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Been quite busy with the project almost over and swamped with the exit process! Life seems hell…

During the course, I screwed up my laptop and had to have IT reimage it, one of the worst things that happened was, the image they loaded on my lappy had Windows Desktop Search installed – Oh man, it was taking up memory/CPU and slogging my machine. So thought it’d be easy to uninstall it, but hell no – it just wouldn’t go.

So decided to Google on it, but guess what – there are different threads speaking about the same thing and they differ based on the version installed. Mine in question was Windows Desktop Search 4.0

Ideally, it should show up in Add/Remove programs and should be just one click to get it uninstalled but then it would be too easy, wouldn’t it be LOL.

So finally uninstalled it by looking into a lot of other blogs and stuff, so here is what worked.

You need the uninstaller like any other program but which gets installed like a service pack/KB format – pretty much you’re done if you don’t have those folders under the %systemroot% and I didn’t have it.

%systemroot%\$NtUninstallKB917013$\spuninst\spuninst.exe

The above is what we’re looking at which is not present in my machine; Worse still, even if you install it again, it doesn’t create this uninstall path.

So opened the registry using regedit and deleted 2 of the keys.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows XP\SP3\

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\

and delete the key folder KB940157 from there.

Then install Windows Desktop Search 4.0 again from downloading it from Microsoft site. Voila, the uninstall folder is created…

Then just run this “C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB940157$\spuninst”

It’ll uninstall it completely and you are back with your laptop without performance hog.

As much as I like Microsoft products, these folks tend to bring some of these annoyances once it a while – Well, I’m perfectly fine with it considering the useful stuff they make.

It sure did take some of my time.

Remember the guy I mentioned in my first blog entry about this? The guy who took the account first in this branch, has not been using this ATM/Debit Card (By the way the Debit Card still doesn’t work, it is only an ATM card)..

Old Blog Entry – Read this for the background;

So he is into a little more of banking (this time shelling out money, got a home loan). Obviously his SBI account is linked for automatic ECS debit and what happened is this;

The fella (poor) tried to use his ATM Card and had forgotten the PIN for the card by now. So he tried thrice after which it got locked. The hero goes to the bank and asks them to help reset his PIN for which the bank guy goes;

“Sir, you can try it tomorrow, it would get unlocked by then”

“Yeah, but I do not remember the PIN, can it be reset” – the guy goes blank on the thought, how the hell the blocking gets cleared after a day.

The deal is this, after 3 wrong PIN entries – it blocks the card but only for 24 hours.. Wonderful isn’t it? That’z next gen banking…

Bank personnel tells him that ‘the resetting doesn’t work at all (after staring at his monitor)’. Apparently this software also is screwed up, as he says.  So he goes, you try for entering combinations for couple more days and if it still doesn’t work then we’d have to give you a new ATM Card instead of a PIN reset!

Nice stand Mr. Khan. Had you apologized, it’d be re-assuring of another Sri Lankan situation!  If you decide to watch the reaction of Shah Rukh Khan, please wait for the advertisement to be over first please

Be an Indian first folks, then comes the other sensitive states…

Configuring SSG-5 wireless is a breeze really. The only commands needed here are listed as below;

Assuming that your wireless network is your trusted network and you want to have this network use untrust ip address to be used (natted) while going to internet or other networks.

   1: set interface "wireless0/0" zone "Trust"

   2: set interface wireless0/0 ip 192.168.2.1/24

   3: set interface wireless0/0 nat

   4: set interface wireless0/0 ip manageable

   5: set interface wireless0/0 dhcp server service

   6: set interface wireless0/0 dhcp server auto

   7: set interface wireless0/0 dhcp server option gateway 192.168.2.1

   8: set interface wireless0/0 dhcp server option netmask 255.255.255.0

   9: set interface wireless0/0 dhcp server option domainname mycompany.com

  10: set interface wireless0/0 dhcp server option dns1 192.168.20.20

  11: set interface wireless0/0 dhcp server option dns2 192.168.128.50

  12: set interface wireless0/0 dhcp server ip 192.168.2.33 to 192.168.2.126

  13: unset interface wireless0/0 dhcp server config next-server-ip

  14: set ssid WLAN interface wireless0

1 –> sets the interface wireless0/0 in Trust Zone.

