MDU Results 2009

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Posted by greatmj on 20 Sep 09 - 0 Comments

Results for MDU declared in September 2009 are available here. If you cannot find your roll number, leave a message.
Presently uploaded are only BE/BTECH results as others are opening easily. Request if you have difficulty for any other course with college name and course

Roll no. 250101-270000:        XLS(Excel) File PDF

270001-290000:                  Excel PDF

290001-330000:                  Excel PDF

330001-360000:                  Excel PDF

360001-389646:                   Excel PDF

Click here to download all the above files compressed in a single file. (~8MB)

Disable Windows Mobile 6.1 Dictionary

Archived in the category: mobiles
Posted by Shadow on 14 Jul 09 - 0 Comments

I recently switched to my WM 6.1 (ASUS p527), it is touch screen and has a keypad too. But messaging was quite difficult. Removing the stylus each time is cumbersome, and windows mobile didn’t let me use the keypad the way symbian based mobiles would let me to. I searched a lot, some said there’s some fix, downloaded various  keyboard layouts, but wasn’t satisfied.
It’s very simple to turn the windows mobile messaging dictionary.

Go to Start>  Settings> Personal> Input.

Set the input method as XT9 and tap on options.

Now uncheck all of them (If u lk 2 typ lk ds [if you like to type like this]).

Now tap done.

And, it’s done!

Simple, no patch needed.

:P

Note: After you do this, it is possible that whenever you start yping a new message, the on-screen keyboard pops up and thus you can only enter numbers using the keypad. And when you hide it and start re-typing the numbers you erased would reappear. There’s a solution for this. Do as I’ve mentioned above and then select keyboard as your input method. This way if you accidently type numbers and erase them, they won’t reappear. :-)

Simple. Works for both XP and Vista(and most probably ancient versions of windows too! :P )

  1. Go to: C:\Windows\System32 (if C is your installation partition)
  2. Open gpedit.msc
  3. Click on User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar
  4. Find the entry that says “Remove Run menu from Start Menu”. Double click it.
  5. Change the value to “Enabled.”

Done! Now you can do the rest of the troubleshooting!

Cannot find msconfig.exe error

Posted by Shadow on 01 Dec 08 - 0 Comments

Well, another common error that we get is this one, “Windows cannot find ‘msconfig’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start button, and then click Search.

First do a complete system scan before you proceed. It might happen that some virus did this thing.

After you’ve scanned your computer, open My computer, Go to your windows folder and hit Ctrl + F. This will open the search pane. There, Click on ‘All files and folders’ and in the ‘All or part of the file name’ field, enter msconfig.exe and hit enter.

Let it search for it. In the meanwhile, open regedit (START>RUN>type Regedit) (Cannot find run command? Click here). Before proceeding, backup first (How to backup your registry).
Now, go back to the search window and look where msconfig.exe is. If you can’t find where the file is, right-click in an empty area of the window>view>details. Note down whatever is written in the ‘In folder’ column.
Again,  go to regedit and navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\

Here, look for MSCONFIG.EXE. If there isn’t a key of that name, right click on App Paths>click New…>key. Name this key MSCONFIG.EXE. If there’s already a key named click MSCONFIG.EXE click it. In the right pane, double click the ‘default’ string and in the dialog box that appears, enter the path to msconfig.exe that you noted down in the value data field, including “msconfig.exe” in it. For example, if msconfig.exe is in the “C:\WINDOWS.0\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\” folder, then enter “C:\WINDOWS.0\pchealth\helpctr\binaries\msconfig.exe” in the Value data field.

How to backup your registry

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Posted by Shadow on 01 Dec 08 - 0 Comments

So, you go to know that there’s something called regedit that lets you change how your operating system works? Well, before you start experimenting, follow these simple steps to backup your registry.

  1. Open Regedit (START>RUN> type REGEDIT.EXE) (Cannot find run command? Click here)
  2. Go to File>Export…
  3. In the dialog box that appears, choose the destination where you want to save the backup files, enter a name that you can understand later.
  4. Click Save.

Yep, that’s it. Now Do whatever you want to do with it.
Amen. May your computer live in peace.

Annoying. Annoying. This error msg: “Task Manager has been disabled by your Administrator.” is truly annoying whenever you try to run the task manager (Shortcut: Press CTRL+ SHIFT + DEL , CTRL + SHIFT + DEL). Well, this happens when:

  1. It truly is disabled by the admin.
  2. Virus

If it’s the second case, just update your anti-virus definitions and do a full computer scan. The error will be rectified.

If it’s the first case, then do the following:

Go to START>RUN> type regedit.exe

(Cannot find run command? Click here)
Hit Enter.

