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Michael A. Barnhart wrote: I believe he is in India and may not have much of a choice. True, but times are changing. I'm in Bangalore, India and have a cable modem connection :-). Its not a true broadband per se, but I have 24 x 7 access and is better than dialup (in fact its cheaper, no more costly phone bills). Here, for dial-up its still not toll-free, we still have to pay the local call charges for the duration we stay online. Regards, Kannan
Kannan Kalyanaraman wrote: I'm in Bangalore, India and have a cable modem Lucky guy! CBE just got it's first DSL provider (no cable provider yet :( ). This bloke charges Rs. 500 pm + Rs. 5000 installation charges. I'm not a "heavy" Internet user. Just checking 3 mail accounts + CP. Nothing else. The phone bill ain't all that high. The connection is slow and sucks, though. I'm goin to B'lore on 3rd May for internship.Will be there for 1 month. This company has 128K cable connection. Looking fwd to getting my post count up. [EDIT]Watch out, Nish![EDIT] :-D :-D :-D Ahh, I'll just go to :zzz: - nearly 30 hours uptime :wtf: . Previous best was <20 hours. Vikram. :zzz::zzz::zzz: "There's probably a Nish-like alien answering VB questions on a CP forum as we speak." - adamUK in The Lounge, discussing aliens and parallel universes. "Do not give redundant error messages again and again." - A classmate of mine, while giving a class talk on error detection in compiler design.
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Vikram Punathambekar wrote: Vikram, WinMe user why don't you just obtain a copy of windows 2000? or buy a new modem? GW, Da'man
George W. Bush wrote: why don't you just obtain a copy of windows 2000 Are you saing that he is going to buy an OS for $350 only toget his modem to work? George W. Bush wrote: or buy a new modem That's a better idea! Modem for $80 isn't hard to find. Perhaps for $50 also... Rickard Andersson8 Here is my card, contact me later! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Interests: C++, ADO, SQL, Winsock, 0s and 1s
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George W. Bush wrote: why don't you just obtain a copy of windows 2000? or buy a new modem? A new modem will set me back by Rs. 3500 (I'm not going for an internal modem again). Not worth the 1 yr left before grad. Win2K- this modem wouldn't work. Anyway, I have dual boot with WinXp (triple boot, actually- I also use RHL 8.0). ME is really good for playing AoE - XP suffers makes me suffer with just 128MB RAM. Oh, yeah, I appended "WinMe user" to my name in the original post just to "stimulate" you guys. Hey, I'm not a winme fan! It does have its adv, which I'll save for another thread. All I'm asking of you blokes is Don't ridicule anybody using WinMe. Vikram. "There's probably a Nish-like alien answering VB questions on a CP forum as we speak." - adamUK in The Lounge, discussing aliens and parallel universes. "Do not give redundant error messages again and again." - A classmate of mine, while giving a class talk on error detection in compiler design.
Vikram Punathambekar wrote: A new modem will set me back by Rs. 3500 (I'm not going for an internal modem again). What's the problem with an internal modem? It works fine. You can get a good one for about Rs. 600-700. Don't buy the local made ones, get a good modem.
Regards,Rohit Sinha
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Michael A. Barnhart wrote: I believe he is in India and may not have much of a choice. True, but times are changing. I'm in Bangalore, India and have a cable modem connection :-). Its not a true broadband per se, but I have 24 x 7 access and is better than dialup (in fact its cheaper, no more costly phone bills). Here, for dial-up its still not toll-free, we still have to pay the local call charges for the duration we stay online. Regards, Kannan
Yes, but cable internet is still not available in most cities. We don't have it in Durgapur for example. :( I could have saved billions on phone bills and become rich otherwise.
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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Yes, but cable internet is still not available in most cities. We don't have it in Durgapur for example. :( I could have saved billions on phone bills and become rich otherwise.
Regards,Rohit Sinha
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- Mother TeresaYou mean you're getting charged money to make all the Cricket posts? :laugh:
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George W. Bush wrote: why don't you just obtain a copy of windows 2000 Are you saing that he is going to buy an OS for $350 only toget his modem to work? George W. Bush wrote: or buy a new modem That's a better idea! Modem for $80 isn't hard to find. Perhaps for $50 also... Rickard Andersson8 Here is my card, contact me later! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Interests: C++, ADO, SQL, Winsock, 0s and 1s
Rickard Andersson18 wrote: Are you saing that he is going to buy an OS for $350 only toget his modem to work? You can get it for $170, or the OEM version for $120, but obviously buying a modem is a better idea.
