Archive for the 'Random Notes' Category

Tata indicom: On average offline for one of every 4 minutes :P .

July 12th, 2007

I’ve written about my internet connection instability worries before… Just to be sure it wasn’t all just in my head, I wrote a simple script a couple of days ago and put it on my shell account at TX0.org to measure my connection satability.
My system is a VAIO laptop; and I have not shut it […]

OpenSource ERP on the SourceForge top 20

June 13th, 2007

As on June 13th 2007, 4 of the 20 most active projects this week on sourceforge.net are ERP related.

People will click on anything.

June 5th, 2007

That was made clear by the 409 people who clicked on an ad that offers infection for those with virus-free PCs.
The ad, run by a person who identifies himself as security professional Didier Stevens, reads like this:
Drive-By Download
Is your PC virus-free?
Get it infected here!
drive-by-download.info
Stevens, who says he works for Contraste Europe, a branch of the […]

A walk through Munich

June 3rd, 2007

I’m in Munich!
I landed here flew in from Bangalore last Monday, and promptly caught myself the death of a cold thanks to the climate change. The cold lasted much of the working week. Fortunately, I got much better in the weekend; so I could do some exploring .

Munich is a […]

Still offline (thank you very much Tata Indicom)

April 7th, 2007

Now I’m paying through the nose for a Tata Indicom connection (30 Rs. a day, indeed). . . and I have not been able to get online for over a week.
I’m not able to get anything done . Gaah, I hate my life.

Back online : a footnote on broadband connectivity from tata indicom

March 20th, 2007

The connectivity from tataindicom does not live up to expectation. Connectivity is unreliable, and customer service is not so responsive.
My advice: don’t get yourself a Tata connection unless it’s your very last option.

Back Online . . . finally!

March 15th, 2007

After over 3 months of fruitless waiting for the BSNL chaps to wake up, I applied for a Tata Indicom (VSNL) prepaid connection.
It took them 4 days to get through the formalities and bring the wires up to my house. And after a few hours of configuration pains, it’s done.
I’m back online!
JOY […]

Life after disconnection.

January 30th, 2007

It’s been more than 3 months now since I’ve moved to my new house, and likewise, over three months without a broadband connection at home.
Airtel does not cover the area I’ve moved to, and the BSNL chaps are taking their own sweet time with their ‘process’. My last few posts are made from a […]

On tests . . .

January 28th, 2007

We live in an ‘infinite’ universe.
We say so, because despite the exploration of thinkers since the beginning of human history, there are still a lot of things which we as a species have not understood.
While examining this infinite universe, our thinkers have documented their knowledge into books - thousands of billions of books. In […]

Two long years.

November 14th, 2006

It has been over two years since I registered this domain. Over the two years of it’s existence my website has not changed much. The first content I added to the site was a couple of projects that I had completed while working on my engineering degree. As time went by, whenever I wrote a […]