Using Telnet for configuring modem/router and securing your router.

The following are the simple steps that show how you can use telnet to configure your router/modem or to connect to a remote host and how to secure your modem:-For configuring your modem/router:-Open the Command prompt: start->run or (windows key+r), then type cmdNow type telnet "the ip address of your gateway or modem or router". for example...

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JDBC:No suitable driver found error in netbeans

If you encounter the jdbc driver not found error in netbeans in spite of your jdbc code being absolutely flawless and the following type of error appears:-com.mysql.jdbc.DriverNo suitable driver found for jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydbThen the solution that will fix this problem in netbeans is as follows:-First select a project in which this error...

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10 Cool wallpapers for your desktop

This is a collection of wallpapers made by consummate artists and photographers taken from various sources such as deviant art, torrents, etc. To save a wallpaper click on the image and then right click and choose save as. 1. Kingdom of heaven(1680*1050): 2. Never Again to Believe(1000*666): 3. Dark Bliss Wraith(1680*1050): 4....

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Disable the Windows Desktop

Why disable the desktop? The reason is simple, as you install software programs or download files on your desktop, it will become cluttered and you may end up cutting and pasting the files from the desktop into some other folder, this solution is okay but not good as you will have to move the contents from the desktop to some other folder on daily...

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Perfmon:Monitor your system performance

There is an better alternative to monitor the performance of your system than the task-manager, the alternative is the performance monitor(perfmon) . It lets you monitor hundreds of different critical system performance statistics and by knowing their threshold values and comparing them with the peak or average values that you are getting, you can...

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Firefox:The 10 cool addons

Here is a list of 10 cool addons for firefox Personas: This addon provides cool skins that can be changed at a click of the buttton. This is recommended for users that get bored from using the same skin and waste time downloading themes. Adblock plus and its add filters : Annoyed of advertisement content on torrent or other sites, well you don't have to watch those advertisements anymore. Once Adblock plus has been installed along with it's add filter subscription then advertisements are history. It basically prevents the advertisment images from...

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Shutdown Utility/Command in windows

There are times when you are downloading something during the night and want to shutdown the computer after the duration of download, this can be done automatically in software's like utorrent but if you are using web browser based downloads, then to shutdown the pc after a certain specified time limit you can use the shutdown command. Shutdown...

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GG or Garena Client:Configuration for Counter Strike 1.6/CS

GG client or garena client is a gaming client for various games.Important Features:-***** It lists local servers near your location irrespective of the ISP you are using. So it helps in easy detection of low ping servers. This feature is accessible through garena fire. You can join online gaming rooms for the game that you are using. You can play...

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XFire Client -The Client For Gamers

The thing that i like about x-fire and the distinguishing feature from other game clients is that you can download free games and demos of almost every game at one place, so you have the ability to try out the game before buying the original or maybe downloading the pirated one :-)Features :-Ability to download both free games and demos of other games.Automatic...

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Increase page rank of your webpage.

In this tutorial i would be telling you about how can you increase the page rank of your web page.Basic Concepts:a) Historical part :-It is named page rank can you think why?Many people would think it is named so because google ranks the web page according to this criteria so the word page rank should have been derived from this. Well those of you that think that aforementioned reasoning was correct then you are wrong because the name page rank comes from the founder of google "larry page" because he was the one who presented the first paper on...

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Add TextArea in blogger or other platforms

It is easy to add a text area/ code box into your blogger site. You just have to use syntax highlighter and place the scripts and CSS in your dropbox account and then add them into the templates header. With that being said here are the steps in detail. Download syntax highlighter : Syntax Highlighter Extract the zip and place the folders/ files into the dropbox public folder. Go to your blogger account, then edit the templates html to add references to the brush and styles you would like to use. For example if you would like to use the...

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Files to delete to make windows run faster

I have already mentioned in my post windows tools a tool named C-cleaner for this sole purpose. But you can also delete a lot of junk files manually. These are the places you should try to clear out and it is to be noted that not all the files can be deleted. Just open the run prompt (windows key+r) or start-> run prompt and type %temp% to delete the temporary folder contents. Select all the files(ctrl+a) and delete them (Shift+delete). Many people mention to delete the prefetch folder contents but i disagree because the prefetch files...

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Remove Motion Blur in NFSMW

Are you annoyed of motion blur that occurs in Need For Speed Most Wanted when the car goes at higher speeds ?Well if you are then there is a simple solution of removing this annoying feature.This motion blur feature reduces your visibility when driving the car at high speeds.Just follow these steps to remove the motion blur :-Open Run prompt in windows...

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Tree utility windows

What is tree utility? The tree utility in windows xp provides a hierarchical display of files and directories under a current directory. What's the use ? Well one can argue that we can use the dir command with /s switch to print list of all the files and directories under the current directory, well obviously you can use it but the dir command...

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Subst Utility >>Make your folder a drive

What is Subst Utility ? This is a rarely known command line utility that can make a folder to appear as a Drive in windows xp. The Subst utility performs a task that you can’t perform within the Windows GUI i.e it is only a command line utility. What's the use ? It is very useful in case you access a directory a lot that is very deep in hierarchy...

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Windows Startup Message

Do you want to display a custom welcome message or a warning message before you log into windows xp ? .If you want to then this can be accomplished in a very simple way. Just follow these steps :- Open run program prompt (Windows key+r). Type regedit and then press enter. Go to the following regsitry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows...

