Microsoft Outlook 2003 tips and tricks

 Microsoft Outlook 2003 tips and tricks:

 

• Set a reminder to reply to a message    Right-click the message you want to set the reminder for, point to Follow Up, and then click Add Reminder. In the Due By list, click the date when you have to complete the reply. In the second list, click a time. In the Flag color list, click the flag color you want, and then click OK.
• Add your own words to a follow-up flag for a new message    Click the Message Flag button and then type the text you want in the Flag to box.
• Send a message to multiple people without revealing other recipients' identities    To send a message to someone without other recipients of the message knowing, use the Bcc line in the message. Bcc stands for blind carbon copy. If you add someone's name to the Bcc line, a copy of the message is sent to that person, but his or her name is not visible to other recipients.

Protecting Yourself From Spam, block an email address in yahoo mail, prevent Spam on yahoo

Protecting Yourself From Spam, block an email address in yahoo mail, prevent Spam on yahoo:


Here is how to do it :

-In the upper-right corner of your Yahoo! Mail page, click the Options link, then select Mail Options from the menu.
-Click the Spam link .
-In the Add a blocked address box, type the email address you want to block, then click the Add button.
Note:To block email messages from the whole domain (ex: baddomain.com), type the domain in this box.
-To remove or unblock an address or domain from your list, select the entry to remove, then click the Remove button.


Enjoy!

Nokia Secret Codes, secret codes for Nokia

Nokia Secret Codes:

 *#06# For checking the IMEI(international Mobile Equipment Identity)
*#7780# Reset to factory defaults
 *#0000# To view software version
 *#2820# the Bluetooth device address
 *#746025625# Sim clock allowed status

#PW+1234567890+1# = GIVES PROVIDER-LOCK STATUS

#PW+1234567890+2# = GIVES NETWORK-LOCK STATUS

#PW+1234567890+3# = GIVES COUNTRY-LOCK STATUS

#PW+1234567890+4# = GIVES SIM-CARD-LOCK STATUS.

*#92702689# (*#WAR0ANTY#)  to enter the service menu type-

Enjoy!

Speed up Internet Surfing

Speed up Internet Surfing

You can increase the speed for surfing the internet in several way but  i want to mention the following easy way. The Windows XP normally limit the internet speed by reserving a part of bandwidth. In this easy way I just only change the Bandwidth Limit value to zero.

• Go to Start > Run.
• Type gpedit.msc then click OK. Windows XP will lead you to Group Policy page.
• In your left hand of the page, click on Administrative Templates which is under Computer Configuration.
• Double click Network which is in the right hand of the page.
• Double click QoS Packet Scheduler.

• Double click Limit reservable bandwidth.
• Select the Enabled option.
• Now you are able to see the message Bandwidth Limit (%): . In this box let you change the value to zero and then click OK.

Finding the sender IP address, yahoo, hotmail, Gmail

1-Finding the sender IP address(HOTMAIL)

-Log into your Hotmail account with your username and password.
- Click on the Mail tab on the top.
-Open the mail.
-If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed . To display the headers,

* Click on Options on the top-right corner
* In the Mail Options page, click on Mail Display Settings
* In Message Headers, make sure Advanced option is checked.
* Click on Ok button

* Go back to the mails and open that mail.
- If you find a header with X-Originating-IP: followed by an IP address, that is the sender’s IP address
* Hotmail headers : Daniel ,In this case the IP address of the sender is [68.34.60.59]. This is be the IP address of the sender.
- If you find a header with Received: from followed by a Gmail proxy like this
* Hotmail headers : Daniel
* Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[]. In this case, the IP address of the sender is [69.140.7.58].
-Or else if you have headers like this
* Hotmail headers : Daniel
* Look for Received: from followed by IP address within square brackets[].
In this case, the IP address of the sender is [61.83.145.129] .
-If you have multiple Received: from headers, eliminate the ones that have proxy.anyknownserver.com.


2-Finding IP Address of the sender in Yahoo Mail

- Log into your Yahoo! mail with your username and password
- Click on Inbox or whichever folder you have stored your mail.
-Open the mail.
-If you do not see the headers above the mail message, your headers are not displayed . To display the headers,
* Click on Options on the top-right corner
* In the Mail Options page, click on General Preferences
* Scroll down to Messages where you have the Headers option
* Make sure that Show all headers on incoming messages is selected
* Click on the Save button
* Go back to the mails and open that mail.
- You should see similar headers like this:
* Yahoo! headers : Daniel.
- Look for Received: from followed by the IP address between square brackets [ ]. Here, it is 202.65.138.109.
- That is be the IP address of the sender!


