The Pre-Release Version of Remote Desktop Connection has expired. - Solution

Remote Desktop Connection has Expired (Pre-Release Version)

MICRO$OFT STRIKES AGAIN...
Today, many Remote Desktop users were struck with the following message:

"The Pre-Release Version of Remote Desktop Connection has expired. To download the full version of Remote Desktop Connection, Go to Windows update or contact your system administrator"

This is a result of installing the recently released XP SP3 RC2 from Microsoft. Apparently they packaged the new Remote Desktop Connection in SP3 with an expiration date (assuming 4/7/2008). Thanks so much for the warning Microsoft! This came on as a big Monday morning surprise to many IT pros as well as home server users (WHS).

The fix?
I have seen many posts where people are uninstalling SP3, which works however rather extreme.

As a temporary workaround, you can simply copy the previous version of the following two files into your windows System32 folder. You can copy these files from another pre-SP3 XP machine or simply search your local hard drive and use a previous version which will be in a previous $NtServicePackUninstall$ folder or in the DLLCACHE folder:
mstscax.dll
mstsc.exe

Then execute the mstsc.exe (which is the same exe name as the expired version). This effectively rolls back your Remote Desktop version to the previous version.

why Team India crashed out

Ten reasons why Team India crashed out of ICC -Twenty20 World Cup 2009... Must Read and forward to All The sudden and dramatic exit of Team India from the race for the semi-finals of the ICC World Twenty- 20 Cup 2009 has shocked onlookers and confounded experts. Being the joint favourites along with South Africa for winning the Cup, the defending champions displayed a lack of innovation as also the absence of sheer desperation that resulted in their amazing success in South Africa in 2007 when they lifted the trophy as rank outsiders. The ten main reasons that led to their shocking elimination are - 1) Complacency - There seemed to be an air of 'nothing-can- go-wrong' in the team's approach. They appeared to feel all along that the Cup was rightfully theirs and that no other team had the fire power to gun them down. That they lost to both the West Indies and England, two of the less formidable teams in the draw, indicated a sense of false superiority which did not result in runs on the board or wickets in the bag. 2) Sehwag's unavailability - Despite a star-studded line-up, India had no other batsman who could scare the wits out of the opposition bowlers quite like Virender Sehwag does. Yuvraj Singh is India's batting hero in this version of the game, but the task proved too much even for him, in the absence of the Sultan of Multan, whose shoulder injury cost India dear.. 3) Wrong team selection - India bungled by playing an extra bowler in a batsman oriented format of the game. As a result, there was not enough ammunition in the late middle order to test the opposition seriously enough. Dinesh Karthik should have played instead of Ravinder Jadeja in the match against England.. Yusuf Pathan and Rohit Sharma could have bowled spin along with Yuvraj Singh to fill the breach. Ishant Sharma could have been dropped in favour of Praveen Kumar whose swing bowling was suited to English conditions. RP Singh should have played all the matches, given that he was the highest wicket taker in the IPL, and the in-form bowler in the team! 4) Fielding lapses - In the match against the West Indies especially and also on some other occasions, misfielding hurt India badly. Two clear boundaries went through the legs of the fielders against the Windies, and could have made the difference in a close match. More over, India's field placing was such that the slower fielders in the team found the ball coming towards them on more occasions than did the best fielders. Ishant Sharma and Zaheer Khan were 5) Easy early matches - A factor that Team India could not do anything about, given their top-seeded billing! They had Bangladesh and Ireland for company in their group and found them to be easy meat. But the lack of serious opposition at that stage meant that they had to suddenly up the ante against better teams in the super-league, which they could not manage! 6) Jadeja's dilemma - By pushing green-horn Ravinder Jadeja up the order the team management exposed him to some accurate and hostile bowling from the England pacers in the crucial tie at Lords. Jadeja is a talented player and had claimed two key wickets with his left-arm spin earlier in the match but he appeared to be overawed by the occasion and could not really handle the pressure. In a match that India lost by just 3 runs, Jadeja's 22 off 30 balls was surely a match-losing effort. 7) Short-pitched challenge - The manner in which the West Indian fast bowlers, followed by their English counterparts, tested India's top order with short-pitched bowling was revelatory. Rohit Sharma, Gautam Gambhir and Suresh Raina just could not get going and were tied down and then forced to find ungainly ways of hitting out or getting out while facing the bouncy stuff. India's top order has seldom looked as ruffled as it did in this tournament. Perhaps a realization that the conditions in England are such that they require pure cricketing shots in the first few overs may have done the trick 8) Dhoni was out of sorts - Captain cool, MS Dhoni kept wickets reasonably well, and marshalled his forces to the best of his ability, but his batting was a let down. Even in the match against England when he and Pathan almost chased down the target, he could not really get the big shots going. His bat seemed to have lost its potency, for his shots simply lacked the explosiveness that they are known for. 9) Media trouble - Another factor was surely the off-the-field distraction especially the manner in which the Sehwag issue was dealt with.. The media flayed the present Captain's attitude for the first time ever and the foolhardy attempt at displaying a sense of camaraderie by presenting the whole team at a Press conference was most bizarre. 10) Too much cricket - The current Indian team plays all around the year and big matches obviously lose their aura for the players when so much cricket is played. This was the World Cup after all, but from the look of them, Team India could well have been playing any other international series. Gautam Gambhir, who has been the most prolific scorer in world cricket in the past one year, looked totally jaded, and exemplified the mal-effects of excessive international cricket. Fans of the Indian team are distraught and shocked at their early exit from the ICC World Twenty 20. Let's see if the team can re-group from here and win back our admiration in the coming months..

