Port forwarding is the art that you can forward any port of your router to another port in your LAN without the real port being known.It's advantage is simple, you can use your LAN's web server, ftp server or what so over from out world (Using your WAN IP address).Doing this in case of having a real router or using Unix is simple.But it is a kind of pain in Windows. I found a solution last night for doing it using Windows XP or Windows 2003 or which ever version of Windows which got Windows standard Internet Connection Firewall.
Go to your connection's advanced settings (Properties, Advanced, Settings). Then click on Add... . Enter a description like "HTTP Daemon". Enter local IP address of service. For example 192.168.0.12 is my Web server. Let TCP be chosen by default since most of services are TCP. Enter external port number as the port your users should connect. For example I enter 8182 since I don't want to have trouble of being attacked. Then enter real port number of your service. Mostly web servers are set to 80 by default. That's all. Now your users can connect using your WAN IP address and the port you set as your external port. For example, http://x.x.x.x:8182/ .

Windows 2000 Service Pack 4.0 released today.Get it here.

Test for new.blogger.com.

Happy Birthday DNS ! Happy Birthday !

"Twenty years ago Monday, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet.Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris ran the first successful test of the automated domain name system, or DNS, which allows computers to find each other on the network and send information back and forth to each other without having humans manually look up the addresses of each machine." Read More . . .

Seems we have to make some changes at Second News because of Google.

"GoogleGuy advises webmasters to use as few URL parameters as possible, and avoid using a parameter called "id", as it is considered an indicator of a session id, which can cause problems for spiders." Read More . . .

Just take a look at this picture.Link through Hamed.

@Stake got a good on article in comparison of Microsoft .NET Framework and IBM WebSphere.

"Both platforms provide infrastructure and effective tools for creating and deploying secure applications.

The .NET Framework 1.1 running on Windows Server 2003 scored slightly better with respect to conformance to security best practices.

The Microsoft solution scored even higher with respect to the ease with which developers and administrators can implement secure solutions." Read More . . .

Because of protests our exams are postponed to end of summer and we can participate in which ever we want.So I decided not to participate in all, three will be remained for then.I will make some posts tonight.Sorry for not being active recently.

My exams will start from tomorrow for 10 days, I don't know whether they will be postponed or not for whats happening in Iran, so I should study these days hardly since my courses has became so hard.

I wonder why Real Madrid buys so many stars!?

"David Beckham is leaving Manchester United for the Spanish League after all. But he is not going to Barcelona, whose new president desperately wanted him on the field, but to rival Real Madrid, which may not need him." Read More . . .

Hamed's Weblog.NET is the application we used for Second News Weblog.He may make his great application soon.Check Second News Farsi Weblog here.

I can't write much these days since I am studying for my school and also following Iran news every second.You can ready Farsi news of recent events on Second News or read English news on News Now where Iran is in Hot Topics of it too. Also Iran is in top of news in Google News.

I am very very upset and can't concentrate because of whats happening in Tehran for students.I hope for peace sooner.Read this article on NYTimes also take a look at these images : 1-2.

"TEHRAN (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians protested against their Muslim clerical rulers for a second night as the biggest anti-establishment demonstrations for months appeared to gather momentum." Read More . . .

Hamed Banaei's birthday was last night! Hamed, happy birthday to you!

Great article on Code Project.

"C# is a language with the features of C++, programming style like Java and rapid application model of Basic. If you already know the C++ language, it will take you less than an hour to quickly go through the syntax of C#." Read More . . .

Because newer is not always better, is what OldVersion.com claims and I second that ! Download old softwares from this website and you may experience a better life.Link through Hoder.

SQL Query Tool for MSDE : "A replacement for the SQL Query Analyser (ISQLW.EXE), VSQLW is designed to run ad-hoc SQL statements and display the result sets in a grid."

LoadSQL : "Uploads a directory full of .SQL files into the specified SQL database."

MSDE/SQL Database Attacher : "This simple tool does what it says: prompts the user for a database name and database files that need to be attached to an existing SQL Server installation."

Sorry for the all inconvenience you have experiences since we were changing Second News server and that was the reason I couldn't write anything for the last days but hopefully Second News is back and running.Support us !

I saw it running just now, you can help in improvement of science with your computer while it is idle using Google Compute feature.

"Google Compute is a feature of the Google Toolbar that enables your computer to help solve challenging scientific problems when it would otherwise be idle. When you enable Google Compute, your computer will download a small piece of a large research project and perform calculations on it that will then be included with the calculations performed by thousands of other computers doing the same thing. This process is known as distributed computing." Read More . . .

An international persian bloggers meeting will be held today at 8:00pm.You can join here.

"According to a source in the handheld industry, Pocket PC 2003, the upcoming version of Microsoft's operating system for handheld devices, will be launched on June 23." Read More . . .

If you have ever visited Webmasterworld forum, you may have seen someone called GoogleGuy who claims is from Google and actually answers most of our questions about Google.One of members of webmasterworld has created a blog which he collects what GoogleGuy says daily.Read it here.Link through Google Weblog.

Improve your brain using Google US Puzzle Champions.

"Two winners receive slots on the US Puzzle Team and all expense paid trips to the Netherlands for the World Puzzle Championship in October. The top 25 finishers receive prizes as well as the satisfaction of knowing that what they know is well, pretty remarkable." Read More . . .