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...not really. In fact, it sucks! Whenever I mention here that I'm using Win Me, the immediate reaction is one of contempt and ridicule. Not that I mind, but others might... If a person is using WinMe, either
#1 - He is too stupid or #2 - He's not doing it out of choice (I fall into this category, I hope).My own case is a strange and terrible one. I got WinMe when I bought my PC 'cos it was the latest available. In many aspects, it's better than 98 (I'll save that for another thread). And more importantly, my modem works on WinMe works only on WinMe and not on Xp. But you can look at blue screens only for so long...and reboot only so many times a day. So I'm stuck with WinMe, due to the modem problem. So, think positive. Don't make fun of guys using WinMe- they're having a hard time with the OS as it is, and you only make their lives worse by making fun of them. If I were to meet a person using WinMe, I'd prolly assume #2. I can only ask you to do the same, too. However, you could argue that with Windows users, they're stupid unless proven intelligent. Vikram, WinMe user (REPEAT: not outta choice ;P ). "There's probably a Nish-like alien answering VB questions on a CP forum as we speak." - adamUK in The Lounge, discussing aliens and parallel universes. "Do not give redundant error messages again and again." - A classmate of mine, while giving a class talk on error detection in compiler design.1. New modem, they aren't that expensive. 2. Windows 2000 Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
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1. New modem, they aren't that expensive. 2. Windows 2000 Elaine :rose: The tigress is here :-D
Amen! I recently reverted to Win2K Server from .NET Server Beta 3. I'll have to wait a few months for Server 2003, or whatever its called at the moment.
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...not really. In fact, it sucks! Whenever I mention here that I'm using Win Me, the immediate reaction is one of contempt and ridicule. Not that I mind, but others might... If a person is using WinMe, either
#1 - He is too stupid or #2 - He's not doing it out of choice (I fall into this category, I hope).My own case is a strange and terrible one. I got WinMe when I bought my PC 'cos it was the latest available. In many aspects, it's better than 98 (I'll save that for another thread). And more importantly, my modem works on WinMe works only on WinMe and not on Xp. But you can look at blue screens only for so long...and reboot only so many times a day. So I'm stuck with WinMe, due to the modem problem. So, think positive. Don't make fun of guys using WinMe- they're having a hard time with the OS as it is, and you only make their lives worse by making fun of them. If I were to meet a person using WinMe, I'd prolly assume #2. I can only ask you to do the same, too. However, you could argue that with Windows users, they're stupid unless proven intelligent. Vikram, WinMe user (REPEAT: not outta choice ;P ). "There's probably a Nish-like alien answering VB questions on a CP forum as we speak." - adamUK in The Lounge, discussing aliens and parallel universes. "Do not give redundant error messages again and again." - A classmate of mine, while giving a class talk on error detection in compiler design.Is it just me or did anyone else, upon seeing the title of this post, this Vikram wanted us to enter a competition to win him some rocks :-O..? -- Andrew.
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You mean you're getting charged money to make all the Cricket posts? :laugh:
Hawaian shirts and shorts work too in Summer. People assume you're either a complete nut (in which case not a worthy target) or so damn good you don't need to worry about camouflage... -Anna-Jayne Metcalfe on Paintballing
One would have thought I'd be paid to do it. But Indian burocracy has it all wrong. :-D
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
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Is it just me or did anyone else, upon seeing the title of this post, this Vikram wanted us to enter a competition to win him some rocks :-O..? -- Andrew.
It's just you. ;P
Regards,Rohit Sinha
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa -
...not really. In fact, it sucks! Whenever I mention here that I'm using Win Me, the immediate reaction is one of contempt and ridicule. Not that I mind, but others might... If a person is using WinMe, either
#1 - He is too stupid or #2 - He's not doing it out of choice (I fall into this category, I hope).My own case is a strange and terrible one. I got WinMe when I bought my PC 'cos it was the latest available. In many aspects, it's better than 98 (I'll save that for another thread). And more importantly, my modem works on WinMe works only on WinMe and not on Xp. But you can look at blue screens only for so long...and reboot only so many times a day. So I'm stuck with WinMe, due to the modem problem. So, think positive. Don't make fun of guys using WinMe- they're having a hard time with the OS as it is, and you only make their lives worse by making fun of them. If I were to meet a person using WinMe, I'd prolly assume #2. I can only ask you to do the same, too. However, you could argue that with Windows users, they're stupid unless proven intelligent. Vikram, WinMe user (REPEAT: not outta choice ;P ). "There's probably a Nish-like alien answering VB questions on a CP forum as we speak." - adamUK in The Lounge, discussing aliens and parallel universes. "Do not give redundant error messages again and again." - A classmate of mine, while giving a class talk on error detection in compiler design.> Don't make fun of guys using WinMe- they're having a hard time with the OS as > it is, and you only make their lives worse by making fun of them. As far as I'm concerned anyone intentionally using WinME deserves all the crashes he gets. :-D As for your modem only working with ME and not XP, last week I bought a brand new PCI Winmodem for $40 (and that's Canadian dollars), and it has drivers for just about every Win32 OS. As much as Winmodems suck from a technical perspective, if it works, then that's good enough for me. Don't stick with a bad OS just because of a piece of hardware that can be replaced for cheap.
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George W. Bush wrote: why don't you just obtain a copy of windows 2000 Are you saing that he is going to buy an OS for $350 only toget his modem to work? George W. Bush wrote: or buy a new modem That's a better idea! Modem for $80 isn't hard to find. Perhaps for $50 also... Rickard Andersson8 Here is my card, contact me later! UIN: 50302279 E-Mail: nikado@pc.nu Interests: C++, ADO, SQL, Winsock, 0s and 1s