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Saw posters just now in Chennai (Teynampet area)

Called up the number. They are covering entire Mylapore now. Surroundings (Adyar, Besant Nagar etc to be covered in a month). Rest of Chennai soon after... So, lets see...

I am not sure what I think about this...

 

 

On Tuesday, New Delhi police used tow trucks and a backhoe loader to drag away long concrete blocks from roads running past the embassy and leading up to gates of the compound, a Reuters witness said.

The low barriers had prevented vehicles from approaching the compound at high speeds and were presumably designed to help protect the embassy against attack from suicide bombers.

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What kind of childish nonsense is this? 

Hi all , 
Currently I am using BSNL and I am on ULD 950 Plan ( 4mbps till 8 gb post 512kbps FUP) . 
I am from Jabalpur MP . Here only few ISP's are available . 


1. BSNL 
2. Airtel 
3. Tikona 

I am on BSNL and Tikona's network is not available in my locality . I want to opt for Airtel if these conditions gets satisfied :

1. Ping < 60 [ I play CS online and Pings are important ]
2. Support and Stability is criteria . 
3. Unlimited plan .


In 950 rs I get 8gb at 4mbps which gets consumed within first week and the rest 20 days sucks at 512kbps . Even 360P videos are not stream able , forget about downloading movies :\ .

My monthly budget is Rs 1000 max . 

So Airtel users I need your help , 
Kindly help me in following issues : 

1. Does airtel provides good ping ? 
2. What speed you get , I mean according to plan or any fluctuations ? 
3. Which plan you are on and it will be great if you post a speed test result with Mumbai ( Vodafone/ Joister ) preferred. 

Apart from this kindly suggest me a good unlimited plan for home use . I surfed the website but the plans are not as per my city . 
Any plan with 2/4mbps available with good FUP ? 


Please suggest and reply with your precious  comments regarding above criterion . 

Kind regards 
Nikhil .



 

A few months back, I had initiated a topic where I mused out loud re: ISPs in Chennai's Perungudi area. 

http://broadbandforum.co/topic/64020-searching-for-isp-perungudi-chennai/

As it so happened, AirTel was the *only* way to go. Lazy arse clowns at BSNL threw their hands up. Reliance, two-faced twats, offered connections ONLY to corporates/offices (and refused even if I said I run a SOHO myself). 

So... AirTel it had to be. And boy was it a rocky start - right from the "address/identification proof" requirement. Anyway... I must say that the fellow at the franchise office close by was a class act (thanks to him, I retained some sort of sanity). 

I registered on a Thursday and was promised installation by Saturday. But the engineers didn't come till this evening (Tuesday). 

I had opted for my own modem (AirTel's pay 6-months-rental-in-advance-and-stick-with-it-with-no-chance-of-plan-change can suck on my left nut!) - the engineers were scrapping around with the settings (thankfully, I had done my homework and found out what had to be tinkered with re- AirTel's ADSL/PPPoE config). 

I'll skip the part where they clowned around and broke a statuette while tinkering with the junction box.

Mercifully, I am now connected... I was promised a "Welcome call", which - they said - would allow me to set my bill preferences, bill generation date and change my plan, etc. Yet to receive one. 

If I try to register online, the portal sends a OTP to some other registered number and not mine! God knows what these dingbats have done! Are they re-using an old or a previously disconnected service? 

Anyway... I tried calling 121/198 from the fixed line. And try as I might - keying in the fixed line with STD code *always* ends up as an error. WTF!??! Exasperating.

And I dunno if it is my luck, the Net Xpress app which the technician downloaded refuses to run (XP\SP3). I got it to run in a 'safe mode' (as opposed to rebooting the computer in safe mode), but it doesn't detect an active internet connection (there is a file being blissfully downloaded in the background). In the previous step, it had asked if I was an Airtel Technician. Not sure if this was to be done by them... 

On a side note, is this application any good? (Assuming I get it to run one fine day)

Oh well... End of rant... At least I can *ahem* browse. 

