Good article on PAN

Here is a good article [From Rediff] one should know all about the PAN Card.

It explains the necessity,importance of PAN, how to get a PAN card and other details...

Media Object Sharing Site from Rediff

Eenadu Epaper

The Favorite Telugu daily,Eenadu is available in epaper format from today.Free access to it is made available for the first 3 months.Register and view at http://epaper.eenadu.net/

CCSID

The data in the DB2 will be coded in some CCSID format.It needs a conversion for proper display when viewed on a different m/c.

For example for the data to be visible in English : CHGJOB CCSID(37) command should be run at the command prompt.Based on the language in which you would like to view, appropriate CCSID should be used.
The picture show the data displayed from a table before running the command CHGJOB CCSID(37).

• CCSID stands for Coded Character Set ID.
• A CCSID of 65535 means the data is coded in Hex

Some times you may get "SQL0332 - Characterconversion between CCSID &1 and CCSID &2 not valid".Refer this for more information SQL0332
Use full links related to CCSID here here

IBM JDE Resource Directory

Bookmark this useful link from Andrews Consulting Group : http://andrewscg.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/ibm-jde-resource-directory.pdf

Vote for TAJ MAHAL

As you may already know by now, the official list of the 'New Seven Wonders of the World' is being finalized on the basis of votes polled in by people all across the globe.

'Taj Mahal', the magnificient marble marvel in India has made it to the list of top ten contenders.
There are only a few days left before the voting process would end and the New 7 Wonders of the World will be announced during the Official Declaration Ceremony in Lisbon, Portugal on Saturday, July 7, 2007 i.e 07.07.07.
As a patriotic Indian, we can vote for Taj Mahal to be included in the list of seven wonders.
The voting could be done in any of the following ways...

Online: Visit the Official website of the New 7 Wonders Foundation, the body deciding the 7 new wonders at http://www.new7wonders.com and cast your vote.
Remember, for casting your vote, you need to Register with this site and each registration allows you to cast 7 votes.The registration involves providing your email ID twice and choose your 7 wonders of the world.Once you submit the list you will get an email and you need to confirm by clicking the link in the email.

SMS
You can also vote by simply typing TAJ in an SMS and sending it to 4567
The cost to send an SMS is Rs. 3 for all the following operators Prepaid and Postpaid: Airtel, Hutch, Spice, Tata Tele, Reliance Info, Reliance GSM, BPL. Exceptions: Rs. 1: MTNL Prepaid and Postpaid, BSNL Prepaid; Rs. 0.8: BSNL Postpaid. Only providers indicated above accept voting.

Phone
Cast your vote by calling any of the following International Numbers
+423 663 90 02 99
+44 870 062 3748
Your calls will be charged at normal international call rates. During the call, you can vote for two of the 21 final New7Wonders candidates, using the codes for the candidate. Remember, the code for Taj Mahal is 'Code 20'

The SMS based voting is the simplest if you just worry about Taj.
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Capturing Microsoft Crash Dump

Steps to capture the Microsoft Crash Dump

Pre requisite

Machine should have 'Debugging tools for Windows' installed.If not download and install from this location : http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/installx86.mspx

Note:The above package will install windbg.Note the path of windbg.exe.we will use this to capture the crash dump

Steps

1]Open the Registry using Regedit

2]Open the following key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug"

3]Take the backup of the AeDebug regisrty key.This is to restore the original settings once the crash dump is captured.

4]To take backup, right click on 'AeDebug' and select 'Export' option.Specify the name and location to store this.

5]Now set AeDebug\Auto key to 1

6]Set AeDebug\Debugger key to 

"" -p%ld -e%ld -g -c ".dump /mfa C:\\dump %ld.dump:q"

7]Try to reproduce the issue.On crash windbg will start and generate the crash dump file at C:\ location.

8]Restore the original settings by double clicking the file exported earlier in step 4

Safari Browser for Windows

Mac users do not need intro to the term Safari.Now the fastest browser on Mac is available for Windows users also.Apple Team says, Safari is capable of loading the web pages upto twice as fast as IE and upto 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2.The safar 3 which is in Public Beta now can be downloaded here