RBI’s gift on April Fools Day
Written on April 1, 2009.
As per a new directive by the Reserve Bank of India, from today 1-April-2009 you won’t need to shell out any extra money to use the ATM of any bank. This has come as a major relief to the common man who get always chnarged for withdrawing cash using ATM and debit cards issued by other banks.
RBI has also allowed the use of ATM, for purposes like balance enquiry, free of any charge.
However, banks can still charge extra for services such as cash withdrawal with the use of credit cards and at ATMs located outside India. Under these circumstances also, some banks plan to expand their ATM network.
BSNL Broadband Happy Hour Scheduler
Written on March 30, 2009.
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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A n00bs guide to QoS
Written on March 28, 2009.
QoS or Quality of Service as is defined by Wikipedia states :
In the field of computer networking and other packet-switched telecommunication networks, the traffic engineering term quality of service (QoS) refers to resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality. Quality of service is the ability to provide different priority to different applications, users, or data flows, or to guarantee a certain level of performance to a data flow. For example, a required bit rate, delay, jitter, packet dropping probability and/or bit error rate may be guaranteed. Quality of service guarantees are important if the network capacity is insufficient, especially for real-time streaming multimedia applications such as voice over IP, online games and IP-TV, since these often require fixed bit rate and are delay sensitive, and in networks where the capacity is a limited resource, for example in cellular data communication.
In layman’s term QoS is the process by which you set some pre-defined rules which determines which data packets are to be allowed first based on their priority level.
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Up Up and away…
Written on March 28, 2009.
Well lastly am up and running on a hosting which has been kindly provided to me by WiredTree.
I had been using the default blog hosting at Wordpress.org [ktptp.wordpress.com] and now since i have shifted to my own hosting i would need to update the blog to let users know of the change.
4 Comments for Up Up and away…Backup your PS2 saves
Written on July 29, 2008.
Having played for quite a long time on my PS2 i suddenly realized that i may be running out of space on my Memory Card. Hence the need arrived as to how to back up those damn save games that i had on my Memory Card.
But the question was how to??
It was not until when ifound a SMS Media Player CD image with uLaunchELF. Now i inserted my 2GB Toshiba Pen Drive into the USB slot and booted up my modded PS2 slim. uLaunchELF started and showed the following start-up screen
Then i started the FileBrowser by pressing the “O” key on the D-Pad.
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