Archive for February, 2005

Operational Friction

Sunday, February 20th, 2005

One of the key principles i have realized over time is about operational Friction. Everyone is competing for the same rewards. What seperates winners from losers is that their product or business is somehow “better”. We have seen countless examples of products with better/more features lose out against seemingly worse competitors. What this means is […]

Progress or development

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

It is general consensus that human kind made a lot of progress or “developed” as a society since the early nomadic days. Usually, this refers to quality/type of clothing, facilities, ability to do a task or do it faster, better, simpler. So, having a tool to forge a knife is better than not being able […]

Some Learnings

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

It has been 8 years at this company and I had the opportunity to witness this incredible company grow and mature. I have learnt a lot in my roles at yahoo!. I wanted to write about some of the key things i observed as a member of product team. Being a on long flight from […]

VPN/VOIP workin

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

so finally, i have both voip and VPN working from beam cable. You should ask for the 1GB package and tell him that you need it for VPN. While they advertise this 1gb package for 1000Rs, they asked me for 1500 just because i am using for both voip and vpn. How random!

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24 online windows client

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

ooh, i couldn’t ask the rushing beam cable customer service technicians, so i am asking here. Anyone know how to download the 24online client for my XP laptop?
I would love to connect my laptop to the net and use it for some work stuff
-rav

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Beam cable updates

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

By the way, so much for the good customer service i spoke about. I sent them email 2 days back. no one replied. I called them again today and complained the my internet on windows xp was not working ( I deleted my ip address setting intentionally). In about 4 hours 2 guys came home, […]

hyderabad - broadband choices

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005

So I discovered couple of other ISPs who provide “broadband” in hyderabad. First one is sify broadband and there’s all this hype about the other one vsnl broadband. Here’s a scathing review about sify. Apparently 32kbps always on connection qualifies for being “broadband”. I haven’t found a website for vsnl broadband yet. techwhack also covers […]