ZTE ZXDSL 531B is a Type II modem that was supplied by BSNL to it's BSNL Broadband (previously DataOne) subscribers free of cost upon commitment of a fixed duration or upon payment of additional charges.

While, the modem is really good at what it does, I found a security hole in it that, if exploited properly, can bring nightmare to it's users. [More]

Update - January 11, 2010 The uploading of the modified files has been completed and the InteseDebate comment system is now active. Please help by leaving your comments and if you encounter any problems, please inform me by filling up the Contactform with subject IntenseDebate. Thanks in advance!   Recently I was visiting this of which I don’t remember the name but had this really nice comment system. First of all, I assumed that it might be a native implementation but then I received an email from IntenseDebate verifying my subscription to comment thread and it was then I realized... [More]

While going through a thread at Microsoft Answers, it came to me that how confusing task it can be, to restore files backed up using Windows Vista’s Backup and Restore Center. So, I decided to write up a post describing steps on how to restore your files using Advanced Restore. Preparation If you have stored your back up on a removable drive then keep it handy when you start this procedure. Procedure Insert/Connect the removable drive containing your backup to your system. Click start and type “Backup and Restore Center” in search box and press Enter. Click on the Advanced... [More]

Sygate Personal Firewall had been my favourite free firewall for Windows XP box since ages and I’d been using it even after Symantec took over Sygate and discontinued the products, including the personal firewall. If you still want use the firewall for your Windows XP box, it’s latest version is still available at Softpedia.   Okay, so back to the main topic. Since I got my Dell Studio 15(pre-loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium) in early April, it had been a nightmare for me to use my BSNL Broadband connection because Sygate Personal Firewall is not compatible with Windows Vista. ... [More]

Recently I was going through the comments I received on my posts and I was shocked to see Spam all over it. These comments seem so genuine that it’s hard to identify that they are spam unless you do a little search over it. For example, I received a comment from a person(or rather a  bot) which seemed so faithful that I couldn’t stop replying to it thanking for his interest over my blog. But when I ran a google search over it, the result page was full of such comment from different BlogEngine.Net sites.   Infact, I’m already using Akismet extension to protect against comment spam... [More]

    Recently, I wanted to use Google Talk plugin(comes along with installation of Google Talk) for Windows Media Player that sets the currently playing song as your status message(Wow! Why Yahoo! couldn’t think of something like that????). Now as long as I used to use MS Windows XP, it wasn’t an issue et all. But the problem started when I tried to used in WMP 11 on Windows Vista Home Premium that came bundled with my Dell Studio 15 laptop. As soon as I tried to enable the plugin, WMP would crash and I couldn’t understand why!!!   After a wee bit of Googling, I came accros... [More]