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when will mumbai see something like this??? I am hoping that MTNL will bring out similar offers! Especially to BSNL phones

wow...i hope they dont sell hutch to reliance! Ambani will just raise the costs to recover his investment!

depends on you khs123 I'm very suspicious of these people!

No ways...i'm not sharing my spoils with anyone! If you want you take the mens room haha!

stop cheering and getting excited. lets first see them actually give us those connections AT AFFORDABLE PRICES WITH NO CAPS and then cheer and get excited ok?

This is NAIL BITING entertaintment! When will the mystery be revealed!

Wait a sec...so ESSAR is being run by the Ruias? The Ruias own 33% stake in Hutch while Hutchison Whampoa own 67% stake, right? But the Ruias also own BPL. How is that possible? I mean BPL and Hutch belong to the same circle ( Mumbai ). How were Ruias allowed to run BPL while holding more than 10% stake in Hutch???

why do you want the price war to end??? are you mad! its going to help the consumer!!

matthew, they haven't said that they are going to pass on the benefits to the customers.., have they?

ra5cals! They dont want to improve the broadband penetration! They just want to increase their profits by 12.24%!!!

I didnt understand about the Airtel part. Why wont they allow the sell off? And this is Reliance we're talking about buddy! They make the government change the rules for them to accomodate their own interests

Ahem...sorry guys for the OT entry but I just couldn't resist! [OFFTOPIC] Even the loos and changing rooms? Man I want to be a security guy in a BPO especially monitoring the ladies changing rooms and ... [/OFFTOPIC]

very nice pun drali2! and peeps, you can post viruses / worms / trojans and whatever you wish! Wont affect me... but cant say about Windoze users!

supernova, if they buy out Hutch then they dont have to do ANYTHING to get more customers! The price reductions may not be that steep!

abhay, if Reliance takes over then it will be sad news actually. Why? Well Reliance is going to get HUGE customer base without much effort so we wont actually see any "competition" and the subsequent reduction in prices! So I hope that ADA starts his own network rather than taking over Hutch!

Haha...what pull out of India? This is Reliance we are talking about... They'll kick Hutchison out of India! Take over reliance take over!!! Oh please! And END OUR WOES!

hmm...my 120GB HDD on EXT3 FS. Only 4-5% is non-contiguous Running fedora core 2 for past 2 years Fedora Core 5 on my laptop i guess 1-2% non-contiguous

Sheesh... this is stupid yaar.... i hope reliance starts their services soon!!

prathod, yup you're right you can use them for prolonged periods but it depends highly on your laptop. Some are tough and rugged and others are not so tough... Besides, it will cost you much less to repair a desktop than a branded laptop. So desktops are recommended over laptops!

great! Thanks a lot!

yaa...but 4-5 months for the tenders and another 5-6 months for the first batch to be delivered to RCL means a good another years wait for Reliance's GSM plans... s**ks big time! I was hoping they would start their services by March 2007 or so...! *sigh* stuck with Hutch for now!

1.5 years of network issues with Hutch. Constant follow ups. No solution as of yet. Threatened disconnection last time. Now problem seems to be resolved!

amtrag, the swap file does become fragmented incase of FAT16/32 systems. I dont think NTFS or EXT3 / ReiserFS / XFS ever get fragmented. Am sure about the Linux FSs but not about Windoze's NTFS. And hibernation isn't the best option for him cuz he wants to download / seed torrents using his PC. For laptops, I woudn't recommend keeping them going for such a long time as they aren't meant for long uptimes. Tanveer, I would recommend buying a new PC for such things. Don't jeopardize your work PC. You can buy a cheap sempron / VIA / Celeron based PC. They come quite cheap. I would personally recommend buying a VIA cuz they are very power efficient and run cool. Load Linux or windows whatever you prefer. I would recommend Linux cuz its meant for high uptimes and being controlled remotely. Windoze will just hog up resources. I personally wanted to build a new server but my main desktop is dead and it'll cost me a bomb to fix it. I can't get a new HDD for my old Pentium 1 which used to be my server so alas I am stuck with my trusty laptop!

hey vishal what about SE k750i?? I like the theme! Its very clean and simple! Great going

1. Is there a max time for which a PC should run before being given rest? No, if there is proper cooling / ventillation and the temperature and moisture level is stable then it can be run 24x7. 2. If yes what is it? n/a 3. If so how much rest should be given? n/a 4. Should the system be rebooted in case intermittently in case its running continuously long hours? With windoze you might require to keep rebooting it cuz some apps have terrible memory leaks. One such app is Windoze itself! But with Linux, you can run it as long as you wish without any qalms. No reboots strictly 5. What are the ways to save power in such situations ( switch off the monitor and speakers at night) Yup, make sure you have alteast a Gig of RAM. Turn off the monitor. Incase you have Intel Pentium 4 or Core 2 series processor, they have something called as (Enhanced) speedstep technology which is specifically built for saving power. I dunno if WinXP can take advantage of this feature on desktops but Linux surely does it. Next is, harddrive spin down time. Set it to as low as you wish ( 5 mins should be ok ). But do it ONLY IF YOU HAVE A LARGE AMOUNT OF RAM ( 1Gig ) minimum. Otherwise your drive will keep on cycling down and up which is bad for it. 6. Off topic, but is it ok to seed a torrent through a CD/ DVD? No. It's not. You're CD / DVD drive will go bust in a few days