On June 8th (the World IPv6 Day)

June 8th: the day your phone won’t stop ringing Wednesday, May 04, 2011


On June 8th (the World IPv6 Day) you’ll see Facebook, Google and a number of other web sites reachable over IPv4 and IPv6 (more accurately: the DNS records for their web sites will have both A and AAAA records). No problem ... unless your users have misconfigured workstations and you haven’t deployed IPv6 throughout your network yet (not many have).

Users with broken IPv6 connectivity will experience long delays connecting to major public web sites. Their workstations will try to reach the content over IPv6 first and will have to experience a TCP-level timeout before retrying to get the same content over IPv4. Guess whose phone will ring ... and what the problem description will be ;)
Expecting everyone to have IPv6 connectivity sorted out throughout the enterprise network before June 8th is ludicrous, but you (and your network) have to be prepared for dual-stack world:
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Windows 8 Welcome Screen And Windows Explorer Screenshots Leaked

Some screenshots of the successor to Windows 7 - Windows 8 - has been leaked earlier this week. According to the leaked screen shots, it looks the welcome screen has been heavily inflienced by Metro UI, which first made an appearance in Windows Phone 7. Link

List of Best “Microsoft Fix it” Troubleshooters to Automatically Diagnose and Repair PC Problems

Microsoft has put the best of its "Fix it" troubleshooters in a single place at following link:

List of Most Common Microsoft Fix it Troubleshooters

Microsoft Fix it troubleshooters help you automatically diagnose and repair problems with common computer problems, such as audio, Internet, and printing problems. If your problems aren't fixed, Fix it troubleshooters provide you with the next steps to take.

Simply download and run the Mats_run.exe file whose name most closely matches the issue that you are experiencing.

When you run the Mats_run.exe file, a wizard will guide you through the troubleshooting experience. The troubleshooter downloads and installs the required components, and then analyzes your computer to look for issues that can be resolved automatically.

If the problem cannot be fixed by the troubleshooter automatically, the wizard will guide you through additional support options and resources that are available to help you resolve this problem.
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How To Check & Understand Windows Event Logs Easily

Do you like solving your computer troubles yourself ? Well, frankly speaking many of the computer troubles that we face in our day to day life can be easily rectified if you know what is wrong with your computer and how it has to be dealt with. It is simply not possible for a normal person to gain all the knowledge that a person needs to troubleshoot the computer but still if can figure out what exactly the problem is then he can easily find a solution online and he can save a lot of money by doing that, not just money but he can also save a lot of time and he can help out others too. So the main part is how to find what is going wrong and where to find all the logs related to the changes made to the computer.

Today, we have a very helpful free application known as the windows event viewer. This application helps you to see all the logs on your computer or on a remote computer and with its easy to use interface it becomes really easy to find out the solutions for the corresponding errors. This application eliminates the sorting order that the default windows event viewer uses thus allowing the logs to load much faster than they do normally. Then after finding the errors you can either choose to research online on Microsoft Support, Bing, Google or any other platform you like by clicking the respective buttons or export the entry into a text file for later reference. The Event type and Event ID are automatically loaded into the search query.

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Beware Of Facebook “Shocking Revenge” Scam

“Shocking Revenge” is a recent Facebook scam which is aimed at spreading through making users curios, click on the Facebook status, like and share the link with friends. This link takes the users to a page full of ads and compromises users privacy. The Facebook status used in this scam reads like :

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Is a next-generation firewall in your future?

The traditional port-based enterprise firewall, now looking less like a guard and more like a pit stop for Internet applications racing in through the often open ports 80 and 443, is slowly losing out to a new generation of brawny, fast, intelligent firewalls.

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Windows Phone 7 Gets Jailbroken

Windows Phone 7 is "finally" jailbroken! ChevronWP7, the unlocker tool, works with every WP7 phone and allows for the side loading of apps, the use of private APIs, and access to low level functionality. Basically, it unleashes your WP7 phone.

It's easy to jailbreak too: just download the tool, connect your phone, and run through the unlock tool. It's straightforward, very low-risk and completely reversible

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