3-Finding IP Address of the sender in Gmail

When you receive an email, you receive more than just the message. The email comes with headers that carry important information that can tell where the email was sent from and possibly who sent it. For that, you would need to find the IP address of the sender. The tutorial below can help you find the IP address of the sender.
* Log into your Gmail account with your username and password.
* Open the mail.
* To display the headers,
o Click on More options corresponding to that thread. You should get a bunch of links. Click on Show original
* You should get headers like this:
o Gmail headers : xyzw
* Look for Received: from followed by a few hostnames and an IP address between square brackets. In this case, it is A.B.C.D
* That is be the IP address of the sender!!

unix tips, convert man pages to text files, linux tips, solaris tips, How to replace text in multiple files, execute commands at specified times

 Hi
Below some important general unix tips:

• How to run a command to a set of files (The while read command can handle names with spaces but you need to quote the variable after):

  [unix]$ for i in `ls *mp3`; do cp $i $i.bak; done

  [unix]$ ls *mp3 | while read i; do cp "$i" "$i with more spaces"; done

• How to rename part of a file:

  [unix]$ echo filename | sed 's/file/another/'

• How to replace text in multiple files:

  [unix]$ sed -e 's/oldtext/newtext/' -i file1 file2 file3 ...

• How to delete lines matching a pattern in some files:

  [unix]$ sed -e '/pattern/ d' -i file1 file2 file3 ...

• How to change all letters to lowercase:

  [unix]$ echo FilENamE | tr A-Z a-z

• A good way to change all filenames in a directory to lowercase:
  This handles a colored ls (hence the quotes around ls, but you can use any file list output, i.e. find) and names with spaces (hence the while read and not the for).

  [unix]$ "ls" | while read name; do mv "$name" "`echo $name | tr A-Z a-z`"; done

• How to convert man pages to text files:

  [unix]$ man man | col -b

• How to list all the open ports and programs:

  [linux]$ netstat -apne --inet
  [freebsd]$ sockstat

• How to list all the open files and programs:

  [linux]$ lsof
  [freebsd]$ fstat

• How to find information about an ip (i.e. 10.0.0.0):

  [unix]$ host 10.0.0.0
  [unix]$ dig -x 10.0.0.0

• How to find information about an ip owner (i.e. 10.0.0.0):

  [unix]$ whois -h whois.arin.net 10.0.0.0

• How to find out the mailserver for an ip:

  [unix]$ dig mx some.domain.name.net

• How to generate a filename with yesterdays date (i.e. for logfiles/backups):

  [linux]$ touch logfile-`date -dyesterday '+%Y-%m-%d'`
  [freebsd]$ touch logfile-`date -v-1d '+%Y-%m-%d'`
  
  

Commands/options you should know about, read the man pages

• tail - display the end of a file
• head - display the beggining of a file
• xargs - convert stdin to command line arguments
• nmap - network scanner
• watch (linux) - run a command periodically and watch the output
• watch (freebsd) - monitor a tty
• lsof - lists the open files
• strace (linux) - trace the system calls of a program
• truss (freebsd) - trace the system calls of a program
• calc - command line calculator program
• bc - another command line calculator program
• dc - command line RPN calculator program
• du - how much disk space is being used by something
• df - disk free, how much free space there is
• touch - creates an epty file or updates the timestamp on a file
• diff - show the difference between 2 files
• strings - show the strings in a file (useful for binaries)
• file - tells you what type a file is
• finger - find out information about users
• w / who - who is currently on the machine and what are they doing
• id - tells you who you are
• uname - tells you basic information about the system.
• whois - information about hosts
• crontab - execute commands at specified times
• last - last users to log into the system
• mail - very basic mailer, useful for redirection
• nice/renice - set the niceness ("priority") level of a program
• nohup - leave a program running after logging off
• screen - virtual terminal for leaving programs running
• psnup - print multiple pages in one page
• time - time the execution of a command
• wc - word count, tells you the size in bytes, words and lines
• which / whereis - locates commands
• locate - locates files
• whatis - gives brief summary of a comm
• and
• wget / fetch - get files off the net
• talk - chat with other users on the system
• write / wall - send messages to users of the system
• zcat - cat gzipped files
• ln - link files
• sleep - wait a specified amount of time
• md5sum (linux) - calculate the md5 signature of a file
• md5 (freebsd) - calculate the md5 signature of a file
• enscript - convert text files to ps
• awk, sed - useful scripting programs
• cat, echo, more/less, find, grep - you need to know these, it's not an option.

Resource: http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/~isolis/knowledge/unix-tips/

Access task manager without control-alt-delete

 Problem:
How to access task manager without control-alt-delete:

solution:

1-Option1:
 right click on an empty area of your taskbar, and clicking on "Task Manager".

2-Option2:
Use the key combination:   Ctrl+Shift+Esc


I hope this helps...