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Blog Moved

harjeet — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 23:38:01 +0000

I am going to start blogging at www.harjeetkumar.com so thats where you want to be!

Problems with Windows live messenger signing in behind D-Link Router

harjeet — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:10:02 +0000

I recently bought a DI – 524 d-link router. It was easy to configure and works fine. But I am having two issues with it. The first being that Windows Live messenger just wouldnt sign in. I was getting error code 80048820 & 80048439. Port Forwarding doesnt work. What you need to do is go to your routers settings page. Usually 192.168.0.1 and click on WAN settings. Change the MTU value to 1400 and click ok. Now after the router restarts, it should work fine.

The second issue, which I am still working on is extremely slow speed even though I live in an apartment.. Well more on that later!

Indian ISP’s Block All Blogspot Blogs!

harjeet — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:40:19 +0000

This is outrageous. Airtel and many other poplular ISP’s in India have well beaten China to Censorship. I cannot access ANY, I repeat ANY Blogspot blog. Apparantly this is because of a notice issued by the DoT(Department of Telecom) to the ISP’s to deny access to certain blogs specifically mumbaihelp.blogspot.com. Well Techtree says that this is because ISP’s lack the technology to block single websites and so have to block the entire domain :-O lol again WAT?

Vedic Maths – Multiplication of any number by 11, 12, 13 … 19 the fast and simple way!

harjeet — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:19:17 +0000

I learnt a nifty trick today. It has to do with the age old study of Vedic Maths So here it is: For Example if we have to multiply 943 * 13 (bcd * 1.x) 1. Rewrite the number as 0943 (Add a zero to the beginning of the number to be multiplied) 2. Multiply the last digit (d) with the last digit of the number (x) here we get 3 * 3 = ____9 3. Multiply the second last digit (c) with x and then add the previous digit. Here 4 * 3 = 12 + 3 = 15. Now write 5 and carry 1 forward so the answer becomes ___59 4. Multiply the next digit (b) with x and add the previous digit and the carry. Here 9 * 3 = 27 + 4 = 31 + 1 (Carry) = 32 again carry 3 and write 2 in the answer so we get __259 5. Multiply next digit (0 in this case) with x and add the previous digit and the carry. So we get 0 * 3 = 0 + 9 = 9 + 3 (Carry) = 12. Now we get the final answer which is 12259 Go ahead give it a try with 86926431 * 18

Firefox 1.5.0.X cant copy/paste anything to clipboard – Scroll Wheel not Working

harjeet — Mon, 08 May 2006 18:45:42 +0000

This is really funny.. My Firefox recently self-upgraded to 1.5.0.3. But this problem has been persistant since the first Firefox 1.5.0.1 release. It was really bugging me as I couldn't cut paste anything at all… Here's what seems to work…

1) Close all instances of firefox.

2) Goto c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox

2) Rename firefox.exe to afirefox.exe (or any other name for that matter).

3) Start the renamed executable
Now everything works fine I dont know why they cant fix this at Mozilla??

Ebay Phishing Scam – Looks real – Beware!

harjeet — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:50:10 +0000

I just received one of the best written Phishing scams which probably a lot of users over the internet must be receiving. Beware of this scam, as it takes your username and password and submits it to the scammer, who may then misuse your account. Here is a copy of the mail that I received:

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From: aw-confirms@ebay.com

Subject: eBay Bid Cancelled.

eBay sent this message to (xxxx@gmail.com).
Your registered email address is included to show this message originated from eBay.

Dear eBay Member,The bid that has been entered in error for the item ( 9717606598 ) has been cancelled.

Regards,
eBay

This eBay notice was sent to xxxx@gmail.com from eBay based on your account preferences. Your account is registered on www.ebay.com . As outlined in our User Agreement, eBay will periodically send you information about site changes and enhancements. To unsubscribe from this notice, change your notification preferences

Copyright © 2006 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc.
Please note that it may take up to 10 days to process your request. If you would like to receive this email in text format, change your notification preferences.

Copyright © 2006 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners.
eBay and the eBay logo are trademarks of eBay Inc.

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Looks real? I am sure it does, once you click on the Item Id, you are taken to a page where you have to enter your ebay username and password. Once you enter the username and password, you are eventually transferred to the real ebay site, where once again you will have to put in your username and password, this time its really with ebay…

The website where the information is collected is at this address http://0069dec.netsolhost.com/default.htm

I guess I figured out that this was a scam for the following reasons:

1. The website address in the toolbar is http://0069dec.netsolhost.com/default.htm and not with ebay.com domain

2. Authentic Ebay messages include the real name along with the ebay username in the header part, where this mail mentions the email address only.

