Unlocking IE toolbar.

Our organization locks IE toolbars and due to this policy we can not open any toolbar attached to IE. I like using Google toolbar a lot and this policy annoyed me like anything. So, I searched in google and talked to co-workers and found an executable file which will unlock IE toolbar so that you can see google toolbar or something similar to it. Offcourse the policy will kickin again and close it but I will re-run the executable. I am not quitting. :)

The tool can be downloaded from:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VW2F9MJS

Enjoy.
Murthy

An Apple in the Bag.

Nice Article.
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A teacher teaching Maths to seven-year-old Arnav asked him, “If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”Within a few seconds Arnav replied confidently, “Four!”

The dismayed teacher was expecting an effortless correct answer (three). She was disappointed. “Maybe the child did not listen properly,” she thought. She repeated, “Arnav, listen carefully. If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”

Arnav had seen the disappointment on his teacher’s face. He calculated again on his fingers. But within him he was also searching for the answer that will make the teacher happy. His search for the answer was not for the correct one, but the one that will make his teacher happy. This time hesitatingly he replied, “Four…”

The disappointment stayed on the teacher’s face. She remembered that Arnav liked strawberries. She thought maybe he doesn’t like apples and that is making him loose focus. This time with an exaggerated excitement and twinkling in her eyes she asked, “If I give you one strawberry and one strawberry and one strawberry, then how many you will have?”

Seeing the teacher happy, young Arnav calculated on his fingers again. There was no pressure on him, but a little on the teacher. She wanted her new approach to succeed. With a hesitating smile young Arnav enquired, “Three?”

The teacher now had a victorious smile. Her approach had succeeded. She wanted to congratulate herself. But one last thing remained. Once again she asked him, “Now if I give you one apple and one apple and one more apple how many will you have?”

Promptly Arnav answered, “Four!”

The teacher was aghast. “How Arnav, how?” she demanded in a little stern and irritated voice.

In a voice that was low and hesitating young Arnav replied, “Because I already have one apple in my bag.”


“When someone gives you an answer that is different from what you expect don't think they are wrong. There maybe an angle that you have not understood at all. You will have to listen and understand, but never listen with a predetermined notion.”

Words That Impact

Nice article.

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One of the staff in a high school found it difficult to stop students running up and down the stairs. She continually told them not to run but it made little difference. She was at her wits' end.

It was suggested that instead of telling them not to run, she should say something like: "Slow down please" or "Walk down the stairs." She was excited and somewhat amazed to report that it had worked – such a little change in language brought such a marked improvement in the match between what she wanted the kids to do and what they actually did.

How does this happen?

If I don't want you to think of pink elephants and I say "Don't think of pink elephants" what happens? You immediately get a picture of pink elephants in your mind and then, if you are feeling complicit as you read this, you try not to think about them. Now, if I'd asked you not to think about red rhinos, for example, there is much less chance of you conjuring up those pink elephants.

The mind works a bit like a search engine on the Internet. Put in a word, press SEARCH and all the references to that word come up on the screen. Put in a mental suggestion like pink elephants and you don't even have to press a button; up come images of pink elephants on the screen of the mind.

And that's what happens in kids' minds when we tell them not to do something. Its not willful disobedience so much as the mind making pictures and the body going towards them.

Bill Rogers – in his excellent behavior management series "Corrective Discipline" – suggests using the pattern "When …. then …." rather than "You can't …. Because…."

For example: "Johnny, when you have finished tidying your room, then you can go out to play." rather than: "Johnny you can't go out to play because your room is a mess"

With the first sentence Johnny gets a picture in his mind of tidying his room, then going out to play. Just what we want. In the second sentence we're inviting his subconscious to picture himself not being able to go out to play and with an untidy room.

Unlocking Windows toolbar.

Our organization Windows policy is so strict that they even lock the Windows toolbar. I felt very irritating because I use Quick Launch bar everyday and I could not use this because of this freaking policy. So, I Googled(Google Searched it) and found following VB script which can unlock the toolbar option. The policy might kick-in again and lock the toolbar but I will run this script again. Hope this script will be useful to you guys also.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/xp_taskbar_desktop_fixall.vbs

Enjoy the tool.
Murthy

Troubleshooting network application issues.

Hello,

We were constantly got reports about application latency between two locations which are geographically separated by 1000s of miles. Everytime our team used to check network link errors. But this approach was not finding any issues. We did research in using tools which can give more insight and fixed the problems. The tools used were,

• OPNET IT Guru from OPNET
• IXChariot from IXIA

OPNET IT Guru captures the data from end to end and combines the data to report possible causes. This tool got lot of different modules, which are expensive but they give lot of insight to application behaviour over the network. You can download OPNET IT Guru educational version from OPNET and model you network. This is pretty cool stuff.

IXChariot is used to generate certain type of traffic and capture the performance of the traffic between two end points. You can download trial version of IXChariot also.

There are various tools available in the market, but I recommend them because we used and found some good results.

Enjoy evaluating the software.

Murthy

Funny Video.

I found this funny video on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrzVI_5UK3c

Enjoy watching.

Thank you.
Murthy

Dialing through Aux port on router.

Hello All,

While working on modem remediation project I found that sometimes the phone line which is connected to modem has different number than our records and I could not trace the correct number. Instead of asking local tech to hook-up an analog phone for finding the number I felt that we could user our same old BCRAN skills. I used this following script in my lab. After applying the script to make an outbound call through Aux port on the router please type telnet 9.9.9.9, then router will dial the number specified in the script. To terminate the dial-up connection use CTRL+SHIFT and 6. To be on safe side please issue reload 30 before configuring and do not write memory until you are done. Please go through script and let me know if any modifications required. Please remove the configuration after getting the number.


chat-script Dialout ABORT ERROR ABORT BUSY "" "AT" OK "ATDT \T" TIMEOUT 45 CONNECT \c
modemcap entry MY_USR_MODEM:MSC=&F1S0=1
!
!
!
!
!
!
interface Loopback0
ip address x.x.x.x x.x.x.x --- If the router is already configured with loopback we do not need to configure again.
!

!
interface Async1
no ip address
encapsulation ppp
dialer in-band
dialer pool-member 20
!
interface Dialer10
ip unnumbered Loopback0
encapsulation ppp
dialer pool 20
dialer idle-timeout 900
dialer string
dialer-group 1
!

ip route 9.9.9.9 255.255.255.255 Dialer10
!

!
access-list 101 permit tcp any 9.9.9.9 0.0.0.0 eq telnet
dialer-list 1 protocol ip list 101
!

line aux 0
exec-timeout 0 0
script dialer Dialout
modem InOut
modem autoconfigure type MY_USR_MODEM
transport input all
stopbits 1
flowcontrol hardware


Thank you.

DNS Suffix Search list.

Our team was trying to find an option to push DNS suffix search list through DHCP server to all the clients. Eventually we found that it is not possible. The following article from Microsoft has more details.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275553

Enjoy reading.
Murthy