Windows Block 20% of your bandwidth !! Get it Back !!

Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. M*crosoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here's how to get it back:

Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc" without the "

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:

Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab :

"By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."

So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.
works on XP Pro, and 2000 other OS not tested

Sometimes there are chances internet connection problem. If this occurs revert back to the original settings.. HOPE this helps :)

The Golden Rules to become a Good Netizen -

The internet gives us all a platform to make our voices heard. That's incredibly powerful, but with that power comes responsibility. That's right, like any citizenship, your internet privileges carry with them responsibilities. "But I'm no troll," you say. That's not enough; there's more to being an upstanding citizen of the internet than justnot trolling. Here's how to embrace the responsibilities of your citizenship and become a model internet citizen.

What Is an Internet Citizen?

Being a citizen of the internet, like being a citizen of any state, nation, or even member of a small group, carries with it rights, privileges, and responsibilities. As a user on the internet, most of us enjoy and cherish our rights of self-expression and the free flow of information provided to us. Still, being a citizen of the internet is just as much responsibility as it is a right. We're not entitled to our daily dose of LOLCats or time-wasting YouTube videos, and just because you have better things to do than troll people on Facebook or post flamebait in the comments of the blogs you read doesn't mean you shouldn't give something back to the very thing you take for granted. Here's how you can help make the internet a better place.

Know Your Responsibilities: It's Your Job to Make the Internet a Better Place

The internet gives all of us the power to speak openly, and often under cover of anonymity, but with that power and freedom comes the responsibility to maintain it and make sure that the places we spend time in are the best they can possibly be. Think of it like your civic responsibility: people often say that you have no right to complain about a government unless you exercise your right to vote and change it when you have the opportunity. Real-world political issues aside, the same is true on the internet. There's a lot you can do to make sure the internet stays great:

• Contribute to Your Communities. Just like in the physical world, giving back to your community is a surefire way to make sure that the places you spend time are great places—and that they remain that way. Comment on the articles on your favorite blogs, forums, or communities. Engage them. Agreement is always nice and certainly welcome, but constructive and respectful feedback when you disagree is even better. After all, no one gets better when everyone agrees with them, and no one wants to get better when they're surrounded by trolls. Better still is when you bring you own ideas to the table as part of a bigger, broader discussion. We'll get into this a bit more later, but actually participating with your own opinions, alternatives, and perspectives—even when you agree—is the hallmark of a good internet citizen. When you dislike something on the internet, don't force others to separate your hate from your message—be positive and respectful, even when you disagree. When you disagree, make your points known, share your experiences that lead you to your perspective, and offer alternatives. When you agree or appreciate a piece, share your perspective and why you thought the piece was interesting, and even offer up a few ideas for further exploration or study based on your thoughts.
• Don't Fall for Negativity. The debate over whether the tone of the web is too negative has been going on since the web was born. Don't get sucked into it, and lead by example. If you're feeling jaded and unhappy with the way the comments on your favorite blog go, or the tone of political discussion on your favorite news sites, the best thing you can do is to adjust your own tone and be the change you want to see. (It may be a self-help cliché, but it's also good advice.) When you're confronted with that negativity directed towards you, well, you know what to do.
  
