.Net Geek: A blog by Aakash Jain

Today is the day when I first visited Central London and also the day when I landed at London Heathrow Airport one month back. It was a strange feeling touching down UK as this is my first time in Great Britain. Here for a business assignment, I received a wonderful experience so far and I am happy having accepted this assignment from my company. Here at workplace in London, there are peoples from about 140 different nations. That’s really excites and never to forget experience to work with so many different people from different culture. Today, In Central London I was able to see Westminster, London Bridge, Parliament and London Eye. I’ve see few monuments here but Big Ben is the one that I really wanted to view in life. One just can't forget the experience of viewing London from London Eye. It is simply spectacular.

Lately I have upgraded my broadband connection from 590 NU (256 kbps) to 749 NU (2 mbps). I presumed that I’ll be able to access podcasts and watch videos available without having waited for buffering. But I am feeling like being cheated after this decision. I have always praise MTNL for their Broadband Services, low downtime and good connection. But this time they have proven me wrong. Though speed is formally upgraded (in my account) but I don’t see my internet speed going up. Here is the result of speed test on internetfrog.com

Download: 214,600 bps
Upload: 90,936 bps
QOS: 96% Quality
Round Trip Time: 2 ms
MaxPause (longest pause recorded during the data download): 141 ms

I have contacted with MTNL Customer support on 1500 regarding this issue. They show confident that it will be corrected within 24 hrs. Heck! It’s been two days now and I don’t know what to do. To make the matter worst they have closed the registration and migration to my previous plan (590 NU - 256k kbps). Great! Now I cannot move back to my previous plan. I can’t believe that I am the only one in this world who is facing this issue. I’m sure there are many other peoples who have migrated to higher plans to get better speed. Do anyone have same experience with MTNL Broadband, I am having?

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.

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.

OMI stands for “Open mind Index”, as they said it. Here this utility can actually help you to calculate your openness for the variety of music.  All you need to enter your last.fm username to generate this graphical statistic given below.

For this, of course you need to have a profile on last.fm, those who don’t know what last.fm is, it’s a social music site where you send data of about whatever you listen on your computer. This is done with the help of a small plug-in available for download after you sign up for service.  When you enter the username, your music data (most specifically, top artist of last 12 months) is downloaded from the last.fm site and used for calculation.

H a p p y   D i w a l i

Recently, my site is put on warning by the Google. What I mean by put on warning is that when people search my site on Google, result lead to a warning page of Google instead of the targeted page of my site. The warning page of Google said that there is a badware/malware on my site. Google also suggest visiting stopbadware.org for more information. As shown in the pictures below

I have been experienced some delay in opening the home page, even sometime my I.E crashed. But I never thought that this could be due to some hack that had already taken over my website. It was only just two days, even before I could go deep into the details of error, When finally I got this mail from Google stating that they have identified my site as that one who distribute malware or badware. Now I found that some hack have happened to my site. It is trying to download some plug-in in background that is off course not from my domain. So I decided to redirect the user of my site to a maintenance page so that I can peep hard into the source code and do the cleaning stuff. Even I have tried deleting all blog entries and comments. But, I got no success finding malicious script/code.  Luckily, I have taken the full backup of my site few days back. So I deleted all current pages and uploaded the backup. It works fine.

Anyway this is the time for me to act fast as traffic of site has taken a plunge. It has gone down by 90%. I fear that Google may drop my pages from its index. This is killing me in frustration. However, I have sorted out the problem but Google yet to do a review on my site. It is necessary to remove that nasty warning message. I have made a Review Request on Google and Stopbadware and keeping my finger crossed. I hope Google and Stopbadware will remove my site from their defaulter list.

Probably, this could be a code insertion hack, some third-party supplied advertising may contain links to badware, or the server hacks may have resulted in the insertion of code onto the site's webpage.

Stopbadware.org published some security tips - http://stopbadware.org/home/security

StopBadware discussion group - http://groups.google.com/group/stopbadware

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

ASP.Net Inverview Question

Vb.net Interview Questions

.Net Framework

• S60 3rd Edition Software on Symbian OS
• It will be available as WCDMA 2100/EGSM850/900/1800/1900 MHz (RM-133) or EGSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz (RM-132).
• MiniSD card – 2GB (Comes with the Pack)
• Email (SMTP, IMAP4, POP3), with attachment support (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, ZIP)
• New Cool 3D Ringtones.
  

Full List of features

There are about a hundred songs comes preloaded in the Memory Card. To listen to them, I need to activate them first using a code. They are in AAC format.  But it is not being connected to the required activation site. I think some problem at server end. I am Just Googling and trying hard to activate them. If anybody has idea please let me know.

