Saturday, June 30, 2007

Streaming video of iPhone campouts

This morning I watched live video covrerage of the campout in front of an Apple store in San Fransisco. The amateur coverage was enthuastically executed by folks at Gizmodo. Thank guys.

Mercifully, the broadband service from BSNL has been working since early morning. If it's working tomorrow morning, I would be able to catch a glimpse of the frenzy for the Iphone. We are full 12 hrs ahead from that San Fransisco areas.

Incidentally, I don't download any songs this month end. You know, I've been preserving bandwidth for watching videos of Iphone release!

Over to Gizmodo!

Friday, June 29, 2007

And, my vote goes to...

At the outset, I must admit that my idea of an ultimate mobile device would be an iphone—with a difference. It should have a 7” screen and 3G connectivity. The real one which is debuting tomorrow is reported to have a 3.5” screen and have not 3G connectivity.

It would seem that 7” screen is too large for a phone. But it’s not. We should not forget that it’s not 7” wide—the screen is to be 7” inch diagonally.

The default screen size of Windows Media Player is a little more than 7” ( that is, when measured with my not-so-perfect tape!). I took all the trouble of cutting out a paper the size of that default screen size. It sits snugly in my palm. So, portability would be just fine.

I’ve just found out a device which has all the specs I want with the exception that it has a 5” screen. Here is the link for the specs. The device is already available in the market.

But a 7” inch screen cousin is coming out in the market in the next few months. The specs are still under wrap. But they have several close shots of the device. Here is the link.

In case this 7” inch screen cousin does have the same or comparable specs with the 5” inch one, my vote for the ultimate mobile device goes to it.

I watched several video demos on YouTube-here, here and here.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

They are right here in our midst.

I’m interested in owning a farm land. The plan is not for the near future. But whenever I get a chance, I do not fail to inquire about the nature of the available land and its price etc.

One of my recent acquaintances has got a sericulture farm near Lotak lake but towards the foothills of the Thangjing. So, I do not fail to him about the quality of farmland and their prices in the areas around his farm.

He told me that the price of farmland had actually declined during recent years.

Any price for any article in these harsh times of ours?

This surely must apply for an inferior quality of farmland.

But he told me that he was talking of top notch farmlands.

SO?

He told me that there has been perceptible decline in the annual rainfalls and this decline has been more acutely felt in the hill slopes. There has been also perceptible decrease in the volume of waters in the hilly fountains. So, what are the use slope lands in the foothills if they cannot be irrigated by hilly fountains?

So, there has been drastic fall in price of the farmlands around that area. The fall has been as drastic as 50% decrease from the price of one or two years back.

My acquaintance was telling me the recent developments in the area adjoining his farms as they happened there. He was not particularly thinking about global warming and Ozone holes. But his story tells us that we are living right through the phenomena.

Neither global warming nor Ozone holes is something which is visiting us in some futures. They are right here in our midst.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Some coincidences?

Right now, broadband is working as I'm posting this.

But during the day, I could only log in for 5/6 minutes and then, the connection went down right away. I was totally pissed off.

I rang up the help desk. The telephone kept ringing but nobody picked it up. So, I kept dialing and may be, on the 11th try some guy picked it up.

It was so surprising that he was talking straight. He told me that their broadband service depended only on overhead OFC on the roadside upto Dimapur. So, the service is so bad beacuase on any day of the week, some disturbances are sure to make impact on the roadside overhead OFC on the mountainous highway from Imphal to Dimapur.

But, he told me that they are in the final stage in the negotiation with PowerGrid for leasing some bandwidth in their OFC.

Read this with my last post. Is this a simple coioncidence?

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Bandwidth and subsidy!

Today is really warm. Normally, by dusk we have cooling breezes to drive away the warmth of the afternoon. Today is a little different--as I'm typing this, warm weather refuses to go away.

I've found out 2 obscure but very interesting news in the inside pages of today's papers.

One is totally obscure piece telling us that BSNL, Silchar circle just implemented switching over to overhead optical fibers leased from PowerGrid. PowerGrid's neutral line of 110 kva overhead lines does not carry any electric current. So, they have fitted it with optical fibers. Silchar circle of BSNL got some capacity leased from them connecting Silchar with Guwahati node. They are shifting broadband service to this leased line form PowerGrid. The news report quoted BSNL officials expressing their belief that they would be able to offer interrupted connectivity to the customers in Silchar and North Cachar Hills.

