Just happened to see this broadband speed and costs survey by ITIF ( Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ) and this shows a different picture then what i expected it to be after reading the title . Japan , Korea, Finland and other such countries are on Top while, USA which started the Internet and has maximum Web servers hosted stands at 15th position ( how lame ! ) .
If you own a Web server or a VPS and would like to see how quick it is at delivering your website pages and how efficient is it’s response time then you can try the following cUrl command from any other Linux Box and test your results, while this test will give you response time of your own website , you can still compare it with response time of popular websites like nytimes.com and lifehacker.com to get an idea of how much you lag behind them ( You can be quicker in response time too , if you have a mighty server !! )
Everyone today that has used the web must have used or at least surfed any of Google’s web products . Google today is the biggest company on the Web both in terms of users and revenue and this well done video explains the whole history of Google in a cartoonic way .
Most of us have a old Computer or laptop that we wish to revive but modern day OS like Windows Xp, Vista and even Ubuntu are too much demanding in terms of resources ( including processor and RAM ) . After looking on various forums and Blog articles, I have selected Vector Linux and Puppy Linux as my choice , My friends system is a 500Mhz celeron with 256 MB RAM and 10GB of hard Disk .
I chose puppy Linux and vector linux as both of them are far better in terms of looks and applications that come bundled with both of them , another very strong contender is Damn small linux ( but believe me Guys it’s so damn small , that it barely is good for a average user , leave it for Geeks ) , both Vector linux and Puppy linux come with GUI environments with Web browser Mp3 and audio/video playback support and Drivers for your hardware and are well suited for the average linux user or even a novice.
For all the Internetoholics out there, who want Internet everywhere they go , but don’t want to carry a Data card or USB modem here is a small trick that will get you a Dial up Internet connection ( around 56Kbps ) anywhere you can find a BSNL landline. Yes, I too knew about this since long, but never thought of writing about it . BSNL provides a no registration required service named netone which can be accessed from any BSNL Landline , so if you visit some place and find a landline and your PC or Laptop has a modem port then you are lucky , follow these steps and get Internet access quick .
Hi friends, I have been using BSNL broadband for past 2 years and BSNL internet for more than 5 years now. My father is also in BSNL but I told you this as I wish to tell you that I’m not biased to BSNL due to this [ I’m not getting paid by BSNL anyway for this review 
] . Here is my sincere and honest review about BSNL’s broadband service .
Need to type in Hindi on any website that does’nt allows transliteration ( the way you write in orkut and gmail and Blogger ie. “kaise ho” turns to कैसे हो ) , well then you can also act smart and write your message in blogger/orkut/gmail and then copy paste it to website where you want transliteration
