System crashing, yet again!

After my system crashed this Monday, I got the partition of hard disk formatted that had Windows XP Professional OS. However, during formatting another partition that had almost 60 GB (out of 80 GB) of Free and Open Source Softwares, I have been using or wanted to use over the past years... read more..

Resolving Hardware Malfunction in Windows

I had recently got installed NVIDIA GeForce Graphics Card on my Windows XP Professional. However, the guy responsible behind the installation, didn't install the driver from CD. He assumed that its being recognized in Device Manager, so it will work.

Within the next 24 hours, system started showing Hardware Malfuction System Error Messages (NMI: Channel Check / IOCHK), when I tried to do Voice Chat using Gtalk. For the first time, I looked into the web for solution and got a well documented report on Microsoft's Help and Support website.

After reading out the solution, I went to Device Manager (devmgmt.msc). There are many ways to open this window. Then, followed necessary instructions to update the driver from CD. Within few minutes, it was finished. I restarted the system and System Tray now shows the icon for graphics card. I had a wonderful experience fixing the issue.

Hope this helps!

Yahoo! Mail Goofups..

Got a strange notification today, while trying to send an e-mail from my Yahoo account to Gmail account ;)

There was a problem!

Not sure why, but our usually-reliable server goofed-up while sending this message. Please try again.

PrayogShala and NetBeans Community Docs

I have setup a new blog named PrayogShala at wordpress, you can find more information over here;
http://nbguru.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/blog-series-and-prayogshala/

Also, I filed first ever issue for NetBeans Community Docs Program, read this blog for more details;
http://nbguru.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/community-docs-and-netbeans/

Lot more things happening in my life, just go through these blogs to find out more.

Jazoon '09 Updates..

Jazoon '09 ended in the last week of June and unfortunately, I couldn't make it to the event. Anyways, being a member of Jazoon Blogger Squad, I continue to get some news or the other. Today, I came to know about the pics taken at Jazoon '09.

Indeed, James Gosling did visit the Jazoon '09 to deliver his Keynote. Thanks to Christian Frei and his team efforts to invite James Gosling for this event.

Hopefully, Jazoon will continue next year and I would be somewhere in those pics too ;) Stay tuned for more..