New Beginning..........3

Things have gone south ..... too difficult to go ahead. But I am determined get kick started ... may be 3 - 4 months later ???? lets see ......

good I need luck!!!!!

Samplele of the dirtiest websites

Norton released a sample of the dirtiest websites:

17ebook.com
aladel.net
bpwhamburgorchardpark.org
clicnews.com
dfwdiesel.net
divineenterprises.net
fantasticfilms.ru
gardensrestaurantandcatering.com
ginedis.com
gncr.org
hdvideoforums.org
hihanin.com
kingfamilyphotoalbum.com
likaraoke.com
mactep.org
magic4you.nu
marbling.pe.kr
nacjalneg.info
pronline.ru
purplehoodie.com
qsng.cn
seksburada.net
sportsmansclub.net
stock888.cn
tathli.com
teamclouds.com
texaswhitetailfever.com
wadefamilytree.org
xnescat.info
yt118.com

New Beginning..........2

Sales, Marketting, Web Development, Business planning, Financial Budgets, Brand Development, Resource management .... bloody hell .. big words .. absolutely tiresome meetings .... and a screwed up weekend ..... that's what it is .... yeah ... the new beginning .....

Business doesn't come easy does it???? and Goals are never easy to achieve ......

I'm on track though [;)]

New Beginning..... 1

There is a new beginning in my life ... whats that?? no no ... its not the girl I am talking about.

Well, I've always been interested in being self employed or business owner, entrepreneur (good words aye?) but I reckon now is a time to start up with something. I have tried number of times to start up on my own, but always had hurdles to overcome; thats life. Its tough ... and not piece of cake, but hope it works. Its been a while since the the concept was concived in my brain, but I have started working on it only since a month.

lets see how it goes, will write about it more .... soon...

Consumer Survey - Contaxys

Hello Friends,

I am conducting a consumer survey for a new project.

I would really appreciate if you can spend 2 minutes of your time to fill it in on the following link.

SURVEY LINK

URL: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=ckJweno5YzFhX1U4VmxUdVpFQmQwbmc6MA..

you do not need to register or provide your contact details.


thanks,

Mihir Sangani

Auxiliary Copy Not Running

Problem: Auxiliary copy not running properly in Commvault Galaxy
Error: While accessing a drive the Serial Number obtained is different from expected Serial Number.

Change before the problem arise: None

Now, there are several possibilities for the error.
1: One or more of the drives from the library were replaced but after replacing a drive they were not updated on media agent using "Library and drive configuration"
2: Media agent is not avaialble
3: Drive is not working / marked offline / faulty

Possible Solution for 1:
- Suspend all Jobs
- Stop the media agent services on all media agents
- Go to Control Panel > Library and drive configuration > Select all Media agents > Run Detection on all media agents.

This will update all the drive serial numbers and register them with comcell. Now if any of the drives were replaced, they will be updated in comcell.

Now, resume all the jobs. If you still get the same error then kill that job and initiate another job. Even after initiating a new job, you get the same error then try the work around in 2.

Possible work around for 2:

Keep in mind that all jobs should be suspended at this time but all the media agent services should be working.

This is when you find that media agent on which the library is supposed to be "seen" i.e. the media agent which controls the library is unavailable.

- Try to change the library controller to another media agent
Comcell > Storage Resources > Media agents > Expand"Avaialbe Media agent" > select the library > Right click > Properties > Library controller > Change > Select the alternative library controller > Reset controller.

- Go to Policies > Storage Policies > Select the Policy for which you are running an auxilary copy > Right click > Properties > Data Path > Add > Add the datapath which is the library controller you just selected in the previous step.
- Mark the new datapath as default
- remove the old data path
- kill the current auxiliary copy job
- start new auxiliary copy job
- make sure that it selected "new" library controller(the one you just selected) as the controller for the job.

This will resolve the issue.

