May all dreams in your eyes, all desires in your heart and all hopes in your life blend together to give you the most Happiest New Year-2012

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All you need for this is a Windows 7 or 2008 R2 machine, a USB Flash drive with minimum of 4 GB capacity (Note that all data on this drive will be erased), Windows DVD and privilege to run command prompt in elevated mode.

Note:This post assumes you have only one physical hard disk on your machine and no other USB disks attached

First attach a USB flash drive to your system and if auto run kicks in close all related windows.

Fire up an elevated command prompt, invoke diskpart by typing diskpart at the command prompt and key in below commands one by one

list disk

select disk 1

clean

create partition primary

list partition

select partition 1

active

format quick

assign letter=m

exit

This finishes the USB disk preparation. Now key in the below command to copy the installation files of Windows 7/8/2008/2008R2/Server 8  to the above USB disk. Replace X: in below command with path to Windows installation files on hard drive or DVD drive on your machine

xcopy X:\*.* /s/e/f M:\

When the last command finishes, a bootable USB disk with Windows installation files is ready

You can even create a batch file and automate the process without typing commands one by one. For this just create two files one a batch file with .bat extension and a text file with .txt extension. In my case I have created USBBoot.bat and USBBoot.txt on my E drive

Copy and paste below text to batch file (USBBoot.bat) and save (Note: Replace X: with the path where both the files are kept)

@echo off
DISKPART /s X:\USBBoot.txt
xcopy H:\*.* /s/e/f M:\
pause
exit

Copy and paste below text to .txt file (USBBoot.txt) and save

SELECT DISK 1
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT QUICK
ASSIGN LETTER=M
EXIT

Place both the above files in the same location and now launch the batch file from the elevated command prompt and sit back for the command to complete.

As you can see this process requires no third party tools or utilities and can be used on any Windows 7 and above machines.

Reference

Click here to learn more about diskpart

Click here for diskpart technet page

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Today we will see how to enable ICMP response on Windows machines without disabling firewall.

From Command Line

On Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 run the following command to enable ICMP response without disabling the firewall

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-In)" new enable=yes

If you ever want to disable ICMP response run below command

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-In)" new enable=no

Refer screenshot below for output from both the commands

Using Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Open Windows Firewall with Advanced Security, click on Inbound Rules in the left hand side pane, scroll down and enable rules named File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-IN)

Follow anyone of the 4 methods below to open Windows Firewall with Advanced Settings  management console (Method 4 is fastest of all)

Method 1 – If Control Panel View is set as Small or Large icons

Start –> Control Panel –> Windows Firewall –> Advanced Settings

Method 2 – If Control Panel view is set as Category

Start –> Control Panel –> System and Security –> Windows Firewall –> Advanced Settings

Method 3 – If using Windows Search

Start –> Type Windows Firewall –> Select Windows Firewall with Advanced Security from seach results

Method 4 – Launch directly from Run

Start –> Run –> wf.msc

                OR

Windows + R –> wf.msc

Note

PING acronym for Packet Internet or Inter-Network Groper is used for troubleshooting network related issues and works by sending an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Request to a specified interface on the network and waiting for a reply.

Click here to know more about PING

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We just have to download the free script and unzip VBoxLaunch.exe to VirtualBox install directory usually C:\Programs Files\Oracle\VirtualBox

You may be asked to provide administrator permission to copy the exe to the folder

Click on continue to finish the copy

Now right click on the VBoxLaunch.exe and select Pin to Taskbar and Start Menu

Now Right Clicking the VBoxLaunch icon in the Taskbar will pull up the jumplist of all your VMs inside VirtualBox.

If you have pinned VBoxLaunch to Start Menu you can access VMs and launch from there.

This works on both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows 7. VBoxLauncher is a very handy and must have tool for those running VirtualBox on Windows 7

Note

Download VBoxLaunch from here

Know more about VBoxLaunch here

Click here to know more about Hypervisors

Click here to know more about VirtualBox

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TeleGeopgraphy a research and consulting firm since 1989 based on their Global Bandwidth Research has released an interactive world map with nearly 200 active and planned submarine cables and their landing stations.