My point if they could do it in Silchar, they should certainly be able to do the same in Imphal. I believe that PowerGrid have more entrenched presence here in Imphal. And I'm totally confident that their leased lines would provide us far better service.

Right at the moment, broadband service of BSNL is in total shambles. If we get 2 or 3 hrs of connectivity, we are lucky. Most of the times, I ended up posting here in my blog from my dial up account.

Another news qouted a speech by Doner Minister, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, which he made in Karbi Anglong. It is the adjacent district of Assam just across Dimapur. He was offering 90% freight subsidy for horticultural products meant for export from NE Region. That rate is for from any airport in the Region upto Calcutta airport. For items travelling upto Delhi or Mumbai the subsidy is 50%.

He told the crowd that to let the entrepreuners of the region to avail of this hefty subsidy,they are building cold storages facilities in the 5 airports of the region. These 5 include Imphal airport at Malom.

I read newsreport to the effect that cold storages would be built in Imphal airport. I mean, that was 1 year old newsreport. But I see nothing happening in the ground.

But the level of subsidy is pretty attractive.

Monday, June 25, 2007

Piraha

It was a bit longish but an engrossing read. I read it last night and it made me glued to the computer upto 2 in the morning.

It was about a tiny and endangered society whose members number less than a 1000 heads. They populate the parts of the inner area of Brazilian Amazon. They are the Piraha.

They have been steadfastly resisting changes since time immemorial. They have minimum contact with the outside world even in this time. And they number less than a 1000 now. So, logic would tell you that inbreeding should have taken over the society long time ago. But it doesn’t. It’s because their culture allows their women to sleep around with men of other communities.

Their culture also discourages them to count more than 3. They are hunters. Being discouraged from counting more than 3, they usually do not hoard any food items for more than 3 days! Instead of that quick smirk in your face, try to see the bright—they are essentially a greedless society! It must be real a paradise!!

But there is no dearth of Christian missionaries trying to bring them towards the Light. After painstakingly learning a working knowledge of their exceedingly difficult language, most missionaries would tell them the stories of Jesus. After patiently hearing them, they would invariably agree that it was a good story! But they would not fail to ask the missionaries if they have met this man named Jesus. When explained that Jesus’ was a story of 2000 years hence, they would not to conceal their sense of utter dismay: “Why should they bother telling a story of man who lived 2000 years ago”?

I repeat it’s an engrossing read. Here is the link.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

The latest JAC

It actually came out in yesterday’s papers but I was busy then coping with the blogger mess.

The latest JAC in the news is everything to do with blocking the land acquisition for the expansion of airport at Malom.

JAC stands for Joint Action Committee.

Some days back, there was another JAC in the news. It was formed again to block land acquisition for constructing a technology park at Chaingmeirong.

And we have remembered here that another JAC made headlines some weeks back. It was again another JAC formed by regular folks for blocking land acquisition. The land in question was the stretch of paddy fields near Manipur University, required for the construction of National Institute of Technology. The funds for the construction of NIT were already sanctioned and available for disbursement. The only thing missing is the land for the construction of the Institute. In other words, the project is being delayed for want of lands.

I also think that the other two projects, mentioned above, are most likely to be delayed for the same reason.

But we have already a trend here: Folks are not prepared to part away with their lands, even if they are going to get better infrastructure as a trade off.

So, how will infrastructure come up?

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Fixed it

I deleted all the cached files of my blog pages and then, I could see all the new posts there.

I remembered gypsynupi having had the same problem sometimes back. I also remembered how she went on to fix it.

In my case also, her solution worked just fine. Thanks, gypsynupi!

Friday, June 22, 2007

Blogger mess

I can still go to my dashboard and make new posts.

But I can't see my new post in my blog.

Something is very wrong with blogger.

I'm trying to fix the problem.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

To the wedding

Went to my cousin’s wedding this afternoon.

Today must be an auspicious day. There were so many wedding parties we met on the road.

Traffic was literally thrown up side down. Total madness on the roads with so many wedding parties trying to negotiate so little spaces available at some auspicious times sanctioned by the astrologers!

We took nearly 2 hours reaching the bride’s place at Keisampat from Khurai.

Incidentally, the bride’s place is only one leikai away from my place but that part of Keisampat is not so familiar to me.

So, everything ran late. That means I reached home late also and I’m also tired.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Will there be a PC 2.0?

