Gopi Charan K - Charan's Blog

Moving on...

Wednesday, 26. December 2007, 22:15:07

I will be moving to a new place in the "CyberWorld" in a few days time. Expect some more tutorials from me in the new site

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DataOne and Auto Power-on and Shutdown

Friday, 31. August 2007, 21:29:26

Tutorial

My Auto Power-on and Shutdown (v2.0) configuration .
The list

Power On

Connecting to internet. This is a tricky part. I have to keep my modem on during the night time, but some times the line gets disconnected. So I send a config Auto Power-on and shutdown to send a connect command. How do I do it?
Using this URL to Login
http://admin@192.168.1.1/hwhtml/status/st_ppp_connect.html?ImServices.rfc1483-0.1
And to Disconnect/Logoff
http://admin@192.168.1.1/hwhtml/status/st_ppp_discon.html?ImServices.rfc1483-0.1
But there is a problem. IE has stopped supporting login from URL, that means I cannot use IE to send the command ( BTW I rarely use IE & I didnot test this with Firefox ). Opera does support this feature but you need to click OK on a "Security Warning" dialog box once. Also you have to keep Opera running if you want to send more command to the modem.

Start Azureus

Disconnect the internet connection.

Close Azureus.

Shutdown Computer

Thats it. Now All I have to do is just open opera and login through that Login URL and I am done

. I can hibernate my PC and go to sleep. Exactly at 2 AM my system will power on, Connect to the internet, Start Azureus. And exactly at 7:45 the internet line gets disconnected, Azureus is closed, and my system is shutdown . Pretty cool isnt it

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Backup All iTunes Purchase

Thursday, 5. July 2007, 21:08:17

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Hi guys,

Here is my "FIRST EVER" tutorial.

Backing up and restoring purchases made on iTunes.

The songs that you purchase from iTunes store are all protected content.

The music files that are download are "Protected AAC Audio Files" with extension .m4p . p meaning that its protected.

The Video files are "Protected MPEG-4 Video Files" with extension .m4v.

And games have extension of .ipg . These games are only playable on a 5th gen iPod and cannot be played on computer.

Once you purchase all your purchase are visible in the "Purchased" Folder in STORES section.

Now for the Backup.

Got File>Backup to Disc

Now iTunes will ask for whether to backup the entire library or only iTunes purchased content.
Choose "Backup only iTunes Store Purchases".

Insert a Blank CD and press OK.
Now iTunes starts to backup all your purchase.

Once the burning is complete Its done

. Now you have backedup all your purchase. You get the following prompt.

Now suppose your system crashes, lost all your data and you have to reinstall everything. Now what to do?
Just popin you CD and restore all the purchased content.

. Now if you insert the disc back you will be prompted if you want to restore the backup.

Now my PC is working fine right now so to recreate a scenario I de-authorised my computer.

So now whenever I try to play the purchased music I get a prompt.

I will not be able to play the file until I authorize my computer with my original account with which the music was purchased.

Once you authorise you computer with your iTunes account you will be able to play all your purchased content

The Backup files have exactly the same size as the original file size.

This was a really long process. But there is a quick and dirty way also. Just burn all the purchased content on to a CD/DVD/HDD. When you want to restore the content just add the files to the library and authorize your computer. And you are done

. But you may not retain the Rating/Play count/Last played etc etc.

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