Troubleshooting Software Distribution Using Custom Error Codes

Troubleshooting Software Distribution Using Custom Error Codes
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Top torrent search engines

Top torrent search engines

1.Thepiratebay.org
The Pirate Bay is a Swedish website that indexes and tracks BitTorrent files. It bills itself as "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker" and is ranked as the 106th most popular website by Alexa Internet. The website is primarily funded with advertisements shown next to torrent listings. Initially established in November 2003 by the Swedish anti-copyright organization Piratbyrån (The Piracy Bureau), it had been operating as a separate organization since October 2004.

2.Mininova.org
Mininova is one of the largest BitTorrent index sites. It is a directory and search engine for many kinds of torrent files. The site is based in the Netherlands and started in January 2005 as a successor to the Suprnova.org, which went offline at the end of 2004 due to legality issues. Visitors of Mininova can anonymously upload torrents to this site, tracked by any BitTorrent tracker. Mininova does not allow pornographic submissions nor do they log the IP addresses of visitors.

3.Isohunt.com
isoHunt is a BitTorrent index with over 1.7 million torrents in its database and 20 million peers from indexed torrents. With 7.4 million unique visitors as of May 2006, isoHunt is one of the most popular BitTorrent search engines. Thousands of torrents are added to it each day as well as deleted. IsoHunt users perform over 40 million unique searches per month. On Oct 19, 2008, isoHunt passed the 1 petabyte mark for torrents indexed globally.

4.Nowtorrents.com
Find all the best torrents online in real-time! is an advanced real-time search engine for bit-torrents. Our servers scan the largest torrent websites on the internet and come up with the best results. is also able to detect and remove fake/dead torrents. This websites is a legal website as we do not link directly to the .torrent files.


5.Btjunkie.org
BTJunkie is an advanced BitTorrent search engine. It uses a web crawler to search for torrent files from other torrent sites and store it in its database. It has over 2,180,000 active torrents and about 4,200 torrents added daily (compared to runner-up Torrent Portal with 1,500), making it the largest torrent site indexer on the web. Btjunkie is the 7th most popular bittorrent site as of 2008. BTJunkie has moved to Canada for legal reasons.

6. Tnaflix.com
(Adult)



7. Zoozle.org
zoozle is a Torrent & Rapidshare search engine and a news directory.Our goal is to provide an easy-to-use search of torrent downloads and a p2p news directory. We update our index on a hourly basis, provide rss feeds and an easy to handle news archive, where you find all the newly indexed files.


8.Thepiratecity.org
Watch Movies Online for Free. Watch the latest movies online. Free Full Movie Downloads. Watch the latest Movies online.


9.Vertor.com
Vertor.com - only verified torrents. Download music, TV shows, software, video films here.



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Usering OpenID as login ID

1. My blogger OpenID:
brothertu.blogspot.com

2. To allow OpenID users to post comments on your blog (for blogger only):
http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83064
Go to Settings->Comments tab and select "Registered Users" or "Anyone" for the "Who Can Comment" option



Reference reading:

Blogger Becomes an OpenID Provider
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogger-becomes-openid-provider.html

Federated Login for Google Account Users
http://code.google.com/intl/zh-CN/apis/accounts/docs/OpenID.html


OpenID 登陆的代码，支持Google 、Yahoo 、Windows Live ID，带演示
http://wangblog.org/2009/05/openid-google-yahoo-windows-live-id.html


Windows Live ID当作OpenID使用
http://wangblog.org/2009/04/windows-live-idopenid.html

Google的OpenID
http://wangblog.org/2009/04/googleopenid.html

some good stuff for iphone

Turn your iphone to a wifi spot
http://www.everythingicafe.com/forum/iphone-modifications/mywi-released-turn-your-iphone-into-a-wifi-hotspot-51017.html


Stereo bluetooth earphone for iphone 3G/3GS
http://modmyi.com/forums/accessory-review/517681-motorola-s9-hd-a2dp-how-good.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090705190555AAeMqWj

RSOP.MSC error: 64 help string specified more than once

Problem：
Got following errors when ran rsop.msc on a XP machine:
1. The latest versions of the adm files below are not available

2. The following error occurred in c:\windows\inf\aer_1044.amd on line 189:
error 64 help string specified more than once
The file can not be loaded.