Watch out for this scam and similar ones around the net!

Live.com Search

harjeet — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:07:48 +0000

I was using www.live.com to search for my research work and I must say that I was impressed. The interface is really cool. You dont need to change pages, just keep scrolling down, so before you know it you have looked through heaps of information. Chances are that you will find what you are looking for. The image search is also impressive. Nice layout, design and functionality. Lets hope the search becomes as good if not better than google!

Control Freak 2

harjeet — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 20:00:16 +0000

Wow! I just had to write about this cool software. Control freak 2 let me control Winamp. Not only playback but view the playlist, spectrum analyser, media library the works. Allowed me control the browse the desktop sitting a long way from the monitor. All this via bluetooth. And thats not all you can shutdown, reboot or hibernate the comp. So you control your computer via a smarphone! In this case my 6680! Check it out at www.mtvoid.com

Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Install Problems (Msfeeds.dll)

harjeet — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:27:03 +0000

If you happened to download the newly released public beta of IE7. You might have faced install problems regarding msfeeds.dll missing. This is a common problem that is being faced by a lot of users. It took a long time but I finally was able to install it! Heres what works…

1. Close all spyware detection programs. If you have spybot S&D installed and have immunized your system, you may want to tick that option off first.

2. Reboot your computer so that any previously failed installations are removed.

3. Run regedit.exe and expand HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT

Change each the following keys in the way given below:

.hta

htafile

.tif

.tiff

.prf

prffile

a. ON EACH FILE, RIGHT-CLICK ON THE ENTRY IN THE LEFT PANE AND SELECT
“PERMISSIONS”

b. In the Permissions dialog box, select the “administrators” group

c. In the lower pane, check the boxes for “full control” and “read”, then
click the ADVANCED button.

d. From the Advanced Security Settings Dialog box, select “Administrators”
and then click the EDIT button

e. From the Permissions Entry dialog box, check the first item in the list
for “FULL CONTROL”

f. At the bottom of this dialog box, BE SURE TO CHECK THE BOX FOR ‘Apply
these permissions to objects and/or containers within this container only”

4. Reboot your computer

5. Install IE7 and it should work!!

Incase this fails to work then use this solution which is guaranteed to work..(A little more advanced)

1- Download regmon.exe from sysinternals
(http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/regmon.html)
2- Run regmon.exe (the application will start logging a bunch of stuff,
don’t worry about it)
3- Press Ctrl-E (or in the menu, uncheck File->Capture Events) to stop
capturing events.
4- Press Ctrl-L (or in the menu, go to Options->Filter/Highlight) to create
a filter/
5- In the Regmon Filter dialog:
    a- In “Include:” type: “update.exe”
    b- Tick all the checkboxes at the bottom besides “Log Successes”.
    c- Click OK
6- Press Ctrl-E (or in the menu, uncheck File->Capture Events) to start
capturing events.
7- Run iesetup.exe (after having rebooted if you did a prior unsuccessful
install).
8- Regmon should show you what keys are failing
9- Go to Start menu->Run, and launch regedit.exe
10- Select the key that’s failing in the left pane, right-click and select
“Permissions…”
11- Make sure that you have “Full Control” Permissions on that key.
12- Reboot (otherwise you won’t be able to reinstall after a failed
installation)
13- Reinstall IE.

India to be 3rd largest economy in 2006

harjeet — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 15:10:33 +0000

“India is expected to become the world’s third largest economy this year after the United States and China, a leading economist in the US said on Tuesday.

Dr William T Wilson, chief economist for Keystone India, a Chicago-based firm providing cross-border trade facilitation and asset management services in the US and India, said after significant accelerations in economic growth recently, India’s economy is expected to equal or surpass Japan as the world’s third largest sometime in 2006.

“The results of liberalising strategic sectors such as telecom, banking, aviation and real estate are now beginning to show,” Wilson, a former chief economist for Ernst & Young, said.

Wilson said India’s economy measured in PPP (purchasing power parity) terms will eclipse the $4 trillion mark in 2006, making it equal to or greater than Japan’s.

Wilson noted that after growing at 8.5 per cent and 6.9 per cent in 2003 and 2004 respectively, India’s economy is expected to grow 7.8 per cent in 2005-2006 and then decelerate modestly to seven per cent in 2006-2007.”

Isn’t that simply amazing. We are living in times where India’s Shining! I bet this is a good time for most investment bankers and FII’s to enter the Indian Market, incase they already haven’t done so.