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Do Not Access? Hell, I Will!

I got a new modem from Siti Infeon DNA-A201BE-I from BSNL, my ISP. I got an installation disc, an ethernet cable, a USB cable and a Quick Setup Guide in the box. First I set it up using the Ethernet cable. Then put the Setup disc in the tray and run the Setup.exe file. The Autorun launcher did not work. Running the Setup.exe a BSNL Broadband Setup Wizard started. It checked some requirements like Operating System, Java Runtime, Flash etc. I had to install an older version of Flash to allow the installer to continue. Then I selected Home install. Now it proceeded to the next step, I selected Broadband, other option being Home Network. My LAN card was configured by the installer. In my opinion this was the only useful work it did. Then it asked me to connect my modem so that it could be detected and the registration completed with my UserID and Password. But my modem was not detected . I tried with USB mode, tried discovering my modem otherwise, called up BSNL tech cell(wonder n

Another Timer Demo

What this done is simple. When I click on a Button the progress bar will show for 5 seconds and then some other work can be done. Well, here it is. 'Simple Timer demo by Sarthak Ganguly 'Released under GPLv3 Share Alike License.   Public Class MainFrm 'Say 2 seconds is the default timeout 'You can change it from here or make it a 'property with Get and Set statements 'you can increase it to 3,4,5... seconds Dim timeLimit As Integer = 50 * 100 '(milliseconds) Dim temp As Integer = 0 Private Sub clickBUT_Click( ByVal sender As System. Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _ Handles clickBUT.Click 'Start the timer aTmr.Enabled = True End Sub Private Sub aTmr_Tick( ByVal sender As System. Object , ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _ Handles aTmr.Tick 'The timer ticks :) with Step 100ms progBar.Value += OneStep() 'Stop the Timer temp

Block those Ads

If you browse the internet often you know what I am talking about. Ads are everywhere. And necessary for paying for hosting bills and like but sometimes they are just plain annoying and useless distraction. Besides heavy and bad ads even take up a lot of bandwidth. In the end you might just say, Enough, now I will call the shots. I will decide what I see and not. So here I will brief you about the Do’s and Don’t in blocking unnecessary advertisements. Chrome AdBlock Simplicity is the key. A must have. Get it here : http://chromeadblock.com/   Firefox   AdBlock Plus Very useful, works great and ultra light. You can find it here. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/ IE 9   Simple AdBlock Go here : http://simple-adblock.com/ Download the Installer, install and you are done! One thing though, it is important to know that some ads are good and even useful, remember the nice ad that caught your attention (in a positive way).

Airtel Start Stop Service 121 – Activate or De-activate Premium Services

Airtel has introduced Start / Stop Service which provides Airtel customers an easy & instant way to activate or de-activate any Value Added premium service of their choice under one window of Interactive SMS session by sending SMS to the toll free number 121 . Airtel Start/Stop service enables you to view and manage all your Value Added Service service through an interactive SMS session. You can reply to the SMS with the number against the service which you wish to START or STOP . The Airtel Start / Stop service works from your pre-paid as well as your post-paid connection. There is no cost to view the services under the Start & Stop menu, however to subscribe to any of the service under the Start menu, you’ll be asked to confirm your choice after the applicable charges have been mentioned. To Stop a service there is no cost. The Airtel Start Stop service works from all mobile phones. For GPRS enabled services, Airtel live needs to be activated. If the customer sends START to