I’m planning to buy a mobile device. Something in me tells me that I should not buy a laptop.

I’ve been googling for the magic device for the last few days. If I can’t call it addictive, it is certainly exciting to google for the first lead towards your desired product. I’ve also found out that it is so tough to buy new hardware.

Some even say that right now we are in the throes of paradigm shifting change as far as the hardware is concerned.

Some even dare to call it pc 2.0.

Their logic is that for the web 2.0 environment there should be an appropriate device—the PC 2.0. The only good thing which sounds too good to be true is that PC 2.0 devices should have lower prices than those of PC 1.0!

I’m still a skeptical about the whole thing.

But here is an interesting write up about PC 2.0.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Everbody wants a mobile device, it seems.

One of my cousins I met at the heijingpot also wanted to get a mobile device. Actually, he wanted to be unleashed from his desktop pc. After the proper heijingpot ceremony, we sat back and talked for a long time about emerging mobile devices.

From this conversation, I came to know that Manipur’s first wi-fi hotspot is in MU campus.

So, I should get my mobile device at the earliest and rush to MU campus whenever both electricity and broadband abandon us poor souls!

As usual today’s Heijingpot was also terribly boring. Why is that our society’s major ceremonies are all so boring?

After the ceremony, we talked and talked and it was pretty late when we departed from my cousin’s place. By that time, I was terribly hungry and so, I rushed back home.

That means I missed the June 18 ceremony at Kekrupat.

But along the roads, I could see some semblance life. Some passenger buses even did their normal businesses on the roads. I could spot other passengers vehicles also. Last year, on this day life was completely shut down. But it was not the case this year.

Monday, June 18, 2007

To bed early.

Tomorrow, I'm going to my cousin's heijingpot. They say it would be a really first-thing in the morning heijingpot. They say they would start for the ceremony latest by 9 in the morning.

So, I'm going to reach my cousin's place before 9 in the morning.

I'm going to bed early tonoght.

On my return home, I'll have a look at the functions of 18th June at Kekrupat.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Pork day!

Today is my pork day. I'm eating pork once in a 10-days period. In between, my diets include fish and chicken.

Six months ago, I had this recurrent mouth ulcers. They were very annoying.

I image-searched the key word 'mouth ulcers' on google. The images were actually vivid and I could immediately identitfy my type of mouth ulcer. There is also another type, which is symptomatic of herpes.

I again searched why such type of mouth ulcer occurs only some persons. I found three possible reasons but right now, I can remember 2 of them. One is anxiety and other is the deficiency of vitamin B12.

I again searched for the rich source of Vitamin B12. I found out that only red meats are the rich source of that vitamin.

So, I've been eating pork once in a 10-days period. And, this regiment actually prevents mouth ulcers, at least from me!

Now, I'm free from mouth ulcers. As I'm free of them for the last 6 months, I can definitely claim to have banished mouth ulcers from my person.

As I have found out, internet have a lot of actionable informations.

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Power and internet access

I need to overcome the problems of power outrages and spotty broadband access.(Last night was total blackout for the whole length of the night).

I thought of buying battery and chargers. For a set of the equipments to run my desktops for at least 3 hours, I need to fork out substantial cash.

So, why not buy a portable device?

Whenever there is power outrage, what I would do is to immediately shut down my desktop and boot up the portable device. This device should have USB ports for connecting to the broadband router. For the router itself, my small UPS could supply enough power for some hours of continuous works. When the power supply resumes, you immediately boot up the desktop and put the portable device power recharge mode.

I think this arrangement would give me rare satisfaction of circumventing Manipur’s backwardness as far as power supply is concerned!

For the broadband access, I need to have a backup connectivity. I think it should be wireless, may be, by data card. So, the portable device data card functionality.

I should not fail to mention that it should also be a phone working with a Bluetooth earplug with a camera and MP3 player.

In short, the ultimate mobile device. I searched around and found this and this.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

To Khurai

One of my cousins is marrying next week. This morning I went to his place to enquire about the preparations of the wedding. He is a cousin from my mother’s side and my mother’s place is Khurai.

So, this is my first visit to Khurai side in several months. After visiting him, I even shopped at Lamong Keithel!

To my mind, the place is a little too quite. There must be some underlying tensions in the area. There are also a large number of police and paramilitary deployed there.

Outwardly, the place seems to be quite normal. I sincerely hope that nothing ugly would happen there anymore.

