Saturday, August 30, 2008

Local Government Commission for England

The Local Government Commission for England was the body responsible for reviewing the structure of local government in England from 1992 to 2002. It was established under the Local Government Act 1992 replacing the Local Government Boundary Commission for England. The Commission could be ordered by the Secretary of State to undertake 'structural reviews' in specified areas and recommend the creation of unitary authorities in the two-tier shire counties of England. The Commission, chaired by John Banham, conducted a review of all the non-metropolitan counties of England from 1993 to 1994, making various recommendations on their future. After much political debate and several legal challenges, the Commission's proposals resulted in the abolition of Berkshire county council and the counties of Avon, Cleveland, Hereford and Worcester and Humberside. Combined with a second wave of reviews in 1995, under the chairmanship of David Cooksey, the Commission's proposals led to the creation of unitary authorities covering many urban areas of England. It was replaced by the Boundary Committee for England in 2002, which finished this review cycle in 2004

Thursday, August 21, 2008

To Enable Regedit When infected by virus

How to enable registry whe infected by virus

When your registry is being disabled:

First, maybe the administrator disabled it for some restriction purposes

Second, due to virus. Most of the virus disabled the regedit for you to unable to stop the execution of its program.

Here are the solutions for enabling the regedit again.

  • Use the gpedit.msc to enable the registry editor.

Step 1: Hit the window or click start button then press "r" or simply click the run

Step 2: type gpedit.msc

Step 3: Click on Administrative Templates

Step 4: Click the System and locate the Prevent access to registry editing tools and double click on it

Step 5: Select the enabled on the optionbutton the click apply.

This will make a policy to prevent access to the registry editing tools, The computer will automatically made the policy.

Step 6: After clicking on apply select the disabled in the option button then click the apply again then click ok button when finished.

The disabled button will make the policy into default, the computer will automatically configured it and becomes a default comfig which is the registry editor can be access by the user.

And Thats it... Try run the regedit.exe... Have Fun!!!!

To Enable/Disable Task Manager

Here's How:

  1. Click Start
  2. Click Run
  3. Type REGEDIT
  4. Click OK The Registry Editor will now open
  5. Browse to the following key:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\Policies\system
  6. In the right pane, look for the value: DisableTaskMgr
  7. Right click DisableTaskMgr and select Delete. (When prompted with "Are you sure you want to delete this value", select Yes.
  8. Now browse to the following key:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
    CurrentVersion\policies\system
  9. In the right pane, look for the value: DisableTaskMgr
  10. Right click DisableTaskMgr and select Delete. (When prompted with "Are you sure you want to delete this value", select Yes.
  11. Close the Registry by choosing File | Exit
  12. You should now be able to access Task Manager. If not, reboot into Safe Mode and repeat the steps outlined above.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

To Uninstall Oracle 10g

Uninstalling Oracle 10g Manually from Windows XP
Oracle's installation utility has a nasty habit of leaving a lot of items behind.
I wrote this up to document what I've found you need to do to uninstall Oracle 10g manually.
This is specific to 10g and Windows XP. Removing 9i is very similar if I remember right,
but who's using 9i anymore? ;-)

The first thing you should do, is go ahead and run the installation tool to do an uninstall.
It probably will leave some things behind, but it's worth running.
Then go through this list and remove anything it missed.
This list is detailed enough though, that I believe even if you did not run the
uninstallation tool, this would fully uninstall Oracle.

The most commonly missed item is to make sure you remove everything from the GAC because
the uninstaller doesn't appear to. I get to that later, but if you wanted to know the
largest source of uninstallation problems, it's libraries remaining in the GAC.

After running the supplied Oracle uninstallation utility
(which may or may not do some or all of the following):

# Stop any Oracle services that have been left running.
Start->Settings->Control Panel->Services
Look for any services with names starting with 'Oracle' and stop them.

# Run regedit and delete the following keys (some may have slightly different names
in your registry):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\ORACLE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application\Oracle.oracle
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\OracleDBConsole
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Oracle10g_home
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\OraclService

Note that the services control panel will still show the old services until you reboot.

# Delete the Oracle home directory
C:\Oracle

# Delete the Oracle Program Files directory:
C:\Program Files\Oracle

# Delete the Oracle Start Menu shortcuts directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Oracle*
Where * indicates the name of your install. Look for and remove all Oracle directories
from that location.

# Remove Oracle refereces from the path. To edit your path go to:
Start->Settings->Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables
Edit both of the environment variables user PATH and system PATH.
Remove any Oracle references in them.

# Remove Oracle.DataAccess and any Polic.Oracle files from the GAC which is at:
C:\Windows\assembly\



There, now your system is Oracle free. If you are installing a new instance of Oracle
(and not just an additional DB) I recommend you do this before any new Oracle installation.
Note: I used several other websites and searches as references when developing these steps,
but I was unable to find any steps that covered all of the items for Oracle 10g so I
assembled them here.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Peterloo Massacre

The Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60–80,000 gathered at a meeting to demand the reform of parliamentary representation. The Manchester Patriotic Union, a group agitating for parliamentary reform, organised a demonstration to be addressed by the well-known radical orator Henry Hunt. Shortly after the meeting began, local magistrates called on the military to arrest Hunt and several others on the hustings with him, and to disperse the crowd. Cavalry charged into the crowd with sabres drawn, and in the ensuing confusion, 15 people were killed and 400–700 were injured, among them many women and children. The massacre was given the name Peterloo in ironic comparison to the Battle of Waterloo, which had taken place four years earlier. Historian Robert Poole has called the Peterloo Massacre one of the defining moments of its age. In its own time, the London and national papers shared the horror felt in the Manchester region, but Peterloo's immediate effect was to cause the government to crack down on reform, with the passing of what became known as the Six Acts. It also led directly to the foundation of the The Manchester Guardian (now The Guardian), but had little other effect on the pace of reform. (more...)