The Microsoft event for freeloading students called “Mix On Campus” happened yesterday in Melbourne and I went along because I very well fit the description. It has also been a few weeks after finishing my university exams so it’s a good chance to reunite with a couple of friends, fresh air and sunlight. The event was organized by the Microsoft Australia Academic’s Nick Ellery who put in a lot of generous time and effort to give students a free ticket to live some (and I’m sure it’s barely a scrape) of the real MIX experience in Vegas or ReMIX in Melbourne a few months ago.

For students, it was an invaluable opportunity to take a first-hand look at some of the new Microsoft web and design applications and services as well as network with industry professionals.

As expected, everyone showed up 5 minutes before the event (including myself). It might look empty now, but it easily reached a hundred people once the big hand struck 10.

Handy Microsoft Student Partners were on-site to

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There comes a time in your life when something goes wrong, and that you can’t connect to server, well sometimes good it’s best if you know the basics in troubleshooting it. And yes it is really easy if you right-click on a network connection in your Networking Connections folder or the connection icon in your system notification area, but ain’t it fun if you know the basic troubleshooting steps.
Open your command Prompt

• Type ipconfig to check and take note of your IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway write them down if possible
• Using the values, the ipconfig gave you, use the Ping command
• Ping 127.0.0.1 to see if your network adapter is working.

• So on the command prompt : ping 127.0.0.1

now we can proceed to the repair itself ( if you want to do it manually)

• To renew the DHCP : ipconfig /renew
• To flush ARP Cache : arp –d *
• to flush NetBIOS Cache : nbtstat –R
• to flush DNS Resolver Cache : ipconfig /flushdns
• Register the WINS : nbtstat –RR
• Register the DNS :  ipconfig /registerdns

Those are

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