.Net Geek: A blog by Aakash Jain

SpamPoison is a small but useful utility to fight against spammers. It won’t directly help you in bringing down spam in your blog/Inbox but will stop spammers harvesting information which they can use for sending spam emails. Spammers usually get email addresses with the help of Bots. Bots (also known as wanderers, spiders or crawlers) crawls a web page and continually retrieving linked pages for extracting any email like string and store it in a database. Certainly this database is further used for sending spam emails using mass mailer software. Spam poison identifies these spammer’s crawlers and feed them through an infinite loop of dynamically generated fake email addresses. All you have to do is link back this page so that whenever a spammer's robot scans your page, it will be sucked into this one. To link to this page, just use this simple code:

<a href="http://english-130430879095.spampoison.com">Fight Spam! Click Here!</a>

I bought a new HP Compaq Presario 707TU Notebook few days back. To my surprise there was no driver CD comes with it. I installed Windows XP Professional Edition in it and couldn’t find the driver on HP’s website.  They have only provided the drivers for Windows Vista Operation System. Later, I found that there are so many people having the same issue.
Now the best part is that, today, I got all drivers for it. Thanks to HP Technical help desk. Here are the links to download the drivers. Please remember that these drivers are for window XP OS. You can find the driver for windows Vista on the HP website.

Video driver:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/14388/a08/win2k_xp14311.exe

Chipset driver:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13799/eng/ChipUtil.exe

Intel Pro Wireless:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33404.exe

Now Audio Drivers,
This model of Presario has an audio controller that supports the high definition audio. You need to have Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High Definition Audio installed on the computer before installing the audio driver. Here is the link for the Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture driver that needs to be installed before installing the audio driver:  ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33501-34000/sp33867.exe

After the installation of above drivers install the following drivers
Conexant CX20549-12 High Definition Audio driver:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp36001-36500/sp36090.exe

Here are the installation instructions for installing the above piece of audio driver:
After extracting sp36090.exe, follow these steps

1. Click on Start and select Run. Now type devmgmt.msc and press enter.
2. Right click on "Audio device on High Definition Audio Bus" and click Update driver.
3. Select "Install from a list or specific location"
4. Click Next. Then select "Don't search, I will choose the driver to install"
5. Click Next and then select "Sound, video and game controller" from the list.
6. Click Next and then click Have Disk.
7. Click Browse C:\sp36090 folder and the double click the V32 folder. Select the .inf file, click open and Continue with the onscreen instructions.

Similarly install Modem Drivers given below


We have finished with all the XP drivers that are needed to be installed on your notebook. I believe the above will help you too.

H a p p y   D i w a l i

Finally, much awaited dasBlog v2.0 is released.  I have been waiting this for a long time. The new version can now be hosted on ASP.Net 2.0 with Medium Trust. (download dasblog v2.0)

In the past, dasBlog can be hosted on Asp.Net 2.0 but only with Full Trust. This limitation of dasBlog create hosting issues as most of hosting companies doesn’t allowed .Net applications to run with Full Trust for security sake. Those who have faced this trust problem know what this new version mean (figured out in my previous post.) This release completely supports Asp.Net 2.0.  Now I can integrate those application which I wanted to but couldn’t due to the version incompatibility.

Umm, I got some work this weekend.

Ben Scheirman is hosting a dasBlog Theme Contest(http://www.flux88.com/dasBlogThemeContest.aspx). Theme should be original and should be created/developed using valid XHTML and CSS. Winner of contest will get A $100 (US) Amazon Gift Card !

I wanted to update the theme of this blog with a better one. I believe this contest would bring up some original creative work of participants. I hope I would be having best theme for this blog.

This weekend I have added some Technical Interview questions in my site. This part is still in progress. I could have added them much earlier but there was some URL Rewriting problem. Anyway I have published them without using URL Rewrite module.
You can checkout that part here - .Net Interview Questions

 

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Given above is the official logo of Commonwealth Games 2010.