[Update - How to activate the songs?]
http://www.aakashjain.com/How+To+Activate+The+Preloaded+Songs+In+Nokia+N73+ME.aspx

Popular five members Hard Rock Band Aerosmith is all set to rock India in the month of June. Aerosmith, with 14 albums to its credit and history goes back to 1964 released their first album in 1973. It has sung some of the most popular power anthems like “I Don't Want To Miss A Thing” from the 1998 blockbuster film Armageddon, as well as Dream On and Crazy.

Aerosmith will perform in Bangalore on 2nd June (Saturday) at Palace Grounds.

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It's a good tool about online music for social music freak to shout out what they are currently listening. http://www.last.fm is an online radio site. You can listen to online music checkout the Charts and what are other people listening to. This might not be a very new idea but what is more tempting to me is that you can show a list of your recent played tracks to your blog or website. That means visitors of your web-log and your friends get updated about your listening habits. You do it by Scrobbling a song played by you on your PC (In my case: winamp and window media player) or online (at last.fm).

Scrobbling a song means that when you listen to it, the name of the song is sent to Last.fm and added to your music profile.

 
You can get a data list feed in the XML/Text/RSS format also. Like
 

• Recent Tracks: 10 recently played tracks
• Recent Weekly Artists: your most recent weekly artist chart
• Recent Weekly Tracks: your most recent weekly track chart
• Top Artists: 50 most played artists from your music profile
• Top Tracks: 50 most played tracks from your music profile

Manu Sharma convicted by Delhi High Court for the murder of Jessica Lall

Now, one can say that there is something good is happening continuously with the Indian law system. We have seen the low of judiciary system for delayed judgments. This news comes as a new hope in this Lawless country. I would say that a country like India requires high punishments and faster trials for the culprits.

Sometimes back I have seen a interview of Ram Jethmalani, He was screaming his guts out for his client, Manu Sharma, stating he is innocent. Down with Jethmalani, not because he lost but he don’t deserve to be a lawyer. In essence, he is what is said to be "Devils Advocate".

I’d appreciate honorable courts of India for their faster trials of high profile criminal cases nowdays.

Read (at IBN LIVE) what is people around the world gotta say about it.

Casino Royale, a new James Bond Movie with a new 007 Agent, Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig did a good job in this flick. This weekend on Sunday, I watched this movie with my friend Amit. Well, the chase scene was ultimate enough to charge you up to head from toe. Though I found some extra emotions in this movie as usually 007 comes with no emotions. Overall it was good.

On contrary, Kabul express was below average, watched it on Saturday with my colleagues.

Everybody is talking about the "Mumbai Spirit". Heck!

It’s not like that soccer match where something called Mumbai-Club defeated.

Over 200 people have been died. I guess it means something.... or might not be caz we people have been used to it.

What are we waiting for? Another shot……….. Huh?

May be I am wrong but something substantial must be done

The Time of Our Lives (Official song for the FIFA WORLD CUP GERMANY 2006)

II Divo with Toni Braxton

There was a dream
Along time a ago
There was a dream
Destined to grow

A(Y) hacerse pasion
Con un fuego abrasar

Un deseo de dar sin fin (harm).
El deseo de ganar

For the lifetime of heartbreakes (harm).
That brought us here today
We'll go all the way

And It feels like we're having the time of our lives
Lets light the fire by the flame (Let there be sunshine let it rain)
Let's come together as one and the same
Cause it feels like we're having the time of our lives
We'll find the glory in the end
For all that we are
For all that we are
For the time of our lives

Hoy es el día
Es la ocasión de triunfar

Para hacer realidad el destino
Que soñábamos conseguir

Una vida de lucha
Nos trajo hasta aquí
Llegaré hasta el final…

It feels like we're having the time of our lives
Juntos, unidos triunfará nuestro deseo de ser el mejor
It feels like we're having the time of our lives
Toca la gloria junto a mí
La hora llegó

de la verdad
El momento llegó…

Y ya nunca jamás lo podré olvidar

Cause It feels like we're having the time of our lives
Juntos, unidos triunfará nuestro deseo de ser el mejor
It feels like we're having the time of our lives
Toca la gloria junto a mí
La hora llegó
La hora llego
We'll find the glory in the end
For all that we are
For the time of our lives

For the time of our lives

nice one

Guys, It's my new computer game for which I have gone crazy. I have played lots of computer games and I am kinda strategy and action game lover.

These both quality can be found in this striking game.
Here is the official site -www.counter-strike.net/

I have gone addidicted to it. Playing 2 hours daily even 4 sometimes. I dont know am I killing terrorist or myself.

And what making me more desperate is this online tournament of counter-strike. Preliminaries are in 53 countries and Grand Final in Paris on June 28/July 2, 2006

Now it's the time to go on killing spree and make a team