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Windows Media player is most popular and widely used audio-video player, it’s a Microsoft product which is bundled with your Windows OS. It support almost all video format and will display content accordingly, as internet is growing new and new video codec are penetrating into multimedia industry thus your preferred video player may not support all codecs which are currently available in market, you need to add all latest codec for your windows media player so that all latest video using latest codec can be viewed easily.
Today several manufacturer uses different codecs, so even though .AVI files which is easily supported by your Windows Media Player may not play as this file may be using different codec which may not be supported by windows media Player. Such files may have encoded using different codec and thus cant be viewed so you need to download required codec for viewing them.
Thus if you are getting some codec missing error while you are trying to play certain video then you should understand that particular video format is encoded using some different codec which is not supported with your media player.
To solve this problem you need to download and install required codec on your machine, you have a great source for getting all latest codec which are recently used in industry, you need to download K-Lite Codec Pack which is available free on internet, once you download and installed this codec pack , you can play almost any file type in your Windows Media Player. You can play wide range media files such as real media, 3GP files, Quick time movies, Mp4 files, DivX files, HDTV files and many other formats.
You can install only required components which you think would be sufficient for you you have this option while you install K-Lite Codec Pack.  You have 3 versions available for getting K-Lite codec pack such as : Basic, Standard and Full Version.
You have different features and options available with every version and it all depends on your requirements to install required version.

K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and/or decode (play) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the internet.

You can download codec from following link : http://www.free-codecs.com/K_lite_codec_pack_download.htm

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Web is vast source of information which is freely available for all of us. Search engines helps us to explorer this information. There are many sites which are very best source of information eg… Wikipedia, yahoo answers etc…. Google had recently launched a user generated content creation web portal similar to Wikipedia. It is intended for people who possess tremendous  knowledge that they would love to share with other people on the web so that billions of people can benefit from it. Google had given a name for this project  as “ Knol “Google engineer, Udi Manber, said, Knol will invite “people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it” which can be used by web community. The name knol derives from the word “knowledge” this service is free of charge. Main benefit would be for all authors who can attach advertising to their work and take a share of revenues. The main goal for “Knol” is to cover all topics, which can include scientific concepts to entertainment and all other, making it a huge success.You can consider this project as a new step of giant search engine Google so as to get their feet’s in this new venture. Recently Google had squared up to the mobile phone industry by unveiling its own operating system for hand-held devices. Thus you can see Google is trying to get into every sector of IT industry. Currently “Knol” is an invitation-only beta service but it’s likely to be open to the public very soon. After Wikipedia you may see ‘ Google’s Knol’ as most-visited online destination and most popular among webmasters.

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As a system administrator you should always try to keep your system up and running all the time, Its your responsibility for ensuring backup and making it available in case of system crash. A system with no backups is useless as if in any case your system got halt then there’s no way for getting your system back. So its always recommended to have a latest backup for your server.
A good backup strategy should be implemented and which may composed of backup, storage, verification, and restoration. Backup component covers methods for taking backups and about the data which has to be backup. Backup storage covers both terms related to what media you want to take backup and where you want to keep your backup.
You should also verify your backup as its most important factor which is needed to be considered, you should have latest backup available for your system which can be used to restore system if for some reason it get down.

Two main strategies for backups are to be considered : Disaster Recovery and Archival.

Disaster Recovery : These backup are designed for restoring your system to a normal working state. This can be achieved by taking backup of entire system which can be used to restore it on another machine and you can continue with your work.
Archival strategy : It termed as retrieving all backup data you have for a particular server/system and to restoring your system as a effective working system.
Both strategies works in conjunction, while archiving your data you usually reinstall and reconfigure the operating system before restoring the data;  this process takes longer time and is more error prone. So you have to be careful while you are working on Archiving your data. You should test your backup strategy before you implement them on working system.  You can test Disaster Recovery backup system by restoring your system backup onto a fresh system so that you can confirm that you ca recover your system from an emergency. An archival system can be tested by retrieving files and verifying them, you can crosscheck that you have found the files you need and are readable after system restoration.

If you are into webhosting industry you should take backup of your account/server as frequent as possible. If you are using Linux hosting package you can backup your server/account using cPanel administrative interface.
Using cPanel you can easily take backup of your hosted site, your databases or even your home directory. First of all you need to login to your control panel cPanel. Just try to find “ backup “ icon using which you can initiate backup process for your hosting account. On backup page you have several option available you can download or restore your MySQL Databases and also web data. You have option for Generating Full backup or Downloading full backup on this page. You need to provide backup destination where all your backup files would be stored. You can choose “ Home Directory “ as Backup Destination “ you also need to provide your email address as you will be receiving email once your website backup is completed. That’s all, you just need to proceed by clicking “Generate Backup”. Button and will have to wait till you receive email confirmation. Once you got your confirmation email you can download this backup copy from the location you have specified to your local machine. You will have zipped copy of your backup data stored on the location you have specified while creating backup. You can store this backup copy of your website data on your local machine  or can burn it on CD.

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