I was planning for this post for a long time. I am a big fan of the software named: Sygate Personal Firewall. It gives a powerful and easy to use firewall along with a bandwidth meter to monitor the upload and download speed. You can view 4 types of logs - Traffic, security, packet and…
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Speedup Firefox
1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries: network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests and browser.turbo.enabled Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the…
Continue readingBangladesh government has lifted youtube ban !! – Youtube is now unbanned in Bangladesh
Bangladesh govt has finally lifted up the ban that was imposed on accessing youtube. I am really confused whether the ban has served the purpose it was imposed for. Rather, it grew curiosity among the people on what really caused the government to do so. Therefore I believe the output was infact negative, and the…
Continue readingYoutube inaccessible (Blocked) in Bangladesh !!
6th March 2007, 6 or 7 pm (not sure): I found and error message when i tried to browse youtube.com . I tried to ping the site, the sites IP was resolved but it couldn't ping. Then I tried the traceroute in command prompt ( tracert youtube.com). Again the IP was resolved but coudn't trace…
Continue readingCMD.EXE or COMMAND.COM ???
Recently I encountered a problem with cmd.exe . Yes, I am talking about the command prompt that we get by typing cmd.exe and pressing enter in the "Start"->>"Run". The error was something like "Windows couldn't find cmd.exe". I was annoyed and remembered that the recent virus attack affected a lot of files and cmd.exe could…
Continue readingSmile (Eastern Link BD) a renowned ISP has been shut off for illegal VOIP operations.
Smile.com.bd a popular isp with thousands of clients were forced to shut their operation off by BTRC as they were found to be engaged with illegal VOIP operation (call termination). I heard that BTRC in cooperation with RAB raided their office on last thursday and siezed VOIP devices. Few months back another ISP named Maisha…
Continue readingDownload links of some books on WiMAX
Fundamentals of WiMAX: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RORFMDLQ WiMAX Technology for Broadband Access: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UCZEXB40 WiMAX Technologies Performance Analysis & QoS: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H2YPJNZL WiMAX Applications: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TAJUXJQY WiMAX Operators Manual building 802.16 Wireless Networks: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8UOH9445 WiMAX Operators Manual building 802.16 Wireless Networks: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=23JCM76T
Continue readingGoodbye 2008…
Everybody is wishing for and welcoming 2009 but no one seems to miss year 2008. How fast time runs out!!! I really had to force my mind to believe that year 2008 is no more with us :( ... I don't know why I feel 2008 flew off so quickly, may be the year was…
Continue readingWiMAX in Bangladesh within 3 months!!
If, what I've seen in the TV news is true then, Bangladeshi people will enjoy WiMAX within 3 months. Mr. M. A Mannan of Bangla Lion communications in an interview after the license handover ceremony, said that they will be able to establish WiMAX network across Bangladesh within 3 months. He also added that people…
Continue readingUpgraded to WordPress Version 2.6.2 from version 2.2
I've recently upgraded the version of this wordpress blog from version 2.2 to version 2.6.2 . Although wordpress version 2.6.3 is available but still I had to go for 2.6.2 because wordpress was installed from the Fantastico (Free one click software bundle available in Cpanel) and 2.6.2 was the available update there. However I could…
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