  
• Remember: Behind Every Keyboard Is a Person, a Lot like You. It goes without saying, but the easiest way for the internet to stay a great place—or even become a better place—is for us to remember that before we succumb to keyboard bravery we're dealing with real people, not just letters on a screen. To that end, conduct yourself like you would in real life. It's difficult, and even more difficult when we choose—as is our right in many places—to operate anonymously and privately, but when we do, it's even more important, lest that privacy be taken from us. To that point, try to respect the privacy of others and be forgiving of their mistakes. Not everyone has your experience, your qualifications, or your perspective. Don't be afraid to have your say, forcefully if necessary, but be mindful as well. Corollary: Remember The Golden Rule.
• Familiarize Yourself with Communities Before Engaging. We've mentioned how important it is to get involved and contribute, but your contributions will go farther if you're familiar with the community you want to join first. Get to know their rules; in some cases, it can help to lurk long enough to learn the in-group language and informal dos and don'ts. Remember, you're likely contributing in a private place, so before you complain that you're being "censored" or your "freedom of speech" has been violated, remember which of your rights apply where (namely, that the First Amendment only protects public speech, and comments on a blog or Facebook posts are anything but, even if most sites try to offer their users that same freedom. The more you learn, the more likely it'll be that you'll be able to contribute positively when you do start talking.
• Give Back the Easy Way. Some of the best ways to contribute and give back to the internet community as a whole are the easiest. Consider licensing your content via Creative Commons, embracing an open linking or citation policy, or making your next development project open source. You may already be working on a project that's easily open sourced, even if it's an endeavor you want to make money from at some point. You encourage people to use, credit, remix, and get involved with your work and your projects, and by doing so you give the community a gift that keeps on giving.
• Synthesize and Share Your Own Ideas. We mentioned this when we discussed how to read more conscientiously, but part of reading and absorbing information is using that information to build new ideas. When you're ready to really give back, set up shop and share your own ideas. Get on the other side of the table, and be a content creator instead of a consumer. By doing so, you encourage other creators to keep offering great videos, articles, and other media, and you also have the opportunity to add your own voice and your own ideas to the mix by sharing them with others. You don't have to start a blog to do this, although that's one way. Join a social network, start a Facebook Page, make your Pinterest account public. How you do it is up to you.

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  Be Aware of and Active on Issues that Pertain to the Internet

  FInally, there's one more responsibility that you shouldn't take lightly: make sure you're aware of and active on issues that pertain to the internet. Whether you're campaigning against legislation like SOPA and PIPA, which threaten the internet as we know it, researching ACTA, which many believe is a greater global threat to freedom on the internet than SOPA and PIPA, or you're speaking out in support of privacy advocates and legislation to protect privacy like California's Reader Privacy Act of 2011, it's important to keep your eyes open and stay engaged.

  There are plenty of organizations that work to preserve freedom of speech and expression on the internet and advocate for the privacy of its users, and they're eager to add your voice to their chorus. The internet is an always-changing, always-evolving entity. The real question is whether or not those changes are positive or negative from your perspective, and those changes are due to the will of its users, or the influence of organizations that represent specific interests. There are forces at work that spend their days lobbying governments around the world to mold the internet into a platform that suits their interests. Whether or not those interests align with yours is for you to research and decide.

  
  

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  This list of rules and guidelines to be a model citizen of the internet is by no means exhaustive, and isn't meant to be. Every community has different rules, every platform has different terms of service, and every citizen has their own rights—both real and perceived. The best thing for you to do if you want to be an upstanding citizen is to educate yourself on what rights you have with the services you use, give back as good as you get, be positive and upbeat, remember that the internet is a series of interconnected computer systems—largely manned by human beings, and get involved to protect the internet that you love and rely on every day.

  The internet is like any other community we have in our social life , and it is our duty to work towards improving it

  * The above points have been combined from various ariticles all over the web :)

Fun Way to Block USB

In this post I’m going to show you how we can Disable and Enable USB Port. By blocking the usb port we can control whether user to access the machine or not.

Many schools and colleges have no pen drive rule, for that they are blocking the usb port. This trick will help us to open the blocked usb port.

This is very small and easy code, once the block usb program executed the computer will not recognize any inserted usb drive, but we can reverse it by unblocking the usb port.

This program tested on XP but not sure about vista & windows 7. You can try this program on your own computer, as I have given the unblock code also

Logic of the program
The logic of the program is simple. The 'C' source file block_usb.c writes the DWORD value of 4 (100 in binary) in the registry settings at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR\Start" to 'lock' the USB ports.

Similarly, in the inverse process, the 'C' source file Unblock_usb.c writes the DWORD value of 3 (011 in binary) in the registry settings at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR\Start" to 'unlock' the USB ports.


CODE
To disable usb port

#include
void main()
{
system("reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\USBSTOR \/v Start \/t REG_DWORD \/d 4 \/f");
}

Save this code as block_usb.c and open it with turbo c compiler, after compilation it will create a block_usb.exe which is a simple program that will disable (block) all the USB ports of the computer.


After execution of block_usb.exe insert your pen drive, computer will not detect it. Now here’s the unblock code
To enable usb port

#include
void main()
{
system("reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\USBSTOR \/v Start \/t REG_DWORD \/d 3 \/f");
}

Save this code as unblock_usb.c and compile it with turbo c to get the unblock_usb.exe

Execute the unblock_usb.exe and now the computer detecting your pen drive.

