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Play movies with advanced controls and smart DVD utilities

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Advanced Movie Interactivity
Interactive movie features - BD-J and iHD technology provides links to online content, games, and other disc extras
Next-gen navigation - Overlayed menus, movie bookmarks, and zooming offer new ways to enjoy movie content
Advanced content - Movie commentaries displayed in Picture-in-Picture mode let you watch a movie while referencing content like comments from actors and the director

Home Theater Audio in HD
High-definition audio technologies - Pure high-definition audio with Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, DTS
8-channel surround sound - The ultimate home-theater audio support with true 7.1 channel Dolby Digital EX and 5.1 channel DTS
Advanced audio effects - The feeling of surround sound quality via sound systems, headphones, and on notebook PCs, with technologies from Dolby, DTS, and CyberLink

Smart DVD Utilities & Advanced Controls
Say-It-Again - Never miss a word with auto dialog looping
Read-It-Clearly - Move subtitles from your movie screen
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Types of DNS records

Important categories of data stored in the DNS include the following:

* An A record or address record maps a hostname to its 32-bit IPv4 address.

* An AAAA record or IPv6 address record maps a hostname to its 128-bit IPv6 address.

* A CNAME record or canonical name record makes one domain name an alias of
another. The aliased domain gets all the subdomains and DNS records of the original.

* An MX record or mail exchange record maps a domain name to a list of mail
exchange servers for that domain.

* A PTR record or pointer record maps an IPv4 address to the canonical name for that host. Setting up a PTR record for a hostname in the in-addr.arpa domain that corresponds to an IP address implements reverse DNS lookup for that address. For example (at the time of writing), www.icann.net has the IP address 192.0.34.164, but a PTR record maps 164.34.0.192.in-addr.arpa to its canonical name, referrals.icann.org.

* An NS record or name server record maps a domain name to a list of DNS servers for that domain. Delegations depend on NS records.

* An SOA record or start of authority record specifies the DNS server providing authoritative information about an Internet domain.

* A SRV record is a generalized service location record.

* A TXT record allows an administrator to insert arbitrary text into a DNS record. For example, this record is used to implement the Sender Policy Framework specification.

Other types of records simply provide information (for example, a LOC record gives the physical location of a host), or experimental data (for example, a WKS record gives a list of servers offering some well-known service such as HTTP or POP3 for a domain).

Windows Offline Files Synchronization Issue

In my client desktop (XP), I found some error and warning messages during system log-off.
The error messages are :-
1. Files of this type cannot be made available offline.
2. Unable to made archive1.PST file available offline

Then, I verified and reinitialized the CSC (Client Side caching) database files by the following procedure.

1. In Folder Options, on the Offline Files tab, press CTRL+SHIFT, and then click Delete Files. The following message appears:
The Offline Files cache on the local computer will be re-initialized. Any changes that have not been synchronized with computers on the network will be lost. Any files or folders made available offline will no longer be available offline. A computer restart is required.

Do you wish to re-initialize the cache?

2. Click Yes two times to restart the computer.

After I created a new offline CSC database and start synchronization.
Issue Solved !!

Windows Installer....Preparing to Install....Issue

Today, When i trying to open the QuickBooks application in one of our client desktop,I got one pop-up window for "Windows Installer..Preparing to install" thats all...application struck, not able to open.

Then I repaired and re-installed the QuickBook application, nothing worked.After that i found one cool patch for this issue.

"Windows Installer CleanUp Utility"

I used this utility to remove my (Quick book) application program in Windows installer configuration information.

Wow...Issue solved...

Find more information about this utility at Microsoft KB

VPN Server Deployment

Yesterday, I have worked on VPN server deployment in our office. We are planning to use our windows server 2003 as a VPN server.

But In our windows server 2003, we have only single NIC.

So, I have deployed VPN server according to single NIC. The procedure as follows

1. Configured RRAS server for single NIC
2. Enable Router to forward PPTP packets (1723)
3. Create a VPN client

After established the VPN connection, the VPN client not able to ping or communicate to the RRAS server. So, I Google it and found the following useful information.

Cannot reach beyond the RRAS server from VPN clients?

Many a time we face this issue - after making a VPN connection to the Routing and Remote Access server, we are unable to reach the machine on the network behind the VPN server. Here are a few tips to troubleshoot this.

Let's consider this example to understand this well.

VPN Client <---Internet---> RRAS server <----------------> LAN client

Static pool configured on RRAS server: 10.0.0.1 - 10.0.0.10 [This means that the VPN clients will get a 10.0.0.X address from this pool]

Public interface of RRAS server to which clients connect: 65.54.46.9

Private interface of RRAS server: 192.168.0.4 (The LAN clients on this network will have addresses 192.168.0.X)

We want to reach the LAN client 192.168.0.16 from the VPN client 10.0.0.2. The following are the things that we need to ensure for this

(1) Need to have proper routes on the VPN client to reach the machines behind the RRAS server

For our example, on the VPN client we need to have a route to reach the LAN client i.e. for 192.168.0.16 as the destination with the VPN server (10.0.0.1) as the gateway as follows.

route add 192.168.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.1 if

This route makes sure that any packet destined to the LAN clients will go out through the PPP adapter of the client to the server's internal interface. As the RRAS server has one interface on the same network as the LAN client, it will route it accordingly to the LAN client.

On the VPN client side, a default route can also be added which can be used to reach the internet [otherwise even internet requests will go through the RAS server].

This concept is called split- tunneling and is explained in the below article. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1003.mspx

(2) Need to have correct routes on the LAN clients behind the RRAS server for the VPN clients

The packet from the VPN client will reach the LAN client if the route on VPN client is proper which is ensured by (1) above.
However, for the packet from LAN client to reach the VPN client, we should have correct routes on the LAN client too. For example, when you try to ping 192.168.0.16 from the VPN client, the routes on the VPN client will aid in the echo request to reach 192.168.0.16.

However, for the echo reply from 192.168.0.16 to reach the VPN client, you LAN client should have a route for the VPN client with gateway as the private interface of RRAS server as follows:

route add 10.0.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.4 if

This way, the echo reply destined to 10.0.0.2 will reach the RRAS server which is the next hop according to the above route. Once it reaches the RRAS server, the server knows how to send it to the client as it will have a route for all clients conencted to it.

Note: On the LAN clients, a reverse route can be added individually on all the clients or all LAN clients may be pointing to some router which then can have a reverse route for 10.0.0.0 network OR RRAS server itself can be the default router for LAN clients

NDTV Indian Of The Year - 2007 "Thalivar Rocks"

The much-awaited and much-anticipated ‘Indian of the Year Award 2008’, launched by NDTV, was finally on declared on 17th January, at Hotel Taj Palace. Started by NDTV a couple of year back, ‘Indian of the Year Award’ has today become one of the biggest honors to be bestowed on outstanding Indians, by a media house. The award is meant for those who have shown promise and excellence in their respective fields. It is a way to honor them for the efforts they have put in for building the ‘Brand India’.

Winners of NDTV Indian of the Year Award

NDTV Leader of the Year: "Dr Manmohan Singh"
NDTV Entertainer of the Year: "Rajnikanth"
NDTV Sports Leader of the Year: "Vishwanathan Anand"
NDTV Music Award: "A R Rehman"
NDTV Business Leader of the Year: "Mukesh Ambani"
NDTV Indian of the Year: "Indian Soldier"
NDTV Global Indian of the Year: "R K Pachauri"

Source : NDTV