~~Null Pointer Exception~~: 2010

How to Take Ownership of a Item in Vista and Windows 7

Ok friends.. So here goes the reason for this post...
Actually, I was trying to delete a file from Windows 7. My login has 'Administrative' rights. But even then the OS kept on saying that I need SYSTEM rights or I have no rights to delete the stupid file. So, u can imagine how irritating the situation would have been. I mean, in my own PC i was having no control over what files i should keep and which I should delete. Hence I wint out googling for some way. Its then when I stumbled upon this solution. So I thought to share it with u guys as wel...

This method will add Take Ownership to the Context (right click) menu for all folders and files in Vista. The Application files, (EX: EXE, CMD, MSI) will still have Run as administrator in addition to Take Ownership now. When you use Take Ownership on a folder, it will take ownership of all the files and subfolders within that folder to.

EXAMPLE: Before and After Context Menus

STEP ONE
Add or Remove Take Ownership
1. To Add Take Ownership -
A) Click on the download button below to download the
Add_Take_Ownership.reg file.

B) Go to step 3.
2. To Remove Take Ownership -
A) Click on the download button below to download the
Remove_Take_Ownership.reg file.

3. Click on Save, and save the .reg file to the Desktop.

4. Right click on the .reg file (on Desktop) and click on Merge.

5. Click on the Run button in the Security Warning pop-up.

6. Click on Continue (UAC), Yes, and then OK when prompted.

7. When done, you can delete the .reg file (on Desktop).
Tip
Taking ownership only changes the "owner" of the file to be your user account. It does not change the permission level of the file.

After you have taking ownership of the file, you may still need to "Allow" your user account "Full Control" of the file before you will have full permission to access it. See steps 11 to 22 in the tutorial below for how.

Take Ownership of file - Vista Forums

STEP TWO
How to Use Take Ownership
1. Right click on a folder or file.
NOTE: When you use Take Ownership on a folder, it will take ownership of all the files and subfolders within that folder to.

2. Click on Take Ownership. (See Example at top)

3. Click on Continue in the UAC prompt.

4. You will see a command window pop-up and then go away when it's finished. (See example screenshot below)

5. The folder or file has been taken ownership of.
NOTE:
A) You can verify from METHOD TWO step 7 here: How to Take Ownership of a Item in Vista
B) It will have your user name listed as the owner.
Tip
Taking ownership only changes the "owner" of the file to be your user account. It does not change the permission level of the file.

After you have taking ownership of the file, you may still need to "Allow" your user account "Full Control" of the file before you will have full permission to access it. See steps 11 to 22 in the tutorial below for how.

Take Ownership of file - Vista Forums

Source of this great solution: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/112795-context-menu-take-ownership.htmlhttp://www.vistax64.com/attachments/tutorials/19678d1276323719-context-menu-take-ownership-remove_take_ownership.reg

How to Create a bootable USB Drive

If you do not have a floppy disk drive, you may want to create a bootable USB memory key which will allow you to boot into a pure DOS environment. This can be very useful if you want to flash your BIOS. Here is a step by step procedure on how to perform this operation.
NOTE: Your computer must support booting from a USB device in order to boot from the USB Memory Key.
Step 1 - Download and install the Windows based HP USB Disk Format Tool. For your convenience, you can download it fromHERE.
Step 2 - Download the Windows 98 system files from HERE. This is a zip file that contains all of the system files that you will need. Create a new folder and extract these files into the folder that you just created. Make sure that you preserve the directory structure.

Step 3 - Insert the USB Memory Key into the USB port of your computer.

NOTE: Make sure that the lock/unlock switch (if present) is set to the unlock position.

Step 4 - Launch the HP format tool program.

Under the device drop down list, make sure that the USB memory key is selected.

Step 5 - Under the file system drop down list, select FAT32. This is important to do correctly.

Step 6 - Check the box next to Create a DOS startup disk.

Select "using DOS system files located at:

Then click on the square box with 3 dots on it.

Step 7 - Browse to the folder that you extracted the Win98 system files and then click on the OK button.

Step 8 - Now click the Start button.

Step 9 - You will receive a warning message. Make sure you have the USB memory key selected. If you are sure, then click the Yes button.

Step 10 - Your USB memory key is now being formated and the DOS system files will be copied onto it.

Once the program has completed the operation, click on the Close button.

You now have a bootable USB memory key.

On the USB memory key, you will see these files. These are the basic Win98 system files.

If you want to have CDROM support when you boot from your USB memory key, copy these files, including the CDROM folder to the memory key. These files are the ones that you extracted earlier to a folder.

If you copy all of these files to the memory key, you will have mouse support for any DOS program that support this feature.

You will also have many other DOS utilities that are ve

Source: http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS ?

WHY EMPLOYEES LEAVE ORGANISATIONS ?
- Azim Premji, CEO- Wipro

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.

Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office, and the very best technology, even a canteen that served superb food.

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the sharpest it's ever been," he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave ?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding:

If you're losing good people, look to their line managers .... the manager is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he's the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge, experience and contacts with them, straight to the competition.