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Counter Strike 1.6 client rates

Prior to discussing server rates there is one thing of more importance , the thing is that when you play on amx_mod enabled servers you should reset your rates after playing on them because almost all of the servers have oaf admins that will unnecessarily mess up your client rates which will cause both lag and choke. I personally hate amx_mod for it...

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Setting the path variable in windows

What is Path variable? The path is the environment variable that lets you access executable's even if they aren’t in the current directory when working at the command prompt. It basically is like a import statement that tells windows where to find the appropriate command to be executed. How to set the path variable ? For a Single Session:- you...

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Traceroute command/application

what is a traceroute application?To put it in laymen terms it basically traces the route to the host you specify.It will print the addresses of the routers that it encounters between your computer and the destination host. for example in windows if you want to trace the route to let's say www.citibank.com you can type tracert www.citibank.com .What...

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what is a daemon on unix ?

Daemons are programs that continuously listen for other processes. Daemons loosely resemble terminate and stay resident (TSR) programs in the Microsoft platform.These programs remain alive at all times, constantly listening for a particular event. When that event finally occurs, the TSR or Daemon undertakes some action.What is Inetd Daemon in unix ?Inetd daemon is the main daemon that listens for all other networking related processes running on unix system.It listens for connection requests from the void and when it receives a request it starts...

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Verify Blogger or Blogspot site in Google

In this tutorial, i will be explaining about how to verify your blogger site in google.I presume the most obvious question is :-why you should verify your site ? The reason is that verifying your site gets you many extra features like the following:You can view:Query stats about your siteCrawl stats about your sitePage analysis of your siteURLs from your site we were unable to crawl, and why we couldn't crawl themThese are important for your analysis of what kind of visitors come to your site and through what search keywords. One could argue that...

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Wordpress Premium/Professional Themes

This is a collection of premium wordpress themes. The themes are designed by woo themes and certain themes are not paid but are nice so i included them here.The list of themes is as follows :Woo Themes:ambience-devflashnews-devfreshfolio-devfreshnews-devgazette-devgothamnews-dev livewire-dev newspress-dev openair-dev overeasy-devpapercut-devpremiumnews-dev proudfolio-dev thick-devvibrantcms-devOthers:AspireGridlockLeia-EnGothamNightsI personally prefer to use freshnews it has got just the right mix of colors. You would have to slightly modify the...

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Add blog to dmoz

What is dmoz?It's the largest open directory project where you can add your site for free.It takes 2 months for them to accept your request and the inclusion is not guaranteed but still you would want to give it a try to increase visits to your site and to increase your site's visibility.How to add to the dmoz directory ?Just follow these steps:First visit dmoz.orgThen select the appropriate category in which you want your blog to be listed. for example if you have a search engine optimization blog you would want to add it in "Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines"...

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Usb Mount Problem Linux

In case you have a problem in mounting the usb drive in linux and you have tried the conventional mount command and checked the HAL daemon(red hat) but to no avail then it is most likely that 2 drivers for the same device are installed and are interfering with each other.You can always check that what drivers are loaded by using the dmesg command. It is likely that 2 drivers namely uhci_hcd and ehci_hcd both are installed and if that is the case then to get rid of the problem simply remove any one of the modules and usb will mount properly.Type...

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Disable my recent documents menu

Here's a quick fix to disable the recent documents menu from windows xp. Just follow these steps :- Remove caching of recently opened documents in recent documents folder. Open run prompt (winkey+r) Type gpedit.msc (The group policy editor) . Then expand user configuration and select administrative templates. After that select "start-menu and taskbar" The window on the right provides various options that you can enable/disable. In this case scroll down to find "Do not keep history of recently opened documents" and then right click on it and...

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POPD and PUSHD commands

These commands are generally used in .bat i.e batch files but you can use them to navigate your way through windows directories. What are these commands? These commands are just like the commands in a normal stack. Pop pops an item of the stack, in this case this command is POPD(read Pop Directory) pops to the directory you saved earlier using pushd...

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Zombie Mod server (latest)

In this tutorial i explain how to create the zombie mod server in counter strike 1.6.Prerequisites:It absolutely requires the following mods:1.cstrike or czero mods2. Hlds server3.amx modx: It can be downloaded here. After you download it install it the amx mod site has good tutorial on how to install it.The Zombie plague mod 4.2:Download the zombie...

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ESEnTUtl Utility Repair/Defragment/backup

This Windows utility is used to repair the system databases in windows. Windows xp stores the databases with .sdb extension. Databases like SecEdit.sdb (it keeps track of security settings),SysMain.sdb etc can be accessed by using this command line utility. Modes of Operation Defragmentation ESENTUTL /d[options] Recovery ESENTUTL /r [options] Integrity ESENTUTL...

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Usefull Man Page Commands

The man or manual page in linux is used for providing the documentation of the commands in linux There are 8 sections into which man pages are divided. They are as Listed below: Section Description 1 User commands 2 System calls 3 Library functions 4 Special files 5 File formats 6 Games 7 Conventions and miscellany 8 Administration and privileged commandsBut sometimes you don't know which command to execute and for that kind of situation you can use the following commands:1.apropos "keyword": This command prints the command names matching...

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Awp Guide

Awp is the most powerful weapon in Counter Strike 1.6 and a good sniper can wreak havoc for the opposite team that being said it is also very difficult to use and ofcourse you need to be good at secondary weapon like deagle. In the following tutorial i will be explaining about certain commands that will help you while using it followed then by a video made by an experienced awp player 1 nkz.The commands:1. zoom_sensitivity_ratio: Its the sensitivity of the awp when scope of awp is opened.The default value is 1.0 and mostly cs versions now have...

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