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Yearly Archives 2005

VSNL, India is a Spammer

I have been receiving quite a sizeable amount of spam from e-mail address of *****@vsnl.com and this only proves that VSNL encourage spamming as a means of their profit-making scheme. And this have started after I signed up for one of their Broadband internet services. And with the uncertain nature of Indian Laws regarding spamming [...]

Posted 07 December 2005 † Me § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Orange (Hutch) does not work with Firefox?

I tried to check my details on the Orange Website (Orange in Mumbai, Hutch in other parts of India) but it failed to login through Gecko browsers like Firefox. Not surprisingly, it works on Internet Explorer.

Their new layout is cleaner and nicer but fails to work across browsers. The designers must have decided to do [...]

Posted 27 October 2005 † Me § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Are we stubborn?

I chanced upon an article, Fast Impressions, in Mid-Day on Speed Dating. I was interested in knowing the details about the topic as we are more or less involved with speed dating on the internet called Live Speed Dating. However, I was flabbergasted by the usage of words by the columnist who wrote the article.

She [...]

Posted 24 October 2005 † Me § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

MTNL will not install new phone without bribing their line-men

MTNL or the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. is another corrupt organization even at the grassroot level. You have to bribe their connection men or line-men to get your new line connected. Our new office requested for a new MTNL Line which was our second line from MTNL. The first one too, faced a similar fate [...]

Posted 29 September 2005 † Me § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Rhombus Technologies, another fraud ISP

The sales team of Rhombus Technologies Pvt. Ltd. managed to fool us by promising all the gimmicks, bandwidth, connectivity and service of their internet connection which they have not experienced themselves. The installation came in and it was discovered that they had not even taken permission from the Soceity governing body at the industrial estate. [...]

Posted 29 September 2005 † Me § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Superstitious Digerati

Some people are still plague by orthodox beliefs and this more daunting when it comes from the a techie, a technial programmer, engineer. A techie who works in the United States and have his girlfriend back in India, scolded her girlfriend because her friend innocently put up her favorite friend’s photograph. The guy told her [...]

Posted 22 July 2005 † Me § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged:

Air Deccan do not work on Firefox!

Tried once, twice and thrice, it failed to go beyond the third step. Trying to get an online eticket from Air Deccan but failed. Then a flash of kick-ass idea came in and tried Internet Explorer instead of Firefox; it worked. It worked only in Internet Explorer. Ah! their site claims “This site can be [...]

Posted 21 July 2005 † Me § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Grocery Vendors infiltration into Indian ISPs?

Talking to the Support Call Centre of a major ISP, Tata Indicom, about the erratic connection speed of their internet connection despite paying a hefty sum for a dedicated bandwidth of 512kbps.

Us: Will you please check that you are not sharing our bandwidth, we get just about 10kbps during office hour and returns to our [...]

Posted 20 July 2005 † Me § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: