questions
2007-07-17 17:02:00
This weekend I have added some Technical Interview questions in my site. This part is still in progress. I could have added them much earlier but there was some URL Rewriting problem. Anyway I have published them without using URL Rewrite module. You can checkout that part here - http://www.aakashjain.com/Interview+Quest ions/default.aspx
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Altova XMLSpy supports Open XML
2007-06-15 08:20:00
ALTOVA?s XMLSpy is now supporting working with Open XML Formats ?XMLSpy allows you to extract, edit, transform, and process the XML data stored in Office 2007 files (as well as any other zipped archive). These capabilities allow developers to work with the vast amount of data stored as XML in Word 2007 and Excel 2007 documents with full validation, intelligent entry helpers, and other useful features, and develop XSLT and XQuery transformations to publish the data or utilize it in other applications.? ScreenShots of application: Apart from intelligent editing feature it has functionality to add/delete document directly in the zip document. This is really cool. Download the free version of XMLSpy
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Commonwealth Games 2010, India waiting for better Logo
2007-05-29 06:01:00
Given above is the official logo of Commonwealth Games 2010. New Delhi is waiting with pride to host the Commonwealth Games 2010. Right now, Delhities can see the changes in infrastructure to successfully host the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010. The proposed dates for the Games are 3 - 14 October 2010 inclusive of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. It is only 2nd time when these games are being held in Asia and India is only third developing nation to host the event. Before India, Jamaica (1966) and Malaysia (1998) proudly hosted the games in Asia. This is the time when India could represent itself as a Sporting and cultural nation. Everything seems to be smooth till now. But the above logo disappointed me a bit. It is very simple without any artistic work. I believe this could be more beautiful. A simple text, ?Delhi 2010 Common Wealth Games?, has been written with the CGF (Commonwealth Games Federation) logo with the same old Appu (the lion) we saw in 1982 Asian Games. This s...
More About: Misc , Logo , Bett

Uninstall Windows Vista from Dual Boot.
2007-05-27 16:50:00
If you want to uninstall the windows vista operation system, then you wouldn?t be happy to know that there is no uninstalling option for Windows Vista . Yes, the Windows Vista installation is permanent. You cannot uninstall windows Vista from Add/Remove Programs.  In case of dual boot, most importantly you will have to restore the MBR to what it was before installing Windows Vista. Like in my case, I have windows XP installed on my Desktop PC and I install this Beta Trial version of Windows Vista. (Windows Vista uses different mechanism to boot the system. Earlier OS have been using NLTDR but in the case of Windows Vista it is BOOTMGR.) In any case, if you want to remove the Windows vista from dual boot system, follow the following steps I Performed for the same.  Remember it is not a task for faint hearted. Given below are the steps I performed to remove the Windows Vista from my PC. Boot my computer in to Windows XP. Insert the Windows Vista DVD in the DVD Drive. Go ...
More About: Microsoft , Technical

How to activate the preloaded songs in Nokia N73 ME?
2007-05-24 08:31:00
Here is info about how to activate the songs comes with the Nokia N Series (ME) Mobile phones. I did about 4 hrs of Googling to find it out. To activate the songs in your mobile phone all you need to send a simple SMS message to 5555. In my case (Nokia N73 ME), it is MAESTRO <secret code> Send the above message to 5555. Secret code comes with the pack. You need to scratch the code that is printed on the back of pamphlet which has the list of all preloaded songs. You will receive about 100 notifications from 5555 in your inbox in reply of the above message. They are required for activation of songs. You can delete them without opening. It won?t affect the playback of songs. The message that you need to send can be differ, it depends on the model of your mobile. For some model it is LEGENDS <secret code> You see how easy it was, now groove to the music. :)
More About: Songs , Misc , Load , Activate

Info: Visual Radio and supported Operators and Radio Station in India
2007-05-22 15:32:00
In a normal radio station you can tune in to listen to the music. Whereas, when you tune into the visual enabled radio station you can also interact with the radio station while listening to the broadcasting songs. You will see a visual, interactive channel with more information and opportunities to participate and give feedback. You can see the information about the currently playing song, such as the artist name, title of the song, biographies and pictures of the artist. You can even download the ringtone of the currently playing song instantly. While listening to a Visual Radio enabled FM channel, you can switch the interactive Visual Radio service on or off whenever you want to. You can get updates about upcoming albums and new artist etc and you can submit your feedback and take part in Polls. To connect to the visual radio you need     A Compatible mobile phone (list of phones)     A proper access point to Visual Radio data   &nbs...
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Do you have Panic Button in your Keyboard?
2007-05-04 17:18:00
They said it right. You might not be able to do much with this button but sure it will give you relax feeling in your office :)
More About: Button , Have , Keyboard , Butt , Panic

Microsoft eyeing deal to buy Yahoo
2007-05-04 17:02:00
Microsoft Corp. has stepped up its pursuit of a deal to buy Yahoo Inc., two newspapers reported on Friday, as the two companies reenter talks to strike a deal amid huge growth from rival Google Inc. Full Story I guess its going to be a big leap.
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Another MP made Indian shame
2007-04-20 06:55:00
?The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been caught in an embarrassing situation with a Gujarat MP Babubhai Katara being held for trying to take another woman on his wife?s passport on a flight to Toronto.?  Wow, how proud I am as an Indian to hear this where the MPs are doing such misdeed. Perhaps, I?d never understand why these kinds of politicians keeps India downgrading and shaming every time. He should be kicked out of Parliament as soon as possible. I don?t understand why in a country like India, the largest democracy of World, where people have liberty to elect their leaders and express their views, these kinds of peoples get the white collar job. It?s not the party who is corrupted. More or less each and every party has same issues, ethics and code. It?s the people who made party respectful. Then, how come corrupt peoples/leaders get in those high standards Political Parties? I guess, we all know the answer. People should decide to whom they choose much before thi...
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How to make a Data Relation between two Data Tables
2007-04-08 21:10:00
Ado.Net provides much more than just retrieving and submitting data. We can create in memories representation of tables. This is not limited we can define the Parent and Child relation between those tables. My New article will show how to use Data Relation between two Data Tabl es to show the records on the basis of Master Child relationship.
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Champagne Parachute
2007-03-15 16:53:00
Checkout Cham pagne Para chute, just attach this simple doohickey with the bottle of your champagne every time you want to splash open it. Once it is attached shake the bottle to fire this thingy in the air with the cork. This time it will not hit you nor it result a damn tonked on your head. The cork comes down with the parachute tenderly. Great idea
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Champagne Parachute
2007-03-15 16:53:00
Checkout Cham pagne Para chute, just attach this simple doohickey with the bottle of your champagne every time you want to splash open it. Once it is attached shake the bottle to fire this thingy in the air with the cork. This time it will not hit you nor it result a damn tonked on your head. The cork comes down with the parachute tenderly. Great idea
More About: Chute , Champ

Star Wars Force FX Lightsabers
2007-02-23 11:15:00
This is for those folks who think Star War s is not real.   Now you can be next jedi... Cool!!!
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Star Wars Force FX Lightsabers
2007-02-23 11:15:00
This is for those folks who think Star War s is not real.   Now you can be next jedi... Cool!!!
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