Getting wired up with college exams!!

Hello everyone again!!

As a college student, right now I'm having my college examinations going on...to be precise, my exam's gonna start tomorrow (1st Dec, 08) and ends on the 6th of December. Prob'ly i won't be able to update my blog for sometime. I promise to all my readers that I'll be back as soon as I end up shaping my career for this time!!

I'm all set for my examination and the best thing i want to share is about the India tour I'm having this winter. I'll be leaving my campus on 10th December and the tour will last for around 20 days tour visiting across various states of India. I'll be updating my blog about it... and for that time, i think i'm gonna be a bit busy...

Hope u'll be there for more updates at my blog.. :)

Phir Dekhiye (Rock On) - Guitar Chords

Chords used in this song …
Bmaj (24442x)
C#m7 (4242xx)
G#m (444664)
Eadd9 (001222)


Intro Riff
Bmaj x 4

(C#m7) (B)
Aankhon me jiske… Koi to khwaab hai…
(C#m7) (B)
khush hai wohi jo… thoda betaab hai…
    (G#m)      (Eadd9)
zindagi me koi…
    (G#m)     (Eadd9)
aarzoo ki jiye…
                   (F#)
phir dekhiye…

(C#m7) (B)
hothon pe jiske… Koi to geet hai…
(C#m7) (B)
wo haare bhi to… uski hi jeet hai…
(G#m)    (Eadd9)
dil mein jo geet hai…
(G#m)     (Eadd9)
gunguna lijiye…
(F#)
phir dekhiye…


Interlude with piano
Am - C - D - D x 4

(C#m7) (B)
yaadon me jiske… kisi ka naam hai…
(C#m7) (B)
sapno ke jaisi… uski har shaam hai…
      (G#m)    (Eadd9)
koi to ho jise…
    (G#m)      (Eadd9)
apna dil dijiye…
(F#)
phir dekhiye…


       (G#m)        (Eadd9)
khwaab bun ye zara…
       (G#m)        (Eadd9)
geet sun ye zara…
       (G#m)        (Eadd9)
phool chun ye zaraaa…
(B)
phir dekhiye……

How to reset my Joomla administrator password?

Joomla's admin username can be easily changed with a simple MySQL query. The most convenient way to manage the database is through the phpMyAdmin tool. Go to your cPanel and click on phpMyAdmin in the Databases box. (If you are not using cPanel or do not have phpMyAdmin, you can run the query directly for Joomla's database.)

Once in the phpMyAdmin select the Joomla's database from the drop-down menu at left. The page will refresh and the database's tables will be displayed on it. Open the SQL tab (look at the top navigation bar).

In the text field write the following SQL query:

UPDATE `jos_users` SET `password` = MD5( 'new_password' ) WHERE `jos_users`.`username` = "admin" ;

"new_password" - replace this with the new password you wish to use.

"admin" - replace this if your admin username is different.

Once you are ready, click on the GO button to submit the query. If everything goes fine without errors, you should be able to login to Joomla with the new password.

Note: These instructions are valid both for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.0.*.

How to remove protectfile.vbs virus

Yesterday one of my junior was trying to print a few stuffs he bought in his pen drive using my PC. He said he did scanned for viruses (am using AVG) but the scan showed no detection; however i got this protectfile.vbs virus on every drive of my PC. The most annoying thing it did was that, your CD or DVD drive will be ejected by itself. Whenever you try to open any of your drive by double clicking on it, a new window will be opened instead of the same window. This is quite an annoying thing (if you are using linux with default settings, you perhaps know about this!!).

The protectfile.vbs virus makes hidden, read-only multiple copies of itself in all the drives which are difficult to be detected. It can’t be deleted or renamed without disabling its “read-only” property. And lastly when we try to delete any one of the multiple copies, it uses an autorun.inf (executed automatically by windows) file to recreate itself from its copies in other drives.

So i tried googling for its remedy. I did found out a lot of ways to remove the virus but none was quite effective. I looked for the methods at thinkingpal, yahoo answers and the potpourri4u blog. By "effective", i meant,  u don't want to download stuffs to remove that file but you do want to remove it... better it be that u be able to remove it with minimum efforts!! So, here's the best method i can provide you to remove the virus. All the steps are similar to wat's available, but the important thing is that, many bloggers failed to mention step 5 (coz they perhaps never tried, but just COPY-PASTED these steps) which is a MUST:

1) Press Ctrl+Alt+Del (Task Manager)

2) In the Processes tab , Kill the processes : explorer and wscript.exe (if available)

3) Go to File> new task

4) Go to command Prompt (Enter cmd in Run) 

Go to the drive c:\

Type del /f/q/a protectfile.vbs

and del /f/q/a autorun.inf

Go to c:\windows\system32

and enter del /f/q/a secureguard.vbs

5) Now delete protectfile.vbs and autorun.inf by going manually to the root of each drive (use windows explorer tree form, do not double click on the drive icons)

If you don't see the file, go to folder options, select the view tab, uncheck the hide protected operating system files button then check the show hidden file button. Click apply and then OK.

6) Goto regedit (enter regedit in Run) and search for protectfile.vbs and delete all entries with this name.

7) Now search for the secureguard.vbs and modify it as in the path del only "c:\windows\system32\secureguard.vbs" and let the other part of the path be as it is.

8) Restart your system

A more simpler option maybe found at dirtycraft blog.

I hope that does it... and i'm sure, no pop ups will be shown at each restart of your PC!!

Internship Programs @ Microsoft Research

Internship Application - Instructions

You must complete all pages of the application and confirm the details you have submitted in order for your application to be considered. Upon completion of the application you will be sent a confirmation email message. After the confirmation email, you will only be contacted about the status of your application if a research group is interested in considering you for an internship. 

