How to Downgrade the Internet Explorer (IE) Version

I was working on some browser based application on IE 10, the application has some limitations where it is not supporting the latest IE 10 (beta version). As i have already in IE 10, when i try to install IE 9, system shows below message "most recent version of Internet Explorer is installed on your computer"

Below is the procedure to downgrade the IE version on you computer

I have demonstrated for downgrading IE 10 to IE 9

Goto-> Control Panel -> 
click on Programs and Feature

 Click on "View Installed Updates" on left panel, as shown in below image

Search for the Internet Explorer Update. Select the Update, I have selected the "Windows Internet Explorer 10" update as shown below, and click on "Uninstall" on the bar above the updates. it will uninstall the update

  Restart the system, and check the version of IE as show in below image.

My is downgraded from IE 10 to IE 9 successfully.

Indian National Anthem

sung by

The Best Vocals of INDIA

Happy Indian Independence Day

Translation into English

Rabindranath Tagore

The following translation, attributed to Tagore, is provided by the Government of India's national portal:

Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people,
Dispenser of India's destiny.
Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sindhu,
Gujarat and Maratha,
Of the Dravida and Orissa and Bengal;
It echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas,
mingles in the music of Jamuna and Ganges and is
chanted by the waves of the Indian Sea.
They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise.
The saving of all people waits in thy hand,
Thou dispenser of India's destiny.
Victory, victory, victory to thee.

How to carry your bike from one state to other state

My work profile demands to travel & stay for some time in several cities across India. i have bike and every time i travel i feel like taking my bike with me, obviously to escape travel hassles with in new city, esp: if i have to commute by an auto. I have spent some time to figure out ways to carry or transfer bike across India. here i'm posting so that it can help someone.

One can carry their bike in three ways..
Riding across state border Road Transportation Railways Airways 4th, if your are Idoit n' Rich enough ;)	My Bike - Avenger

Riding bike across border: I dont think this is feasible, untill you are on expidition or travalling to near city in adjacent state.

Road Transportation: This is quit good option, as you can surrender you bike to transportation company and they call you when reaches the destination goadown, usually this takes 3-5 days between states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamilnadu. But i didnt opt for this service of transportation as many of trans corp's will never give any gauntness to your bike for any damage. more over while loading into truck, they lift bike manually and load into truck (this will be min 3 ft height). one should worry if bike is of more cc or weight. I have seen personally how they handle once you leave your bike with them.

Other way of road tranportation is by volvo bus, This option is better as you should personally availble while loading. And bike will be travelling with you in Volvo bus ( It will loaded into luguage compatment below the bus and passenger should mandatorily travel in bus ). Once you reach destination city, get down at petrol bunk, fill tank and ride your way.

For long distance cites its difficult to find a bus, who agrees to take bike in luggage compatment below, Now-a-days many transport co are not willing to do so.

Railways Transportation: This have two options again, first one is,you have to submit you bike in the parcel section, they will pack your bike and deliver at your destination station, This might take few days, depends on the city and availability of service.

Other option is, carry you bike along with you as luggage in train you travel. Personally i feel this best option of all.
Follow as mention below for this option

• Railway allows public to carry luggage in luggage compartments only between end to end stations , you have to identify a train which travels from your starting station to your destination (They wont take or deliver in any station in between, as they will never break luggage compartment seal in between stations)
• Book a ticket for same train, by which you planed to carry your bike (This can be any class or General ticket)
• Reach station before three hours, as you have to follow few formalities.
• Goto luggage section, usually this will be on any end of the 1st platform (back entry, not main gate)
• Request for form in counter to carry Bike as luggage, fill the form, mention the valuation of bike and etc. they ask to show your bike papers (usually they say that bike should be in your name, if it is your brother or someone you should show some proof of relation or convince them).
• They will give a pink slip, this is very important receipt. According to railway, owner of bike is person with this receipt, without this receipt you cannot receive at destination station even you show any proof. so careful!.
• If you are interested or concerned of scratches,  pack your bike and bring. If not, packing service will also be available at the same counter and they charge around Rs 300/-.
• Unload fuel tank completely, take your bike on to platform and submit to concern person, they will take your bike to arrival platform, you can also follow your bike until it is loaded in to luggage compartment.
• Get into train, travel along with your bike. once you reach your station, bike will be unloaded onto platform, show the receipt and take your bike. go on your way.
• If luggage compartment is sealed before  you complete above process of submitting bike.. still no worries... you can leave your bike on platform, and it will be delivered to destination by same train next day. you can go and collect it. (this happened to me, when i careed my bike from Bangalore to Hyderabad, i collected it next day at kachiguda station).

For any more info contact me at this blog ..  Happy Riding.....

Nandhi Hills Bike Ride….

According to plan, we four guys on two bikes, got up early morning 4:00 and started to Nandi Hills, a hill station 60 kms away from Bangalore city on left of Kanyakumari - Varanasi Road from Bangalore. hill height is about 4,851 feet above MSL

Enjoyed the bike riding.. in the chilled morning.. cruising the lonely  high way till the distance ( distance after you cross the BIA). We were unfortunate to see early morning a car summersaults live on road near airport, passengers were really fortunate to come out without injuries.

Its dark & wide road once you cross the city limits, but I’m sure no one can miss the route even in the dark morning. You will find many biker like u, heading towards your destination, we followed them as we doesn’t know the diversion to Nandi hill from the high way.

Fourth buddy has taken this pic

Cruising from the mountain base through the hair pin bends and mountain edges upon to top is always thrilling. Early Morning sun raise will be delightful. enjoyment only if you can reach there before sun comes out. (There will be a queue for entry tickets at the top) better reach as early as possible, avoid the disappointment after all efforts of covering that distance. If you are lucky enough and visit on cloudy day, there might be something  to cheer (clouds float below the mountain top).

There are few visiting places on the top like Tippu palace (an old building) , Gandhi stayed house, some gardens and the worth full place is Tippu point (sun rise point) its rounded edge of mountain, one slip can give 100%  short cut to base of the hill, it is best place for gliders to take off..

For more info visit Nandi Hills Site

11:00 am started to back to Bangalore,we find few grape gardens on either sides of the road, can buy some at negotiable price. cruse back to home. never jump signals on highway, 100% guarantee for your 500 bucks from highway police… my buddy is victim

In a line: 

Short trip to enjoy with a girlfriend or bunch of friends on bikes ;)



It can be this beautiful, courtesy nandi hills site 



VidhanSoudha

Trip to Pondicherry

After few weeks of hectic work, Its really time for desperate refreshment. I planned to join my friend (native pondy) in pondy for weekend. It was last mintue plan, manage to get to and fro tickets on Friday, I started from Bangalore on Friday night and reached pondy by 6:30 am SAT, it was Vinayaka chavithy day.

My friend came and picked me at stop, before going to his house we had bed tea (without brushing) at arubindo ashram, and reached home after few mintes, It was small and cute family of my friend, he his Akkha, Amma & Appa. Had small nap again after reaching.

Its ganapathi pooja time, i went along with my friend to buy Pilliyar (ganesh), instantly made really fresh clay Pilliyar and eco friendly no "Plaster of Paris", i was suppried to see few forigners buying the ganash idols and pooja saaman, and a looks like old germen, capturing all aound that MG Road in his camara. After pooja is perfomed by my friends appa in house with several ingredients , decorated with severl jewels and flowers, we headed for delicious typical tamil lunch with sambar, kolumbu, paisam etc. I had it to my maximun capacity but still they felt that i didnt had properly out of shy.

In the evening, we visited really intersing place with few other friends of my friend. Actually i didnt understant why these many froginer of diffent races are living in pondy.

It is all about AUROVILLE.

"Pondicherry may be French; Pondicherry may be Tamil—but it is also home to an unusual international community named Auroville"

The Matrimandir

AUROVILLE, Its simply different from rest of the world, and really only one of its kind in the world. Auroville is simply a model village, belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But to live in Auroville, one must be the willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness. It is strange to see kids of different races (White, Black, Indian) attending school in "Mud Huts" built comletely eco-friendly. Anything in this village is eco frienldy from mud road to buildings, The Matrimandir, a golden metallic sphere in the center of town has foundation built with soil brought from almost 120 countries in world. Unfotunatly i missed opputunity to go inside that manidir as we were late. Outsides are allowed only before 3:00 pm. We have taken few snaps and had Herbel tea (frankly i didnt like it, but that is how your sacrifice counts in mother nature)

We had small party in the night, and saw someone live music at SeaGulls, It rained heavily, power cut allover, I will never forget our fight for muttai doosa at rollex hotel in the late night, and a friends (pasu) great pissing adventure in front of the city cop in that darkness. Day ended with few giggles and good thills.  On next day (sunday) visited beach in pondycherry, took some snaps, played cricket in law college with few friends. Its time, i had my dinner (mottai doosa) in house and my friend dropped me at bus to banglore in heavy rain, i left pondy with word "Nanben da" :)

An Incident can change your life..

One night I was watching television program in some channel, it was about “dhyanam”. I was keenly following it but unfortunately their was power cut in between, I thought of implementing same which I saw and started doing it in the darkness, according to instructions in the program, close eyes and let thoughts come into your mind and let them pass off, At one stage, mind will be idle and that is the peaceful state of mind.

