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Archive for July, 2006
Tips to speed up bittorrent download
Jul 24th
Tips to tweak the torrent client to speed up the torrent download rate.
The new file sharing protocol bittorrent has changed everything when it comes to file sharing. It is a great platform for downloading large files. Sharing of files is so simple and file types are not restricted which include movies, iso images and MP3. Even illegal file sharing is getting popular because of this.
The Bittorrent system can be slow at times so let us tweak bittorrent sharing program a little bit.
There are a bunch of different bittorrent clients that you can download. I personally prefer BitCommet and uTorrent.
Here I’ll More >
(+54 rating, 13 votes)Oracle server uptime
Jul 23rd
The following query works well with Oracle 9i. i’ve no clue whether this works with others too or not.
SELECT TO_CHAR (startup_time, 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS') "DB Startup Time" FROM SYS.v_$instance;
even there is possiblity to find the startup time by quering logon_time from sys.v_$session view.
AKPC_IDS += "2,";Popularity: 2% [?]
(No Ratings Yet)Forcing Outlook to send emails only with subject
Jul 22nd
It’s important and mandatory that the emails we send have relevant “subject” to it. At times, we miss to mention the subject and send email. Please follow the simple steps below which will prevent you from sending a mail without a subject. This should/must be configured in office mailbox in which subjects are more crucial.
Here are the below steps
- Open your outlook
- Press Alt+F11. This opens the Visual Basic editor
- On the Left Pane, one can see “Microsoft Outlook Objects”, expand this. Now one can see the “ThisOutLookSession.”
- Click on “ThisOutLookSession”.
- Copy and Paste the following code in the right pane.(Code Pane)
Private Sub Application_ItemSend(ByVal More >
(+19 rating, 4 votes)Remove Ads in Yahoo Messenger
Jul 19th
Tweak to remove the annoying ads that is displayed in Yahoo Messenger chat and web-cam window.
If you have installed the newest Yahoo Messenger 8.0 or Yahoo Messenger 7.5 you’ll notice a very annoying animated ad at the bottom of the main window, web-cam & chatroom etc.. I’m sure it’s hard to resist to Yahoo’s update dialogs. Here is a simple how-to tutorial to remove ads in Yahoo Messenger 7.5 and higher.
Save the below code with .reg extension
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\YUrl]
"Messenger Ad"="*"
"Webcam Upload Ad"="*"
"Webcam Viewer Ad"="*"
"Webcam Viewer Ad Bid"="*"
"Webcam Viewer Ad Medium"="*"
"Change More >
(No Ratings Yet)Oracle Hidden Parameters
Jul 19th
Oracle initialization or INIT.ORA parameters with an underscore in front are hidden or unsupported parameters. One can get a list of all hidden parameters by executing this query:
SELECT * FROM SYS.x$ksppi WHERE SUBSTR (ksppinm, 1, 1) = '_';
The following query displays parameter names with their current value:
SELECT a.ksppinm "Parameter", b.ksppstvl "Session Value",
c.ksppstvl "Instance Value"
FROM x$ksppi a, x$ksppcv b, x$ksppsv c
WHERE a.indx = b.indx AND a.indx = c.indx AND SUBSTR (ksppinm, 1, 1) = '_'
ORDER BY a.ksppinm;
Remember: Thou shall not play with undocumented parameters! Using undocumented parameters without the consent of Oracle Support will make your database More >
(No Ratings Yet)Rename Oracle database username
Jul 19th
No, this is not available till now in Oracle and has been noted down as a enhancement request. Still here is a workaround way of doing that:
- Do a user-level export of user A
- create new user B
- import system/manager from user=A to user=B
- drop user A
Popularity: 2% [?]
(No Ratings Yet)Testing Web-based Applications
Jul 18th
A comprehensive list of widely used common testing methodology for web application. If you’re a web application developer / tester, I would suggest you to follow these testing methodology. These testing methodology is derived in a way that it removes the defect/bugs and gives the end user effective way to use the application. In the web world, how the content looks has more precedence over the application. So it is must that developer take care of this requirement too. There might-be few other methodology too which I would have left here. If so let me know.
Web-based applications present us new challenges, More >
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