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Blackberry continued

Continued from Blackberry my precious

Finding a carrier for blackberry in Australia.

The main functions of a blackberry are the unlimited free email service and the internet browsing experience.

Now both of these are dependent on carrier and the plan you are in.

After a lot of beating around the bush in Australia, I found out that there is a plan on three which allows  business people who  come into Australia for short periods of time to take a postpaid blackberry plan with all the goodies included. Sorry no prepaid here

  1. Free unlimited blackberry email
  2. Free unlimited blackberry internet
  3. and $350 worth of calling

this cap is called the business cap

http://www.three.com.au/pricing?mod=MobilePlans&planType=New%20Caps&planName=$35%20Cap

Click here and check the “sim only” plan with $35 plan.

You get free unlimited blackberry internet along  with $350 of calling value. Its as good as it gets I guess.

Blackberry and an Iphone

Many people tell me that an Apple Ipod is way way better than a Blackberry.

How can you even compare them….Blackberry is for business people who have to be  email all the time and replying to emails.

The Blackberry physical keyboard is the best there is …typing on it is like typing on a real keyboard and the Pushmail service makes it being on a messenger.

Now iphone is nothing like that.

Of course you have a Pushmail service in Iphone, they are a paid service they cost some where from $150 a year

http://www.apple.com/mobileme/pricing/

and they are not that good. At that price you can buy a new apple hardware product every 3rd year.

There is one thing that i will give to apple which is the app store. it has million and billions of apps.

Though  Blackberry does not have so many apps in its store but you will find an app for pretty much anything you want.

And did you know that anything before iphone 4 does not have multi tasking  ( no music and web browsing at the same time)…I mean what the hell, my 4 year old Moto razer had multi tasking!!!! it also had video calling,,,I ve never used video calling  in it though…it is a redundant feature…. would you not use Google talk to video call for free rather than use an expensive video call.

Google for Blackberry

You will find  google has a host of apps which you will love

http://www.google.com/mobile/blackberry/

There is a Twitter app, Facebook app and a Foursquare app.

If you get a Blackberry I am pretty sure you will love it.

But do keep in mind that a Blackberry is meant to be used in a 3G environment and not a GPRS environment.

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My Blackberry…My precious!!!

My precious

Well this is what I have been after I have laid my hand on my Blackberry Bold  9000.

My sister brought this when she was in India, her plans changed and she moved back from where she came ( No not hell ). As she had brought this Blackberry back in India it was locked to Airtel.The blackberry did not work for her in America.

My Nokia n79 had a problem with the motherboard and the wiring went poof. But I must say that in spite my prejudice for it , it had performed pretty well, The push mail service was okay, there were a few apps in the app store and the OVI suite is apparently the best in its class. I can send a SMS from my computer by plugging in the cellphone. How neat is that.? Well it was a  bit slow but well you cannot expect to get every thing right int he first go do you ?

Now coming back to the Blackberry Bold.

The first thing you realize when you first lay your hands on this baby is that it is fucking bold.

The display is relay really bright… and hence the name Bold. This  one is a keeper. You can use it under the 12 pm sun with out a hitch.

They have squeezed twice the number of pixels that are required on the same amount of screen and hence the powerful display.

Unlocking the Blackberry from Airtel

Well all blackberries in India are locked to the respective carriers.

I do not exactly know why but they have some kind of a security issue with it.It is easier to track down your BB if some one steals it.

This is how you go about it

You will need to write them (Airtel)  an email telling them that you cannot use the Blackberry with them as your dog died or grandma is sick, it doe not really matter. A cellphone carrier in India cannot keep a cellphone locked to himself, Its against the rules refer  TRAI guidelines.

I, for example gave this

To: bb.support@airtel.in
From: Tejaswy  Date: 04/17/2010 12:04PM

Subject: Blackberry In Australia

Hello,

I am in Tejaswy.I live in Perth Australia.Recently when I was in India for diwali my dad gave me a blackberry from Airtel.Now this phone worked well for the few days I stayed in dehi.Now due to some unfortunate unforeseen circumstance I had to move back to Perth and I will be staying here for another few years.
Now when I insert my local sim “3″  it shows as the Blackberry is locked to the AIRTEL.  <—insert anything here

I took it to “3″ shop near by they asked me to write an email to you asking the blackberry unlocking procedure and the unlock pin.