One very interesting thing today is that one single paper carried a press statement by KNO. It said that the violence in Moreh is a direct result of a particular rebel group’s efforts to consolidate its power within the ‘Kuki areas’. It advised this group to restrict its activities in the valley areas. It even asked the people of Manipur to persuade the rebel group to desist from operating in ‘Kuki areas’!

Even, NSCN (IM) chipped in accusing the same rebel group as responsible for the Moreh violence. It said the violence erupted because of the said rebel group’s collaboration with Burmese army. Their press statement was cryptic and confusing.

And, there is yet another press statement, this time issued jointly by three major rebel groups. It is a lengthy statement and going through I can find mention of ‘anti-national liberation struggle’ several times.

Something remarkable is definitely is brewing up.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

On Moreh imbroglio-II

I’m continuing from my last post.

What KNA so far fails to achieve anything meaningful inside Burma makes it, it seems, doubly inspired to make its presence felt inside India. This time it returns with a sparkling result. It is successful in engineering a semblance of sectarian tension between Kukis and Meeteis. Going a little deeper, it is successful in letting a major rebel group of Manipur tag another equally strong group a ‘sectarian’ outfit.

By deploying KNA to achieve this, this is a major milestone for the counter-insurgency establishment of Indian State.

Right at the moment, the group which have been tagged a ‘sectarian’ outfit is seemed to be cornered. It is seemed to be fallen in a trap so elaborately set up by so many actors.

That said, I have this hunch that the outfit seemed to have a contingency plan to avoid falling in this trap, after it had deployed its guerillas to shoot down the 5 Kukis, whom they claimed to be armed cadres of KNA. They did not say it openly but their press statement ( carried by yesterday’s papers) made it abundantly clear. They seemed to have thought out beforehand that KNA might have targeted innocent Meetei civilians. That’s why more than 500 people(who are living in the neighbourhood of Kuki majority areas) so flawlessly crossed over to Burma and stayed there for 3 days. I think that was pre-planned.

But the fatal flaw in their contingency plan proved to be the non-Moreh Meeteis who were working in constructing an auditorium in a Kuki dominated neighbourhood in Moreh. True to its character, KNA simply lined them up and executed them systematically.

I have made a little digression to emphasize my point that the cornered rebel group is a resourceful one. In fact, it is the most resourceful of Manipur’s numerous rebel groups.

Now, this most resourceful group is cornered with a tag of being ‘sectarian’. It’s common sense in Manipur that one cannot be ‘sectarian’ to do any meaningful work here (be it rebellion or anything) as it is the conglomeration of so many ethnic groups. It is bound to strike back.

Thus, we have just reached a scenario where the rebels, instead of fighting their avowed enemy, the Indian State, are likely to intensify fighting amongst themselves. As has been pointed earlier, it is a milestone for the counter-insurgency establishment of Indian State.

If we have a closer look at the press statement issued by the cornered group (which was carried by yesterdays’ papers), we have already had the glimpses of the ferocity of their counter-attack. It said that ‘anti-national liberation movement people’ would not have a chance to get their skin saved by dint of their belonging to a particular ethnicity, religion, community, society or caste. In other words, they would be targeted by using various courses of actions, which are likely to be dubbed ‘sectarian’. Again, it is another way of saying that there are people, who are ‘anti-national liberation struggle’, hiding in some niche places in the society which would be reachable via courses of actions, which are likely to be dubbed ‘sectarian’.

So, in my mind, we are nearing a scenario where one group is shouting ‘sectarian’ while another group shouts back, ‘anti national liberation struggle’. We are nearing a stage where there would be do or die battle amongst the rebel groups, which would leave the poor common folk, for whom the rebels are claiming to lay down their lives, completely dazed.

When I said that, it would seem to be a little far fetched at the first instance. But we should see it in the background of the bizarre confluence of varied interests in Moreh right now.

>> There is the Indian military. Their edginess in failing to persuade the Burmese military to shut down the rebel camps in Sagain region is quite clear by the avalanche of official visits by Indian dignitaries to Rangoon.

>> There is KNA/KNO. They have quite clearly served notice to the larger Manipuri society that if some of its members continue to operate from ‘kuki areas’, they would go as far as gunning down innocent civilian in trying to foment ‘sectarian violence’. Their message: persuade your people to shut down their camps in the ‘kuki areas’.