BlackBerry v/s Android

BlackBerry v/s Android

BlackBerry, Android, and iPhones are the three big names in smart phones today. Let's specifically look at Android and BlackBerry.Both the Android OS and BlackBerry OS are considered smart phones but they are vastly different and they cater to different groups of people. Instead of saying which operating system is better, let's take a look at the differences between the two and you can decide for yourself what would you prefer to use.

Android and BlackBerry are both smart phones. What exactly makes a smart phone smart? Smart phones are cell phones that can make calls, text message, email, browse the web, and offer multimedia playback in terms of music and videos. Both Android and BlackBerry can do these things although they do it differently.

Blackberry OS 6

(found in latest Blackberry smartphones)

Pros -

1. The very USP of a Blackberry smartphone is its messaging system. With unified inbox and push-email, it is undeniably the most powerful messaging handheld device in the market.
2. Another major feature that Blackberry users dread missing is the Blackberry Messenger, popularly known as BBM. Of course, today a lot of new cross-platform messaging systems have cropped up (like WhatsApp, LiveProfile and Kik). Yet, none of them has managed to touch the popularity of BBM.
3. As already mentioned earlier, nothing can beat the feel and experience of a set of QWERTY physical keyboard. And RIM has mastered that with elan.
4. Every single Blackberry device supports true multitasking.
5. While you can choose between a couple of data plans for a Blackberry, all of them allow unlimited download/upload of data.
6. Blackberrys are inherently smart and compress all data being transferred to ridiculously minuscule levels. That ensures faster access of data.
7. It is only a Blackberry that allows you to assign separate notification alerts for almost every possible event. And it works for both native and third party applications.
8. One can even customize the notification profiles depending on whether the device is in the holster or not.
9. Thanks to BIS, you can open almost all websites even if they are banned by your ISP, since all traffic gets routed via their servers in Canada.
10. It is possible to cut, copy and paste almost any piece of text across the OS. And the experience is also very painless.

Cons -

1. The App World integration with BB apps is not streamlined. So, even if an app gets upgraded on the main server, your device won’t get the notification for almost a day or two more.
2. The Blackberry phones get almost paralyzed while installing/upgrading applications.
3. No support to purchase apps from the computer unless the phone is already connected via a data cable.
4. Till date, the Blackberry smartphones house the lowest spec of hardware, and the hour glass icon is very common.
5. Memory management system on the Blackberry smartphones is one of the worst, and “battery pull” is a daily affair for almost all the Blackberry owners.
6. RIM hasn’t launched any Blackberry yet that houses a front camera. That means, no video calls.
7. The multimedia capabilities of a Blackberry is hardly a talked about feature.
8. Blackberry OS 6 is still pretty buggy, and OS 6.1 promises to sort out a lot of those issues.
9. If you wish to purchase the same app on multiple Blackberry devices at the same time, you need to buy those apps those many time.

Android v2+

(found in a myriad of smartphones and tablets, like Samsung Galaxy S, Nexus S, Galaxy Tab)

Pros -

1. The ONE advantage of the Android OS that facilitates all the others that follow is the fact that it’s an OpenSoftwareSource .
2. Android devices support true multitasking too.
3. Supports Adobe Flash. However, Flash is still awaited for Android v3, aka HoneyComb.
4. Google apps are tightly integrated and updated most frequently on Android devices. And since most of us have a Google account and use Google products these days, it improves the user experience on an Android device many folds.
5. Applications can be bought via the computer (or any other device) and can be installed over the air on the device.
6. Multiple hardware manufacturers producing even more models of smartphones for the Android platform ensures more choice for the consumers.
7. Android App Market has more free apps than any of the other platforms.
8. The browser of an Android device is as good as the Safari on iOS. And yet, surfing experience is much better on Android OS thanks to the compatibility with Flash.
9. Applications and data can always be backed up on the cloud (Google’s servers). So, an Android device runs out of the box over its lifetime without ever needing to be connected with a computer.
10. Personalization options on an Android device are endless, compared to a Blackberry or a iPhone.