If you could please send me the Blackberry unlocking pin and the procedure I will be very grateful to you
–
Regards

Tejaswy

For which  they replied  in affirmation asking my IMEI number and BB pin.

I gave it to them and they sent me an email in a matter of hours telling me how to unlock my Blackberry.

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Note: Please ensure that Airtel Postpaid Sim Card should be inserted in Blackberry while performing the steps.
1. Turn wireless off ! VERY IMPORTANT
2. Go to ‘Options’ and click on ‘SIM Card’
3. Type ‘MEPD’  (You will not be able to view it)
4. Type ‘MEP2′  (You will not be able to view it)
5. Enter the unlock code
6. Press enter
7. Reboot device
Please revert us if your issue gets resolved .
Should you require any assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us. You may email us at bb.support@airtel.in or call our 24 by 7 helpdesk @ 7070.
Assuring you the best of our services.

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Now that is what I call a satisfied customer.

My precious…

Blackberry is like a drug..you get addicted to it.And I am not kidding. the people at crack berry will tell you better.

The ability to read e-mail that is received in real time, anywhere, has made the BlackBerry devices infamously addictive, earning them the nickname “CrackBerry“, a reference to the freebase form of cocaine known as crack, which is also highly addictive

And really it is.

There is  chat program called the Blackberry Messenger, This little tool lets you communicate to anyone in the world if he/she has a Blackberry cellphone, for free! How handy is that!!

You really need to use this  to experience the addiction.

Anyone who owns a Blackberry will never move to any other phone. He just cannot. Every other phone will feel mundane to him.

Will he move to an Iphone?

You got to be kidding me!

No way.

And O there is an App Store too.

My love my heart, My preccccccious!!!!

Due to all this above reasons, I am calling it Precious….My precious!

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Bucket List Part 1

I am making a itinerary for my world tour.
Think of it as a “Bucket list”  of places I want to go before I get married.(O ….. I am getting married sooner than you think)

So here is the “Bucket list”

1.Cambodia.
I want to go to the temples in Cambodia, they are still unexplored relatively

I’d like to have a “Indiana Jones” moment of my own
I’d like to have a “Indiana Jones” moment of my own. Who knows I might find some  hidden treasure of Raja Raja.
Its not just that,I plan to cover all the major Hindu pilgrimage in India. And although Cambodia does not jump on the radar but ….I want to cut it off for just in case.

1 Indian Rupee = 94.53477 Cambodian Riel

And the hotels are pretty cheap too
I mean $8 USD for one night….I mean come on…It doesn’t get any cheaper than this. And this  hotel is a bit posh with fancy amenities like WiFi and wireless printing. I can live without WiFi and wireless printing.

To be continued………..

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“Congress” Bureau of Investigation

Is it just conincidence or is the congress govt using CBI as its own tool,Just look at all the controversies that it has given into and not surprisingly all from congress

1.Bofors issue

In January 2006, it was found that CBI had quietly unfrozen bank accounts of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, one of the prime accused in the Bofors scandal of 1986 which had tainted the Rajiv Gandhi government. The Central Bureau of Investigation has been responsible for the inquiry into the Bofors Case. Associates of the late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi were linked to alleged pay-offs made in the mid-1980s by the Swedish arms form AB Bofors, with $40 million in kickbacks moved from Britain and Panama to secret Swiss banks. The $1,300 million arms purchase of 410 howitzer field guns involved in the sale were reported to be inferior to those offered by a French competitor.

Congress all over it,,,,and why the hell did it  unfreeze accounts that were frozen ?

Is it because that both Sonia Gandhi and quattrocchi are Italian??

2.Nithari Killings

The CBI was given the responsibility of investigating the murders of dozens of children in the Nithari village near Noida, UP. This was after the local police was found to be incompetent and lethargic in their investigations. The serial killings were in the Indian and international media for weeks since decomposing bodies were found outside the house of the accused Moninder Singh.

