AVG 8.0 Update Error – Invalid Update Control CTF File
Recently I was trying to update AVG 8.0, but it kept saying Invalid Update Control CTF File. Well, there’s nothing much to fix this. Navigate to “C:\documents and settings\all users\application data\avg8\update\download\”. Here, rename the two ctf files avginfowin.ctf and avginfoavi.ctf to avginfoavi.ctf_old and avginfowin.ctf_old or delete them. Now, right-click avg 8.0 icon and click update. It should update this time.
Bush loves shoes. On his face.
This is so awesome!!! While Bush was on his farewell visit to Baghdad on Sunday as the President, he got served! And what a nice parting gift he got! An Iraqi reporter Muntadhar al-Zaidi threw EACH of his shoes one at time, on Bush’s face. BUT — I hate this part — he missed!! I read a whole lot about (stupid) stuff Bush said to save his face but I liked the following best:
“So what if the guy threw his shoe at me?”
“Let me talk about the guy throwing his shoe. It’s one way to gain attention. It’s like going to a political rally and having people yell at you. It’s like driving down the street and having people not gesturing with all five fingers. … BLAH BLAH!!”
“These journalists here were very apologetic. *Some crap said by bush missing 
* “
Bush said it was “a size 10 shoe he threw at me…” I bet he must be pretty proud because he’s had too many shoes thrown and now he can make out the size too! Lol!
Best: “All this basically says is we made good progress, and we will continue to work together to achieve peace.” Yea right. Or maybe he’s always dreamed of dying by a shoe-shot(huh?). That’ll give him some piece of peace in the bushy grave.
“This reminds me of Gates getting cake in his face!” — I said this. Heehee.
Poor al-Zaidi is currently in jail. Stupid governments.
May God bless Bush with a hint of brain. Amen.
Btw, the video is out everywhere. Just google Bush shoe and see how (un)lucky a shoe can get!
Get more seeds for your torrents
WHAT ARE SEEDS? – The number of people with a full copy of the file(s) in the torrent being downloaded. Higher the seeders, faster is your download. (A detailed post on torrents later on)
How to increase seeds:
A) (For experienced users… however if you were one, you wouldn’t be reading this!)You can directly go to the trackers list in your favorite torrent client and add new trackers. (Mine is uTorrent. Double clicking a torrent brings up the tracker list)
OR
B) Follow the steps:(Seems like a lot of steps but is really easy and more importantly, fast.)
- Go to the BtReannouncer site
- Click on the browse button and find the torrent on your computer you want to add seeds to.
- Click upload. Wait for a few seconds.
- On the page that comes up, put a check in front of every tracker (the names with check boxes in front of them). Click ReAnnounce
- Find where it says “Download ReAnnounced torrent” and below it, the link which is the name of the torrent. Click on the link to download the reannounced torrent.
- After downloading, just open it and if the torrent was already started, select the option to load the trackers from the new torrent file.
I have tried this and it has worked every single time. And it does help. Obviously, you should make sure this doesn’t violate the terms of the private tracker you might be using!
MTNL Launches 3G Service – Jadoo
MTNL's 3G Service - Jadoo
Yeah, that’s right! India now has 3G service from its very own MTNL. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) launched the 3G service, named Jadoo, for Delhi for now. That means Delhi subscribers can now make video calls and net speed ranging from 256 Kbps to 2 Mbps on their 3G enabled cellphones! There’s also value added services like Mobile TV, Location surveillance, Streaming Video on Demand, and gaming too.
The registrations haven’t started yet for the 3G service, Jadoo. But they plan to start it in a couple of months later. After they launch it commercially. Also, it’ll be cover places like onnaught Place, Sanchar Bhawan, Rajaji Marg, India Gate, Pragati Maidan, Delhi Gate and Minto Road.
I wonder how this network would be. Cause currently, the MTNL Dolphin/Trump network isn’t that good. I hope they upgrade these networks too. Anyway, desi-3G is here!yay!:P
Send SMS through GMail!
Yeah, that’s true!Now you can send sms through gmail. Yep, right through the chat window. Click on the Labs link, Scroll down to ‘Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat’ and enable it. Click Save. Half job done! Now, just enter the mobile number of your friend to whom to want to message, a little context menu appears sayn “Send SMS”. Click it, a pop-up box appears. Enter the name of the person whose the mobile number is, click save. That’s it! A chat window opens, now type in whatever you want to. It won’t cost YOU anything, but it might cost the person you are messaging for each SMS they receive. Time to get your enemies’ mobile numbers!
But sadly, it’s available for US only. We Indians again have to wait till we can send sms through Gmail.
But what if the run command is “disabled by your administrator”?
Simple. Works for both XP and Vista(and most probably ancient versions of windows too! )
- Go to: C:\Windows\System32 (if C is your installation partition)
- Open gpedit.msc
- Click on User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar
- Find the entry that says “Remove Run menu from Start Menu”. Double click it.
- Change the value to “Enabled.”
Done! Now you can do the rest of the troubleshooting!
How to backup your registry
So, you go to know that there’s something called regedit that lets you change how your operating system works? Well, before you start experimenting, follow these simple steps to backup your registry.
- Open Regedit (START>RUN> type REGEDIT.EXE) (Cannot find run command? Click here)
- Go to File>Export…
- In the dialog box that appears, choose the destination where you want to save the backup files, enter a name that you can understand later.
- Click Save.
Yep, that’s it. Now Do whatever you want to do with it.
Amen. May your computer live in peace.
