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Hi folks,
I'm in town again for a couple of days, until very late tomorrow night.
It would be cool to have some coffee in a Barista (or wherever) if any LUG members are about. I'm staying up in Juhu Beach near the airport.
I write for http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/ (and others) and would like to get a feel for the Linux use in Mumbai partly for my own interest, and partly because I would like to write about it in the future.
Gimme an email if you're about - or SMS +447776131337 if they don't charge 1 lakh for it :-)
Jon.
Sometime on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:27:25PM +0100, Jon Masters said:
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Hi folks,
I'm in town again for a couple of days, until very late tomorrow night.
It would be cool to have some coffee in a Barista (or wherever) if any LUG members are about. I'm staying up in Juhu Beach near the airport.
Hi Jon, when are you leaving? We have not had any meet for months. Maybe some interested people can meet at a place.
Anurag
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Anurag writes:
| Sometime on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:27:25PM +0100, Jon Masters said:
| > I'm in town again for a couple of days, until very late tomorrow | > night.
| > It would be cool to have some coffee in a Barista (or wherever) if | > any LUG members are about. I'm staying up in Juhu Beach
| Hi Jon, when are you leaving? We have not had any meet for | months. Maybe some interested people can meet at a place.
I'm flying out on the late flight tomorrow night (Friday morning) and will be around until about 20:00 or 21:00 Thu. I have email access until tomorrow late morning then will probably just find the Santa Cruz (W) Barista which claims to have wifi.
Apologies for threading on this mail message, I've only just setup a filter for ilug-bom so didn't have a local copy to reply to.
Cheers!
Jon.
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will be around until about 20:00 or 21:00 Thu. I have email access until tomorrow late morning then will probably just find the Santa Cruz (W) Barista which claims to have wifi.
I suggest you guys meet up at the Santa Cruz Barista (it's on SV Road, just past Sacred Heart School, near Yoko's and 5). It's a small place, but if 10 of you meet there, you can decide to go elsewhere.
Someone post a local phone number that others can call.
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Philip Tellis wrote:
| Sometime Today, JM cobbled together some glyphs to say: | |> will be around until about 20:00 or 21:00 Thu. I have email access until |> tomorrow late morning then will probably just find the Santa Cruz (W) |> Barista which claims to have wifi.
| I suggest you guys meet up at the Santa Cruz Barista (it's on SV Road, | just past Sacred Heart School, near Yoko's and 5). It's a small place, | but if 10 of you meet there, you can decide to go elsewhere.
I was there tonight. It's a good place - and I've got a wifi card now so will be there tomorrow anyway to do some work. Dinesh Shah sent me an SMS earlier about having lunch - Andheri (East) so I'll get in an auto and go there for 1pm, then be at the coffeeshop in the afternoon.
How about we have a meeting at 17:00 or 18:00 (or a bit later) and go for some food so anyone studying or at work can join us?
| Someone post a local phone number that others can call.
Sounds like a good idea - I can easily call that too - it is 50 times more expensive to call me than a local number! But I don't know if SMS is any more expensive on Airtel/Orange/etc. In any case, I've got email access so will just check email or SMS.
Jon.
Sometime on Oct 19, JM cobbled together some glyphs to say:
more expensive to call me than a local number! But I don't know if SMS is any more expensive on Airtel/Orange/etc. In any case, I've got email
SMS to a UK number is 5 bucks as opposed to 1 buck or 50p for a local (depending on your plan).
On 20-Oct-05, at 12:51 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
How about we have a meeting at 17:00 or 18:00 (or a bit later) and go for some food so anyone studying or at work can join us?
Are we planning any thing interesting?
I was looking out for some good place to grab a beer/coffee and have a good wifi connection. What kind of speed do you get. Is it on the house or you have to pay for it. Some places I have been you get a max of 4KBps.
Best Regards Warren Brian Noronha GNU (http://www.gnu.org.in)
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Warren Noronha wrote:
| On 20-Oct-05, at 12:51 AM, Jon Masters wrote: | |> How about we have a meeting at 17:00 or 18:00 (or a bit later) and go |> for some food so anyone studying or at work can join us?
| Are we planning any thing interesting?