Diff Ways To Propose....Njoy!!!

* (Walk up behind girl and point fingers shaped like gun into her back)
“You’re under arrest!” (For what?) “For stealing my heart.”
* Hi, my name is Chance, Do I have one?
* Are your legs tired?
(Girl: Why?)
Because you have been running through my mind all day!
* “I lost my phone number, can I borrow yours?”
* Can you give me directions to your heart? I’ve seemed to lose myself in your eyes
* (Take a look at the tag on the girls shirt, jacket, She would say, “What are doing”)
Respond, “Oh, just checking to see if you were made in Heaven.”
* (Pick up a flower and walk over to girl.)
“I was just showing this flower how beautiful you are.”
* Is it hot in here or is it just you?
* Walk up to a guy and say: “Are you from heaven?”
“No” he answers. “Oh, I thought all the angels were from heaven”
* I could be born in your eye, run down your cheek and die on your lips.
* Did you know they changed the alphabet?
They put U and I together.
* Are you lost?
Cause it’s so strange to see an angel so far from heaven.
* Do you believe in love at first sight, or do I have to walk by you again?
* What’s that in your eye? Oh…it’s a sparkle.
* Do you have a map? I just got lost in your eyes.
* You can forget about going to heaven because it’s sin to look that good.

Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.

Let’s Cheer for that Legend!!

Read more at -- > http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/operating-systems/nix/in-depth/index.cfm?articleid=2281

How To Reinstall Windows Without Losing Anything

How To Reinstall Windows Without Losing Anything Here Is Another Possible Solution: easy way and tested:

1- Start WindowsXP
2- Go to the location of your source files
3- Run WINNT32 /unattend
For example, D:\I386\winnt32 /unattend ( copy & paste this command into the RUN box, then press ENTER ) Your computer will do the rest.
Or,
Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.
Copy & paste > D:\I386\winnt32 /unattend
Press Enter.
If you have i386 on your drive, you can replace D: ( if D: is your cd drive ) with the location of it.
I've often need to do this to repair something that had gotten corrupted and didn't want to do a clean install.

D: is the driver letter where your windows XP Cd is
if D:\I386\winnt32 /unattend doesn't work then try : d:\winnt32 /unattend.

 

Happy reinstalling windows…  J

 

 

Best way to survive in the job!!

Great EH!!! :-)

The Invisible man - Get Invisible In Google Talk With Google Talk Labs Edition

We all have missed the great feature to get invisible in GTALK. Unlike other popular messengers like the yahoo messenger, the common version of Gtalk doesnot have the option to enter into invisible mode. Though through Gmail we can remain invisible to our friends and disturb the ;-)

Well, google has released a some what different version to Gtalk called the Gtalk labs edition.

So what are you peeps waiting for?? Click the link here to download it. 

Download Gtalk Labs Edition 

Zoozoo: The new brand 'endorser' for Vodafone

No, they aren't animated characters. They are human beings who were made to wear body suits. "The design of the characters is such that one gets fooled into thinking it is animation," shrugs Rao, which was indeed the very illusion that had to be created. "In a sense, it is 'live' animation!" he quips, referring to the fact that it was all shot live.

Prakash Varma, ad filmmaker, Nirvana Films, has directed the commercials, and reveals that the Zoozoos were a big challenge to create. The practical aspects of how they will move, talk, gesticulate and emote were very important. Essentially, costume design and artwork were crucial elements.

"It took me three weeks of pre-production to understand how it will work," says Varma. There were two fabrics that were considered for the body suits, and one was rejected for it had too many wrinkles and was shiny. The wrinkles would have shown when the characters moved, thereby shattering the illusion of animation. "So we chose the more practical, thicker fabric," Varma explains.

