At least seven people have been killed in Nepal and northern parts of India after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the region today (18-09-2011 Sunday).
Five people died in Nepal, including three crushed when a wall of the British embassy compound collapsed in the capital, Kathmandu and two in Dharan. At least two people died in the states of Sikkim and Bihar, officials said. Several minor earthquakes have hit the region this year, but none have caused major damage. In Kathmandu, 270km (170 miles) west of the epicentre, buildings were evacuated and traffic came to a standstill.
According to the National Seismologic Center (NSC), the epicenter of the 6.8 magnitude earthquake was in the border of Taplejung and the Indian state of Sikkim. Tremors were felt throughout Nepal and some parts of India. Read more…
NTC is the only and biggest internet service provider in Nepal. It has certain bandwidth limit which NTC have to pay. Let say for example NTC bought 500MBPS internet bandwidth, that means NTC has maximum capacity of 500MBPS to transfer data at a time. It gives services to its customers by dividing the internet bandwidth of 500MBps , let say for 1000 customers if it divide equally, it would be (5000/1000)=500Kbps for each customer.
If all the 1000 customers excess the internet at a time using its full capacity of 500kbps, then the maximum (1000*500kbps=500MBps) capacity of the NTC will be used up. If there are more customer added let say 100 more customer, total will be 1100, if they excess the the internet same time they can’t get full bandwidth what they have of (500kbps) so its divided as (500MBps/1100) = 363.64kbps per customer.
Simple hand sketch image of how internet operate in Nepal
Google Inc installed the Google cache server in Nepal at NTC office Jawalakhel Internet Exchange Point, operated by Nepal Telecom(NTC).
A Google cache server is a dedicated network server that saves Web pages or other Internet content locally. By placing previously requested information in temporary storage, or cache, a cache server both speeds up access to data and reduces demand on an enterprise’s bandwidth.
With the installation of google cache server the services provided by Google will be faster than before. Google services such as Gmail, Youtube etc will now be accessed faster from Nepal. This will also help NTC by reducing its bandwidth access and reduce its cost.
“After the installation of Google server, Internet bandwidth uses of NTC has been decreased” Said NTC representatives.
Do you know that HTTPS (Secure HTTP) and VPN (Virtual Private Network) are the more secure way to browse the internet? And do you know what exactly happen behind the scenes when you browse the website with HTTPS and VPN?
Here are two resent video in youtube by privacy team of Google, where they are trying to explain the technical things in simple English, that what happen when you browse website or use internet using HTTPS or VPN.
Firefox might be your chosen browser for its speed, useful add-ons, and open-source culture, it’s also packed with many useful built-in features.
Here is one of them in which you can open multiple web sites at launch on Firefox.
You know that you can set one home page when browser launch. Now in Firefox you can set multiple websites as home page when Firefox launch. For example you may like Facebbok and Twitter to launch every time you open your browser.
In Firefox, go to Options > General. In the home page field, enter URLs separated by pipes. For example “http://www.facebook.com | http://www.twitter.com | http://….” and so on. Then, hit “OK” and relaunch your browser to see the magic happen. Read more…
AMY Winehouse’s death has been the most Googled subject this summer.
Fans scrambled to use the internet giant to get info on the tragedy last month, new figures show. Excluding the pop diva, 27, the top celebrity name punched into the search engine was that of the Beckhams new born daughter Harper Seven.
Dad David only made it to fifth place, while new Dragons’ Den telly investor Hillary Devey, 54, was a surprise entry nat No2. Among searches for football clubs, struggling Arsenal came top.
If you got some problem in your computer and asked for help to the service provider, you need to provide the serial number for you computer which is also called service tag, by this they can track the logs of issue and the hardware of your computer.
For the loatop its very easy to find the service tag, which is in the base of laptop. For the desktop computer its somewhere in the back side of CPU. Its just the sticker with service tag stick on it. Some time its not visible properly or its not available there. Also the sticker that holds the service tag is often placed at a more harder-to-reach location.
So here is the simple way how you can know the serial number for your computer or service tag. Read more…
The next version of Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox 6, will be officially released on Tuesday, August 16. There are no major UI changes; most of the other changes are under the hood. That’s a welcome upgrade as Firefox 6 is reportedly 20% faster than Firefox 5. Also, while Firefox 6 does offer full screen support, it’s not Lion-native fullscreen support, which is somewhat of a disappointment.
For those of you who don’t want to wait till Tuesday, you can actually download the final release of Firefox 6.0 here from Mozilla’s FTP servers.
What it would be like if inventors like Thomas Edison – who made the first light bulb – or the famous Wright Brothers – who invented the world’s first airplane – had access to the Internet and computer software that they could use to collaborate with their team members just like a modern-day office worker?
The following videos may offer you some hint: Read more…
YouTube has updated their press page and it offers some new statistics around YouTube’s Partner program, mobile growth, monetization and more. Here’s a quick summary of the key new stats:
#1. YouTube users upload the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week. In other words, 60% more content is getting uploaded to YouTube when compared to the previous year.
#2. Over 3 billion videos are viewed a day while YouTube mobile gets over 320M views a day. YouTube’s mobile traffic continues to grow at an impressive rate – up 60% since January this year. I wonder if YouTube has figured out a way to monetize their mobile content.
#3. 150 years of YouTube video are watched every day on Facebook and every minute more than 400 tweets contain YouTube links. Google doesn’t exactly say how many YouTube videos are watched on Facebook. Read more…
