Chafa Bolena :)

She is so talented kid and her rendition of Chafa Bolena is awesome, everyone thought that since the 1st antra is a bit easy to sing, Pallavi Samant asked her to sing the 2nd which is more difficult and she sang it much better. So much talent, GOD bless and may she prosper in the future and sing more melodious songs.

Transformers 3 Welcome to the Dark Side in 3D

So Guys did you Enjoy the 3rd installment of the Transformers Franchise??


Guess what I did, not the story as much, which in a way has become predictable, but if you are like me and love watching action, fast cars, high flying jets and ROBOTS well you are in for a surreal treat, put on your 3D glasses, strap you seat belts and hold on to the thrill a minute ride, do read the storyline below, but watching it at the movies is a must!!!!!

As the story goes, In 1961, the Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft transporting a creation capable of ending the war involving the Autobots and Decepticons, crash lands on the far side of the moon. The crash is detected on Earth by NASA, and President John F. Kennedy authorizes a mission to put a man on the moon as a cover for investigating the spacecraft. In 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 lands on the Moon to look into the craft.
In the existing, the Autobots assist the US military in preventing conflicts around the globe. On a mission to Chernobyl to take a look at suspected Alien know-how, Optimus Prime locates a fuel cell from the Ark, it had its journey from Cybertron. The Autobots are attacked by Shockwave who manages to evade. Just after learning of the top-secret mission to the moon, the Autobots travel there to discover the Ark. There they uncover a comatose Sentinel Prime - previous Autobot leader - and his creation, The Pillars, a means of developing a Space Bridge between two points to teleport matter. After coming back to Earth, Optimus uses the energy of his Matrix of Leadership to revive Sentinel Prime.
In the mean time, Sam Witwicky is disappointed that he is unable to work with the Autobots and failing to find a career. He also becomes envious of the close relationship between his new girlfriend, Carly Spencer, and her boss Dylan Gould. Just after finding work, Sam is furnished information by his co-worker Jerry Wang about the Ark before he is assassinated by Laserbeak - a condor-like Decepticon. Sam contacts the now-retired Seymour Simmons, and together they know that Megatron and the Decepticons are murdering individuals linked to the American and Russian space missions to the Ark. They locate two surviving Russian cosmonauts who expose satellite images of a whole bunch of Pillars being stockpiled on the moon. Sam realizes that the Decepticons raided the Ark long before the Autobots mission and intentionally left Sentinel and five Pillars behind to appeal the Autobots into a trap - Sentinel being a solution to activating the Pillars and the Decepticons lacking the means to revive him. The Autobots rush to return Sentinel to their base for his protection but Sentinel betrays them and eliminates Ironhide, revealing he had made a deal with the Decepticons to make sure the Cybertronian Race lived on.
Sentinel works by using the Pillars to transport hundreds of concealed Decepticons from the moon to Earth and Carly is captured by Gould, who is unveiled to be in the Decepticons' service. The Autobots are exiled from Earth at the demand of the Decepticons to stop war but as their ship leaves Earth it is destroyed by Starscream, apparently killing the Autobots. The Decepticons, led by Megatron and Sentinel, seize Chicago as their agents put Pillars around the world. Gould reveals to Carly that the Decepticons plan to transport their homeworld of Cybertron to the Milky Way to use the resources and enslaved humans of Earth to reconstruct their world. Sam teams with Robert Epps to go into Chicago and save Carly, but they are nearly killed by Decepticon forces just before the Autobots intervene; revealing they concealed themselves during the launch of their ship to convince the Decepticons they ended up destroyed.
Functioning together, the Autobots and human soldiers manage to rescue Carly and destroy Soundwave, Barricade, Starscream and Shockwave with Optimus making use of Shockwave's arm-cannon to blast the Control Pillar, disabling the Space Bridge. Sam confronts Gould as he reactivates the Control Pillar. Sam knocks Gould into the Pillar, electrocuting him. Bumblebee and Ratchet show up and destroy the Control Pillar, for good disabling the Bridge and causing the partially transported Cybertron to implode. Optimus and Sentinel fight while Carly convinces Megatron that he will be replaced as leader of the Decepticons by Sentinel. Sentinel severs Optimus's right-arm and prepares to execute him when Megatron intervenes, incapacitating Sentinel. Optimus attacks Megatron, decapitating and killing him. Sentinel pleads for his life but Optimus destroys him. With the Decepticons defeated, Carly and Sam are reunited and the Autobots accept that with Cybertron gone, Earth is now their home.


