Exactly one year back on 19th of January my blog post on my trip to Shivagange Betta was published as an article in Bangalore Mirror newspaper. For those you missed reading/seeing it you can read it at On Top of Shivagange. Or if you would like to see the actual representation of the article as it appear in the newspaper with all the photos, view the pdf On Top of Shivagange (PDF).
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Last week my BSNL CDMA based internet connection (NIC Card) was giving very slow speeds of around 1KBps. So I needed to call the BSNL people to register a complaint. Here are the telephone numbers that I came across (for my future reference):
[1] 080 – 28450010
[2] 080 – 28450410
[3] 080 – 28450420
All the numbers seem to be diverted to some other number and were mainly busy all the time. After a couple of tries a person lifted the phone (with number end 010). He listened to my problem and told me to report it to another number, which is mentioned below:
080 – 22385969
The above number looks to be some call center but might be of a technician, don’t know. He told me a solution wherein I needed to take my data card to their Customer Service Center and get some configuration changes done. I didn’t care to implement as I was sure it was not the problem. So I asked him if that does not work what should I do? His reply was upgrade to EVDO.
The solutions provided involved just looking at the issue at customer end instead of looking at the issue as some problem with their infrastructure, hence they provide options which involve me running around to the Customer Service Center or buying a new EVDO device.
Anyways since yesterday I am back to normal speed. So no issues at the moment.
I have been using Firefox for as long as I can remember, but lately I had been facing a issue of Firefox taking around 5-10 seconds to exit when I closed it. I had been lazy to look up and resolve this issue, but today I finally got down to it.
After searching and reading lots of sites, wherein most of them pointed to some issue with the extensions. So one option was to disable all the extensions and enable them one by one and test to see which one was causing the problem. But this would take a lot of time. And most of the sites had users who mentioned the extensions they were using and they had tested them, so all the extensions I use were listed there. So I was pretty much sure extensions were not an issue.
Then on one site it was mentioned that this could be caused by a plugin like Flash. This is when I noticed that I had only a couple of plugins and I could test them in one go. So I disabled the Picasa plugin which I do not use much and restarted Firefox. Then closed it. Poof! It was gone immediately.
To confirm I open Firefox again, loaded a few pages closed some of them and exited Firefox again. Again, Poof! Immediately closed. So the slow exit was caused by the Picasa plugin which I was using. So much for the issues, one small plugin can cause so much slowdown in shutdown of an application. Looking forward to the next release of Firefox viz., 3.6. Hear it is a lot faster. Happy Browsing till then.