2 –> sets the IP address on the wireless interface.

3 –> sets the wireless interface mode to nat.

4 –> sets the wireless interface manageable (ping/ssh/web etc).

5 –> tells the dhcp server service to be ON on wireless interface.

6 to 13 –> sets the different network IP parameters to be used by DHCP Server service.

14 –> defines the SSID to which the users should connect.

Note that this hasn’t specified any wireless encryption part here. This is intended to be a simple post.

Thought of putting down some of the basic things that needs to be done on Juniper Router, may it be M/MX/T/J-series in order for that to be connected and accessible on the network. So if we divide the tasks;

1. The first one is the rack it up, connecting the cables and power it up.

2. Then login to the router using the console port of the router (usually in the front).

3. Juniper Router does provide you the Management interface to be either a specific management port or a general port on it. Wouldn’t go into the details of it

4. Setup the IP address for the Management port.

5. Enable the needed access from network to the box itself.

After these steps, you essentially have the router up and running on the router, on which you can do your necessary configuration. I intend to cover them later across multiple posts.

So now to action; 1 & 2 is fairly straight forward and lets look at 3;

The Management Port is usually “fxp0” on the router – Specific Management Port (Out-Of-Band Management)

Or you can use one of your normal ports like “ge0/0/0” for the Management (In-Band Management).

First part is to assign an IP address to the management port:-

   1: root@PE3-MX480% cli

   2:  

   3: root@PE3-MX480> configure 

   4: [edit]

   5: root@PE3-MX480# set interfaces fxp0 unit 0 family inet address 192.168.1.1/24

   6:  

Enabling Remote Access:- There are different protocols available, mainly SSH/Telnet/HTTP

So to enable these protocols on the management interface; follow this;

   1: set system services ssh

   2:  

   3: set system services ssh root-login allow

   4: set system services ssh protocol-version v1

   5: set system services ssh protocol-version v2

   6:  

   7: set system services telnet

   9:  

  10: set system services web-management http

As you can see, all SSH/Telnet and HTTP access is enabled and also you can see how to enable root login via SSH (By default not allowed).

After you configure all these, you have the access to this box via these protocols from the local network. You can verify it by issuing the command;

root@PE3-MX480> show configuration | display set

OR

root@PE3-MX480> show configuration (this should show the configuration in a C like syntax styled fashion)

“You took my pencil – so I’m not going to talk to you”

“You didn’t give me the eraser and so I’ll not give you my pen”

Sound familiar??? I used to be like that when I was in my KG! Now digest this;

Shiv Sena attacks SRK for comments on Pakistani players

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena hit out at actor and Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan Friday for his comments on Pakistani cricketers with one leader saying he should play his matches in Lahore and another declaring that the star’s films would not be allowed to be screened in Thane.

Attacking Shah Rukh for espousing the cause of Pakistani players who were ignored in the recent Indian Premier League (IPL) auction, Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut said if the actor was so interested in them ‘he could go play his matches in Lahore, not in India’.

‘Pakistan has been blatantly indulging in terror activities and killing our innocent people. Sena is firm in our policy of not allowing Pakistani players on our soil,’ Raut told reporters.

He also reiterated Shiv Sena’s ‘ban’ on Australian players – announced last week by party chief Bal Thackeray – for the ongoing attacks on Indians in Australia.

Taking the issue further, Thane Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde announced that no film of Shah Rukh’s would be screened in the district.

‘Since Shah Rukh Khan has hurt the sentiments of the people by his utterances, we have decided that his films will not exhibited in any cinema or multiplex in entire Thane district,’ said Eknath Shinde.

Shah Rukh’s latest movie ‘My Name Is Khan’ is due for a global release Feb 12.

Shah Rukh had said in Ahmedabad Wednesday that there was need for creating an environment where IPL franchisees could recruit Pakistani players with ease.

