Last week I had to buy the Beetel 110TC1 ADSL2+ router from the open market after my Huawei router purchased from BSNL broke down due to power fluctuations.
The steps to configure Beetel 110TC1 router for BSNL broadband (Dataone) is as follows, the steps remain the same regardless of the operating system (I have Linux Mint 12 in my system):
Connect the Ethernet cable, telephone line and the power line to the modem and switch on your machine and the modem....
Call from a telemarketer
It was a lazy Saturday morning, I was getting bored, there was no power and I was done with the newspaper. Just then my land line began ringing, I was expecting it to be a wrong number as I use it only for Internet and I myself do not know the number.
Here is how it went:
Lady Caller: Hello is it Mr. Kamath?
Me: Yes.
Caller: Hello Mr. Kamath this is Ms xyz calling from abc, Delhi....
Madhugiri Fort / Madhugiri Hills(Betta) Trip
About Madhugiri Madhugiri is a small town about 105 kms from Bangalore, Karnataka and about 43 km north of Tumkur. The place is known for the Fort (Kote), Temples and for the adventurous climb the hill provides. Madhugiri Hill or Madhugiri Betta is one of the largest monolithic with a height of 3930 ft and provides for a very good adventurous climb to the top. The fort which situated on this hill is said to be build around 1678 during the reign of Raja Hera Gowda but is in a very bad state today due to poor maintenance....
Firestarter configuration to allow VPN
Yesterday I had installed Firestarter (A Linux Firewall) in my Linux Mint desktop to act as the first line of defense against network based attacks.
Things were fine till today evening which was when I faced an issue with VPN. Although Firestarter allowed me to connect to the VPN, it was blocking me from doing a remote desktop to my work machine or another other machine in the network for that matter....
Resolve Mic sound problem in Linux Mint 12
After starting the year with a new fresh installation of Linux Mint 12, almost all the things worked out of the box except one thing. The microphone (mic) was not capturing the sound (absolutely no sound) so that meant that I had to keep my old installation of Mint 10 intact so that when required I could switch over to it and use Skype.
After just over a month I finally got into my debugging shoes today to figure out what the problem was....
