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
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Tatkal Timings to be Changed.

After months and years of trolling Indian railway and tatkal booking system, a new timing and conditions favoring passengers are coming. This will come to effect from 10th July as an experiment from Indian railways, until further notice.

"With a view to further improve the delivery of Tatkal tickets to passengers, the Ministry of Railways has decided that with effect from 10.07.2012 booking of Tatkal ticket will start at 1000 hours on the previous day of journey from train originating station instead of 0800 hours at present. No authorised agents, including agents of IRCTC and RTSAs/RTAs will be allowed to book Tatkal tickets from 1000 hours to 1200 hours.

The existing restriction of not allowing these agents booking of general tickets on the opening day from 0800 hours to 1000 hours will also continue," said a Railway Ministry press release.
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cPanel Fantastico Install Error : Solved (Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user @'localhost' (using password: YES) in /tmp/cpanel_phpengine)

I encountered with this error while trying to install Drupal via fantastico in cPanel. This error replicates for wordpress or any other 3rd party application which you try to install via fantastico.

The reason for this error is the password mismatch of cpanel and mysql. To fix this error login to cPanel and take change password under Preferences and change your password to a new one. Make sure that you check the box "Allow MySQL password change" as shown below:

Now retry the installation and this will work. :)

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Fifa 12 Lagg / Stuck on PC

I am an online Fifa player and my game started lagging from yesterday. I checked and all my other games had no issues. I tried lowering my graphics settings but still it was lagging. I confirmed that it was a bug of Fifa 12 because I could play Battlefield 3 in ultra high settings. After searching around the internet I found that this issue occurs randomly with people having AMD/ATI graphics card.

Please follow the steps below for the fix:

1. Download & Install Latest version of Riva Tuner : download from Guru3D.com
2. Run D3DOverrider.
3. Force VSync & Tripple Buffering OFF.
4. Open My Documents > FIFA 12 > fifasetup.ini & Add this line SCREEN_SLEEP=0 & save. [YES 0 not 16 as you are using D3DOverrider]
5. Run fifaconfig.exe and turn OFF VSync.
6. From ATI Catalyst turn OFF Vsync & Tripple Buffering.
That should remove the LAG & Micro Stuttering if you are using an ATI Card

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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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