The CBI gave a Pandher a clean chit as he was related to some high profile minister.

Conviction

On 12 Feb 2009, both the accused Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surinder Koli were found guilty of their crimes, by a special sessions court in Gaziabad. This verdict left the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) red faced, as the CBI had earlier given a clean chit to Moninder Singh Pandher in all its chargesheets. Both the accused Moninder Singh Pandher and his domestic help Surinder Koli were given death sentence on 13 Feb 2009, as the case was classified as “rarest of rare”.

3.Samajwadi party nuclear Deal

During the congress term in the center iot took support from Samajwadi party to pass the nuclear deal, Now there was  secert motive , Samajawadi party supports the nuclear deal and the congress waves off all cases against Mulayam Singh Yadav

New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday accused the Congress party of “grossly misusing” the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to save Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav in a case of assets-in-excess of income in return for his party’s continued support to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.

BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley told reporters, “There was a clear deal between the Congress and the Samajwadi Party under which the former would ask the CBI to give a report (in the Supreme Court) in favour of Mulayam Singh Yadav.”

Mulayam Singh is embroiled in a November 2005 public interest litigation in the Supreme Court charging him and his family members with amassing wealth disproportionate to their known sources of income. The apex court had then ordered a CBI inquiry.

Jaitley added: “The CBI was grossly misused and abused for political ends like never in the past. It is now being used as a catalyst to ensure the government survives (with the support of the Samajwadi Party).”

The Samajwadi Party joined the Congress-led UPA during the July 22 trust vote last year in parliament over the India-US nuclear deal when the Left parties withdrew support to the government, pushing it into a minority.

Jaitley referred to Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh’s attack Monday on Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said: “This was a false aggression to dispel the impression that they (the two parties) had a deal.”

He went on: “Amar Singh’s yesterday’s aggression was entirely false and make-believe.”

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And now the more recent Titler case

In the Tytler case, the CBI’s claims about the unreliability of the witnesses would have carried greater conviction if its track record had been more credible. But, against the background of its propensity to follow the dictates of its political masters rather than the merits of a case, the clean chit to Tytler cannot but be widely disbelieved. But, it isn’t only the CBI’s name which is besmirched. Its political masters, too, will be seen to be pulling the strings from behind.

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I mean one only has to be blind to ignore the congress misuse of CBI.No other political party has used the CBI as the congress has.

Shame on you Congress

Me thinks CBI should be dismantled

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Indian processors

After facing a lot of hack attempts from Chinese hackers on a daily basis

GOI has decided to make its own processors to add as measure to prevent Chinese hackers from infiltrating into crucial websites

Top scientists at some of the country’s ace scientific institutions are pooling energies, and the government some money, in an attempt to design a home-grown microprocessor, which they hope will ward off the rising threat of espionage into strategic segments like defence, telecom and space.

However, the current plan has national security as the first priority, especially after reports of a global network of Chinese hackers breaking into sensitive installations worldwide, including the headquarters of Dalai Lama in Dharamshala and telecom networks in the UK. Just a week ago, South Korea had complained of an organised effort by North Korea to hack its government network.

“Unless India has its own microprocessor, we can never ensure that networks (that require microprocessors) such as telecom, Army WAN, and microprocessors used in BARC, ISRO, in aircraft such as Tejas, battle tanks and radars are not compromised,” the document points out.Source

For those who do not know GOI has quite some experience in developing semiconductors

Advanced Neumarical Research and Analysis Group (ANURAG)

Advanced Numerical Research and Analysis Group (ANURAG) is a laboratory of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). Located in Kanchanbagh, Hyderabad, it is involved in the development of computing solutions for numerical analysis and their use in other DRDO projects.ANURAG was established on May 2, 1988, to support aeronautical design work, with the mandate of executing specific, time-bound projects leading to the development of custom designed computing systems and software packages for numerical analysis and other applications.

Microprocessor Design and Development.

