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Orange Mauritius: Cheaters

Pravind Jugnauth, Minister of Finance of Mauritius announced in the budget speech 2010-2011 that all internet access fees must decrease by 16-24%.

Mauritius Telecom, A.K.A Orange, decided instead to decrease the price of MyT services, to double the internet speeds. They kept their promise this far. My internet speed really doubled. I can now download files at 117-124kBps 🙂

Did i really need a 1MB connection?
Frankly speaking, i was very much happy with the 512kbps connection. I could do anything i ever wanted to do: download huge files, develop websites, do some facebooking, download song albums, download movies. I didn’t need a 1M connection. But since it’s a huge performance-price increase, it is definitely a most welcome 😛

Price-Performance ratio of the Orange internet packages:

MyT 512kb: Rs 1.95/kbps (before)
MyT 512kb: Rs 1.03/kbps ,47% decrease 😀 (now known as MyT 1M)
Adsl 512k : Rs 1.65/kbps (before)
Adsl 512k : Rs 1.48/kbps ,10% decrease. wft!? (now)

As you see, MyT 1M (ex MyT 512k) have the highest performance-price ratio. However, ADSL users are being scammed.
The budget says 16-24% decrease but they decreased the price by a mere 10%. This is a scandal! You must contact consumer protection thingies and the ministers.

A New Twist: MyT w/o TV option
WHAT IN HELL IS THAT!? MyT is a package consisting of My.T Surf, My.T Watch and My.T Talk. I can remember clearly that they stated that MyT cannot be obtained without the TV options in their FAQ. Seems like they removed it some time ago.

Why did they allow people to take MyT w/o TV?
If you ask MyT officials, they won’t know themselves.
It was made clear that if there is too much attenuation in your line, you just couldn’t get MyT. You had to take ADSL. It was a quite fair rule IMO. Where did MyT w/o TV come from?

The only difference between ADSL 512k and MyT 512k(w/o TV) is that MyT is shipped with wi-fi.

Is Mauritius Telecom handled by nerd donkeys?

What to do about these users with MyT w/o TV?
They are actually being offered 3 options:
1. Upgrade to MyT 1M which includes TV (Rs 999)
2. Downgrade to ADSL 512k (Rs 759)
3. Keep the existing connection without any speed increase or price decrease.

Comment on option 3: This option is 100% illegal. It is Mauritius Telecom who sold MyT w/o TV package. It is they who are now stopping this service. It is they who should take actions so as to comply with the law. They must automatically downgrade these users to ADSL 512k or offer them to upgrade to MyT 1M. Keep this in mind that they CANNOT say “keep your existing connection and pay the same”.

Why am i writing this article instead of enjoying my 1M connection?
Because i believe the extra speed given to me is being stolen from You!

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Beer Math

I got this in my mail today. Kinda cool 😀

CHEERS!!!

An Oldie in different guise.

YOUR AGE BY BEERMATH

Don’t tell me your age; you’d probably lie anyway-but the BUDMan will know!

YOUR AGE BY BEERMATH

This is pretty neat.
DON’T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute.
Work this out as you read.
Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out!  This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have a beer(more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 — I’ll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1760 ..
If you haven’t, add 1759..

6… Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e., how many times you want to have beer each week).

The next two numbers are


YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2010) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.
BEER Calculator.

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2 More Channels in MyT

My sister noticed 2 channels have been added in My.T: MCM TOP and Motors_TV.

MCM TOP seems a pretty cool music channel.

Motors_TV is a channel dedicated to automobiles. It seems rather cool at first look.

However, we must note that the addition of these new channels have no relation with the decrease in prices for Internet Services as announced in the budget 2010-2011. Either My.T prices should go down or the internet speed should increase.

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Creation

This movie is about the the mental torture Charles Darwin had to go through so as to publish his book “Origin of Species”.

The story of the movie began after he was quite sure about his theories.

Charles had little support both internally and externally. His wife was christian. So, she strongly disagreed with Charles’ point of view that God does not has his hand in the Evolution process.

If he publishes his theory, his relationship with his wife would be spoiled. Secondly, the church also opposes him.

He becomes sick due to the dilemma he is in. Finally, he decides to write his book and hand it over to his wife so that she would decide its fate.

At last, she decides to let the book be published 🙂

One thing i would like to point out is that religion and science are not in war with each other as everyone thinks. The more you research in the field of science, the more your faith in God increases.

I quote from Abdus Salam’s writing

“The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah’s created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart.”

When he got the nobel prize, he read a verse from the Holy Quran

Thou seest not, in the creation of the All-merciful any imperfection, Return thy gaze, seest thou any fissure. Then Return thy gaze, again and again. Thy gaze, Comes back to thee dazzled, aweary.

He then said:

This, in effect, is the faith of all physicists; the deeper we seek, the more is our wonder excited, the more is the dazzlement for our gaze.

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Facebook Connect for MyBB Released

After long a long development and testing stage, i am releasing the long awaited “Connect with Facebook” plugin for MyBB 🙂

My plugin is based off the Facebook connect plugin Ali Razavi wrote for his site www.alilg.com. He was very kind to release it freely to the MyBB community. May Allah bless him.

Future plans:
I plan to make the plugin fetch people’s Facebook profile picture as avatar during registration. This feature would also be available to existing users.
Another thing i’d like to implement is to allow the users to fill required profile fields during registration.
There may be other things that are not coming to my mind right now 😀

What about “post to profile” features etc?
I do not plan to add these features. I may add it in version 2 which will take some time to come. I think i need to stay focus on the basic functionalities of this plugin i.e. login and registration with Facebook. Anything else would be called “bloats” and would distract me from making the core more solid and secure.

To get more info and download the plugin, go here:
FBConnect for MyBB