Create Shortcuts For Shutdown and Rebooting
Shutting down and rebooting are a way long process. Here is a trick that can help you. Right click produces a option to create a shortcut. In the option of setting the link, type shutdown and finish the process. You get an icon to shutdown your PC. If you want to restart, type shutdown -r -t 01 -c “Rebooting your PC” This will reboot with prompting of message in quotes at that time. Here are more options for the same job.. 
|
Switch |
What it does |
-s |
Shuts down the PC. |
|---|---|
|
-l |
Logs off the current user. |
|
-t nn |
Indicates the duration of delay, in seconds, before performing the action. |
|
-c “messagetext“ |
Displays a message in the System Shutdown window. A maximum of 127 characters can be used. The message must be enclosed in quotation marks. |
|
-f |
Forces any running applications to shut down. |
|
-r |
Reboots the PC. |
Web And Database Port Listing
If you are about to peep into web technology, here is something which will interest you. The whole of web architecture is divided on basis of ports. A particular port offers particular service. These ports can be standard or can be manually assigned for user defined services. Here is the port listing for some standard applications…
|
Port |
Server |
|
66 |
Oracle SQL*Net |
|
80 |
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) |
|
81 |
HTTP Proxy, Alternative HTTP Port, Cobalt Server Administration Port |
|
443 |
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) |
|
445 |
Microsoft SQL Server over NetBIOS |
|
457 |
UnixWare/Netscape FastTrack Server |
|
1080 |
SOCKS Proxy |
|
1100 |
Oracle WebCache Listener |
|
1241 |
KaZaA File Sharing Server (HTTP-like protocol) |
|
1352 |
Lotus Domino (Notes) |
|
1433 |
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 |
|
1434 |
Microsoft SQL Server over TCP/IP Redirector |
|
1521–1530 |
Oracle |
|
1944 |
Microsoft SQL Server 7 |
|
2301 |
Compaq Insight Manager, Compaq Survey Utility |
|
3128 |
HTTP Proxy (Squid, NetCache, etc.) |
|
3306 |
mySQL |
|
4000 |
Oracle WebCache Listener |
|
4001 |
Oracle WebCache Listener |
|
4002 |
Oracle WebCache Listener |
|
4100 |
Sybase 11.0 (jConnect) |
|
5000 |
Sybase 12.x |
|
5432 |
PostgreSQL |
|
5800 |
VNC HTTP Console Port #1 |
|
5801 |
VNC HTTP Console Port #2 |
|
5802 |
VNC HTTP Console Port #3 |
|
6346 |
Gnutella (HTTP-like protocol) |
|
6347 |
Gnutella (HTTP-like protocol) |
|
7001 |
BEA WebLogic |
|
7002 |
BEA WebLogic |
|
8000 |
HTTP Proxy, Alternative HTTP Port, HP Web JetAdmin Version 6.0 |
|
8001 |
BEA WebLogic |
|
8005 |
Apache Tomcat Administration Server (non-HTTP protocol) |
|
8080 |
HTTP Proxy, Alternative HTTP Port |
|
8888 |
HTTP Proxy, Alternative HTTP Port |
|
30821 |
Netscape Enterprise Server Administration Server |
If you are interested in running your own service, you need to make an entry to the lookup table which is maintained at the server hosting the services. Generally RMI, RPC, Sockets Streaming, CORBA etc. kinds of applications find a great use of ports and their usage.
