Chilly Winter Updates
Winter is in full swing here at Ranchi, my hometown and the temperature yesterday was 6°C. My bones can really feel the cold. I usually get up at late noon but today was extraordinary- got up ar 8:15AM to drop my mother at college. Returned back to find that none of my friends are online. Am just wandering around this huge internet.
I have been working over shell programming when I got stuck up with running Internet on my ubuntu. It connects through PPPoE to the outside world. The configuration software is very dumb and the connection sometimes terminates or conflicts amongst many child processes that spawn when I retry to enable the connection. The other headache is that USB doesnt work on ubuntu. The DataOne people have given a driver source code, excited by this, i tried to compile it, again and again. To my utter surprise i found that the driver was for 2.4 kernel. Now which latest distro used 2.4 kernel? All home users use 2.6 version and these people just bundled a driver for namesake. What hypocrisy??
Well today Night Mars is going to come closest to earth which will be best view until 2016. The orange planet passes our earth every 26 months. At the closest approach mars will be some 55 million miles. Is it too close? Well! For astronomical distances, it can be.
And a setback for torrenters! TorrentSpy has lost a lawsuit in California for alleged copyright infringements. Earlier they had blocked access to US users to prevent conflict of US and EU privacy laws. TorrentSpy had argued that they dont keep copyrighted information on their servers, their servers just keep trackers for tracking users. The copyrighted data is on users systems. This case looks like Napster lawsuit. This time Motion Pictures Association of America has filed lawsuits after trying hard on PIrateBay.org . Kudos to Piratebay for their valour, they dont fear the authorities and even mock at the legal notices by publicly posting them at their sites. TorrentSpy had earlier been files $30,000 and was warned of its activities. This is not the beginning or end of file sharing era. All major file sharing software/firms have faced the brunt of laws. Be it Kaaza for spyware /adwares or TorrentSpy ,Piratebay and Napster for music and movie sharing. This battle will continue.
hi , can you please update me , What are the possible way at Ranchi to get broadband Internet at short notice?
also please tell the mode ie phone/mobile/wifi.
Any help will be highly appreciated.
You can mail me at pinakirani@gmail.com
Well! Nowadays getting broadband connection is not a much headache. At my time it was really a pillar to pillar running work.
I have broadband connection of BSNL- DataOne. I have got 256Kbps with 1GB monthly data transfer. I know its less but I keep by best to cope with it.
If you want to get a connection, you should go and apply for a connection at “Telephone Bhawan” at Shahid Chowk. These days service is better, I got my suspended connection resumed in matter of hours. Best of Luck!!