The event is set to take place in a historical building bombed by the Luftwaffe airplanes during WWII.

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The Grand Budapest Hotel recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.

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Freaks. 

The Wolf of Wall Street is an upcoming crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on the memoir of the same name by Jordan Belfort. The screenplay is being written by Terence Winter, and the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort, along with other cast members including Jonah Hill, Jean Dujardin, Rob Reiner, Kyle Chandler, and Matthew McConaughey, among others. The Wolf of Wall Street will make a fifth collaboration between Scorsese and DiCaprio. The film is set to be released in 2013, and will tell the story about a New York stockbroker, played by DiCaprio, who refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration.

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"During the past year, management and the board have been focused on launching the BlackBerry 10 platform ... establishing a strong financial position, and evaluating the best approach to delivering long-term value for customers and shareholders," said Timothy Dattels, chairman of BlackBerry's new committee. "Given the importance and strength of our technology, and the evolving industry and competitive landscape, we believe that now is the right time to explore strategic alternatives."

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Rumors are circulating that Nokia's first extra-large smartphone, possibly called the Lumia 1520, is near launch. If it's real, you might be looking at it -- Windows Phone Central has obtained a photo that purportedly shows the device for the first time.

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After realizing she is not her boyfriend's primary lover, a woman teams up with his wife and plots mutual revenge.

 

Jayantilal Gada (pen) presents Lakshmi is a story of hope, courage and victory.

o_O Nagesh Kukunoor. 

They launched a new version? 

Looks like it! 

 

Sony has announced a new version of its PS Vita, just weeks after announcing a price-drop across both the US and Europe. (Japan was treated to the discount back in February.) It's 15 percent lighter and 20 percent thinner than the original model and will add an additional hour of life to the battery. The new (WiFi-only) Vita will land in Japan first, on October 10th priced at 18,980 yen (about $190). Other hardware improvements (alongside pink, black, blue, grey, lime green, and yellow color options) include a micro-USB charger -- like your smartphone -- and 1GB of onboard storage. Interestingly, the screen tech has been changed to LCD from OLED, but we'll have to see it in the flesh before we jump to any conclusions on performance.

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Display has been downgraded from OLED to LCD lol. 

This looks like the global edition of Moto X... 

 

Motorola Moto G: S4 Pro (1.5GHz x 4), 4.7" 720p, 8GB or 16GB, 8MP, LG-made 1950mAh, starts free on contract [via tip]

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hi friends my house has a parallel line for the broadband landline, one in bedroom and 2nd in the hall. the bedroom line has the landline connected, however the hall does not have a phone connected  and is just idle. the broadband in charge at the exchange said that even though there is no instrument connected the parallel line would cause disconnection issues for 8mbps broadband!!! Is that true?? Am i better off getting a new line which will have no parallel line?? I am tired of this problem since last 20 days...

When I used to use a 3G dongle of Micromax, the internet used to keep getting disconnected because of which I had to keep redialing. But if I use the SIM card in my mobile, and suppose signal strength is lost for a moment, when the signal is back, the mobile will automatically connect back the 3G connection.

In a 3G to WiFi router, does the 3G connection automatically gets connected back? Or sometimes there is a need to redial or reset the router? Please tell for both kinds of router: in which 3G dongle gets plugged in and router in which SIM card gets inserted directly. In my Micromax dongle, I've to redial manually whenever internet gets disconnected; how will be the behavior when I connect this dongle to a router?

 

 

The Cubli is a 15 × 15 × 15 cm cube that can jump up and balance on its corner. Reaction wheels mounted on three faces of the cube rotate at high angular velocities and then brake suddenly, causing the Cubli to jump up. Once the Cubli has almost reached the corner stand up position, controlled motor torques are applied to make it balance on its corner. In addition to balancing, the motor torques can also be used to achieve a controlled fall such that the Cubli can be commanded to fall in any arbitrary direction. Combining these three abilities -- jumping up, balancing, and controlled falling -- the Cubli is able to 'walk'.

This work was carried out at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

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