Twin Oscars for AR Rahman

A.R. Rahman, the Legend holds up his Oscars for best original song and best original score for 'Slumdog Millionaire' backstage at the 81st Academy Awards in Hollywood.

How to Find/Check the CRC ?

What is CRC ?

Cyclic Redundancy Checking is a method of checking for errors in data that has been transmitted.

The cyclic redundancy check, or CRC, is a technique for detecting errors in digital
data, but not for making corrections when errors are detected. [More]

How to find the CRC value?

There are lot of tools to find a CRC value. I use Microsoft CRC Verification Utility (7KB), which is available in the Tools and Resources section of MSDN Subscribers’ Download.

Why we need to check the CRC ?

We mostly download Gigabytes sized files frequently. Few weeks back I downloaded the 64bit Version of Windows Server 2008 R2 beta from the MSDN Download, and the size of the iso file is around 4.5GB.

Most of the time the downloaded file will not have any problem. Rarely, when we try to open,install or burn the downloaded file, we might end up with a message saying its corrupted. In that case, we need to check the CRC value published by the source of the file, in my case its MSDN Subscribers’ Download section. MSDN Subscribers’ Download section always shows the CRC Value of each and every file they allow you to download, even if its 1MB or less.

After burning the iso file, when the Windows Server 2008 R2 beta installation was half the way, I got this error, some .cab missing in the Source media. Then I checked the CRC of the file in MSDN and the file in my Download. Both were same.

Where is the problem then ?

Yes, its with the DVD. I checked the CRC of the DVD, well as expected it was wrong.

Then I burnt the same iso file with a Rewritable DVD, which then had the same CRC.

CSS Reference for SharePoint 2007

Most of the time we endup changing the CSS styles of an existing Sharepoint Page objects like Top Horizontal Navigation, Search, Site Actions etc.
The CSS for the same can be found IE Developer Toolbar, but we miss the list of those or atleast the frequently used ones. Heather Solomon haves it here.

ASP.Net MVC RC1

Few days back, ScottGu announced the shipment of ASP.Net MVC 's RC1. Check his blog post for more details.

And had couple of issues in installing it. One being uninstalling the ASP.Net MVC Beta. It didnt get removed immediately and stayed there for nearly an hour.

And the other was installing the new ASP.Net MVC RC1. The setup didnt respond for couple of times, so I installed it after few reboots. I also had some problem in the Virtual Server 2005 R2 & its KB948515. So after solving this with a re-boot, I brought ASP.Net MVC RC1 into my machine.

Sharepoint Support Expired

WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 without SP1 support expired on 13th Jan 2009. I thought its getting expired on 31th Jan.

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The service packs for both WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007 are available and now the cummulative upate is here.

Inauguration of the 44th

Awesome Pics of Inauguration.

AR Rahman, the Legend

Music director A.R. Rahman has won a Golden Globe award in the Best Original Score category for his music in British director Danny Boyle’s uplifting underdog tale, Slumdog Millionaire!