Happy New Year 2009!

Happy New Year 2009! may better year ahead.

Merry Christmas!!!!

Wish you all merry christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lock Windows XP

Sometimes, we need to lock our windows XP when we go out for a walk or leave our computer for a while in order to protect our information from others. Normally, pre install windows xp wont have the button/menu for us to lock it.

Here are few steps we can do to lock out computer.

1. Go to Desktop, use your mouse right click on your desktop and select "New/Shortcut" from the list




2. Once done, copy and paste the command rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation and click "Next"




3. Give a name to your shortcut before choosing the "Finish" option
   

Done.

Local Folders have xx new messages

Yes, i receive this message in taskbar but i cannot find any new email in my Local Folders .. strange.

After check on MozillaZine Knowledge Base. I found out that there is one setting that i left out and cause this issue:

My scenarion: I'm using pop mail.

To solve it, go to Tools --> Account Settings ...



Expend the account. Click on Server Settings. Checked/Select Automatically download new messages.




Now i can see my email after receive alert that "Local Folders has 1 new message".

Problem solved!

SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition at USD49.95

Yes, this is true. Only USD49.95!



Overview for SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition: SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition provides a complete set of enterprise data management and business intelligence features. Because—like Enterprise Edition—it is optimized to run on x64 and Itanium-based servers, it is the most scalable and available edition of SQL Server 2005.

Check out in microsoft store.

AJAX PHP CAPTCHA

Thanks for http://www.phpcaptcha.org/documentation/quickstart/ provide a cool php captcha code. One of my colleague supporting a php site which need CAPTCHA to prevent spamming but most of the example given needed page post back which is not so practical. I have implement an AJAX CAPTCHA for ASP in my previous post on AJAX ASP CAPTCHA.

Now, we are using the same method to implement in PHP. By reuse the same javascript code with jquery, there is only a small changes in PHP part. Within 20 minutes, the code done and tested working. The files available for download here.

Happy programming. Please let me know if you have any problem.