Consider the situation where you have a laptop and a desktop and You often need to transfer lot of data between those two. Here is the method to connect them establishing a peer-to-peer network between them. I assume both the PCs are installed with Windows XP.

Requirements:

1. Peer-to-Peer / Crossover cable (can be bought in any computer store). You can also make Crossover cable yourself from the CAT 5 cable by reading this tutorial… http://www.danpex.com/faqs/cat5-conf.htm
2. Two PCs with Windows 2k/XP installed.

Method:

Connect both the PCs using the crossover cable. (Insert RJ-45 pins into their respective Ethernet cards). Now, do the following method in both the systems.



Open Network Connections in control panel, right click on the Local Area Network Connection that corresponds to your ethernet card, select Properties.Click on the Install Button. Select Protocol and click on Add. Now, select NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBios compatible Transport Protocol and select OK.Now select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in the same window, and select properties. In the General tab, click on Use the following IP Address, then enter 192.168.0.1 for First computer and 192.168.0.2 for second computer. (Note: These IP addresses are not random, as they are set of Class C addresses reserved for Private networks. Hence, type exactly as given above). Enter the subnet mask as 255.255.255.0Now, save the settings, close all the windows and Restart your PCs. After the restart, you will see both the computers connected via Peer-to-Peer. To checkout whether the PCs are connected or not, go to Start->Run and type \\192.168.0.2 from the first computer, then the shared folders in second computer should appear.

I started blogging just a couple of weeks back. I was in a dilemma whether to choose wordpress / blogger for the blog. I just checked the page rank for both the sites which revealed that blogger has 9 while wordpress has only 8. So, I started blogging with blogger. I installed wordpress in my hosting site a year ago and I remember that there are lot of customisations which are present in it are missing in blogger like categories, blogroll etc etc… So, I shifted to wordpress blog leaving the blogger behind. Later, I wanted to change the template by adding some HTML code of Ads, but surprisingly got to know that the feature is not available. Then I realised why many people preferred blogger. Later, I installed wordpress software on my new hosting site.

Anyways, I would like to compare these two services for someone who just want an online service through which they can blog and can not afford/do not want to have a paid account, set up wordpress etc. The comparison is between the Free service of WordPress (Not the Paid one / Software) and Blogger.

• Wordpress supports Categories while Blogger doesnot
• Wordpress do not support editing of Templates while Blogger does. But, we can still customise the side bars in wordpress very efficiently with a clean user interface while Blogger needs change in the HTML template.
• Wordpress do not support User Templates while in Blogger, user can upload his/her own template.
• Wordpress supports to create Static Pages where you can manage some content while Blogger doesnot support this.
• Autosave feature is not present in Wordpress free version while Blogger autosaves posts at fixed intervals. Hence you can recover your posts in Blogger.
• You cannot display Advertisements in wordpress as template editing is not possible, while you can easily include Ads in Blogger by editing the template. (This is the biggest reason why people prefer Blogger over Wordpress).
• File Upload feature is present in Wordpress while absent in Blogger. You can just upload some images while posting them.
• Wordpress can render and replace the Smileys while Blogger donot.
• Multiple Blogs per Single User is not supported by Wordpress while Blogger easily support any number of them.
• The search feature is pretty good in Wordpress compared to Blogger.
• Moderation of Comments is possible with Wordpress while Blogger do not. But it features spam filtering.
• Its very difficult to manage and view the posts in Blogger. If we want to view some of very old posts in a blog with many posts, it takes ages while Wordpress provide good UI for managing our posts.
• Site tracking mechanism is present in wordpress.com while in Blogger, we need to rely on external counters.
• Wordpress is still developing while Blogger has become a stable version now.

Anyways, I am not the one to suggest/decide which blogging service to use. It is left to your choice to go with what suits you the best. These are not the only differences present between them, Please let me know if anything to include.

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Google has come up with a new service which allows you to type text in regional languages and use them in forums/orkut/elsewhere. Google Transliteration offers an option for converting Roman characters to the literals of regional languages in India. This lets you type Hindi/Tamil/Telugu/Kannada/Malayalam words phonetically in English script and still have them appear in their correct alphabet.

http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic/Telugu

Note: This is not the same as translation — it is the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning.

The transliteration feature is only supported in Internet Explorer versions 6.0 and higher on Windows (preferably Windows XP), and Firefox 1.5 and higher on Windows and Linux. If you use Internet Explorer 6+ in Windows Vista/XP/2000, you should have no problems in viewing and editing Hindi text correctly. Mozilla Firefox requires support for complex text layout, otherwise it might display the Hindi text incorrectly. The support for complex text layout is usually turned off by default. Check out this wikipedia article for detailed instructions on how to add the support.

There is also a software called Baraha IME which allows you to type text directly in several regional languages wherever you want. You need not specifically copy paste the text to the required place. This software temporarily changes the windows default font so that whatever you type, is transliterated into the selected language.

A RAM-Disk, Ramdisk or Ramdrive is a virtual solid state disk that uses a segment of active computer memory, RAM, as secondary storage, a role typically filled by hard drives. It allows you to create directories, copy files to and from it, etc…. Access times are greatly improved, because RAM is approximately a million times faster than hard drives. However, the volatility of RAM means that data will be lost if power is lost, e.g. when the computer is turned off. RAM disks can be used to store temporary data or hold uncompressed programs for short periods.

Believe me.. Any software that is installed on Ram Disk works with rocket speed… I installed Photoshop for trial..

A ramdisk can perfectly be used to store :

• Web content of web servers.
• Temporary index files and tables of database servers.
• Temporary files ( TEMP and TMP environment variable ) and “Temporary Internet Files”.
• The scratch disk for Adobe (R) Photoshop (R)
• Games and programs in general (1), reloading parts and data occurs many times faster
• Audio and video capture / editing
• Creation and playback of slide shows
• Data that has to be written to CD , to prevent underrun during the burn process
• All kinds of data that may be lost ( or MUST be lost for security reasons ) at shutdown

The installed software can also be reloaded automatically at boot time from an image file or by means of a backup program.

You can use any of the software to setup Ram disk on ur PC. Remember that you must have atleast 512 KB for nice performance although s/w vendors say 256 is sufficient.

Microsoft [sample] RAM DISK driver : (with source code!) for Win2k. I don’t really recommend this unless you are a tweaker/developer. In its current form there is a maximum disk size of 32MB and unfortunately the new disk identifies it self as a “Ram Disk” -not- “hard disk” hence some applications may get confused and not see the disk. Also you have to change registry entries to configure it. The sample driver is good to learn how RAM Disks work however.

Ram disk9x / RamDiskNT : Whilst not free this software provides the richest feature set. There are lots of settings to optimize your Ram Disk including disk images. If you chose this software please read the documentation thoroughly as the various options are VERY powerful. Also it supports both the NT/2000/XP AND Win9x architecture.

RAMDisk for 2000/XP/2003 (and WinPE) : Freeware RAM DISK software based on Microsoft’s sample driver but includes a graphical interface to easily change settings. Easy to install and the disk can be dynamically resized without a reboot. An extended version is available that allows for disks over 64MB and support for WinPE systems. The source for the standard version is also available.

Virtual Hard Drive : File and applications perform up to 340 time faster.Virtual Hard Drive Pro supports an unlimited amount of RAM.