ANURAG has designed and developed general-purpose microprocessors- ANUPAMA and ABACUS. ANUPAMA is a 32-bit RISC processor, and works at 33 MHz clock speed. The complete software development tool kit is available for application development. A single-board computer based on ANUPAMA is available for evaluation and software development. ANUPAMA is also available as an IP core.

ABACUS is a 32-bit processor for multi-tasking applications with virtual memory support. It is designed around ANUPAMA core with additions like MMU, two levels of cache, double precision FPU, SDRAM controller. The IP core of ABACUS is available in Verilog RTL code. This processor is suited for desktop applications. Complete software platform is available for ABACUS processor and a single board computer with ABACUS is implemented. Linux Kernel is ported.

Areas of work

ANURAG helps design and develop advanced computing systems. Much of this research is conducted in state-of-the art concepts like parallel architectures, etc, in order to build up a technology base in these areas. Its areas of work are:

1. Parallel processing technology.
2. System engineering, integration.
3. General purpose microprocessors.
4. 1 micrometre CMOS fabrication technology.
5. Design and development of VLSI chips & SOC development.
6. Processor related technology.
7. System software development for custom made processors

Products

PACE (Processor for Aerodynamic Computations and Evaluation), developed by ANURAG, is a loosely coupled, message-passing parallel processing supercomputer. PACE was originally designed to cater to the Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) needs in aircraft design. It can also be used for other fields such as weather forecasting, automobile & civil engineering design and Molecular Biology. These systems have been built using VME-bus based Pentium processor boards, ATM switches and Reflective Memory communication hardware.

In 1987, India decided to launch a national initiative in supercomputing to design, develop and deliver a supercomputer in the gigaflops range. Complementary projects were initiated in various labs, ANURAG being one of them. PACE was unveiled by then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao in April 1995.

In late 1998, ANURAG developed the 15 times more powerful “Pace Plus 32″, which can be used to support missile development, as well as other fields. A 128-node PACE++ system, built using Pentium processor based VME boards was unveiled by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in January 2004. The performance of this system is 50 Gigaflops (sustained performance). It has been installed at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. At present work is in progress on parallel processing system based on Linux clusters targeted to deliver 1 teraflop performance.

ANAMICA
ANAMICA (ANURAG’s Medical Imaging and Characterization Aid) is a DICOM compliant three-dimensional medical visualization software for data obtained from any medical imaging system like MRI, CT and Ultrasound. The software has two-dimensional and three-dimensional visualisation techniques to visualize the images in various ways. The sequence of images obtained from any imaging system by scanning of a single patient is packed to form a three-dimensional grid. The software has also been modified for accepting data from Industrial CT systems.

General purpose microprocessors

ANURAG has designed and developed general-purpose microprocessors- ANUPAMA and ABACUS. ANUPAMA is a 32-bit RISC processor, and works at 33 MHz clock speed. The complete software development tool kit is available for application development. A single-board computer based on ANUPAMA is available for evaluation and software development. ANUPAMA is also available as an IP core.

ABACUS is a 32-bit processor for multi-tasking applications with virtual memory support. It is designed around ANUPAMA core with additions like MMU, two levels of cache, double precision FPU, SDRAM controller. The IP core of ABACUS is available in Verilog RTL code. This processor is suited for desktop applications. Complete software platform is available for ABACUS processor and a single board computer with ABACUS is implemented. Linux Kernel is ported.

Other technologies

ANURAG has designed a 16-bit DSP processor, which is available as an IP core and the design is packaged in 120-pin CPGA. It has also designed other processors and arithmetic cores. ANURAG has also been able to fabricate CMOS designs up to 1 micrometre size and with up to 100,000 gates. Die sizes of 14 x 14 mm have been achieved.

Not only will this help sensitive networks safe against Chinese hackers but it will also help the ailing Semiconductor industry to get back on its feet

Its not that the Chinese hackers have only targeted the Indians,they have targeted the Russians

Americans, British & even the Turkish.

So how exactly  will making a chip prevent chinese hackers from hacking Indian websites?

I really don’t know I will read more stuff about it and let you know

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