Resolution:
Actually that's a bug: 574387 - DTS: Installation of .NET Framework causes Multi Language
Administrative Templates to display in RSOP console, you can call Microsoft to check it..
Also, you can follow steps below to resolve your issue:

Since there is no country specific version of .Net Framework 2.0 it
install the adm files for all of the languages supported. In order to only see the
results for US English remove the following adm files.
Search for the files with .adm extension, you may get the result as below.
AER_1025.ADM
AER_1028.ADM
AER_1029.ADM
AER_1030.ADM
AER_1031.ADM
AER_1032.ADM
AER_1035.ADM
AER_1036.ADM
AER_1037.ADM
AER_1038.ADM
AER_1040.ADM
AER_1041.ADM
AER_1042.ADM
AER_1043.ADM
AER_1044.ADM
AER_1045.ADM
AER_1046.ADM
AER_1049.ADM
AER_1053.ADM
AER_1055.ADM
AER_2052.ADM
AER_2070.ADM
AER_3076.ADM
AER_3082.ADM
The only AER_*.adm that needs to be there is AER_1033.adm. The 1033 designation is
the US country code.
So only keep AER_1033.adm file and delete rest of the files, close and reopen
RSOP.


additional information:
Have a look at %windir%\debug\usermode\userenv.log for more info.
If there's not enough info. in that log, enable verbose logging by settingthe following registry value to 30002 (Hex).
HKLM\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows NT\ CurrentVersion\ Winlogon\UserEnvDebugLevel

Reference reading:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/File_Servers/Active_Directory/Q_23762177.html

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Microsoft_Operating_Systems/Server/2003_Server/Q_22628560.html

How can a VPN user get the group policy remotely

Problem:
When connecting office network from home via VPN, the user is not getting group policy applied on his home machine even it's a member of office domain.

Scenarios:

Remote VPN (PPTP, L2TP)
If the tunnel is not available at the time of logon the GP will not be applied. i.e. if it is a VPN connection that you are establishing after the remote user logs on to the PC then it is not possible to apply group policies, unless cached from a previous connection, on the LAN.

In order for the client to get the Group Policy, Winlogon has to get invoked for the logon request and this only happens with the "Logon with Dial-Up Networking". You must use windows VPN client in this case.

Site to site VPN:
If it is a site to site VPN connection there should be no problem, though certain policy settings need to be applied from group policy to enable slow link over VPN.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759191(WS.10).aspx

Detecting Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

Detecting Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2009/05/29/detecting-visual-studio-2008-service-pack-1.aspx

Detecting Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/12/17/detecting-visual-studio-2005-service-pack-1.aspx

windows user cannot access sql server problem

Problem:
We are running SQL Server 2005 on a Windows 2008 server and I have a situation where some of my users are unable to connect to the SQL Server unless they are a member of the sysadmin group.
Any attempts by these users to login result in a login failed,
Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 11
Which indicates that it is a valid user who does not have access to this SQL Server.

Solution 1:
Add user to local admin group, then use "run as administrator" to start SQL management studio. Use can access sql server database.

solution 2:
Enabling the TSQL TCP endpoint for the 'public' role fixed the problem.SQL management studio -> server properties-> permission->public->enable "connectSQL"

Reference reading
Users are unable to connect to SQL Server 2005 unless they are in the sysadmin group
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sqlsecurity/thread/309236fa-d86d-4294-a156-729e2c28b63f

Understanding "login failed" (Error 18456) error messages in SQL Server 2005
http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2006/02/21/536201.aspx

Troubleshooting: Login Failed for User 'x'
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms366351.aspx