Best BSNL Broadband Plans

Searching for BSNL broadband plans is a pain in the ass. Here is a quick and easy way to access the BSNL plans according to your region.

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Governments gift to internet users in India

With the aim of benefiting the poorest of the poor who have to live on Rs 26 per day, the Indian government has decided to tax Internet and broadband users a little more in India.

Starting from the 1st of this month Indian internet users will pay 7 per cent more tax on their bills every month, with the increase in revenue share imposed on Internet Service Providers (ISPs). In addition, the levy will increase to 8 per cent from April 1st 2013.
India has one of the lowest Internet and broadband penetrations, compared with other developing countries. It has missed many of its own targets, including the one to reach 40 million broadband users by 2012: it hit barely 14 million connections this year.
So what if internet in India is of low speed, high cost and unpredictable quality and all of this is hurting the growth of our economy. Taxes have to be raised so that the government can meet its out of control expenses and reduce the fiscal deficit.
- Satyamev Jayate
Source

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Amazon EC2 goes down and drowns Netflix,Instagram and Pinterest along woth it.

Popular web services Netflix , Instagram and Pinterest all suffered downtime on Friday night thanks to an Amazon cloud server outage. Parts of the Amazon EC2 server, which hosts an alarmingly high percentage of the internet's top content, went down in Virginia, United States, due to severe thunderstorms in the area.
The outage was first acknowledged by the cloud provider at 11:21pm EST when, hopefully, most Brits would be unknowingly and comfortably snoozing the problem away.

However, by 1:15am EST Amazon said it had resolved the issue: "EC2 and EBS APIs are once again operating normally. We are continuing to recover impacted instances and volumes," said a statement from Amazon Web Services.
Back online for Saturday loafing Netflix came back online shortly after, while social networking site Pinterest and retro photo-sharing site Instagram also reappeared. So, if you're a Statesider whose Friday night
usually involves watching Arrested Development re-runs and taking filtered photos and uploading them to Facebook, last night wasn't your night. The outage raises questions over the reliability of the servers, given that it was taken down by a little thunder and lightning, but let's hope for better weather in North Virginia for the rest of the weekend.
Via: Forbes

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Mozilla Firefox 13 released

The most popular web browser Firefox today released their latest version. Since its open-source your can get it for free. One of the best features which i find interesting in the new release is that it supports SPDY. SPDY is an experiment with protocols for the web. Its goal is to reduce the latency of web pages. For those who did not understand the above line its basically a new protocol like HTTP which is used by Google and twitter for faster browsing and web page loading times. Nginx is also going to support this in near future.  SPDY is pronounced as Speedy :) You can find all the features of latest release here.

You can download the browser from here.
Windows uses can download the file and run the exe file.
The steps to install it in Linux is here.

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smartphone from facebook ?

We all use the facebook app in our mobile phones but soon we will be using facebook's own smart-phone. A big part of facebooks traffic is coming from Mobile phones.

During the 1st quarter this year Facebook had 901 million users and in those 500 million of those used their mobiles to access facebook. The migration of web users to smart-phones and tablets was named in Facebook’s regulatory filings for its recent flotation as one of the main threats facing it as a business. It currently makes no meaningful revenue from mobile app users, who are growing in number more rapidly than traditional website users.
It quoted a Facebook employee as saying the site's founder Mark Zuckerberg was "worried that if he doesn't create a mobile phone in the near future... Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms".

To improve its fortunes, the social networking giant is planning to release a smartphone by next year and has picked up former Apple engineers who had earlier worked with the development of i phones and i pad to help with the effort.

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Mobile Advertising From Airtel

The recent deal with Airtel and Qualcom will help Airtel strengthen its 4G mobile service plans in India, with a followup of mobile advertising along with it. The mobile advertising platform will help business reach all corners of the world especially rural areas.

Advertisers can choose from a selection of platform which includes Mobile Internet, Messaging and Airtel direct to Home services. This will help advertises to reach the target audience.