The only solution for 3:

- Replace the drive and follow the solution for 1:

There are few other possibilities depending on the errors you receive, if you need more details then feel free to drop me a comment with details, I will be happy to help if I can.


PS: The problem I discovered while trying to resolve this issue is the library was lost from SAN path because of the HBA being disabled by the admin team on the media agent that was the data path for the auxiliary copy, i.e. Possible Case 1.


Cheers!!

Mihir Sangani

SQL Backup Failure - Commvault Galaxy

Problem: SQL Restore fails using Commvault Galaxy
Client Platform: Windows 2003 Server (64 Bit), SQL 2005
Error: Authentication Error
Change before the problem arise: Change in SQL admin account Password

Solution:

Commvault needs to use SQL Admin user name and password in order to work with the agent. This id and password is from the client side. The commvault Galaxy has a bug and it does not interact well with good passwords with symbols like £ $ % ^ & *. So make sure your SQL Admin account password does not contain any of the characters. Eg: P@$5w0rD <<< Wont work. Pa55w0rd <<< will work

How to find it:

In Comcell GUI > Client Computers > Client name > SQL Server > DB Instance > Properties > Accounts


Thanks,

Mihir Sangani

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Gold prices in INR per gram

Hey guyz,

I was recently looking for live gold price gadgets on google and I coudnt really find the one I wanted. I wanted per gram price in INR (Indian rupees). I came across this website which is really good and I used it to check the gold prices everyday. But then I really started to get annoyed having to click it again and again to check the prices. Then I thought let me take some self help. I created this gadget for my iGoogle page. You should check it out, it updates along with your iGoogle page and its quite handy for us as we dont need to go through the conversions from per ounce or from USD to INR etc conversions.

I will improve the gadget once I get sometime with more options and currencies.



Feel free to drop in comments.

Organize Music Library

Organize playlist, iPod playlist, iTunes Playlist, ID3 Tags, Music File Information, Organize music library with ID3 Tags

Ever wondered looking at your iPod or WMP /iTunes / Winamp playlist why the hell it doesn't display the correct information about Artist / Album / Song name/ Track Number etc ??Go on, read further and find out more about what's the problem and how to solve it. Organize your music with a little help of official free download software.

So, Here are few of the reasons why it doesn't show correct information especially for Bollywood / Hindi songs and South Asian pop / music albums.

- Pirated Music Tracks (the biggest issue)
- Downloaded from websites, who modify the tags and put their web address as info for their publicity
- Incorrectly ripped songs
- Inappropriate format conversion
- Copied from Torrents

These are some of the common reasons behind the incorrect tags. Let me try and bust the jargon first

Q: What are ID3 Tags? or What is Tag in music files
A: Tags are the information about the song. Artist, Album, Composer, Year, Track number, etc. So in simple words its personal information for the song you listen to. More information on Wiki

Q: What is rip / ripping (songs)?
A: Rip is converting / burning music from CD format to mp3 or WMA or other supported format as per the software you use. More information on Wiki

Q: What is Software?
A: Buy yourself some life if you ask this question.

Q: What is iTunes / Winamp / WMP?
A: iTunes is Apple Computer's Music software that plays, arrange, update your music file. Its free for download here.
Winamp is a freeware does the same job as iTunes but in a different way. Again its available for free download here.
WMP is Windows Media Player built in to Microsoft Windows. Its bundled software and upgrades are available for download here.

So here is what you need to do in order to update the tags. Earlier I used to use iTunes to manually modify the tags on each song which took ages for me to do it but though I could not do it for all of them for all the information. Still, I was determined to organize my music in order to get the maximum ease of use for my new iPod.

To manually modify the ID3 tags using iTunes, follow this process.

1. Open iTunes
2. Go to Library
3. Right Click on the song and select "Get Information"

4. You can modify the song information here from the 2nd Tab.

Its much easier to do it when you are updating your library with couple of albums as you can sort out the song list by :

1. Adding only one album at a time
2. Sort it by "Date Added"
3. Right click on first file follow the manual process and modify info
4. Click on next instead of closing it and it will select the next song on the list.