>> Some valley-based rebels are also hell bent on destroying the camps in the Sagain region. Here is the link to understand this.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

On Moreh imbroglio-I

It’s not a coincidence that several civil societies organizations have just concluded a months-long campaign against ‘sectarianism’ and just at this moment, one rebel group stands likely to be accused of snowballing ‘sectarian’ violence in Moreh. It would be instructive to note here that those civil societies organizations work in the same wavelength with another rebel group, which have been trying to dub the one enmeshed in Moreh imbroglio of being ‘sectarian’. There is this long standing friction between the groups.

As the present violence in Moreh was initiated by KNA (Kuki National Army), it would be very tempting to draw the conclusion that the rebel group which is doing the accusation might have established a working relation with KNA, if not with Indian Military. It’s now fairly established that KNA is now working under the active guidance of Indian Military. I’m not trying to imply that conclusion. The more likely scenario is that the counter-insurgency agencies quickly take note of the lingering friction between the two groups and deploy KNA to act on that friction.

By the way, KNA’s avowed aim is to liberate Kuki-Chin-Mizo people from the clutches of Burmese army and to establish an independent nation in the geographical area known as Sagaing in Burma. But up to now, it seems that Burmese army so thoroughly intimidated it that it cannot initiate any meaningful work program inside Burma.

(To be continued in my next post).

Sunday, June 10, 2007

2nd Arambam Somorendra Memorial Lecture.

In the evening, I was there in JN Dance Academy Hall for the 2nd Arambam Somorendra Memorial Lecture. Today is the 7th death anniversary of Arambam Somorendra.

I was late in reaching the place. The lecture was already delivered and questions and answer session was in full swing when ireached there.

This year's lecture was delivered by Prof Gangmumei Kamei. His lecture is entitled--' Plurarism, Democracy and Ethnic Relations in Manipur-A Critique'.

Though I reached there late, I asked for, and was promptly given, a copy of the lecture.

But it was too evident that this year's lecture was a complete let down. Why were so many vacant seats there? Why there was not proper public announcement about this 2nd Memorial Lecture?

I doubt that many reading public were not aware that there was going to be a lecture. Anyway, as I was not there when it was being delivered, I'm trying to read it right now. I'll give my opinion tomorrow.

I intend to give my views regarding what is happening in Moreh right now, it was already midnight as I was typing this. So, that viewpoint should also come here tomorrow. Sorry for this.

Moreh burning.

At around 9 this morning, 5 bullet-riddled bodies were recovered in Moreh. Details are sketchy at the moment but it is apparent that all bodies belonged to one particular community. In an apparent reprisal there seemed to be intra-communities clash. But one detail is official: The houses of the president and secreatary of Meetei Council Moreh were burnt down by the armed cadres of a particular rebel group, which is very active in and around Moreh.

At around 1 pm, curfew was imposed on the township.

One very disturbing feature of today's incident is the blatant involvement of armed cadres of various rebel groups in engineering the intra-communities clash in the town.

Saturday, June 09, 2007

Come change!

Sometimes, you feel so strongly that you stand rock-solid for something, for someone. You are hellbent on believing that some feelings, some emotions are meant to last for a lifetime. Then, somewhere along the way, a tiny seed of change got embedded inside you. As it begins to unfolds itself inside of you, you feel uneasy a the begining and then, soemtimes later, you are actually angry with yourself.

But should you resist that change for flowering itself?

Should you feign ignorance of the change taking place inside of you and carry on with life as usual, even when there is the real promise of a lot beautiful things coming your way along with the change?

Right at the moment, I feel overwhelmed. Warily, I still look forward. Unable to decide anything, I am opening up myself for the change to come to me.

Friday, June 08, 2007

Out of Joost community.

I did find out that Intel 810 motherboard in my desktop does not support a graphics card plug in. There is no slot for such plug in.

So, I was determined to shoot an email to Joost team telling them that I have hardware problem though I'm still extremely eager to beta test their product. Then, I also found out that I could not log in to my broadband account. May be, the whole network was down last night.

Regarding hardware, I'm not still uncertain if I would go for a new desktop or a mobile device. I think I would take at least several months to decide.

So, I'm virtually out of Joost community for the time being.

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Joost and video memory.

So, the joost team emailed me telling me that now I got only 14 days to get a joost name. For doing that I got to open the joost client first. Whenever I tried doing that, an error message came up saying that my graphics card seemed not to support proper 3d functionality.

I got the mail on the 31st of May. So, now I have only a week's time.

