A true Super king: MSD

Now no need to be so surprised. No i haven't changed my side and i am still a strong supporter of the Kolkata Knoght Riders.
But then after watching today's game i was all praise for the Chennai Super Kings. Man they know how to bring Victory from the clutches of the Defeat.
And above all the credit for this win goes to one man, Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Boy surely he can fight; and all the pyrotechnics he displayed during his batting just added to the charm he has, as one of the best captains India has recently unearthed.
He surely does not belong to this era where a "hard luck" comment can make one loose his temper(and also crores of moolahs).
The calmness he exhibits even when the chips are down for his team is truly commendable.
It is this super cool nature of him that makes him truly a leader and trust me we would love to have several more of his calibre.


As far as the Bangalore Royals are concerned; they have simply lost the plot.
I mean at a point i felt that they were purposely playing bad to bring an early end to all of their miseries.
They had the entire match in their hands but then they fell like a pack of cards.
Only god can now save them(and Mr. Mallya's money), for they lack a desire to win.


The entire IPL tamasha has won the heart's of many and i am no exception. So i thought why not start penning down some of my feelings regarding the same.
So here i am jst opening my heart out and cheering for a great win for the Chennai Super Kings.

But as far as my personal favourite for the tournament as well as for tomorrow's match is concerned they are the Kolkata Knight Riders. They bring a zeal to the game they play and the atmosphere during their games almost becomes electrifying.
But then this is a new format of the game and it is too soon to be predicting a winner for the tournament. So lets just wait and enjoy this cricketing extravaganza as it unfolds.....

Unhiding of Hidden Folders (caused by viruses) on your flash drive or PC

One of the viruses to hit my flash drive created a sort of problem for me to access the folders i had created on the drive by making them super hidden.
The data was of great importance and so i thought of getting to the root of the problem.

Initially i thought that i had lost the data forever, but later it appeared that the flash drive was showing that it was not empty but still was carrying the data(I saw the capacity of the drive and made this out.)


This issue was also related to a virus. So i would advise anyone facing a similar problem to perform several full system scans.

Here is a free on-line scan offered by BitDefender: http://tinyurl.com/aauh5 .
And another by TrendMicro: : http://tinyurl.com/2xis .

using AVG Free (http://tinyurl.com/2mlwm7) or your own anti-virus program, with the latest virus definitions, perform a full system scan in Safe Mode. You can also use McAfee Stinger (http://tinyurl.com/1x4v).

If you determine that there is indeed a virus involved,
I recommend you go here:
http://tinyurl.com/hnsvd .
TrendMicro has always been my favorite source for virus information and removal.

My second choice would be BitDefender. Here's a link to their extensive library of free removal tools:
http://tinyurl.com/y6opnp

NOW... to fix the problem with un-hiding hidden files...

Open My Computer or Windows Explorer.
Open the Tools menu and select Folder Options.
Click on the View tab.
Put a dot in front of 'Show hidden files and folders.'
You can also remove the check in front of 'Hide protected operating system files' if you want. Be sure you click on the Apply button and then the OK buttons to save your changes.

If that does not correct the issue, the next step involves making a change in the system registry.

***Warning: Performing manual changes to the Windows Registry incorrectly can make Windows inoperable. It is always advised to perform a Registry backup and setting an XP Restore point prior to making changes to the Registry.***

That being said...

Go to Start - Run (type) regedit - (right click on the little my computer icon, and export the whole thing.)

find this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Advanced. Go to the rightside of the window, where the values are. Find the value "Hidden" . Rightclick it and modify it to 1.

The bold text below is from my own registry (Windows XP). Copy all of the text between the dashed lines and paste it into Notepad, next rename the notepad file's extension (.txt), so it has the extension .reg ,and then doubleclick it.
(NOTE: if you do not see the file's three letter extension, go to My Computer - Tools - Folder Options and remove the check in front of 'Hide extensions for known file types' and click Apply):

--------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Advanced \Folder \Hidden ]
"Text"="@shell32.dll,-30499"
"Type"="group"
"Bitmap"
=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,\
00,25,00,5c,00,73,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,53,00,\
48,00,45,00,4c,00,4c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,34,00,00,\
00
"HelpID"="shell.hlp#51131"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Advanced \Folder \Hidden \NOHIDDEN]
"RegPath"="Software \\Microsoft \\Windows \\CurrentVersion \\Explorer \\Advanced"
"Text"="@shell32.dll,-30501"
"Type"="radio"
"CheckedValue"=dword:00000002
"ValueName"="Hidden"
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000002
"HKeyRoot"=dword:80000001
"HelpID"="shell.hlp#51104"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Advanced \Folder \Hidden \SHOWALL]
"RegPath"="Software \\Microsoft \\Windows \\CurrentVersion \\Explorer \\Advanced"
"Text"="@shell32.dll,-30500"
"Type"="radio"
"CheckedValue"=dword:00000001
"ValueName"="Hidden"
"DefaultValue"=dword:00000002
"HKeyRoot"=dword:80000001
"HelpID"="shell.hlp#51105"

--------------------------
You may also want to try this Registry change:
[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Advanced
Data Type: REG_DWORD [Dword Value] // Value Name: ShowSuperHidden
Modify/Create the Value Name [ShowSuperHidden] according to the Value Data listed below.
Value Data: [0 = ShowSuperHidden Disabled / 1 = ShowSuperHidden Enabled]
Exit Registry and Reboot

.
I hope this helps.

Some mind boggling Questions

I just recently came across few of these questions of which i was able to answer only 4 correctly.
So i thought why not put them up and see how others fare at them. Do try them and tell me how much you'll scored. The answers are mentioned at the end of this post itself.

So here are the Questions:

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in?

2. What was YAHOO initially known as till 1994?

3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?

4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?

5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?

7. The 1984-85 season. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot - India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?

8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?

9. From what four word expression does the word `goodbye` derive?

10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?

11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th?

12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007?

13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?

14. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?

15. Which is the only sport which is not allowed to play left handed?



Answers:
1. Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym Ajax ..

2. "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" after its founders name. However in 1994 they decided to rename it as YAHOO because they liked the word's general definition, which comes from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth."

3. ADIDAS is named after its founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler and is not an acronym of All Day I Dream About Sports as per the poular belief.

4. STAR stands for Satellite Television Asian Region.

5. ICICI stands for Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India.

6. A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal dozen.

7. That match was abandoned after people heard the news of Indira Gandhi being killed.

8. Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is Indian's National anthem and another one is for Bangladesh- (Amar Sonar* *Bangla)

9. Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you'.

10. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa.

11. South Korea ..

12. Because 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR , as it was known during the cold war)

13. Geoffrey Boycott

14. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

15. POLO.