The production team divided the outfit into two parts: the body and the head. The body part of the outfit was stuffed with foam in some places, while the head was attached separately. To make it look bigger than a human head, a harder material called Perspex was used, which in turn was stuffed with foam (with scope for ventilation).

If one wishes to understand the size of this head, here's a fact: a human head would typically reach up to the mouth level of this giant Zoozoo head. "We kept the hands and legs thin, which is why we cast women - and occasionally children - wearing the costumes," says Varma. The thin limbs, contrasted with big bellies and a bulbous head, all add to the illusion that these creatures are 'smaller' than humans. Sets were created to suit the size of the Zoozoos.
Cinematically, this 'size' was a trick: the creatures look smaller than they actually are on screen, to portray a different world of sorts. For this, the speed of shooting was altered: Nirvana shot it in a high-speed format to make them look the size that they do.
Furthermore, simple sets/backdrops were created and spray painted with neutral Greys - a colour of choice so that attention isn't diverted from the main characters. For a supposedly 'outdoor' shot, even the shadow of a Zoozoo was kept 'live' and not done in post production: it was painted in a darker shade of grey on the ground. An even lighting was maintained throughout.
There was virtually no post production work done.
The films were shot by Nirvana in Cape Town, South Africa, with the help of a local production house there, called Platypus. Incidentally, the same combination of people also worked on the 'Happy to Help' series last year. When asked whether Cape Town is fast becoming a tourist spot for Vodafone and Nirvana, Varma laughs, saying, "Oh no! It's just that we are very comfortable with the team there and know what sort of work to expect from them."
Nagpal adds here that the production cost had to be minimal for unveiling such a large number of commercials. "Otherwise, our production costs would exceed media spends," he quips.

The Trusted Second hand Sale

Hi friends..
All might have heard of people starting online ventures..
Some failing while others making fortunes out of it. Inspired from those successful lot I have thought of catching the big fish too. In coordination with two other friends of mine, we have decided to set up this web site facilitating sale of second hand goods among ourself.
The details goes as..

- A place for buying/selling almost anything: Electronic goods, books, computer accessories, household goods, etc.

- The difference here would be that the people allowed to participate would our friends, and friends of friends, forming a network of trusted people, from whom buying second hand/used goods , would be a safe proposition.

- Each person would be connected to everyone, either directly or indirectly, bringing some form of accountability, in case of dissatisfaction of the good sold.

- I'm sure we all have stuff lying around, which we never thought we cud sell, but maybe useful to someone. We could sell it to our direct friends, but with this network, we could target people we didnt know as well.

- Ex: My father has a Reliance Net-Card which he wont be using anymore, coz he's going for a wireless Broadband card. He never thought of selling the old card till i told him. Now imagine how wud i look for someone interested? A perfectly funtional device will be lying waste unless i find someone to buy it.

- Addionally, we would have forums recommending stuff to our friends as well.

But we are still experimental on the idea. I mean we are still not sure if this can make a mark. So we have put up this small survey asking people as to how they feel about it. The link is
http://tinyurl.com/pad-survey
So it would be very appreciable if you guys could please take this survey and provide your useful feedback.
Thanks a ton!!

The Pirates at stake!!

The Pirate Bay, a popular Sweden-based peer-to-peer file sharing network, went on trial in Stockholm. The suit was filed by companies such as Warner Bros., MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony BMG, and several others asking for more than $12 million in damages against four men linked to The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundstrom. The companies claim the $12 million is the sum of revenue lost due to The Pirate Bay’s file sharing system, which allows Internet users all over the world to download movies, music, games, and other forms of popular media for free.

The Pirate Bay claims that since no copyrighted information is stored on its servers, it is not responsible for what material its users exchange. The lawyer for the defense, Per Samuelsson, has said that, “File-sharing services can be used both legally and illegally,” so his clients should not be held directly responsible. The prosecution claims that by financing and administrating the site, the four men facilitated in property right infringement. The case is being billed as a landmark copyright test case by many.

The trial is expected to last for several weeks. The accused could face up to two years in jail if convicted.

Many of us might have used P2P to download stuff sometime later...The real question that stands up is that are these guys really the culprit??I mean, it is up to the people to understand what is illegal and vice versa!Till people do not understand this simple thing, piracy won't stop and shall exist in one form or the other...

oracle Flaskback transactions--- Rollback after commit

If you want to get the older data even after commit in Oracle you can use flashback transaction queries. This can be used by DBAs. By mistake if you have commited incorrectly you can get the previous data.

 

This will be usefull in your daily activity . Anyways be carefull before commiting any transaction. This is just an workaround for worst scenario.

 

http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/appdev.101/b10795/adfns_fl.htm

change background of a folder in Windows XP

 

Step 1- Open up notepad, the native text editor in Windows. Type in the exact line below:

[{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]

Note: The above line contains only zeroes and not the alphabet O.

