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2009

Hats Off to Jawans

What a shame and disgrace it is to every citizen of India that the elite NSG Force was transported in ordinary BEST buses, whereas our cricketers are transported in state of the art luxury buses. The Jawans lay down their lives to protect every Indian and the cricketers get paid even if they lose a match. Yet we worship these cricketers and forget the martyrdom of the brave Jawans. 

An Olympic shooter wins a Gold medal and the government gives him 3 Crore. Another Shooter dies, fighting with terrorists and the government pays his family a mere 5 lakh rupees.

Is this is cost the Jawans have to pay for their courage and bravery?

Broadband Woes

I don't really know why I left Windows Update on. Nevertheless, Windows Update installed on my PC "Security Update for Windows XP (KB951748)" without my knowledge. And when I wanted to use the net, I found out that I was not able to connect. After several unsuccessful attempts at trying to fix the connection, I finally decided to contact MTNL, really not knowing about what had actually happened.

It was just recently that there was some problem in the line and I had got it fixed (after about 5 calls to MTNL!) and this time I was really frustrated. I called them up and such poor is MTNL's helpdesk, I was made to wait for about 10 minutes before I could get to the customer service representative. The poor man then had to bear the brunt of my anger. I just exploded, and he had a tough time trying to pacify me. A technical support staff then came and checked my net connection and he was not able to do anything. He left without successfully diagnosing the problem.

Then I decided to check the net on my laptop (using the same connection) and to my surprise it worked! I then found out that due to the stupid update, Zone Alarm had just blocked all out going traffic. Here are some solutions to the problem:

1. Set the Internet Zone security as "Medium" instead of high.
2. Or get an update from ZoneAlarm or simply uninstall the update.

Moral of the story:
Do not keep Windows Update turned on.

My blog coming soon...