Monthly Archives July 2005

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]