As Comet Lulin is getting fainter and fainter, I just thought to post report on my observations. Well, for right  now, all I can provide is dates on which I observed Comet Lulin but I'll probably update on my observations details later when I'll find time(and have my free bandwidth available – again!).

 

 

Photo Courtesy: APOD

 

 

Comments are always welcome

As I’ve already consumed my 2.5 GB free limit of my ISP, I won’t be able to come online before 2 AM:(. So everyone is requested to take note of that.

Update: I'm currently working on a program that would ease the process of scheduling tasks for you. The details of the program is available here. If you want any new features, now is the time to ask for it. Just leave your feature request as a comment or send me a message with “Feature Request: Broadband Scheduler” as subject via Contact and I'll let you know if it would be possible for me to do it or not.

 

It seems that my last post was inadequate to make you understand how to use this batch files. So let me explain you how to do it in a step by step process.

 

Prerequisites: You should have basic knowledge of DOS prompt and how to use DOS commands.

1. This batch files use an executable called “rasdial.exe” that is available in Windows OS(XP or higher).
2. This executable lets you run your connections from the command-line. So, i n order to schedule our automation scripts, we are going to use batch files.
3. Now lets see, what the download consists of…
4. connect.bat – This file contains the command that will use your existing dial up connection to connect to internet.
5. disconnect.bat – This file contains the command that will disconnect your dial up connection.
6. Power-Off.bat – This file contains the command that will shut-down your computer. After all, we should save power too ;-)
7. The only file you need to modify is connect.bat. It calls rasdial.exe and passes three parameters namely dial up connection name, user id and password. So, open connect.bat in notepad
8. change “bsnl” to your connection name
9. change “uid” to your BSNL username
10. change “pass” to your BSNL password (Your password is stored as plain text so its not that safe to use this method)
11. No go to Start Menu > Control Panel > Scheduled Tasks and create new tasks as follows

    Time	Filename
    02:05 AM	connect.bat
    07:55 AM	disconnect.bat
    07:57 AM	power-off.bat

12. Set this tasks to daily so that they are executed daily.

Note: 

I’ll post steps for Windows Vista later this weekend. I have posted the steps for BSNL Broadband Automation for Vista. Please review them too.

 

Have a sound sleep.

 

BSNL Automation.rar

 

 

I created this little theme in the spirit of [IYA] – 2009 when I was using [MWPSK]. Now, that I don’t use it any more, I thought, I’ld let this theme remain available for download. The theme was created using MWPSK Theme Generator

 

Astro.zip

After accidently deleting my blog folder, while porting it to my main domain, without any backup of the posts, it’s now up and running.

While going through Codeplex site, I saw that the final release of 1.5 was available and I used this uninvited opportunity to upgrade(read freshly install) to 1.5. From, my post history, the only relevant post was regarding my AddThis extension. So, I’ll just post it ASAP.

Meanwhile, if you tried to reach my site and felt any inconvenience, I really apologize for it.

This extension is based Danny Douglas’s  SocialBookmarks Extension. I suggest that you also have a look at it.

 

What is AddThis?

 

AddThis is one of the popular(actually #1 per their site) social bookmarking button on Internet. This button eases your burden of maintaining links to each and every social bookmarking site on internet. Instead, the site provides us with a code that, once embedded into your post, opens a small popup with number of ways for sharing your content. Also, it tracks all the bookmarks through which you can analyze.

 

What AddThis extension does?

Instead of manually embedding the code, provided by AddThis, to each and every post, this extension inserts the code, on the fly, as and when the posts are requested.

 

How to insall this extension?

• Download the extension from the bottom of this post.
• Extract the AddThis.cs and upload it to your BlogEngine.Net’s ~/App_Code/Extensions folder. If your blog isn’t hosted on root, please change the path as needed.
• Goto Settings and select Extensions tab.
• Look for AddThis under the Name column and click on Edit link on the same row.

 

• In the next page, change the Username to your own AddThis Username so that you can track your traffic.

• Check Only Full Post  if you want to show the AddThis button when a full post is requested. If you want to show the AddThis button on all post on the default page(as request by Chad), just uncheck it.
• Now, you should be able to see the AddThis button at the bottom of your posts. 

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New features in v1.3

• If you don’t wish to monitor your bookmark traffic, just check the Keep Anonymous option and your traffic will not be monitored.
• Now you can choose from multiple buttons supported by AddThis. The details on how to use different button is given in the inside help, on settings page. If you are struck anywhere, just leave a comment. You can see the list of possible buttons here

 

• I’ve also added a simple option to change between small and large buttons. Check Large Button option to show large buttons. This will not apply to plus button.

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Your comments, compliments and bug reports are always welcomed…

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