I was doing this for almost 15 minutes and few thoughts & sounds were passing my mind. few of them are like.. someone making tapping sound of slippers on stairs while climbing, soon a thought about dinner, suddenly an auto passes the building with high volume dichic dichic music, car horn honking in front of some neighbors’ gate and etc.. light flashed as power is back again.

One thing I understood out of my perception, Mind reacts to very thing it comes across (I’m not sure of controlling mind), the reaction can proportionally change the state of life.

Everyone in this world is born with blank mind. Gandhi, Hitler, Einstein.   If someone asks what is common in above three, as per my knowledge only common thing in them is, they are human beings. At some point of time in their lives they had an affect, might be in anyways, which enforced them to choose the paths they lived in.

Complete state of life can change with small differences in the environment, background, country, religion etc one lives. All the rain drops come from the same clouds, but the point it grounds is what decides which valley it should flow through. Until some thing unexpected, unwanted situation comes in life with strong effect on mind with the affect of surrounding, all humans are same as said all are born or came into this world with same blank mind.

Just a reaction to an incident or moment can separate one from rest of the world. Rajinikanth was an incidentally an actor, Just of an incident at college turned Gates way to become richest in the world. A small train incident is actual inception for countries independence. All that it makes the difference is the intensity or the impact of the incident or a moment on the human brain, which varies from forget and move on to move forward with that effect.

I really believe that a small incident can change ones life, if it happens I wish it should be for good, good at least for rest of the world.

My bottom line is...

             “Dhyanam should be practiced only in peaceful place” J

Clicked from boat in Arabian sea, On way to elephanta island

            

In my best days...

Anyone’s childhood days are best days I believe, I am born in my grand mother’s village Thungathurthi near small town Suriyapet in Andhra Pradesh state in INDIA. My native village Gorentla is just 10 kms from it. I lived there when I was very young. I remember it’s an hour travel in bullock cart form my grand mother home to my home, I blush when I remember my innocence in surprising to see the clouds touching the road at a distance and eagerness to reach it to take them into my pretty little hands. Those wells, farms, groomed banyan trees (our national tree, how many you find now-a-days), palm fruits & kallu తాటి కల్లు. The time I spent there is best so far in my life. I studied in Christian convent school in town, but for every holiday I used to go back.

I remember when I was around six years old in my native home backyard in that village, their used be a cattle shed with few buffalos, bulls and ox tied to the pillars & the baby buffalo moving around them and green bushes and plants allover with wet soil fragrance everywhere. I and my sister were playing in and around the shed, suddenly from my fantasy of prince I felt like riding a buffalo. I request my sis to get me onto one, after crying she managed me to get onto one big size calf. For a moment I felt myself like a prince in “Chandhamama” stories riding horse. After few steps that calf felt enough for me and tilled me aside in to pit in processes of sitting, unfortunately it was the pit dug for newly constructing lavatory. My parents had rushed to pit after hearing my loud cry and got me out & my poor sis got some shunting for my mistake. Normally in families any time elders are punished and I’m already punished in the pit.

Here I would simply start saying globalization has change the face of ones living style to large extent, Now I do job in big metro in the country and stay in community flats, I feel how much this generation kids miss nature in their life.

How many times in a day will they see a real groomed trees except on occasional visit to some zoo park, and how many time will they climb a tree in their childhood.

Will they know how actually swimming is useful and how it is learned without a paid coach? They know ‘Wells’ only when they see the picture of ‘well’ in the alphabetical chart to pronounce letter ‘W’. I’m not surprised even if this generation kids don’t know the water beyond the tap in the house or in a community swimming pool.

How can they enjoy running along the mud roads with a tapping cycle tire till the end, except walking lonely never ending tar roads.

With technology or modern life style people still find their happiness in their living rooms, balconies and in gated community with swimming pool, lawns and tennis courts. But these new generation kids never know what actually the nature is beyond these concrete jungles. At least they feel it sometime watching Animal planet or NG channels.

Now I miss my young days of more innocence and less aggressive against nature.

Google Account is Hacked

Do you have a Google Account..

Now-a-days Google Account is important as any other account, mostly to secure our personal data and social relation esp. when use wide verity of applications like Gmail, Docs, Blogger, Photos and Orkut. By the way it is single sign-on application. And you integrate with other third party applications like Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn with Gmail ID as user ID or communication ID.

My friend is unable to access his Gmail and Google Apps accounts today, even though he requests for "forgot password", he didn’t receive any communication to his secondary Email. Interesting part of this is, after seeing some porn’s on his profile he found that "Account is hacked". Hacker managed to log into Gmail and changed the secondary email for that account. As the same mail id is used for other applications like Facebook and twitter for communication, he requested for “forgot password" in that application and took control over them too and started posting hell through them. To get assistance from Google ,My friend couldn’t establish enough identification to Google them. He very much uses social networking sites to communicate with some of his friends and clients.