Please assist us in processing your application efficiently by making sure you fill out the application correctly. Before applying, please be aware that the following pieces of information are required. You will need:

• Advisor details including email address.
• The name and email address of at least one person other than your advisor to provide a letter of reference.
• Your preferred start and end dates, with second choices.
• Your preferred lab and research areas, with second choices.
• CV / Resume in PDF, Word Doc or Text file.

Please be aware that if you do not complete the application fully your record will be marked as incomplete and your application will not be considered. 

Please carefully review the information you enter on each page before clicking the "Continue" button. 

Once your application is submitted the only way to change any of the details you submit will be to contactinternts@microsoft.com. 

Other Notes: 

Internships in the US are typically 12 weeks long. Internship length varies at our international labs but is typically from 12 weeks to one year. 

You only need to complete one internship application to be considered for positions at multiple labs. 

We will keep your application on file for one year from the date of entry. 

Items marked with "*" are required. 

Questions? Please read the Internship FAQ. 

Internship Application Privacy Statement

Send any technical support questions you may have to internts@microsoft.com.

New users will need to create a logon

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Portfolio

Welcome to pTAMz.

Current work I'm taking up is developing KanglaPark.com.

Kanglapark.com is the Manipuri social networking site. An approach to connect the people of Manipur. With the emergence and the unpopularity of sites like manipurfriendfinder.com, there still are works to be done. I hope KanglaPark will get some attention though.

KanglaPark.com is powered by Joomla with Joomunity. Joomunity component is just released as

Beta 2 and there still are some really unwanted bugs and I'm working on correcting the php codes and some errors. As soon as the bugs are free, I'll be releasing KanglaPark.com as the beta version. Let's see how far KanglaPark can go.

KanglaPark: Get Social Icon

The most recent work I've done is developing a website for our college at www.nerist.ac.in. Since I'm not much an expert in the new CSS plateform, the site has some 'looks' problem on Firefox and Chrome; although everything is perfect with IE 5 and above. The site has been launched under Phase 1 as still there are a lot of changes to be made. You'll fing many links still under construction as they are in the process of development. The main server, who originally was hosted my ernet at New Delhi, India was shifted to NERIST E.T. Cell and so, updation can be done in a flash. With usual college stuffs and exams approaching, the next phase is likely to fall next year.

Before this, I've developed the NERIST training ang Placement Website at www.tnpnerist.com. Searching for cheap domain registrar and hosting service was a challenge. However, I made it at the end and I enjoyed developing the site. Currently, around 140 users registered to the site and it is functioning properly.

Here are a few stuffs I've prepared myself: logos, posters and general stuffs I've created over time. I'm sharing those which i've rendered at Coreldraw, Photoshop, Illustrator, and simple MS Paint!!.

Re Designed NERIST Annual Festival Logo (Orginal Design from Deviantart.com)
Sample Poster Design
NERIST Web 2.0 Logo
Plain Ball Point Pen
Custom Banner
Wall Painting (Using Fabric)	CorelDraw
JNVthoks Logo

Joomunity Installation guide

The newly arising Joomla Community Component, Joomunity is the talk of the Joomla world. If you have a Joomla site, i suggest you check out Joomunity. You'll find it more intriguing than the existing structure of the famous Community Builder.

Here, I've provided a step by step instruction to a proper Joomunity installation. I've decided to write this post as i've checked their site, their forum and the installation guide at http://www.joomunity.org, and there seem that a lot of people got confused about the installtion steps, maybe mainly because at the download area, 3 different files are provided while at the installation section, only one file is used. A proper detailed descrition is not provided for the different files; although a very small description, stating the file name, size, author etc. are given. The site's installation guide didn't do much help as many users almost get losts which file is what!! The main reason could be that, the beta versions released till date are almost unstable and there are bugs and incomplete functions and other things to work out and no one can say for sure what should work and the developers are all busy with the works. However, you should check out Joomunity as it's a perfect piece of a Joomla site.

The first thing you should do before installation is to make sure you've the right version of php, MySQL etc. Check the screengrab to see the right version.

Here, with my skills and knowledge, I've learnt how to install the beta 2 properly...elimination one major error making your Joomunity installation working. Just follow the steps:

1) Download the V4 com installer from www.joomunity.org (Click com_joomunity-installer.zip to download) and then install it from the Joomla back end as a standard Joomla component.

2) Now go to the Components and use one of the mirror sites given to install Joomunity or to install manually, download joomunity.zip from joomunity.zip and then, as seen in the picture, chose the path to the file in your PC. Voila you're done installing. (Read till the end, there's one more thing to be done...)

You may be confused about the other 2 files, joomunity_11217.zip (2.96 MB) and joomunity_11218.zip (2.96 MB). Many people find it confusing. The file joomunity_11217.zip is the old beta 1 [ensemble] version, while joomunity_11218.zip is the new version also mainly used for installation using the old version of com_joomunity-installer. If you are making a fresh install, which is the best thing to be done, you should download V4 com installer and install joomunity following the steps above.

One important things is that, most probably, while going to your "Edit profile" link, you may encounter an error as below:

Fatal error: Call to a member function model_contact_view() on a non-object in www/components/com_joomunity/applications/Profile/profile.php on line 90

Edit your component/com_joomunity/applications/Profile/profile.php file commenting line 89 to 92. Below is the code section

$cmodel = $this->joomunity->get_instance("contacts", "model");

$c = $cmodel->model_contact_view($id);

unset($this->joomunity->contacts);

$tabHTML->add_tab(JText::_("JOOMCONTACTTABTITLE"), null, $c);

Or one other method is, just replace the above profile.php file with the old profile.php file from the old beta 1 version of Joomunity.

I guess your Joomunity installation must be working by now. Enjoy being social!!