So you are already in a trauma that it will take ages to get this done ?? don't worry about it, that's where the next process comes to help us.

1: Download Winamp here

2: Follow the instructions for installation of Winamp
3: Once winamp is installed, start it and play few songs for test

After these steps you are ready to begin the real work. Now this is not going to be as simple as clicking and follow, its a bit difficult then that. But don't let the put you off, I have simplified the process for beginners.

1. Open Winamp
2. Add songs from one album or as many as 20 songs in the playlist
3. Select all the songs, right click and choose option Send to > Auto Tag

4. This will add all the songs to Auto Tag plug-in of Winamp which is built in, it will start to analyze and query them to the server and find out the tag information.

5. After all of them are queried and has results, it will display the results in "pan" below the list of the songs. Carefully select the songs to apply changes as its 95% accurate not 100%.

In order to optimize the results, modify the tags manually with at least one information in the tags. This is essential for those songs which has only numbers and no album or artist information at all. Those songs downloaded from webs mostly has some info followed by the url which is auto corrected by winamp quite easily.

After this is done, and you apply changes. You can skip the next step or follow it for making your music extremely organised.

You need to download ID3 TagIT and install it. Please follow instructions mentioned on the web for the software.

Once you have the software downloaded and installed. Here is what you need to do.

1. Start ID3 TagIT
2. Select songs from one album or as many as 20 songs
3. Select how you want to rename the songs, E.g.: Artist - Album - title, title - Album, title - album - artist.
4. Apply changes, this will rename all your songs as per your preference. I personally do it with title - Album. Which makes it extremely easy to find them using Windows search, Linux find, iPod and other music files.

After all these efforts, you will have the most organized music library and you will thank yourself for this.

If you have suggestions, comments, critics, please post them as comments. I will be glad to hear from you.

PS: I will update the post with Snapshots for process as soon as I get some time.

Regards,

Mihir Sangani

Download Links:

1: Apple iTunes
2: Winamp
3: ID3 TagIT
4: Microsoft Windows Media Player

Laptop buying regime ....

Hey All,

I've been thinking of buying a laptop for a long time and was looking for a good machine to own. The hunt started with requirements like Internet, Office Applicationds and mails. So started the hunt for the laptop with some of the options. Here is the process I followed let me define it as "Laptop Buying Process" you can treat it as Laptop buying guide [;)]

Laptop Buying Process

- Decide your budget

I decided mine upto 500 £ maximum

- Decide your applications and usage.

Mine was as mentioned earlier; internet, office applications and mails.

- Decide if you want more portabiltiy or features. Is it going to be a replacement to your desktop or is it going to be completely mobile applications.

I was a little confused for this point, as if I want a light weight then I wont get features and if I go for features I will get heavy weight so ...

Pause: Laptop Buying process

At this point you pretty much have a baseline of what you should start looking for. Depending on your location you should look out for avaialble options online.

Here is what I used:

- www.ebuyer.co.uk
- www.pcworld.co.uk
- www.amazon.co.uk
- www.currys.co.uk
- www.laptopsdirect.co.uk
- www.dixons.co.uk
- www.dell.co.uk
- www.comet.co.uk

and many more ... but I am sure www.google.com wold be the best way to start if you are now aware abouy the vendors in your country.

So, what do we do after going to these sites ??? here is what should be done

- go to Laptop Category
- Filter the price range first I used 350£ - 550£, now here is where your budget is a little shaken because you tend to filter it a little higher then your budget to make sure you do not missout a good deal. Be careful though
- Filter Screen size you would like depending on your decision if you want mobility or desktop replacement
- Now its time to use your instincts, what brand have you heard / experianced in past ? and what do you prefer out of the list ? filter it. I was quite clear on what I wanted so I filter it to HP / Compaq and Dell home use


After all this, you should pretty much have 15 - 20 options. Now its time to go to Level 2 for filtering.