He told reporters that but for the fact that his team had exhausted its quota of foreign players by picking up Shane Bond, he would have loved to have Pakistani players in Kolkata Knight Riders.

Source :: {Here}

“Pakistan is involved in terrorist attacks in India – So no Paki-Player on Indian Soil.”

“Abuse of Indians are happening in Australia – So no Aussie can put his foot here in India.”

“Sharukh Khan said; ‘he’d have loved to have Paki-Players in his team – No, Now none of his movies will be screened in Thane…”

What is this folks???

   One of the best part about Microsoft and Cisco are not just the

products but supporting documentation as well, it is vast and a lot of configuration examples with actual configuration samples.

If you want to load something on to a brand new Cisco device, just Google and just Copy&Paste would take care of minimal configuration and just modification would bring it up in minutes.

Unfortunately the problem with Juniper Documentation is that they can’t match that much of the results from other vendors. For example if I have to learn about NSRP knowledge base and if you just type ‘nsrp’ onto Google, you’ll get a max of 3 or 4 search results that are relevant and even if you get it, it’ll be the basic ‘how to configure kind of stuff’. On the other hand, if you use Google’s advanced searching mechanism, you’ll get much better results on the subject you’re searching. For example;

nsrp site:kb.juniper.net

The above search would yield only the results from Juniper KB site and would have a wide variety of information lined up for you to dig on.

While this is the true for all vendor’s documentation, I just wanted to emphasize the usage of ‘kb.juniper.net’ instead of ‘www.juniper.net’, because there is a difference

Today’s news in a Malayalam daily was shocking to me. Kerala as much as it is known by “God’s own country”, “100% literate” statements; another one was “Politically Hyperactive” even the youth. Not everyone was an IIT/IIM dreamer, in fact majority were not and were most interested in understanding/forming a political opinion – which I thought was a great quality to have as a citizen of India. But now seems that about 41% of youth had never participated in Rallies or other;

Youth in Kerala losing interest in social activism:Survey

Thiruvananthapuram: A recent survey by CPI-M’s youth wing, DYFI, has indicated that the youth in Kerala, considered to be a ‘politically hyperactive’ state, seem to be losing interest in social activism.

According to the survey, 41.41 per cent of the youth had never participated in rallies, demonstrations and protests in
their life.

Significantly, those in the 15-20 age group was found most disinterested in joining public life while men and women in
the 21-40 age group were more socially and politically minded.
A total of 1450 young women and men from across the state were interviewed as part of the survey focusing on a host of
issues concerning the youth.

Another one is about farming and Youth don’t feel it as adequate for a living. I think times are changing and often I tend to think of Kerala as it used to be;

When I was a school going guy, this political view is like your birth religion. Everyone who is a Hindu is a Hindu because he was born to Hindu parents That was the situation, if your area is having more of Congress (including your family), you naturally get into the Congress side, I mean that is how I saw it work there.  The same happened to me as well and as and when I got to read a lot about Communism, I was an immediate fan and was an active ‘Chota-Politician’ there. Later there was this dilemma, the things doesn’t seem to match and works like in a Hollywood Movie – A friend’s friend is a friend and an enemy’s enemy is a friend.

1. State level   – In Kerala, both Congress and Communist parties would fight vigorously.

2. Nation level – Both these parties are friends and try to form a volatile government.

So what is the whole point of fighting at State Level – I mean, it is never a healthy fight, but then political fights are never meant to be I guess.

It kinda looked like everyone is just power hungry not for power but to make more money than the most prominent enemy! So for now, I remain with my own and never get into anything, instead of reading some of the great-minds in the form of books written by them or on them.

  For a common man, it is quite easy and possible to save power and use it efficiently. I remember studying a unit of energy saved is a unit of energy created!

  So some of them I do which I never used to care about before are these. Come to think of it, it is not just about saving power but also improve your equipment/utility life greater.

A HEART FELT WISHES

FOR A VERY WARM AND

HAPPENING NEW YEAR

2010

COME TRUE IN THIS YEAR