And BumbleBee OMG isn't he the coolest man I need to buy this TOY!!

Kinect Sports Season2 woohoo!! coming soon

Go to the plate, grab your driver to tee off, or serve an ace as the most popular sports series returns with Kinect "Kinect Sports: Season Two" - only on Xbox 360. With six new and exciting sports to jump, run, kick serve abd basically enjoy, "Kinect Sports: Season Two" pulls the whole family off the couch and turns your living room into a world-class sports arena, where intuitive gameplay and friendly competition prevail. After the best-selling and award-winning "Kinect Sports, "the second season amps up the action and gameplay Play your favourite sports like you've never seen, felt or played - before! Keep them muscles PumpinEEY!!!

Available from 28th Decemeber, but you can pre-order yours at Fishpond!!

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Do you love BOXING, wish you could unwind after a stressed filled day at work by kicking the wind out of someone or may be just build up your stamina, and gain some muscle strength and build those biceps just to impress!!! Go ahead...Check this game out!! Keep PummpinEey!!

Requires Xbox 360 Kinect

Set personal goals and achieve concrete results with unmatched mixed martial arts (MMA) fitness program designed by experts certified by MMA and the UFC and the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). UFC Personal Trainer offers players a full range of effective and hard-MMA-inspired exercises, both predefined and customizable routines to build strength, increase endurance, burn calories and get results. Personalized instruction and advice from MMA coaches guide players to stay motivated to follow, format and keep their goals with a game useful journal. In addition, the Ultimate Game Players mode of training to participate in agility drills with high-impact opportunities to earn rewards and have fun with friends in a multiplayer competitive.

Authentic experience of fitness  Certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), the UFC Personal Trainer designed by leading experts MMA della Mark Cave, Greg Jackson and Javier Mendez to provide a stimulating and UFC motivating fitness that includes the best and most effective exercises used by today's UFC fighters famous.

More than 70 free fight MMA and NASM certified exercises as moves in disciplines such as wrestling, kickboxing and Muay Thai, which is designed to improve strength, endurance, and conditioning through the use of different procedures. Every game is a routine specialized to target specific muscle groups, and the author of individual skills and fitness goals.

Training programs customized to focus on your specific fitness goals the construction of a single routine for up to 12 different exercises. Each routine can be modified to increase or decrease the intensity of the pre-set game speed, which allows players to fully maximize their educational experience.

You also receive advice and encouragement throughout, the suitability of choosing a goal and work with a trainer for a personalized teaching MMA. MMA inspired players will learn training techniques and exercises and authentic healthy lifestyle, allowing them to burn calories, increase strength, lose weight and achieve the objectives through a complete fitness experience.

Training mode:
UFC is based on several popular UFC fighters and mimics theor training regime, their rhythms and timing based on agility drills that take advantage of punches and kicks sequences. Players can unlock a variety of exercises to earn rewards, each with increasing difficulty and challenge your friends in a multiplayer split screen.

A special program focused on three distinct goals, weight loss, increase strength and improve the performance, the players can choose from a default 30 or 60 days of the program that best meets their needs fitness. Selected program populates the game with a schedule of daily routine to follow and tracks user performance.

Monitoring Progress: Game players can view the complete schedule of their fitness activities, including specific procedures, time management and more. A calendar function constantly monitors the developments and makes recommendations, which allows players to meet the desired results.

UFC Trainer (Kinect)

 

Green Lantern (Laptop) I mean

Who said IT companies are not Green enough!!!!

Some of the colourful moments which happen in my otherwise co IT Job

Unblock & Streams

A look at how to unblock files and the use of streams in NTFS, although streaming is an old feature in NTFS, Powershell puts a new perspective on things.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/04/02/scripting-wife-learns-about-unblocking-files-in-powershell.aspx

VPN using Powershell

Goal here was to dial in to the work place VPN, map network drives (the user has access to), map the printers the user has access.

