A nice video on CNN, featuring little kids asking Obama to save the environment and giving out some suggestions…

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/ireports/2009/01/12/mr.president.environment.cnn

Found a good link for installing php on my system..

http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/wikis/php-tutorial/installing-php-and-mysql.aspx

I will try to post some daily cartoons, which i recieve from a friend of mine every morning in the email…
Calvin  & Hobbes being one of my favorites….here’s the first cartoon…

Calvin & Hobbes

As evident from the title, yesterday I accidently deleted the ’show desktop’ icon from my Quich Launch taskbar.  I tried using the short cut keys ( Windows key + D or Windows key + M )  for a while, but then I kept missing that Icon so I googled it online and found a couple of nice solutions.

1) Right click on an empty space on your desktop.
2) Select New >> Shortcut
3) In the dialog box that appears, browse to select the ‘Desktop’ location.
4) Name the icon

5) Hit Finish
4) Drag the shortcut to your Quick Launch.

However, I found that the icon did not behave as my previous icon. It brings up the Desktop folder in a different Window. My earlier icon used to minimize all the windows and show me the desktop.

The solution below made my new icon work exactly as my old icon.

1) Click Start >> Run >> type notepad >> hit enter
2) Type the following information in the notepad
[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

3) Save the notepad file as Desktop.scf. This should create a desktop shortcut for you.
4) Drag the icon to your Quick Launch bar…

I got the information from the following link…

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?forumID=5&threadID=20280&start=0

Hi all,

Today I was looking for a theme for my personal website. I found this particular site with very nice free templates. It also has a forum and you can put in a request to get a template made as per an idea that you might have…check it out..

Free Website templates

autorun.ini files are one of the easiest way viruses can enter your computer. They can be transferred from your USB stick or from a CD . These files are designed to run automatically when you plug in a USB stick or a CD. Viruses can use this files to infect your computer. So it is a good idea to remove these files from the root of your USB or disable the autorun functionality from your computer. While it has the advantage of protection from virsuses, the only disadvantage is that you will have to run your desired program on the USB/CD manually. Not a heavy price.

Below are the links that proved useful to me…

1)  editing registry information…

link on extratopics.com

2) block autorun all the times…

link on windowssecrets.com

3) Prevent autorun.ini frombeign created automatically on your USB by virus authors.

steps:

a) create a folder named autorun.ini in the root directory of your USB drive.
Once this folder is created, one cannot create any other file with the name autorun.ini.
b) Some virus attacks can delete the folder autorun.ini. So inside the folder create one more folder named con ( you will have to do this through command prompt). One cannot delete a folder named con , except from the command prompt. So now your autorun.ini folder cannot be deleted and hence no new autorun.ini files can be created on your USB root directory. I learned it from the link beow ( I thought I had lost the link )..

link on extratopics.com

Hope this helps…

Hi people,

My name is Bhavik Contractor, and welcome to my blog. I consider myself to be very fortunate to be living in an era, where internet has made life so comfortable. I was just thinking the other day of how difficult it would have been for people in the older days to work on their research subjects. Imagine browsing through hundreds of books in the library, against using GOOGLE and the vast internet database. I for one, am not a big fan of reading from the book. It would have been really difficult for me to finish my thesis and my studies without the ideas, blogs, forums, papers, tutorials, etc, etc posted on the web, and of course GOOGLE has played a big part in helping me find these.

I usually try to save the links of all the ideas that I come across on the internet. These ideas may be helpful to me in my research or fixing some computer issues, or for work related problem. Uptill now I used to save these links as drafts in my gmail account. From now on,  I will try to organize them in the form of blogs so that it can help me to refer them in future, and in the process if it can help others then I will consider myself lucky.