Buttar

Azhar Ali Buttar has 20 years of experience working in different domains within IT industry. From network protocols to server hardening, he knows about multiple areas and has been working side by side with MNCs to provide cost-effective security and infrastructure solutions. Azhar’s expertise lies in off-site and hybrid infrastructure deployment using multiple platforms which includes, but not limited to, Azure, AWS, Google and Private Clouds. He has also been leading several infrastructure and security teams to deploy and perform security optimization in multiple projects, and now leads Nocastra with his decision-making and client-oriented skills.

dot net framework 4 has been release

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Dot Net Developers!!! I think its a big news that dot net 4 (.net 4) has been released and available for download. The .NET Framework is Microsoft’s comprehensive and consistent programming model for building applications that have visually stunning user experiences, seamless and secure communication, and more. It is highly compatible with applications that are … Read more

Gmail: ultimate new features, drag drop attachment and calendar integration

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Composing an e-mail now a days is very common and everyone use it. E-mail composing can take a long time if you have to send more than 100 or 200 e-mails for this purpose you need to find an efficient and easy to use solution. Gmail is offering very important and time saving features. Picture attachment is no more a deal to browse and find it in five or six steps. You just need to locate the picture and drag to your email composing screen and you are done with attachments. There are few other very important features that can help you save a lot of precious time and those are integration of your calendar with your Gmail account to manage your tasks and appointments.

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How to calculate hard drive speed

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Hard disk data transfer speed can count a lot when you like to transfer a large amount of data from one computer to another. If you like to measure the speed of your hard drive you can use under given tool for this purpose. This tool is also usable to calculate the speed to floppy drive, memory cards, memory sticks and CD-ROMs. Its a very simple and easy to use application and there is no need to install. Just unzip to any directory and double click the exe file to view graphical results like given as under;

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How to resolve IRQ conflicts

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IRQ is called Interrupt Request  and the devices use this to get an ID to use processor resources. I would like to quote an example here and that is, when you press a key on your keyboard it sends a signal to the processor via an IRQ channel to let it know that it needs to process some data and in response processor spare some resources to process the request. There can be more than one scenarios where  IRQ conflicts can occur when new hardware is installed or reconfigured. For example, it can cause problems if you have your mouse on COM 1 and a modem on COM 3. let me share a list of IRQs;

IRQs

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5 ways to view your public IP address

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1. whatismyip.com

Use your internet explorer and open http://www.whatismyip.com. It will show  your public IP address. This website can do more than one task and is really very helpful in daily life for IT operations.

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2. cmyip.com

Its a very simple and easy to use website, you just need to open internet explorer and enter http://www.cmyip.com web address to see you public IP address.

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Travel With your portable LINUX applications

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Portable Applications for Linux provide you the ability to carry your Linux programs, settings, and documents along with you, wherever you go. Your privacy is protected, as none of your settings are left behind on the computer you used them on, and, of course, Portable Apps for Linux is free software, so you can share, … Read more

Is Windows 7 Better Than Mac OSX?

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This article has been written by Sanix from Technize.com. Reach him on Facebook and Twitter.

When Windows Vista came out, most of users of Windows were very much disappointed. Windows vista was not at all good as it looked like Microsoft had released a raw version of Windows even before testing it fully. But Windows 7 was rolled out quickly in order to fill the gap which Windows Vista had made and it seems that Microsoft has been successful to a very much extent.

Windows 7 has surpassed 10% of the market share. Let’s look at the comparison of Windows Vista and Windows 7 market share penetration after their release.

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Windows 7 Crashes at USB eject 0X0000007E Or 0X00000050

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Windows 7, no doubt very good and efficient in most of the cases like hardware utilization and performance but have few very common flaws. You can experience these kinds of flaws at every level of windows usage, Like if you update any hardware driver in windows it can give you a blue screen of death (BSOD). In windows 7 this issue can even come to your screen and annoying while plugging out the USB drive from your windows 7 system. If you don’t safely remove they USB drive from your windows 7 machine it will surely take you to this annoying screen. I was trying to find some solution for this error and found it in windows updates. let me share this windows update with your guys so that if you experience this issue, just install the update and save your computer from this crash.

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Adobe flash player 10.1 with hardware acceleration

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Adobe flash player 10.1 with hardware acceleration (as promised by the adobe) is released as RC (release candidate) and is available for download for PCs and notebooks. A prerelease version of Flash Player 10.1 is now available for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris operating systems.

adobe flash player hardware acceleration
Key New Features

Ubiquitous Reach
Global error handling
Designed for mobility
Expanded options for high quality media delivery

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