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2010
06
Jan

Host ‘HostName’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

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MySQL

I do most of my development work using XAMPP. So I always have a MySQL server up and running.

Recently there was a requirement to develop a Windows Desktop Application in C# with the backend as MySQL. I was developing this on a networked Windows machine and had configured the connection string accordingly.

When i first ran the application BAM!!! i got this error

Host is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server

A little investigation and the solution is what i found below.

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2009
30
Mar

BSNL Broadband Happy Hour Scheduler

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BSNL Broadband

Having used BSNL Home 500 plan at one point of my stint with BSNL DataOne I have also faced the usual dilemma; i.e. when to start the downloads during the Happy Hours (aka time period when the downloads are not counted) and then stop it so that i don’t get billed for excessive use and can stay with the limit of 1GB(or was it 1.5GB ?).

It involved using getting up at nights around 2.30AM and starting the downloads. Later that shifted to Task Scheduler of Windows XP then to a scheduler plugin of Azureus and then to the default scheduler of uTorrent.

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