No More Connection on Windows XP - Huh!

Solutions #1

1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click to select the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type MaxMpxCt, and then press ENTER.
5. Right-click MaxMpxCt, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type the desired value, and then click OK.

Note You can set the number of concurrent SMB commands to a value that is between 10 and 255. The default value is 10. In Microsoft Windows Server 2003, you can set the number of concurrent SMB commands to a maximum value of 65,535.
7. Close Registry Editor.

Default XP Professional conncurrent connection is 15.

Solution #2

1. Click start, run, type cmd and then click OK

2. Type net config server /autodisconnect:1 and press ENTER ( this will instruct to auto disconnect idle connection for 1 minute rather than default 15 minutes)

3. Useful command to explore

net config server

net config workstation

net statistics server

net statistics workstation 

Solution #3

Get tcpip.sys patcher from http://www.lvllord.de/

Game Server : Getting Started

Srcds allows you to to serve an online game in a virtual environment. If you have a good connection and computer available, you can simply install the software and prepare your virtual battlefield to be entered. srcds will serve all Half-Life 2 ("Game of the year 2004") based games, including Counter-Strike Source, Day of Defeat Source and alot more modifications!

If you run your own Source Dedicated Server, you have control over most of the settings.
For instance, you have control over the amount of gravity, the current map and the mapcycle and alot more.
You also have full control over the players. When a player misbehaves, you can simply permanently or temporary remove the weak link and continue the game. 

Source from http://www.srcds.com/

Easy way to install antivirus for Linux ( Console )

OS : Debian platform
Sources : http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/

wget http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/bd.key.asc
apt-key add bd.key.asc ( must be root )

pico /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/ bitdefender non-free

apt-get update
apt-get install bitdefender-mail

Aptitude GPG Error Simple Solution

Always getting some gpg error while trying to do aptitude update on older version of debian platform such as etch or lenny. The message looks like this :

The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY AED4B06F473041FA

what should we do?
1st of all you have to be a root and check the key first with pgp.net server : the command is :
#gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net --recv-keys AED4B06F473041FA

then it should return like this :

gpg: requesting key 473041FA from hkp server wwwkeys.us.pgp.net
gpg: key 473041FA: public key "Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (6.0/squeeze " imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)



what's next?


#gpg --armor --export | apt-key add -


then do aptitude update again and it should work

Excel 2007 no Right-Click Problem

Ever experience with no right click on sheets for Microsoft Office 2007?
do this :-

1. Open New Excel Document

2. Go to VB Editor by pressing ALT+F11 and double click on This Workbook ( top left )

3. Type in or Copy/Paste this command :

Sub Enable_All_Right_Click_Menus()

   'This will enable all BuiltIn Command bars
   Dim Cbar As CommandBar
   For Each Cbar In Application.CommandBars
   Cbar.Enabled = True
   Next
End Sub

 then press F5 to run macro
4. Press ALT+Q to quit VB Editor and the problem should gone

5. To keep the setting save the file to any name with Excel MACRO ( can be choosen from the File Type )

6. Now open another excel file and test..