June 21st, 2008
New Wireless router and ADSL Modem Combo
Today I got TP LINK TD-W8910G Wireless ADSL2+ router, actually I only required a Wireless router as I already have 2 ADSL modems available but just to save some space and clutter of powers cables I decided to buy new combo which serves both purposes of ADSL modem and wireless router.
Its setup was easy and very quick; I got it working within a few minutes with my laptop and desktop system. I have not yet tested it thoroughly but both DSL and Wireless are working smoothly, Wireless range covers all the rooms without any significant loss in signal strength. I have also configured the DSL account in its settings so now I don’t have to dial a PPPoE connection every time to connect the ADSL
TP Link has very cheap products as compared to linksys or netgear products but I think that its products are trustworthy and do not lag behind others in any way regarding quality and performance.
the imax | 5:17 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
June 8th, 2008
Hp Compaq 6910p review
I have been using hp Compaq 6910p for about 2 weeks now and have been overall satisfied by the performance of this notebook. It is strong in memory, storage space and processor power with 2GB RAM,, 120 GB hard drive and a 2 GHz core 2 duo intel processor.
I just wish it had a bit bigger display , 14 inches feels too small , apart from this the 6910p does not lag in anything.
The battery is also good and easily lasts about 2.5 hours.
It gives you have many options of connecting and inter networking as it has a dialup modem, lan card, Bluetooth and wireless .
I still have not been able to get the finger print reader working as I keep on getting the message of low quality image, although I don’t use the pointing stick but it was a bit shaky and rubber feel off just after 3 days of use.
If you are thinking about buying this laptop than I would say that it is a good choice , specially if you are just going to use it for business purposes with lots of traveling.
the imax | 9:09 am | Uncategorized | No Comments
June 1st, 2008
vundrop virus and computer is unusable
My bad luck with virus continues and I don’t know from where the vundrop worm creeped into my computer, corrupting my networks connections and making the system extremely slow.
Like always the system restore failed to do any good and after many reboots finally avast was able to run in safe mode and detect one instance of win32 vundrop in memory which had handicapped the windows
I don’t think that this vundrop virus is same as vundo trojan as some people have suggested at various websites because according to Mcafee and Symantec the vundo trojan is an old adware program discovered in 2004 which displays random popup ads but in my case the virus had disabled all the networking connections and even the explorer.exe failed to load many times
the imax | 5:14 pm | Uncategorized | Comments (2)
May 18th, 2008
MSN Skydrive Crap
I was tempted by MSN Skydrive as it promised to offer 5GB of free online storage and sharing for files, It seemed a good deal for backing up important documents and files online but as I signed up for the service I was greeted with the message “Sorry, this service isn’t available yet in your region find out when it will be available in your region, visit the team blog”
Their blog states that plan to include more countries next year.
I wonder why they emailed me with the promotion when they are not even offering it in my country! and when the rapid expansion to their service is also going to take one year
the imax | 4:36 pm | Uncategorized | Comment (1)
May 17th, 2008
Remove BIOS password from HP desktop
I never noticed that there was a BIOS setup password implanted in my HP desktop pc until I tried to enter BIOS to configure an old hard disk.
To remove the password I tried the old trick of removing the CMOS battery cell but that didn’t help, computer lost it time and date but the BIOS password remained there.
However I was able to remove the password by removing the jumper from small pins present near the CMOS cell.
I am not sure if this is a HP specific thing or do the other manufacturer’s also make use of such jumpers
the imax | 8:26 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
May 8th, 2008
cp to copy from Current to previous directory
It took me a couple of minutes to figure out the syntax for command to copy files from the current folder in linux to the directory or folder one level up, so here is it
cp -r . ../
the imax | 10:36 pm | Linux/Unix | No Comments
April 14th, 2008
Network connections hanging at Startup
I have noticed that after every 3-4 reboots my network connections hang after the startup and the system completely stops responding if you try to open the connect-to menu in the Windows start menu
Sometimes it takes 3-4 minutes for the Windows to finally load the network connection icons in the task bar. This wait is really annoying, I wonder what’s the reason for the for specifically the LAN connections to hang ?
the imax | 7:35 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
March 30th, 2008
Data Recovery from Corrupt partition table disk
As I mentioned a few posts ago that I got a new WD 250GB disk, I installed it and everything was working fine until I decided to run Partition Magic , when it started it gave some message that the partition table is corrupt and has been corrected.
And that was the last time that I saw my Windows run , when I reboot I got a bad boot disk message , I decided to do a new installation and the 1st partition of my old 80GB segate disk was appearing as unrecognized partition, so I decided to delete it and with that all the partitions on my segate disk got lost and the whole disk started to appear as unformatted space and I had to do a installation on the 2nd WD Disk
The disk had a lot of very important data and I could not afford to lose all of that.
In windows ‘disk management’ the segate disk was still appearing as a unformatted disk of 80GB and none of its partition was available
While searching for tools that could recover my lost data and partition table I tried many software’s including the ‘partition table doctor’ but all of them failed to give the desired results.
The partition table doctor was extremely slow and took hours to scan the disk and even than it was unable to recover all the data, instead it just kept on recovering the files that I had already deleted myself.
I thought that these disk tools will be able to just rebuild the partition table and recovery as such would not be required but that was not the case.
I had an old disk of Ontrack data recovery available that was about 4 years old , I also gave Ontrack a try and was surprised to see that it was able to recover all of the data from all the partitions ( including FAT and NTFS) and it also worked pretty quickly and completed scanning in minutes, all the time used was that for the copying of data to the healthy disk
I had used Ontrack in past to recover files that I sometimes accidentally deleted but I had no idea that it could also help to recover the whole partitions along with their file structure.
If you have any questions or confusions than do comment and I will try to explain in a better way 
the imax | 10:22 am | Uncategorized | No Comments
March 24th, 2008
Default password for WRT54G
If you have forgot the default password of your linksys WRT54G router than remember that the default password for WRT54G is
user name = not required /give any
password = admin
and the default access IP of WRT54G is 192.168.1.1
the imax | 3:14 am | Uncategorized | No Comments
March 22nd, 2008
Regular Expression to find comments in HTML source code
The below mentioned regex or regular expression can be used to find all the comments lines in HTML source code
\< ![^\>]#\>
If you want to clean up your html from comments than you can use the search and replace feature of variuos text editors that understand regex ( ultraedit recommened) and replace this regex string with an empty one
You can even use this regex in MS Frontpage to remove the commented text