Prepaid Data Plan on Airtel
Posted on July 28, 2010
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Airetel has launched a new prepaid data plan for it’s customers which gives 1.5 GB of data for just 45/- per day. To subscribe for the data plan just reload 45/- and the plan will be activated instantly and will be available for a period of 12 hours.
The 12 hour count will reset in the midnight, so be wise when reloading; do not reload 45 bucks at 11:00 PM as it will only be valid for 1 hour!
This offer can be used in conjunction with the 99/- youth plan as well.
Configuring Bluetooth PAN in Debian
Posted on July 21, 2010
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I wanted to use Internet using my Sony Ericsson W595 Bluetooth Personal Area Network. It wasn’t that hard, here are the steps…
1. Install bluez-utils
sudo apt-get install bluez-utils
2. Enable the PAND in /etc/default/bluetooth and configure it to connect to your device.
PAND_ENABLED=1 PAND_OPTIONS="--role PANU --connect 00:25:E7:2B:E9:60"
3. Add the Bluetooth network interface in the /etc/network/interfaces
allow-hotplug bnep0 iface bnep0 inet dhcp
Your are ready to go, every time you start your computer it will automatically connect to the PAN, and you are on the net, wala…
Tax imposed on Companies using VoIP
Posted on July 16, 2010
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Telecommunication industry is loosing a huge sum due to the use of VoIP, and it’s currently imposting tax and notifying big companies (IT) to register under the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) and pay the tax. You might also remember the times when TRC was trying to block VoIP via SLT and failed on that! Why in earth the people at TRC do not understand that we are paying for the internet and we can use it for what we want (Browsing, Chatting, Calling) as we need…
If this is so the Electricity Board mighty also impose a tax on CFL bulbs, and other low power consuming devices saying they are loosing huge sum of money as it consume less power! Internet is more like electricity, we pay for the service once we get it we do not pay for what we use it for! or need to be taxed for what we use it for… Be piratical!
3rd Wedding Anniversary
Posted on July 15, 2010
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It’s our 3rd Wedding Anniversary today… Didn’t get to do much as we planned to go on the office trip and got to prepare for it in short notice! Amirthan was so happy that I am back home early and took him shopping around for his trip dresses! So happy wedding anniversary to us…
Fix VIM the backspace problem in Windows
Posted on July 12, 2010
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Working in Windows XP now days, I found a strange behavior in gVIM as it wasn’t allowing me to use backspace when editing source files with indenting! After googling a bit I found a solution by adding the following to my .vimrc file…
:set backspace=indent,eol,start
Using Javascript codes in Smarty template files
Posted on July 10, 2010
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Using Smarty fist problem I encountered is how to use JavaScript inside the template files! There is this magic keyword literal which will refrain from parsing the code within!
{literal}
<script type="text/javascript">
function isblank(field) {
if (field.value == '')
{ return false; }
else
{
document.loginform.submit();
return true;
}
}
</script>
{/literal}Setting the SVN external
Posted on July 10, 2010
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Use Smarty for Templating, I had to include the Smarty libraries in the sri-lankan code base, but I didn’t wanna maintain it in the sri-lankan subversion repository, for that I had to just add the Smarty libs as a svn:externals property! Here is how…
[~] svn propset svn:externals 'smarty http://smarty-php.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/libs' . property 'svn:externals' set on '.'
Templating with Smarty
Posted on July 10, 2010
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I’m redoing sri-lankan.net from the sketch and gonna use smarty template engine for easy templating! So-far the moving is fine, as you see I’ve broken some existing links I’ll try to restore them as soon as possible!
Bye bye Lanka Bell WiMax
Posted on June 19, 2010
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I got my Lanka Bell WiMax connection disconnected today, I’m gonna try the Airtel Net for some time, and see how it works…
Nokia Dual SIM Phones
Posted on June 17, 2010
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Nokia has been having a big competition in the Asian market due to the Chinese Dual SIM phones, now they have come up with there own Nokia C1 and Nokia C2 with dual SIM capability.
Nokia C1 is a Double SIM phone, meaning only one SIM can be active at a given time.
In the other hand Nokia C2 is a Dual SIM phone where both the SIMs’ can be active simultaneously.