My friend is in situation where he is unable to block the hacked account or get access back on that account. Worst thing is damage to his relation with people on professional and personal network. Your identity on the social web (Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, etc.) and, most important, your online business is not in your hands anymore. This is pathetic situation where you don’t have any control except watching the show.

After lot of googling and binging i remembered a quote in telugu "Chethullu kaalinaaka aakulu pattukodam vrudaa" means:Its waste of catching green leaves after hand are burned.

Here are lessons learned and tips that might prevent your Gmail and other Google Accounts from getting hacked.

Many of us frequently receive "password assistance" email with link to reset password. Don’t ever initiate such links.

How the Google Accounts were hacked ?

Nothing much you can guess if the culprit is professional chap who enjoys exploring the web for vulnerabilities, but below could be some reasons.

Use a fairly strong password so it can be tough for someone to guess that string. And since you got a password reset email request in the first place, the possibility that the password was cracked can be safely ruled out.

Don’t use Gmail from any public terminal (therefore safe from password stealing key loggers) and have never clicked on links that may point to a fake Google login page (so no phishing attack either). You cannot associate a "security question" with non-Gmail Google accounts so the possibility that the "security question was weak" is also ruled out.

How to Protect your Gmail & Google Accounts

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#1. Log-in to your Gmail / Google Account and associate a phone number. This is useful because you’ll then receive an SMS text message whenever someone tries to recover your Google password.

#2. Create a new email address (on say Yahoo! Mail or Gmail itself) and set this as the secondary email address for your existing Gmail and Google Accounts. Check for emails on this new account manually or through a desktop client via POP3 / IMAP but do not enable auto-forward for the new email address as the original purpose will be defeated.

#3. Take a paper and write down the following information about your Google Account. You will need this to verify your identify to Google in case someone else takes over your Google Account and the secondary email address associated with your account.

• The month and year when your created your Gmail / Google Account. You can look at the last page of your Gmail Inbox (or go to Sent Items) to get an approximate idea of the date when you created the account.
• If you created a Gmail account by invitation, write the email address of the person who first sent you that invite for Gmail. Use a search query like "in:all has invited you to open a free Gmail account" to find that invitation email.
• The email addresses of your most frequently emailed contacts (the top 5).
• The names of any custom labels that you may have created in your Gmail account.
• The day/month/year when you started using various other Google services (like AdSense, Orkut, Blogger, etc.) that are associated with the Google account that you are trying to recover. If you’re not certain about some of the dates, provide your closest estimate*.

[*] For Analytics, look at the first date when it started collecting stats for your website(s). For Orkut, look at the last page of your scrapbook. For AdSense, you may take the help of your AdSense account manager.

#4. It goes without saying but do not use the same password for your main Google / Gmail account and your secondary email address.

#5. If you access Gmail and other Google services over a Wi-Fi network, make sure that you always use the secure URLs like https://gmail.com. Go to Gmail settings and set ‘Browser Connection’ to ‘Always use https.’ This might make your Gmail access a bit slower but your account will be more secure.

#6. Once in a while, do refer to that little line in the footer section of your Gmail Inbox that shows the different IP addresses from where your account is being accessed. If you find an unknown IP address, change your Google password immediately. The person who hacked my Gmail accounts configured them with his Hotmail account so he could effectively read all my email communication remotely from his Hotmail inbox without ever logging into my Google account again. I could figure that out only after I saw an IP address from a Microsoft server in my Gmail activity log.

#7. You should also consider copying emails from Gmail to another service (like Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail – it is effortless) so when your Gmail account is compromised, you at least have access to all your previous emails. Or you can configure a desktop email client like Outlook or Thunderbird with your Gmail account (via POP3 or IMAP) and thus you’ll have an automatic offline backup of your Gmail Inbox.

#8. Do a test run. Log-out of all your Gmail / Google Accounts and initiate the password recovery process for each one of them using this form. This will help you make sure that your SMS settings and secondary email addresses are configured correctly.

For Google Apps users

#9. You should always have a public email address on your website that others can use to contact you directly. This public email address will also help people find and connect with your on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. However, you should make sure that you don’t provide administrative privileges to this email address in Google Apps because if someone hijacks this account, he will effectively take over your Google Apps domain. Create a new user in Google Apps as an administrator and never share this username with anyone else.

#10. If you have lost access to your Google Apps dashboard, you’ll have to create a new CNAME record pointing to google.com to verify that you are actual owner of that web domain. To reset the password for the administrator of your Google Apps domain via your domain hosting company, the URL is:

https://google.com/a/cpanel/xyx.com/VerifyAdminAccountPasswordReset

[*] Replace xyz.com with your own domain address.