Monday, June 15, 2009

How do you disable Websense ?

Websense:- Ughhhh.. that funny little service that just wouldnt let you visit your favourite social networking sites and check your private mail.
A week back i was bugged by this little "non"sense when i realized that somehow i needed to fix this thing up (or rather down). I rate myself as a fair enough "Googler" but couldnt come up with suitable help. I conluded - 'God helps those who (atleast try to) help themselves. A little bit of system searching told me that that Websense ran as a service .
Now how do you disable that if you dont have admin rights on your system.
Simple - Go to the Websense folder in Program files and copy out all the files from there into another safe folder so that you can restore if something goes wrong (Do not panic if u get an error message that all files cannot be copied). Just press ok. Restart your machine and BINGO! No more websense. How does this work. Ah! simpler still . How would the service start if it dint find its related library files . It simply doesnt start up when you restart the machine next time.
Free bird! Felt great to find the hack. Do let me know if this worked.
Tada. See you soon wid sumthin new.

Friday, June 12, 2009

jQuery - The 2nd best thing to happen to Javascript

The first reaction would be ..which is the first best thing? AjAX of course.

The beauty of jQuery lies in its simplicity and small footprint. Javascript indeed should have been the jQuery way right from start. There will be countless developers who must have been waiting in the shed to jump onto javascript but only for the complexities of handling the DOM through JS ( gees. I dont like the word). jQuery beautifully abstracts this complexity of DOM through extremely useful functions and a CSS style compatible syntax. CSS compataibility means developers who know even a bit of CSS would have no probs adopting this framework!

Its been a week now that i have been playing around with it and can praise this to no end. I would suggest you have a look too.

http:\\www.jquery.com

And some starting guide.

Rick Strahl's guide to jQuery