First back up your registry (See: How to Backup your registry) then navigate to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System.  In the right pane, double click DisabelTaskMgr and set the value to 0. Click Ok and restart the computer. This will (re-)enable task manager for all users. If you want to change the setting for one particular user, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System and do the rest of the steps as mentioned above.
That’s it. You’ll now be able to run task manager again.

how to download an ebook for free

Archived in the category: E-books, computer software, downloading, google, web
Posted by Shadow on 24 Nov 08 - 2 Comments

The best method is to search google. Let me tell you how. Most of the free sites, store these book at free hosting sties like rapidshare.com. So, go to google and type this:

download "C++ in 21 days" site:rapidshare.com

or

download "C++ in 21 days" intext:rapidshare.com

Well, the first query gives you links to all the pages on the rapidshare.com which have the words “C++ in 21 days”. The point of inserting the name of the book in “” is that then Google searches for the exacts words. Else, it would skip the word “in” (it hardly matters) AND will randomly search pages where there are the rest of the words (C++, 21, Days). ah, Google.
The second query will give you LINKS to rapidshare.com pages. Links will be on some other site. It may be a blog site or whatever.

Both the methods will yield a bit different results, but am sure you’ll get the books.

Another method other than googling your book is to use torrents. Though using torrents you won’t get full speed (For eg. if you have a 32kBps connection, you’ll get something around 24-28kBps. Nothing more than that.). First, download utorrent (download now size:263kB). Then, go to any torrent downloading site ( mininova.org, btjunkie.org, demonoid.com, etc) and in the search field enter the name of the book you want to download. Read the comments first to make sure the torrent is ok, and has good number of seeders. Download the torrent and open it in utorrent. Let it download the file.

Note: This is meant for educational purposes only.  We do not encourage and/or promote, in any way, the website(s) that host these ebooks. Please buy the original books if you want to read them.

Places to get FREE Ebooks.

Archived in the category: E-books, web
Posted by Shadow on 24 Nov 08 - 0 Comments

I was searching for a book so that i could prepare for my Practical Exam, and well, obviously free E-books. I get the same book online for free which I’d get in hardcopy for some Rs.400-500! Or even more. Nah, don’t wanna spend that much. So here’s a small list of the places from where you can get books for free. No registration required or anything of that sort. Enjoy!

Flazx.com - A very good collection of books is available here. Most of the best selling books are available for free download. Books are uploaded to rapidshare and other file hosting services mainly.

freetechbooks.com - Though never had the need to go to this site, cause flazx has most of the books i need. I stumbled upon this site. If anyone tried/tries it, please comment on how it is.

Wikibooks.org - Of the people, by the people, for the people. People create books here themselves, they edit and they read it. They’ve got plenty of books though. Here’s the complete list of books they have.

Project Gutenberg - Well, this one is mainly for cultural books. I guess. You can get Shakespear books here, etc. etc. Pardon me, I don’t read english novels so i don’t know many authors. You can search here if you need any litarature book.

Google launches voice/video chat INSIDE Gmail

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Posted by Shadow on 12 Nov 08 - 0 Comments

That’s right. Yesterday, Google launched voice and video chat inside the Gmail chat window. Amazing, innit? And getting started is as easy as googling punjrashtra.
Just go here or follow these steps if you are American/technologically challenged (Thanks for the term, Priyanka)

  1. Open your Gmail.
  2. In the chat list, open a chat window for an online contact.
  3. Click the options button in the tiny chat window that appears on the bottom-right corner of the main window. Click on “Add voice/video chat”.
  4. Quite simple from thereon.

On the download page, it says (like all other google products) “It’s free and installs in seconds” and yes it is true because the file to be downloaded is only about 500KB. The setup again downloads some files (automatically) which are about 2 MB I guess, because it didn’t take much time either.

Quite nifty I must say. Good job Google (even though I have a bias against Google for personal reasons ;-) )

Read the official Gmail post about it for more info.

One more thing: this is only available for Windows XP and Vista and Mac OS X as of now. Not working on Linux (I’m on Ubuntu Hardy Heron right now and the page simply says “not supported on linux yet”) All modern browsers supported like Firefox 2.0+, Safari 3.0, IE7, and Google Chrome.

Gtalk Sidebar Gadget for Firefox

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Posted by Shadow on 08 Oct 08 - 0 Comments

Okay, so you thought if you want to be invisible you’ll always have to sign into Gmail? I’ll give you a solution. Bookmark this link in firefox,

http://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/popout

Right click this bookmark, click on properties. Then check ‘Load this bookmark in the Sidebar’.

Go ahead, and log in. Now you CAN be invisible without having to loging in to your gmail account always.

Stumble it!