Specify the picture to use: Now, in the next line we will specify the picture that we want to use as the background for the folder. We will do this by typing the following line:

iconarea_image=C:\My Pictures\picture.bmp

Let me elaborate the above-mentioned process. The image to be used as the folder background is specified through iconarea_image. So you can type in the exact path to any image of your liking after the "=" sign as shown above.

Step 2- Now we will save the contents in a file called desktop.ini in the folder that we are customizing (in this case the folder is C:\myfolder). From the File>Save option save the file as desktop.ini and put the file name in double quotes as shown in the picture below to maintain the .ini extension

Step 3- Now we will have to give the folder system attribute. This can be done very easily through the command prompt. Open up the command prompt through Start>All programs>Accessories>command prompt. Type the following and press enter (remember we are using myfolder as an example, so the path name may vary accordingly for you) :

Attrib +s "C:\myfolder"

Additionally you can hide the desktop.ini file.

That's it, done !! The folder will now display the picture of your choice in the background. 

How to retrieve permanently deleted mail in outlook

1. Go to Run by clicking on Start and type in regedit.



2. Now go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, expand Software.



3. You will find Microsoft there. Expand Microsoft.



4. Expand exchange and then client.



5. You will find Options there. Right click on Options, choose New and click on D Word Value.



6. Now right click the new Dword Value and rename it to DumpsterAlwaysOn.
Note: This is case sensitive.



7. Right click on the DumpsterAlwaysOn and modify the Value data to 1 and click on OK.
When you type 1, this means the Recovery deleted Item is on. Also 0 to turn it off.



8. Now open Outlook and click on Tools.
9. Choose 'Recovery Deleted Items'.

EK GOLI...

Jungle mein ek sher tha Sher bahut harami tha, sexy tha..

wo Jungle ke kisi bhi janwar ko laga deta tha...

Paas ke Gaonwale log darr gaye,sochane lage agar sher aise hi sabko

lagata raha to saare sher hi paida ho jayenge ..

Ek bahut famous shikari the uska naam tha "Ek Goli Shikari"

because wo ek hi goli mein kisi ko bhi maar deta tha...

usko bulaaya gaya sher ke shikar ke liye...

sher ki to fat gayi na bhidu...

sher bhi hoshiyaar ho gaya ...

aakhir ek baar sher shikari ko dikh hi gaya ....

aur shikari ne fire kiya..... "DHAAYAA..."

Sher apani chalaki se bach gaya .... ab to shikari ke paas doosari goli

bhi nahi thi...

shikari ki fat gayi wo sochane laga aaj to sala maar hi dalega...

Lekin nahi sher hansne laga ... ha ha ha ha ha....

sher ne usko bulaaya " idhar aa bhenchod, idhar aa...

shikari gaya ...sher ne bola chal khol ke jhuk ja...

shikari ne waisa hi kiya ...

sher ne shikari ki acchhi tarah bajaayee...

aur shikari ko zinda chod diya...

shikari utha......ma ki,shikari ko bahut bura laga bhenchod sher ne gaand maari

,,,, isase acha to saala meri jaan hi le leta....

shikari ne socha isse to badala loonga hi....

6 mahine baad shikari bahut practice karke wapas aaya... jungle mein sher ko

dhoondhte hue...

sher ko pata laga ki ek goli shikari phir aa gaya hai... to wo bhi shyana ban

gaya .... phir ek din shikari ne sher ko gaaon ke paas hi pakad liya aur goli

chala di... "DHAAAY".....

lekin sher phir bach gaya ...

phir se sher ne saare gaaon walon ke samane shikari ki gaand maari....

shikari ko to laga ki ab khud kushi kar loon....

lekin phir usne socha ab to sher ne gaand maar hi li hai..

to ab to mai sher ko maar ke hi rahoonga...

phir shikari 1 saal baad aisi practic karke aaya ki agar wo aankh band karke bh

i goli maare to nishane pe lage....

phir sher hoshiyaar ho gaya ...

Shikari ne sher ko dekha jaate hue aur uske lund ko nishana bana kar

goli maari...

sher ko bhi usi samay moot aaya tha to usne taang utha di mootane ke liye,.. t

o sher phir bach gaya ...

phir shikari ne socha oh shit aaj bhi gaand maarega....

to sher ke bolane se pahele hi shikari ne kapade utaar diye aur jhuk

gayaa,... Sher hansa ha ha ha ha ha .....

Idhar aa madarchod idhar aa...

shikari dar dar ke gaya ...

sher ne kaha "abe bhosadi ke sach bataa... too yanha shikar karne aata hai ki

gaand marwaane??????????????"