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Took an year to own an LCD of the model and size I wanted. It is a 42 inch LG80FR, a classic piece, you’d know if you look at the spec

One of the most annoying things and has become a part of my life is, I never leave work at work. If I’m home, then I’ll be again online doing stuff even on days when there aren’t any emergencies.

It just has gotten into me and am loosing family time! So today after the big release of a product that I manage, I thought of browsing about it and see how others see/tackle this problem and found out this Dumb Little Man site; Couple of points from there, I’m going to try out

Well, it may not work out for me but at the least I can be sure that I gave it a try!

• Change your route: What I mean by this is literally "change your route home". If you have a bad or overly stressful day at work, take the long way home. During the first half of your journey home, turn the radio off and think about what you have to accomplish at work and how you will execute. During the second half of the drive, turn on whatever music you like, talk radio, (whatever) and begin the process of thinking about things outside of work. Do not think about work during the entire commute, you must separate before you get home!
• The boss at work does not equal the boss at home: Just because you are an important guy at work doesn’t mean that you get to make demands at home. You have to remember that the people you live with are not paid to take your BS. If you love them, you will treat them better than those that report to you. On the flip side of this, your being an entry-level employee at work doesn’t mean that at home you can get the "power trip" your ego begs for.
• Vent: Venting is the art of blowing your lid and we all do it. Once you get home after work and kiss the kids, give yourself a 15-minute window to let it out. You should set this up in advance with your spouse but leave the time limit at 15 minutes. During that time, they have to simply listen and let you get it out. After that, you must agree that work is over.
• Blackberry/Laptop: Occasionally we all have to work at night or on the weekends. The key here is to set an expectation when honestly important projects arise. If you really don’t need to work, keep the electronics off. Don’t login just because you are curious. As we all know you will find reasons to email people or start completing tasks.
• Questions first: When you get home, immediately ask how your spouse’s day went (AND LISTEN). Many times their response is enough to get you to think of family tasks and break you away from work. In addition, you will probably earn some points for engaging them in the conversation. Remember, it’s human nature to want to talk about yourself so resist the urge.
• Survival: Whether you believe it or not, your company will survive without you. It is key to remember this as you choose where to spend time. If it is after hours and you haven’t turned off the blackberry, you have to resist the urge to get involved in something that isn’t really ultra-critical.
• No work, no matter what: This is a tough one but at my house we practice it like a religion. On Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5-10 PM I have sworn not to do work. These nights and times actually have a place in my calendar and I have told co-workers that I am absolutely unavailable no matter what. If I were a CEO making 10 trillion per year perhaps this would change but I am not so…I’m booked.
• 25% Rule: When I plan my days, I leave a minimum of 25% of the time open. This time is used for emergencies, task lists, etc. It is during that time that I accomplish smaller tasks that I would have reserved for off-hours.
• Get up earlier: Don’t be a crybaby about this one. If may sting in the beginning but if you are constantly running out of time, take time from you and not your family. As your family sleeps, you can easily get some stuff done by heading to the office early.

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