“On the directions of the government of India, Indian ISPs have started censoring and blocking web properties. This was first noticed by Indian bloggers and upon inquiring with their respective ISPs, the actions are confirmed. Unfortunately, Blogspot and TypePad are the targets till now.”
There’s an ongoing discussion of the censorship on GoogleGroups. The rediff.com coverage linked above indicates that the blocking is based on a list issued by India’s Department of Telecommunications.
This is a list of ISPs already known to be blocking these domains.
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) passed an order to ISPs Friday to block several websites. The list is confidential. Indian ISPs have been slowly coming into compliance. SpectraNet, MTNL, Reliance, and as of Monday afternoon, Airtel. State-backed BSNL and VSNL have not started yet but likely will soon.
The known list of blocked domains is *.blogspot.com, *.typepad.com and geocities.com
Source : Slashdot
Related stories : http://www.indianexpress.com/story/8719.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/17/report_indian_gov_bl.html
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/07/17/blocking-blogger/
July 18, 2006 | Filed Under
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Leave a Comment It has always been a frequent question “Will I benefit from multiple
processors?” With the growing popularity of dual core processors, the topic is more important than ever! Will multiple processors or a dual core processor be beneficial, and what are the differences between them? These are the questions this article will attempt to lay to rest.
A major question for some people getting ready to buy a high-end system is whether they want or need to have two processors available to them. For anyone doing video editing, multi-threaded 
applications, or a lot of multitasking the answer is a very clear ‘yes’. Then the question becomes whether two separate processors (as in a dual Xeon or Opteron system) is the way to go, or whether a single dual-core CPU (like a Pentium D or Athlon64 X2) will do just as well. Dual CPU vs dual core — which is better?!
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source : digg.com
July 17, 2006 | Filed Under
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Leave a Comment Some of the things people do to computers is downright painful.
Read this funny doc to go through how people mess up with their comp
[…]
- Tech Support: “Sir, your computer has no AGP slots, and this is an AGP video card.”
- Customer: “Yeah, but the card fit perfectly into the little white slot.”
- Tech Support: “Which white slot?”
- Customer: “There’s five of them — little white ones. There’s a spare one.”
- Tech Support: “The PCI slot? Uhh…it shouldn’t…let me check.”
- Tech Support : “Sir, wait a second. Let me see if I just heard you
correctly. Did you just say you were inserting and removing the modem
while the system was up and running?”
- Customer: “Well, yeah, I did it both ways.”
- Tech Support: “Sir, I recommend that you do NOT do that. You could seriously
damage your hardware.”
- Customer: “Well, that’s what I thought Plug and Play meant!”
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_abuse.shtml
July 15, 2006 | Filed Under
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Leave a Comment It’s 2025. Where Do Most People Live? from PhysOrg.com
Researchers at the Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR), a part of The Earth Institute, have developed a high-resolution map of projected population change for the year 2025.
[…]
The map indicates that the greatest increases in population density through 2025 are likely to occur in areas of developing countries that are already quite densely populated. In addition, the number of people living within 60 miles of a coastline is expected to increase by 35 percent over 1995 population levels, exposing 2.75 billion people worldwide to the effects of sea level rise and other coastal threats posed by Global warming
July 12, 2006 | Filed Under
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Leave a Comment According to a 2005 survey of 102 executive recruiters, an executive job-search and networking organization, 75% of recruiters use search engines to uncover information about candidates, and 26% of recruiters have eliminated candidates because of information found on-line. Search engines aren’t going away, so here are some tips to help you.
read more | digg story
July 12, 2006 | Filed Under
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Leave a Comment Generating patches, files containing the difference between files, is the domain of diff programs.
Creating Patch :
diff -Naur olddir newdir > new-patch
Note: the symbol > will redirect the output to the file new-patch.
To apply the patch
go to olddir and do :
patch -p1 <new-patch
And if you want some files to be excluded from doing a diff use -x option like
diff -Naur -x *.o olddir newdir > new-patch
this will exclude .o files when doing a diff
Read More here :
http://drupal.org/diffandpatch
http://www.ss64.com/bash/diff.html
http://www.cpqlinux.com/patch.html
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1237
July 11, 2006 | Filed Under
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Leave a Comment The find command is one of the darkest and least understood areas of Linux, but it is also one of the most powerful. The biggest problem with find is that it has more options than most people can remember — it truly is capable of doing most things you could want.
The most basic usage is this:
find -name "*.txt"
That query searches the current directory and all subdirectories for files that end in .txt.
Source : Linux.com
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July 11, 2006 | Filed Under
linux,
tutorial |
Leave a Comment An Indian rocket veered off course after takeoff Monday, scuttling the launch of an Indian satellite that was to be used for broadcasting television signals and transmitting data, media reported.
“Things have gone wrong at the separation stage. We have to analyze the data (to know) why it went wrong,” the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, G. Madhavan Nair, was quoted as saying by Press Trust of India news agency.
Rocket veers out of control during satellite launch
High-profile India satellite launch ends in disaster
July 11, 2006 | Filed Under
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news |
Leave a Comment Steve Bass: writes about annoying email behaviours.
I’ve come to the conclusion that everyone needs to take a test before being able to use e-mail. No, I’m serious.
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E-mail: Be Less Annoying, Part II
E-mail: Be Less Annoying, Part III
July 10, 2006 | Filed Under
tips,
web |
Leave a Comment “An NYT op-ed on The Myth of the New India reports that only 1.3M Indians are participating in the so-called new economy of BPO, leaving 400M have-nots without a piece of the pie. Despite recent gains, nearly 380M Indians still live on less $1 a day, setting the stage for rural and urban conflict.”
From the article: “No labor-intensive manufacturing boom of the kind that powered the economic growth of almost every developed and developing country in the world has yet occurred in India. Unlike China, India still imports more than it exports. This means that as 70 million more people enter the work force in the next five years, most of them without the skills required for the new economy, unemployment and inequality could provoke even more social instability than they have already.”
Few Comments :
A Dollar fetches a lot of things in India, and i’m surprised that a lot has been assumed and written about without checking the facts. as of today, a dollar equals about Ruppees 45.84 (that was yesterday’s rates). a Dollar fetches a lot of stuff, in fact i will give 2 examples - one for the metropolitan poor man with a dollar and the poor man in the rural india
Source : Slashdot
July 9, 2006 | Filed Under
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news |
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