New Delhi is waiting with pride to host the Commonwealth Games 2010. Right now, Delhities can see the changes in infrastructure to successfully host the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010. The proposed dates for the Games are 3 - 14 October 2010 inclusive of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. It is only 2nd time when these games are being held in Asia and India is only third developing nation to host the event. Before India, Jamaica (1966) and Malaysia (1998) proudly hosted the games in Asia. This is the time when India could represent itself as a Sporting and cultural nation. Everything seems to be smooth till now.

But the above logo disappointed me a bit. It is very simple without any artistic work. I believe this could be more beautiful. A simple text, “Delhi 2010 Common Wealth Games”, has been written with the CGF (Commonwealth Games Federation) logo with the same old Appu (the lion) we saw in 1982 Asian Games. This seems that Indian Olympic association didn’t bear pain to design a good logo. This is quite embarrassing. One can easily guess there was no effort to design this logo. This really doesn’t represent a country like ours. A country like India which is known around the globe for its artistic and cultural products should really bring up some decent logo.

Here is info about how to activate the songs comes with the Nokia N Series (ME) Mobile phones. I did about 4 hrs of Googling to find it out. To activate the songs in your mobile phone all you need to send a simple SMS message to 5555. In my case (Nokia N73 ME), it is

MAESTRO <secret code>

Send the above message to 5555. Secret code comes with the pack. You need to scratch the code that is printed on the back of pamphlet which has the list of all preloaded songs.
You will receive about 100 notifications from 5555 in your inbox in reply of the above message. They are required for activation of songs. You can delete them without opening. It won’t affect the playback of songs.

The message that you need to send can be differ, it depends on the model of your mobile. For some model it is

LEGENDS <secret code>

You see how easy it was, now groove to the music.

In a normal radio station you can tune in to listen to the music. Whereas, when you tune into the visual enabled radio station you can also interact with the radio station while listening to the broadcasting songs. You will see a visual, interactive channel with more information and opportunities to participate and give feedback. You can see the information about the currently playing song, such as the artist name, title of the song, biographies and pictures of the artist. You can even download the ringtone of the currently playing song instantly.

While listening to a Visual Radio enabled FM channel, you can switch the interactive Visual Radio service on or off whenever you want to. You can get updates about upcoming albums and new artist etc and you can submit your feedback and take part in Polls.

To connect to the visual radio you need

•     A Compatible mobile phone (list of phones)
•     A proper access point to Visual Radio data
•     A Visual Radio enabled station where you are

Given below is the list of Supported operators and Radio Station in India.

Operators:

•     Hutchison
•     Airtel

 (You need a working access point to access the Visual Radio. WAP Access Point is the working access point for above listed operators in India.)

Radio Stations – Service Id:

•     Radio Mirchi Kolkata - MIRCHIKOL983
•     Radio Mirchi Delhi - MIRCHIDEL983
•     Radio Mirchi Mumbai - MIRCHIMUM983

(Service ID is required while connecting to the visual radio station with your mobile.)


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Windsor Castle (A Trip to Royal Residence) Permanent link to album

When         : Saturday, May 03, 2008
Where        : Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1NJ

Ok, this trip was a welcome halt to few last long boring week full of work. I wanted to visit some place near by to London to chill out on this long weekend. Yes, Monday is bank holiday, and I have 3 days before I get back to work, juggling with tight deadlines. Windsor Castle is an official residence of The Queen and the largest occupied castle in the world. A Royal home and fortress for over 900 years, the Castle remains a working palace today. William the Conqueror, built this Castle high above the River Thames.

Hi there,
As this is my first post, I was wondering how come i don't know about blogs earlier. May be bacause i was too busy with other hecks, so that i don't get much time. Anyway , Now I will try to maintain this manner. It's good to find a place where you can put your thoughts out of your mind. And what make it special is that you can get the feedback from the rest world.