" People leave managers not companies ," write the authors Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave, but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don't have your heart and soul in the job."

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by being too controlling, too suspicious, too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a trivial issue.

Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn't.

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Aaaram Karo.. Aaram Karo..

Well friends, while profile surfing on Orkut last days I stumbed at this profile of some guy.. The about me had a poem which was so tempting that I could not stop myself from sharing it with you people..
Please read and cherish the humour in it... Cheers!!

Have Breakfast... or...Be Breakfast!

"Have Breakfast… or…Be Breakfast!"
By Y. L. R. MOORTHI

Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?

Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.

Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.

Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).

Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel's parent) are breathing easy you can't be farther from truth.

Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit that Apple's Iphone and Google's Android can make life difficult in future. But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails?

The "Mahabharat" (the great Indian epic battle) is about "what is tomorrow's personal digital device"? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question – "who is my competitor?"

Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says "What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?" The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won't compete on pure audio? "Elementary Watson". So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as "digital."

In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question "who is my competitor for tomorrow?" The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared "internet is a fad!" and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape. The point is not who is today's competitor. Today's competitor is obvious. Tomorrow's is not.

In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no. Remember, if there is one place where Newton's law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC's price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!

India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film's competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour "tamasha" (entertainment). Cricket season might push films out of the market.

Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is "I don't remember!" For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.

One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is "alarm clock." The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called "alarms." What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!

On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.
—Dr. Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.

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POEM POSTED IN INFOSYS BANGALORE PUBLIC FOLDER ON JAN 01, 2010

The pressure was heavy, the schedule was tight,

Slogged like a dog, tested with all might,

Worked through the day, sat late in the night,

But for me, there is no onsite in sight...

She meets me for coffee, she catches up for a bite,

As I write this stupid poem, she is packing for her third long flight,

What did I do wrong, that she did right?

Why for me, there is no onsite in sight...

Want to climb the Eiffel, see Paris from that height,

Want to see the felled Berlin wall sipping beer light,

Want to bet that dollar as I see Vegas by the night,

Unfortunately for me, there is no onsite in sight...

Talked to my boss, with her I had a fight,

But she earns too much to understand my plight,

Now I don't work that hard, I take it light,

Because for me, there is no onsite in sight...

The future is dark, it ain't bright,

Life is routine, office bus I will board and alight,

Stay offshore and test byte by byte,

For me, there is no onsite in sight...

Forgot to mention subject in mail??? - Outlook Tip

Useful if u use “Microsoft Outlook”

Forgot to mention subject in mail???

Very useful precaution, have tried this & its working, please do it in your Outlook too, reading below…

Forgot to mention subject while writing an Official Mail and feel bad later???????

Yes…. It's a concern for all…. A mail without a subject brings a bad impression on us.

To avoid this, just follow the simple steps mentioned below and see the result.

Here are the steps: -

1. Open your Outlook,

2. Press Alt+F11. This opens the Visual Basic Editor and open Project-Project 1 (left side). If this doesn’t open Project-Project 1 then press then Press Ctrl+R.

3. On the Left Pane, one can see "Microsoft Outlook Objects" or "Project1", expand this. Now one can see the "ThisOutLookSession".

4. Double click on "ThisOutLookSession". It will open up a Code Pane on the right hand side.

5. Copy and Paste the following code in the right pane (Code Pane) and save it

Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal Item As Object, Cancel As Boolean)

Dim strSubject As String

strSubject = Item.Subject

If Len(Trim(strSubject)) = 0 Then

Prompt$ = "Subject is Empty. Are you sure you want to send the Mail?"

If MsgBox(Prompt$, vbYesNo + vbQuestion + vbMsgBoxSetForeground, "Check for Subject") = vbNo Then

Cancel = True

End If

End Sub

6. Now whenever you try to send a mail without subject, a pop-up is raised to remind you of the blank subject.

Make your Laptop be an Access Point

Hello Friends,

So as the title states, its true that you can convert your laptop wifi module to act as a access point. So what does this mean??

Well, it means that if you have a wired internet connection and couple of wifi enabled devices in your home then you can create a wireless home network and share internet with all the devices without burdening your pocket by buying a separate wireless router.

Now that sounds great, RITE !!

So, lets get it done...

Below is the link to a video that guides us to convert our laptop as an access point on windows XP, Vista and Mac platforms..

Please make the best out of it.. Cheers !!

And ya, don't forget to share your precious success stories... :-)

Stream video to another PC with VLC Player

Ok, frnds.. though after long break; I am back wid yet another cool thing u peeps can do..

Many a times it has happened that we have wanted to watch the same movie that our friend in the next room is watching. So as a solution we end up borrowing a copy of the same in a pen drive n copying the same on our disk. Well, what we donot have a pen drive or a copying media.

Alas we end up with a sad mood.

well, this wont be the case any more with what I am going to tell you now.

Actually, you have a feature in our favorite VLC Player that allows us to stream a video on the local network. So the solution is that we make one of the PC having the video as the streaming server and other as the receiver. KOOL EH !!

Please, check out the video below that teaches us the way to set it up.. Its really simple and fun.. Do give a try !!

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