This is my first attempt at writing a script in Powershell, I am no programmer, I have little to very less knowledge about how to remember syntax, use the logic etc.  I wrote this little script using help from various sources and then tweaked it to achieve what I set out to.
The script begins after this line: -


#region main script
#Prompts for Credential and stores it in a variable.
#This piece of the script dials your VPN connection, based on the credentials supplied. Note your supplied credentials should have access to use VPN.
$credential = $host.UI.PromptForCredential("AnyName", "Please enter your domain User name and password to connect to the VPN", "", "domainname") 
rasdial "VPN Connection" $credential.GetNetworkCredential().UserName $credential.GetNetworkCredential().Password


#Maps the network drives
$objNet = New-Object -ComObject WScript.Network
$objNet.MapNetworkDrive("H:", "\\servername\sharename\" + $credential.GetNetworkCredential().UserName, $false, $credential.UserName, $credential.GetNetworkCredential().Password)
$objNet.MapNetworkDrive("V:","\\servername\sharename")
$objNet.MapNetworkDrive("G:","\\servername\sharename")
$objNet.MapNetworkDrive("K:","\\servername\sharename")
$objNet.MapNetworkDrive("", "\\printservername\ipc$", $false, $credential.UserName, $credential.GetNetworkCredential().Password) #for mapping IPC$ to ensure printers get mapped.


# Maps the Printer. Remember we need to pass the credentials to be able to map the printers. So we use the IPC$ to use the credentials already supplied.
#Main Script
$PrinterPath = "\\printservername\printersharename"
$net = new-Object -com WScript.Network
$net.AddWindowsPrinterConnection($PrinterPath)


$PrinterPath1 = "\\printservername\printersharename"
$net1 = New-Object -com WScript.Network
$net1.AddWindowsPrinterConnection($PrinterPath1)


$PrinterPath2 = "\\printservername\printersharename"
$net2 = New-Object -com WScript.Network
$net2.AddWindowsPrinterConnection($PrinterPath2)

End of Script.

This book has been a guide for me to get to know about the basics of Powershell 2.0

Grant or deny permissions to access a user's Exchange 2007 mailbox

Grant or deny permissions to access a user's Exchange 2007 mailbox

Nice, simple and easy way to assign permissions on mailboxes. EMS could not get simpler and powerful than this.

Sysinternals Utilities

A systems administrator must have.

If you are a Windows systems administrator and have been stuck as you will always be to find what the heck is going on under the hood of your beloved servers (OS only), keep these tools on you, (in a USB would do just fine) they dig deep in to the deep realms of Windows Server (Active Directory and all) and show you stuff which you cant see on the surface. Cheers and enjoy.

Sysinternals Utilities

Description of security events in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008

Well lets get started on my blog related to Information Technology.

To start off I will be sharing with you a link from Microsoft.com which gives you an overview of various changes made to the event id numbers in Windows Vista and onwards.

Keep this list handy whilst troubleshooting.

Description of security events in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008

Mausam Zindagi

This song reminds me of how life can truly hurt you, I know life is one of the rarest gift, but it also comes with its own trials and tribulations, whenever you feel that you are getting so much out of life, you are happy and loving every minute of it, just listen to this song from the movie Mausam.

Zindagi ne zindagi bhar gham diye
Jitne bhi mausam diye sab nam diye.

Life, through life, has but given me grief
Damp have been all seasons to no relief.

Jab tadapta hai kabhi, apna koi
Khoon ke aansoo, rula de bebasi

When suffers he who is our own
Tears of blood flow in helpless groan.

Jee ke phir karna kya mujko aisi zindagi? (Very valid question!! :-D )

What then do I have in living such a life?

Jisne zakhmon ko nahin marham diye
Zindagi ne zindagi bhar gham diye.

To one who never had a salve for a wound
Life but gave a lifetime's grief, festooned.

Apne bhi pesh aayen, humse ajnabee
Waqt ki saazish, koi samjha nahin.

One's own appear to us a stranger
Time's ploy, who understands ever

Be-iraada kuch khatayein humse ho gayi.

Unintentional, I have erred seldom

Raah mein patthar meri har dam diye
Zindagi ne zindagi bhar gham diye.

On my path, every stone gave me strength (not really sure of the interpretation here)
Life but gave me grief of a lifetime's length.

Ek mukammal kashmakash hai zindagi
Usne humse ki kabhi na dosti

Life is one wholly chaotic place
Me, in friendship, never did it embrace.

Jab mili mujhko aansoo ke woh taufey de gayi

Whenever we met, she gave me gifts of tears.

Hans sake hum aise mauke kam diye
Zindagi ne zindagi bhar gham diye.

Life gave me fewer moments where I'd smile
Life, with a lifetime's grief did me revile.