Clicking on any cable on the map provides data like its name, length, owners, website if any, year (RFS – Ready For Service) and landing points. Selecting a landing point gives a list of all cables landing at that station.

Click here for the interactive map

List of undersea cables that land in India

1. The Bharat Lanka Cable System

2. Europe India Gateway (EIG)

3. FLAG Europe-Asia (FEA)

4. FLAG FALCON

5. i2i Cable Network (i2icn)

6. IMEWE

7. SAFE

8. SEACOM/Tata TGN-Eurasia

9. Gulf Bridge International Cable System (GBICS)

10. SeaMeWe-3

11. SeaMeWe-4

12. Tata TGN-Tata Indicom

13. WARF Submarine Cable

Reference:

1. http://www.submarinecablemap.com

2. Telegeography’s Global Bandwidth Research Service

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The buttons are self explanatory and use them whenever required for your email.

Download NoReplyAll Outlook Add-In From here which is just 300 KB in size. It is a zip file and when extracted will have 4 files including setup.exe and 1 folder in it.

Double click setup.exe to start the installation

It would ask for confirmation to install the tool and once confirmed it would continue with the installation

When the installation is complete just click close to on the popup.

Now NoReplyAll Addin for your Outlook is ready for use.

Note: This plugin works only with mailing systems that use Microsoft Exchange Server as the backend and will not work for users using web based email like gmail.

In short it is a very handy tool for a Outlook 2007 and 2010 User.

Click here for more info here on the Microsoft Research site.

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Source: http://www.engineerguy.com/videos.htm

Click here for more about Fibre Optic Cable

Click here to know more about Propylene glycol

More on Pulse Code Modulation here

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Below code helps to create a batch file for example InstallSophos.bat using a text editor and can be added to a startup script GPO to install Sophos Antivirus on newly added machines in a domain.

This batch file first checks if Sophos is already installed on a machine for both 32 bit and 64 bit Windows operating systems and installs the AV Agent in the background if not found.

Add Sophos server FQDN or IP address, User ID and respective password inplace of SophosServerNameHere, Domain\UserNameHere and PasswordHere in the below script.

We can even remove all the lines which start with REM as they are just comments which would make this a 5 line script

@ECHO OFF
REM – Check for an existing installation of Sophos Anti-Virus on the system
REM – For 64 Bit Windows
if exist “C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\SavService.exe" goto EOF
REM – For 32 Bit Windows
if exist “C:\Program Files\Sophos\Sophos Anti-Virus\SavService.exe” goto EOF
REM Deploy to Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/2008R2
REM ——————————————————————————————–
REM – Replace SophosServerNameHere with Actual Sophos Anti-Virus Server Name in your Network –
REM – Replace Domain\UserNameHere with Sophos Account ID in your Environment –
REM – Replace PasswordHere with Password of Above Sophos Account –
REM ——————————————————————————————–
\\SophosServerNameHere\SophosUpdate\CIDs\S014\SAVSCFXP\Setup.exe -s \ -user "Domain\UserNameHere" -pwd "PasswordHere" -mng yes
REM — End of the script
:EOF

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Well there’s a much easier way to look for them using command line. If you are running Windows just issue below commands in the command prompt.

For Serial Number

wmic bios get serialnumber

For Manufacturer

wmic csproduct get vendor

For Model

wmic csproduct get name

The above commands make use of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

If you use Linux, a tool called dmidecode comes to the rescue. Just issue below command in terminal with elevated privilege and you would get the necessary details

dmidecode –t system

Use sudo dmidecode –t system on Debian based Linux distros like Ubuntu

Use su dmidecode –t system on RPM based Linux distros like Fedora

dmidecode is available on most of the new distros by default. If it is not available on your system you can install it from the repository or get it from here to compile and install.

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