So, for the last one month or so, I've been trying to find out what's wrong with my computer.

Today, I'm able to identify the problem.

My computer is an old one with Intel 810 chipset motherboard. In this motherboard the maximum video memory distributed to the onboard graphic controller automatically by the OS is only 32 mb. But the joost client needs a minimum of 48 mb of video memory.

I searched around and came to know that user could not increase that video memory size on the onboard graphic controller.

so, the question now is: Can the onboard controller be disabled? In its place, can a PCI graphic( with a higher memory) card do the job?

I'm going to find out tomorrow. If everything goes well, I really want to have a peek at Joost. To me, Joost seems to be the future.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Indoors--totally!

I spent the whole day indoors. I went out only at dust to buy some vegetables. The market was all deserted. There were only 20/30 odd vegetable sellers around when I bought my share.

Should we talk about success/failure of bandhs any more?

Well, we should say that today's bandh definitely disrupted public life. And that's bad enough.

Staying indors all day helped me in writing down some scenes of my screenplay. I make it a point to write down the scenes only when they come out alive in moving images in my eyes. That makes me a slow writer. But I'm not in a hurry.

I'm not still able to find the trends of the ongoing turf war within rebel groups which resulted in today's bandh. Tomorrow, my work will necessiate meeting a lot of people. I'll keep my ears open and pick up whatever they are saying about this bandh. Any relevant snippet will be put up here in this blog.

Tonight, I'm going to bed early.

Monday, June 04, 2007

Blurring battlelines

We are going through another 24-hr bandh. It's from 6 this evening.

It's remarkable in the sense that the bandh is being observed not in protesting a Govt misdeed but as a falout of intensification of rivalry within the rebel outfits.

Three anti-drug activists were gunned down in Wangoi, some 6/7 kms from here.

The rebel group which admiited of gunning down the trio claimed that they were caught red-handed when they were demanding money in the rebel group's name. They were executed there and then.

Even if I had no privilege informations of any kind, I used to be able to follow the ongoing turf wars between rebel groups. But this time, I cannot put my finger on what's what and who's who.

This may be because of the fact the turf war is rapidly intensifying, thus blurring the usual contours of the battlelines!

I'll take it as a personal challenge to see through that blurring battlelines.

I'll keep posting!

Sunday, June 03, 2007

On my bike!

In the evening I rode down the Singjamei roads. I was looking for some stuffs(hint: As you ride further towards Manipur University, certain stuffs get cheaper). I was on my bicycle.

There was nothing in the air to suggest that it was a summer evening. It was actually pleasant riding the bike there.

But what was surprising was that workmen were still there working on the side drainage. Why they took so long? It must be almost a year back that there was the much heralded demolition of the buildings on both side of the street. They said that they were widening the street in anticipation of the much-hyped ‘Look East Policy’. But they are still working on the side drainage on that 1/2 km stretch of the street.

On my way back, I made it a point to count the number of workmen there. Altogether there must 20 workmen there. Not definitely more than 30. Why? Why don’t they employ more workmen there? There is definitely no dearth of workmen who are capable of such works and most of them would be willing to put in their skills there.

They say they are beginning to shift focus on fast-paced Far East and South East Asia. And they are taking almost a year completing works on 2 km stretch of street-side drainage.

It’s a joke.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

BitTorrent--BLOCKED!

I found out one interesting thing during my month-end download routine.

There is blanket blocking of BitTorrent at the ISP level. The block is so total that I could not download even their client. I had their client installed but had to uninstall it because I thought there were some bugs there. I unisntalled it and then tried to install a fresh one by downloading one. But the downloading would proceed smoothly upto 99% and then automatically restarted afresh from 1%. The downloaded could not be completed.

There are so many good stuffs out there as torrent files. There are really mindblowing country songs as torrent files--really good quality audio but not not very recent ones.

To my mind, there should be some arrangements whereby old songs could be downloaded freely.

And, any ISP should not consider it their duties to block any partricular site. Their duty is to provide the bandwidth.

Friday, June 01, 2007

Downloading!

I'm downloading songs.

Last night also, I downloaded music files upto 2 in the morning! Unexpectedly, downloading files is also a tiring job!!

This month, most of the time, my broadband was not working. So, during the last two days I have been trying to download 2 gb worth of songs! 2 gb is the maximum downloadable data for my broadband plan.

I'm tired and readying to go to bed.