I haven’t written on this blog for quite some time now due to some busy schedules going on in my office as well as personal business. But now I am going to start writing this blog again.

To start with, I would like to write about a website that a friend of mine has started few months back. It’s called FLS Blog and you can submit Indian Technology and Education news to it. It’s basically a Blog where guest can also submit news to it.

FLSBlog receives around 15000 visits everyday and if you want to share some of their traffic, I would suggest you to start submitting your Indian news story now.

This thing, about which I am talking right now is called Cocodle (website link here) and it’s an initiative towards helping “underprivileged and differently-abled children with the revenue generated through online search”. The best part is, you don’t need to donate any money. Just use their website to search the internet and that’s it. And the site is powered by Google Custom Search, it gives similar results just like Google.

So guys, start using Cocodle.com from today for internet search and join the Cocodle Movement.

For Bangalore center, the address where you can contact as per last year (2008) exam is given below:

Asst. General Manager (Rectt & Exam)
O/o CGMT, Karnataka Circle,
# 1, Swamy Vivekananda Road,
Halasuru, Bangalore-560 008

Important NOTE: This is according to the last year exam notification and not for this year. So, please confirm which authority office to approach before actually going there. Also, please share the same with us here so that other readers can also get their admit cards in time.

I do not have information for other cities. So, if anyone has got any information that be of help to other fellow candidates who has not received their admit card / hall ticket yet for the BSNL JTO Exam 2009, please share it with us here. I am sure someone will sure have some useful information.

DUPLICATE ADMIT CARD UPDATE: Okay, just got the list of Offices where you can contact for your Duplicate Admit Card on BSNL website. Please check the respective Office Address from this link.

PS: If anyone has got the Duplicate Admit Card, please share the process with everyone here so that it can be of help. Cheers.

Situation:

1. You have a system where Windows Vista was already present.

2. You installed Windows XP into it to make it a dual boot system.

3. Now when you boot up, only Windows XP is loaded and not the Vista .

4. You want to boot the system with the Vista OR Dual boot with both Vista and XP now. So, what to do?

Solution:

Why previously installed Vista cannot be loaded after installing XP is because When you install XP over a pre-installed Vista, the XP setup overwrites some critical files like MBR, the boot sector, the boot files, etc. So, in the next startup, the system can only locate the XP loader and nothing else. Therefore, our job now is to create a new boot loader for Windows Vista so that in the next restart, the system finds the loaders for both XP as well as Vista .

Okay, assuming that you have right now loaded XP in your system, let’s start the process:

1. Insert the Vista DVD (or the Vista backup DVD that came along with the System).

2. Open command prompt and type the following command line:

:\boot\Bootsect.exe /NT60 All

3. Next type in the following command line

:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d “Windows XP Professional”

4. Then run:

:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=:

:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr

:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast

5. Restart the computer

If everything goes fine, you should get an option to load either XP or Vista now.

Alternative:

If you think command line thingy is very confusing, you can try out with EasyBCD. EasyBCD is a software that will help you easily manage your Boot Loader files. To proceed with EasyBCD, you can restart your system after STEP 2 in the above procedure. This time, your Vista will load. Then download EasyBCD and create a new boot file for your XP. I hope you will find EasyBCD very easy. But if you need help on that, I am always ready to reply your comment. Have a great day.

The free software I am talking about here is called the IP Messenger and you can download it for free from its official website here. (You may sometimes find most part of the website in Japanese but don’t worry it’s not hard to find the download link for any of their software).

The reason why I am writing about IPMessenger is because it is amazingly light and the data transfer is really fast. I have seen up to 10MB/sec while I transfer data from one system to another in my network. It is also very simple to use and once installed, you will find it running quietly in your system tray, listening to incoming transfers.

Now if you have installed IPMsg into your system, open it and you should be able to find all the systems connected to you in your network. You can drag and drop any file or folder from you system into the IPMsg message box and by selecting the system you want the data to be sent to, just click send. That’s all. Your file or folder will be received in the other system instantly.

I hope you find this simple piece of software very useful and handy. If you have any problem or any question regarding the same, just leave a comment here and I will answer all your queries. Have a great time.

Situation:

1. You have a system where Windows Vista was already present.
2. You installed Windows XP into it to make it a dual boot system.
3. Now when you boot up, only Windows XP is loaded and not the Vista.
4. You want to boot the system with the Vista OR Dual boot with both Vista and XP now. So, what to do?

Solution:
Why previously installed Vista cannot be loaded after installing XP is because When you install XP over a pre-installed Vista, the XP setup overwrites some critical files like MBR, the boot sector, the boot files, etc. So, in the next startup, the system can only locate the XP loader and nothing else. Therefore, our job now is to create a new boot loader for Windows Vista so that in the next restart, the system finds the loaders for both XP as well as Vista.

Okay, assuming that you have right now loaded XP in your system, let’s start the process:

1. Insert the Vista DVD (or the Vista backup DVD that came along with the System).
2. Open command prompt and type the following command line:
   <Your DVD Drive>:\boot\Bootsect.exe /NT60 All
3. Next type in the following command line
   <Your Vista Drive>:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /create {ntldr} /d “Windows XP Professional”
4. Then run one by one the following command lines:
   <Your Vista Drive>:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /set {ntldr} device partition=<Your XP Drive>:
   <Your Vista Drive>:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /set {ntldr} path \ntldr
   <Your Vista Drive>:\Windows\system32\Bcdedit /displayorder {ntldr} /addlast
5. Restart the computer

If everything goes fine, you should get an option to load either XP or Vista now.

Alternative:
If you think command line thingy is very confusing, you can try out with EasyBCD. EasyBCD is a software that will help you easily manage your Boot Loader files. To proceed with EasyBCD, you can restart your system after STEP 2 in the above procedure. This time, your Vista will load. Then download EasyBCD and create a new boot file for your XP. I hope you will find EasyBCD very easy. But if you need help on that, I am always ready to reply your comment. Have a great day.