Booking a ticket at IRCTC means spending a few bucks extra. Well, it does not bother much as it saved my time and petrol. Here is a tip to save some money, but before that, a concern to raise! IRCTC charges flat Rs 10 on each ticket as their service charge. But why? Cards payment [...]
Recently Youtube has launched a tool to test your network’s speed and see historical data too. Here is what it shows for IITK’s ISP (vsnl-iitk). (for vsnlproxy. as of 25 April,2010) It means at IITK people download videos at an average speed of 5.3 kilo kbps. People here enjoy the best internet/networking infrastructure in UP [...]
When everyone around me has buzz, why don’t me? After doing some research here is a simple hack. You do not need any invite. Just follow these instructions and you are in. Install User Agent Switcher addon in Firefox Restart Firefox Go to Options Menu > Default User Agent. Select iPhone 3.0 Log on to [...]
You may have heard – the reach of Internet in India is increasing rapidly. VoIP has came in, 3G & IPtv is at the doorstep, bandwidth prices are falling down, BSNL’s netPC launched, but I still do not see a great future. I do not see awareness of .in domains, for promoting Hindi, I do [...]
Vineet Gupta (from Directi) touches some practical aspects of scaling web-applications. He talks about scaling app-servers, database-servers, alternatives of RDBMS, handling replication and transactional behavior. Thought the presentation is big, it touches all major aspects of scaling and gives broader insight. Check out yourself…
Youtube link for video: Larry Ellison – What The Hell Is Cloud Computing Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, describes all the fuzz around cloud computing in a short introduction. He touches very reasonable concern – “computing industry is the only industry more fashion driven than woman’s fashion“ Of course, this is true. Think about [...]
