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BSNL Broadband disconnection problem solved

Sunil — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:11:18 +0000

Last couple of months I had trouble with my BSNL broadband connection. The problem happens after upgrading my BSNL connection to multiplay. Multiplay connection offers you Internet Protocol television and video-on-demand to its broadband customers. Ok, what ever it is, my broadband connection sucked. It restarts every few minutes and become stable after 15-20 minutes. Even it become stable it may reset again after some time, may be when you are downloading some files.

I probed about my friends and others those who have using BSNL broadband. But nobody has this situation. I checked my connection settings and my broadband line is perfect and SNR is proper. I replaced my old modem with new one. I replaced the NIC with new one. Nothing helped me to solve the problem.

I played with the connection settings again followed by http://www.indiabroadband.net discussion forum. I tried the below suggestion.

After logged into the broadband settings through 192.168.1.1 with the username and password. (By default BSNL broadband modem username and password will be admin/admin).

Keep only GDMT/Glite/T413 Bitswap enabled.
Rest ADSL ADSL2+ etc uncheck.

I am not that techie to explain this. But this settings worked for me. Now no connection resetting. Now it is always on.

Solar eclipse 2010 – some experiments and pictures

Sunil — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:57:34 +0000

Yesterday we have witnessed the solar eclipse. As an interested person, I also would like to see the various transitions of solar eclipse. As we know we can’t watch it with naked eyes.

How could I watch the solar eclipse safely?

I have tried some experiments that already published by some newspapers.

I have placed one mirror in my courtyard and reflect the sunlight to our room. I have placed hardboard that has a hole in between the mirror and the room. How simple it is!

Here is some pictures of solar eclipse (took it from Nedumangad, Trivandrum, Kerala.)

Indian Science congress – some pictures

Sunil — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:14:52 +0000

Yesterday I visited Indian Science Congress exhibition at University of Kerala, Karyavattom. It is near to the technopark campus. This is the first time the Thiruvananthapuram hosts the Science congress and the second time in Kerala. It is quite interesting and it is a chance to general public to understand the science little more closely. The entry to the exhibition hall is free. (Even though it would be good to take your identity card along with you). A Kerala gramam has organised as the part of this. Here is some pictures which we took.

More details available in the official site: http://isc2010.in:8080/isc/index.js

BSNL Broadband and new connection settings (Multi Play)

Sunil — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:36:49 +0000

Last couple of week I was busy with personal things and I could not open my home PC. Last Thursday I checked the home PC and realised that the Internet connection was not available. I checked the modem and Internet settings. It was perfect and I couldn’t able to find any problem.

I complained that day itself and didn’t get any response. Next day I rushed to BSNL office and asked the person who is in charge of the broadband. He said he has to check the modem. I gave the modem and he changed something. He said it will work. I asked what was the problem. He said the connection settings were updated and gave me a print out with new connection settings.

The brief of printout:

We are happy to announce the commissioning of the Broadband Multi Play equipment in your exchange area. Consequently your Broadband connection is being upgraded and the service will be provided from the new Multi Play network. New services like IPTV, Video on demand etc are going to be introduced in near future.

And it is said that the existing userids and passwords will be change.
Is it their duty to inform the client about new changes? We can say it as lack of professionalism.

Firefox is now available in Malayalam

Sunil — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:41:23 +0000

Developers favorite browser Mozilla Firefox is now available in Malayalam language. I felt that open source projects always has wide support on local languages. It is available not only in Malayalam but also other Indian languages also. Firefox is available in over 70 languages. You can download fully localized versions from Mozilla site.

Some menu looks funny. Hope it will be ok in next releases

Skin your Firefox with Personas

Sunil — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:56:41 +0000

Open source is always rocking. It will encourage your works and it will come up with new ideas. It gives you the freedom to create new or modify the existing one. A simple example is Firefox persona.

Yesterday just for a fun, I tried firefox persona. Persona is a lightweight skin that changes the look of your Firefox web browser. You can select it from the persona gallery or you can create your own.

Yesterday I have created one persona named fabric flowers. It is listed there in the gallery. Please have a look. If you are interested add it your Firefox browser.

Fabric Designs created by myhtmlworld.com

How to create a custom persona?

It is very easy to create a persona.

1. Get the persona Firefox addone.
2. Create a jpeg with 3000px wide and 200px height but no larger than 300kb in filesize. Either you can upload your persona to firefox gallery or you can try yourself in your machine. That’s all.

A detailed tutorial about creating custom persona is available here.

Hope you are interesting. Don’t forget to check my Firefox persona and put a comment here.

Facebook is now available in Malayalam

Sunil — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:59:17 +0000

The popular online community Facebook is now available in some Indian languages. I never think that Facebook has that much popularity among the Malayalees. Most of the Malayalees using Orkut as their online community. Even it is supporting Malayalam scrap and all, but it not supporting Malayalam user interface. In this case Facebook got a step forward.

But sometimes things are little bit funny (some translations and typos). That might happen. Earlier I blogged about Google Malayalam news. Yesterday I checked the Facebook Malayalam version. Most of them still need translation. Hope they will complete all the translation with in a short period of time. The other Indian languages available in the facebook are Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu and Tamil. I think it is a starting of facebook to grow in Indian market.

Facebook in Malayalam

Kerala Cartoons… An open eye to Kerala

Sunil — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:23:17 +0000

I met Sajeeb long back when I was teaching some educational institutions. He always has a smile on his face. Later I understood that he is a good Cartoonist. He tried his talent not only on the paper but also in the computer. He is popularly known as Khan Pothencode.

Khan Pothencode's Malayalam cartoon

He always has an urge to study new technology. On that time macromedia flash was a new technology. He wants to study that. I haven’t had a better idea of Flash. But I taught him the basics of Flash.

Recently I met him online. He sent this link to me. Keralacatoons.blogspot.com. I think now he is a good flash animator. His creative are listed there. His cartoons are coming with a good sense of humour and provocation.

I wish him all the best.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 – The Grand Unveil, Trivandrum, Kerala

Sunil — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 03:35:06 +0000

Yesterday I have attended the Adobe’s The Grand Unveil seminar, conducted at Mascot hotel Trivandrum, Kerala. Really it was awesome enough rather than I expected. Registration was already started when I reached there. It was around 9.15 AM. My colleagues were filling the registration form at that time. We got Adobe leaflet along with the registration form.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 - The Grand Unveil Seminar

We 6 people represented Flip Media, Trivandrum for this Adobe’s seminar. And it was around 150 people from different companies attended the seminar. It was quite interesting.

Anoop and Arun vishnu

The seminar speakers did a very well job. They are very interactive. They are tried to cover the new features of adobe creative suite 4 even though there is not enough time.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 - The Grand Unveil

Even the people who are in expert of Photoshop or other software’s of Adobe were got wonder when the speakers explained some techniques.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 - The Grand Unveil seminar

Any way the seminar was really informative. The tagline of Adobe create suite 4 is really meaningful – Shortcut to brilliant. It really means. Thanks to adobe to arrange this seminar in Trivandrum.

Download Malayalam Calendar 2009

Sunil — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:22:18 +0000

You can download Malayalam Calendar for the year 2009 from Kerala Kaumudi website. It will be very useful for those who are residing outside of Kerala. Malayalam Calendar is available in pdf format and it is about 1 MB in size and it can be printable. Malayalam calendar 2009 includes train timings, holiday details, panchangam, horoscope and lot of information. Thank you Kerala Kaumudi for make it available for download.

Malayalam calendar 2009

Deepika.com is also providing online version of Malayalam Calendar