Cons -

1. One major reason for Android owners’ heartbreak is its abysmal battery life. Compared to an iPhone and a Blackberry, an Android phone’s battery life is hardly appreciable.
2. Android apps have no intuitive ways to be killed. While there is an application management page hidden will within the menu structure, it’s hardly intuitive.
3. Again, no unlimited data plan provided by the Indian mobile carriers.
4. It is not possible to organize app icons in categories/folders out of the box.

Well, while the choice of a device and an operating system are solely personal choices and extremely subjective , but there topics will surely help you out . If any point is missing , the comments section is always there .

At the end of the day, Android always felt like a computer trying to become a phone while BlackBerry is a phone trying hard to become a computer.

Smart Search

Tips for Smarter and Efficient Internet Search :

In this post I will tell you a few tips which you will require everytime you need to find any information regarding any topic common or unique . Whenever you are told to search any information for your school project or your personal intrest , where do you go ??

I know - GOOGLE !! Google has now become Metonymic with Searching .

These days, everyone is expected to be up to speed on Internet search techniques . But there are still a few tricks that some users — and even savvy searchers — may not be aware of -

1. Either/or
Google normally searches for pages that contain all the words you type in the search box, but if you want pages that have one term or another (or both), use the OR operator — or use the "|" symbol (pipe symbol) to save you a keystroke. [dumb | little | man]

2. Quotes
If you want to search for an exact phrase, use quotes. ["dumb little man"] will only find that exact phrase. [dumb "little man"] will find pages that contain the word dumb and the exact phrase "little man".

3. Not
If you don’t want a term or phrase, use the "-" symbol. [-dumb little man] will return pages that contain "little" and "man" but that don’t contain "dumb".

4. Similar terms
Use the "~" symbol to return similar terms. [~dumb little man -dumb] will get you pages that contain "funny little man" and "stupid little man" but not "dumb little man".

5. Wildcard
The "*" symbol is a wildcard. This is useful if you’re trying to find the lyrics to a song, but can’t remember the exact lyrics. [can't * me love lyrics] will return the Beatles song you’re looking for. It’s also useful for finding stuff only in certain domains, such as
educational information: ["dumb little man" research *.edu].

6. Advanced search
If you can’t remember any of these operators, you can always use Google’s advanced search.

Definitions
Use the "define:" operator to get a quick definition. [define:dumb] will give you a whole host of definitions from different sources, with links.

7. Calculator
One of the handiest uses of Google, type in a quick calculation in the search box and get an answer. It’s faster than calling up your computer’s calculator in most cases. Use the +, -, *, / symbols and parentheses to do a simple equation.

8. Numrange
This little-known feature searches for a range of numbers. For example, ["best books 2002..2007] will return lists of best books for each of the years from 2002 to 2007 (note the two periods between the two numbers).

9. Site-specific
Use the "site:" operator to search only within a certain website. [site:dumblittleman.com leo] will search for the term "leo" only within this blog.

10. Backlinks
The "link:" operator will find pages that link to a specific URL. You can use this not only for a main URL but even to a specific page. Not all links to an URL are listed, however.

11. Vertical search
Instead of searching for a term across all pages on the web, search within a specialized field. Google has a number of specific searches, allowing you to search within blogs, news, books, and much more:

• Blog Search
• Book Search
• Scholar
• Catalogs
• Code Search
• Directory
• Finance
• Images
• Local/Maps
• News
• Patent Search
• Product Search
• Video

12. Movies
Use the "movie:" operator to search for a movie title along with either a zip code or U.S. city and state to get a list of movie theaters in the area and show times.

13. Music
The "music:" operator returns content related to music only.

14. Unit converter
Use Google for a quick conversion, from yards to meters for example, or different currency: [12 meters in yards]

15. File types
If you just want to search for .PDF files, or Word documents, or Excel spreadsheets, for example, use the "filetype:" operator.

16. Location of term
By default, Google searches for your term throughout a web page. But if you just want it to search certain locations, you can use operators such as "inurl:", "intitle:", "intext:", and "inanchor:". Those search for a term only within the URL, the title,
the body text, and the anchor text (the text used to describe a link).

17. Cached pages
Looking for a version of a page the Google stores on its own servers? This can help with outdated or update pages. Use the "cached:" operator.

With all these tips coming into practice , I don't think you guys will have problem in searching the net. This is going to enhance your speed to peep into the best encyclopedia in the known world :-)