I was assuming we'd meet and chat - but we can always spontaneously decide to do something. I'm planning to head back to my hotel and get my bags around 10pm so I can get checked in nice and early for my flight. I love overnight flights.
| I was looking out for some good place to grab a beer/coffee and have a | good wifi connection. What kind of speed do you get. Is it on the house | or you have to pay for it. Some places I have been you get a max of 4KBps.
You have to pay for it there - I spent 500 Rs, but I think that's for a month (it would be about 500 Rs for 3 hours in the UK). I expect they also offer various plans. If it's as good as the hotel then I'll be ok - I had to poke the hotel network kit to make it work properly[0] :-)
This is an area of interest - what internet access is like generally in Mumbai and other major cities in this country.
Cheers,
Jon.
[0] Their switches throw away ARP packets so I had to first figure out the MAC of the gateway with the aid of another guest's machine, then manually set the arp entry so that I could then reach and authenticate with the silly IE5 only thing they're running here.
This is an area of interest - what internet access is like generally in Mumbai and other major cities in this country.
While not at the light speed levels or Yahoo DSL, Comcast or Roadrunner, internet access is quite reliable and ubiquitous.
If speed is not a criteria and you just want to ssh into remote boxes, then mtnl rules. especially the unlimited 700/month package.
Currently also using tataindicom 512 kbps at 1575 with a 2 GB data transfer limit. Its ok. The point here is that it is far better than what it was 1 yr ago and will only get better. So there is hope. Once reliance officially launches their broadband, it would trigger another price/quality war.
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Abhishek Daga wrote:
If speed is not a criteria and you just want to ssh into remote boxes, then mtnl rules. especially the unlimited 700/month package.
This has been jacked up by MTNL to 1400/month so if you are using this, watch out for your next bill. I am on 500/month but I will unsubcribe as it will become 1000 from 1st Nov. All rates double from !st Nov.
R-Connect too has recently stopped its 650/month 1 GB limit scheme for FWP users. It has switched to some ridiculous time bound plans. :(
Regards,
Rony.
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This has been jacked up by MTNL to 1400/month so if you are using this, watch out for your next bill. I am on 500/month but I will unsubcribe as it will become 1000 from 1st Nov. All rates double from !st Nov.
Regards,
Rony.
Not that Rony would mislead, but it just sounded too ridiculous to not call and confirm. So I did that and its true. In their infinite wisdom, they have decided to double their rates for a 48 kbps dial up.
Which means we are nearing a crisis situation here. As I have no other alternative I have decided to share my neighbor's unlimited reliance broadband (with their consent) via a wireless access point. Here is the problem. We are 50 feet and 3 concrete walls apart.
Which access point and add-ons would provide me the best combination of range and price?
thanks!
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On Friday 21 October 2005 09:20, Abhishek Daga wrote:
Not that Rony would mislead, but it just sounded too ridiculous to not call and confirm. So I did that and its true. In their infinite wisdom, they have decided to double their rates for a 48 kbps dial up.
Its not ridiculous. Its a serious business tactic. They just want to promote their stupid Triband. They can't even cope up with their current customers, I wonder what are they going to achieve through this aggressive business tactic.
Which means we are nearing a crisis situation here. As I have no other alternative I have decided to share my neighbor's unlimited reliance broadband (with their consent) via a wireless access point. Here is the problem. We are 50 feet and 3 concrete walls apart.
Unlimited Reliance broadband? Where?? How?? =O
Which access point and add-ons would provide me the best combination of range and price?
Netgear access points are great. I would recommend them. But their WNICs have terrible support for Linux.
On Wednesday 19 October 2005 20:50, Jon Masters wrote:
This is an area of interest - what internet access is like generally in Mumbai and other major cities in this country.
You really don't want to get some of us started up on how internet access is over here >_>
Jon Masters wrote:
Anurag writes:
| > It would be cool to have some coffee in a Barista (or wherever) if | > any LUG members are about. I'm staying up in Juhu Beach
sounds like a lotta fun..... count me in for one...
I'm flying out on the late flight tomorrow night (Friday morning) and will be around until about 20:00 or 21:00 Thu. I have email access until tomorrow late morning then will probably just find the Santa Cruz (W) Barista which claims to have wifi.
anurag.. since this is kinda short notice maybe we can have an improto get-together (like after the MET one ... :-)
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