This is an introduction to mobile advertising in India, with am emerging economy and large population its going to be a success. This type of advertising will be an efficient medium says Bharti. Airtel believes mobile ads revenues will grow 40 percent over the coming few years.

Bharti hasn’t revealed whether the mobile advertising services will be expanded overseas. As well as being India’s biggest operator, it operates in 20 countries worldwide, with more than 50 million customers in Africa.

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Microsoft launches its own social network

Microsoft launched its own scoial networking site called So.cl (pronounced "social").

Its currently in its testing phase only accepting limited number of users.
It will be open to everyone very soon. It is believed to be focused towards Students.  It's different from Facebook and Google Plus in that it is focused around search. What students search for on So.cl is shared with other So.cl userss and it can be shared on other networks like Facebook. The idea is to give students a quick and easy way to share information found through searches. So.cl helps users find and share web pages of interest as students do when they work together, Microsoft said.
Below is the screenshot of what the page is like when we register and login:

The Original site is :  http://www.so.cl

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Google Dive release gets delayed

A couple weeks ago we exclusively broke the news about Google Drive’s release date and that everyone will get 5GB of storage for free. Well, according to our tipster we are on track for the free 5GB of free storage but the release date has been pushed back a week and we should now see an open enrollment on the 24th of April. Once Google Drive launches, users will gain instant usability across many devices including Android, iOS, Windows and Mac. How the process will work on a Mac is still unknown at this point.
Just in case you wanted further evidence, The Next Web is also reporting the same thing, claiming to have an inside source as well. They recently reported something similar to what we heard, a launch next Tuesday or Wednesday, leaning more towards Tuesday. So barring any unforeseen delays, we should all be heading to www.drive.google.com on the 24th to sign up for what could be the perfect cloud storage integration for all Android devices. We’ll see you there!
source: The Next Web

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Awstat not Updating in cPanel and Combined error Log

Yesterday I found a strange issue with awstat as it suddenly stopped reporting the data. I could get the past data but not able to get the current data. As usual as a part of debugging i opened the errorlogs and domlogs. I found something strange in the domlogs.  The word "combined" was repeating in the logs:

 # vi /usr/local/apache/domlogs/
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined
combined


After hours of searching and testing i found the solution. I am sharing it below:


Open the apache conf with your favorite editor.
#vi /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
Search for the line
--------
ErrorLog /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log
--------
Beneth that line add the following:
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LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
--------
Save and exit, then run:
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/usr/local/cpanel/bin/apache_conf_distiller --update
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/build_apache_conf
restart apache
/scripts/restartsrv_httpd
--------
Awstat started updating itself at last. :)

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Three ways to prevent DDOS

DDOS attack, also called denial of service attack simply means creating a massive virtual visitor to a website address at the same time it was intended to "demolish" host storage makes it run slowly or can not run anymore.

A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer or network resource unavailable to its intended users.

 Method 1: Anti iframe

Code:

Method 2: Anti-reload malicious website
If you are attacked like this, you set up your files .htaccess with the content:

Code:
RewriteEngine on
 RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?domain.com [NC]
 RewriteRule !antiddos.phtml http://www.domain.com/antiddos.phtml?%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA]

Then create a file antiddos.phtml with content 

Code:
 $text = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['QUERY_STRING'];
 $text = preg_replace("#php\&#si",'php?',$text);
 echo("[CLICK HERE TO ENTER]
'');

 ?>

Method 3: Limit number of connections at a time website
You add the following code to the home page of the website.

Code:
function server_busy($numer) {
      if (THIS_IS == 'WEBSITE' && PHP_OS == 'Linux' and @file_exists (  '/proc/loadavg' ) and $filestuff = @file_get_contents ( '/proc/loadavg'  )) {
         $loadavg = explode ( ' ', $filestuff );
         if (trim ( $loadavg [0] ) > $numer) {
             print '';
             print 'Traffic is overloaded, please come back after a few minutes.';
             exit ( 0 );
         }
     }
 }
 $srv = server_busy ( 1000 ); // 1000 is the number of visitors at a time

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