Option 1: Go to individual Vendor's site and view detailed specifications of the model you find online. These sites are pretty much easy to understand and navigate hence it will be easier for you to choose them according to the description given by vendor about it's capabilities and applications. Or go to advance way of doing it

Options 2:

- Filter it using processor type.

Now how do you decide which processor you want in your laptops, this is like deciding the heart of processor or engine in the car.

First note down the avaialble options Eg: Intel pentium / Dual core / Core 2 duo / Amd Athlon / opteron / Tuerion / ARM Processor etc.

To continue this, you need to go back to your decision about your applications. After referring back to your decisions and applications its time to use www.google.com

User search tags such as Intel Dual core 5800 VS AMD Tuerion X6400

You will get number of sites, and you need to look out for comparison charts. These charts give you mostly all the options that are listed in your applications. After referring to the results you can filter them as per your preferences.

So now its time to filter them using processors.

After filtering it you will be down to Memory and Hard drive preferences.

Remember, memory can be easily upgraded so dont bother about it much, choose it as per your hard drive preferences.

Thats it, job done.

End of Laptop Buying process

After all these I filtered down to few models and then was final on Dell Inspiron 1525 with all the features I wanted.

Boom......

Some thing triggered andthen I thought I should have a little better options for my Graphic card in order to play games and do video editing and photo editing. This made me get into detailed specs more and more. I wanted all ... Nvidia Graphic card, HDMI port, eSATA port and many more features.

After all that, I found the right machine I wanted. Dammn it was way expensive so now I was in a terrible situation ... what to do ... what to buy .. what not to buy ...AAARRRGGGHHHHH

Hmm .. .so no one but myself had to decide waht to do.

Here is what I did

Bought a Sony Play station 3 for a bargain price from a colleague which was almost like new.
Decided to buy Dell Inspiron 1525 for about 450 £

But guess what, still changed my decision on laptop a while back. I bagged a great deal by Dell. A Dell XPS 1530 Gaming machine with great specs. Awaiting delivery within 7 days......

Will soon post more details on PS3 and Dell both.

cheers!!

SQL Restore fails using Commvault Galaxy

Problem: SQL Restore fails using Commvault Galaxy
Platform: Windows 2003 Server (32 Bit)
Error: Query Result [ERROR:
Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000) Error: -2147217440
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Cannot open user default database. Login failed.
IDispatch error #3552
].

Solution:

1) Change the user name and password for Galaxy Agent using Commcell

In Comcell GUI > Client Computers > Client name > SQL Server > DB Instance > Properties > Accounts

2) Verify if user name used by comcell has "master" access on the server

Windows Management > Users >Select User> Properties > Master

Thanks,

Mihir Sangani

SQL restore fails using Commvault Galaxy

Problem: Commvault server fails to restore data base on the SQL Client
Platform: Windows 2003 server (32 bit)
Error: Network error

Hi folks,

This is one of the brain shattering issue with SQL restore using Commvault Galaxy. We had a nightmare doing so.
The SQL server was part of a cluster, so the idea is to restore one of the failed clients as a DR process. Commvault had number of reasons why it cant do it, but the whole idea of having a backup is to restore it in a disaster situation. So after a long struggle, and trying every possible thing we figure out the solution to the problem

Here it is:

1) Increase VDI Time out on the Windows server to 30000 Sec

This can be done in commvault > Client computers > Client name > SQL agent > Instance properties > VDI Time out

Default value is 300 and you can increase it upto what u want.

2) Setup Data Ineterface Pair in Commcell (commvaut Galaxy)

This can be done using a Galaxy Control panel > Data Interface Pair

Hope this becomes useful to someone and save them a week to head bang with Commvault Support.

Thanks,

Mihir Sangani

Mihir Sangani search results

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i guess i should start writing mihirsangani together without the space ... lets see if it works ... i m not sure if mihirsangani together is good or mihir sangani seperate is good

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