Do you have an Airtel Connection? then i hope you are also frustrated of the Airtel Advertisement SMSs that comes and litters you Inbox. Many times customers get sms which requests to subscribe to some Airtel service by sending a toll free SMS. Often the  Customer is Airtel illiterate and subscribes(knowingly or unknowingly) to the service without using it,finally to get rid of the service ,gets a new connection dropping the old one. For your kind information I once boasted that I am enough literate about all Airtel services,GPRS,WAP, Net2Phone,Mobile Office .But unfortunately I was wrong. I am also Airtel illiterate.
So it Started like this…One fine morning my 7610 shouts “You have got an SMS”
Service Inbox Message

from 543210

Free upgrade to SMS with colors,emoticons & free content. Click Service Message

url http://10.5.0.83/phonesender/downloadtophone

11:36 AM & 11:31 AM 12/08/2008
If you just open the message(at least only for reading,yes mind it ..only for reading even don’t need to click on the URL)  then you get subscribed to some NUT for NET (or Whatever)service  and Airtel deducts Rs 15 often(may be once in every 2 days or may be once in every 2 minutes).After every Deduction it sends the message
Text Message

from 64611015

Thanks for using (na,Miscellaneous) subscription service on Airtel WAP. You’ve been charged Rs 15.

3:45 pm 12/08/2008
Called Airtel Customer Care . According to them i have used some WAP service. As it was the first time I just gave a damn to the WAP service and my 15 bucks.
After few days

Same text Message from 6411015 on 5:04 PM 19/08/2008

Same text Message again on 5:02 PM 20/08/2008

thus Airtel deducted 30 bucks again.

Called Airtel Customer Care. Some Mr Dipankar was talking to me

yeah this time its the daily subscription charges of that f***ing WAP service. 

………

………

“Please Un subscribe me from the service and I want my 45 Rs back”

” no Sir we cannot return the 45 Rs but we can Un subscribe you from the service”

“Yes please do so……and keep in mind if i again get charged of Rs 15 I will take action”

” no Sir this wont occur again…..Thank you for calling to Airtel..Have a good day”

Same Service Inbox message on 21/08/2008 at 4:44 PM and 4:45 PM(I haven’t read both the messages. May be if i read they will start deducting 15+15=Rs 30 more per day from me) and a text message from 543210
Thank you for your interest in SMS2.0 on Airtel. Click on http://10.5.0.83/download to install SMS2.0(Toll Feee)

on your mobile.

4:43 PM on 21/08/2008
Again the same Service Inbox Message at same times,same day.

And the same Text message about deduction of 15 more bucks from my fucking Airtel balance at 2:14 PM on 22/08/2008
Readers can you suggest me what to do next.

As usual i called them again and this time i asked for a conversion with Mr Dipankar. Regrettably he was not there at that time.

So I had to start my love story(with Airtel :x) again from the starting day. Finally the person assured me that 

he has sent a request for unsubsription to that WAP service. Also I asked them about Airtel DND service.

“…….for Subscribing to Airtel DND servie you need to send text START DND to 1909 and its toll free…..Thank you for calling to Airtel..Have a good day”

I had a balance of Rs 0.75.I tried to send that SMS but failed .I remember he said 1909 is a toll free no.
Well Thank you for you kind attention to this love story with my fucking Airtel connection. Can you please suggest me 

some way to get rid of this daily business of Rs 15. All your Ideas are welcome in advance.

however please keep in mind. please don’t suggest me to take a new connection. I cannot do so.
And if any one suggest me to complain at Consumer forum (or Whatever) I have a detailed log of all the SMS Ads,GPRS uses(which i haven’t used for the last three months). 

I hope those log files can help.
A kind request to Mr. Dipankar …If you are reading this please gimme back my 60 bucks.

Several suicides in IIT in past few years

1.Ritika Toya Chatterjee,30 th May 2008, a B.Tech final year student of the IIT-Kanpur .

2.Abhilash J J ,Ph.D. student ,IIT Kanpur committed suicide by consuming cyanide.

3. 30 th December 2006,Shrikant Mullappa (22), an electrical branch student committed suicide in the IIT Bombay campus.

4.Vijay Nakula ,November 2005,4 th year Dept of Physics,IIT Powai.

5.Bal Krishna Gupta ,August 2007,Phd,IIT Bombay. 

6.15 th January 2006.Dhiraj Kumar Anand,2nd yr student ,Department of Mining Engineering,IIT Kharagpur.

7.Shailesh Sharma,4 th May 2006,Chemical Enginnering,IIT Kanpur.

—the list doesnt ends here—

 

 

 

Recently( 2nd June ,2008 ) IIT Kanpur alumni association filed an application under the Right  to Information Act to find out roots of the extreme steps taken by students. The results were a bit shocking to many.
It says The Internet and the Mobile Phone led to a large number of suicides. A 24×7 connection with the Virtual world and a 4-5 hrs of daily use of mobile phones  connects the students with their family and make them a part of every problem arising at  home.internet surfing exposes the students to several sites having information that can  cause a negative impact on the minds.Apart from that students find lots of pressures both  from their academics and their Parents.

Internet surfing exposes the students to several sites having information that can cause a  negative impact on the minds, leading students to suicides according to the results.

According to Professor Prakash Gopalan, Dean, Students’ Welfare, IIT-Bombay “We can’t really  say that the Internet and mobile phones drive students to suicide as there are many parents  who act as support systems via Internet and cellphones.”
Consequently IIT Delhi Director Surendra Prasad comments that “mobile phones and internet  cannot be linked, to suicides.To reach such a conclusion you need to sociologically study past history and data and do a detailed survey. At IIT Delhi we have not done any such thing.”
Some different views.
The brand “IIT” have no role to play here.An IITian or a Non-IItian both have a 24×7  Internet access with long duration mobile chat with friends and family members.An Indian or  a Japanese or Chinese or US student all have access to this electronic facilited virtual  world.Suicide rate is highest in Japan.Should we blame the Virtual world for it?

I have heard about thosands of reasons behind the suicide of an IITian.Inablility to persue  academics, inability to be accepted by his class-mates ,love triangle , Internet addiction. A person fed up with Academics ,getting X grades, sometimes get addicted to the  Internet,anime,X-Men.Anyone among them who escapes into the internet world does it only for  one reason: to fulfill a human being’s very basic need – a sense of belonging. This is  something which fuels for the idea of relinquishing self, when the individual lacks that  sense of belongingness.
If you blame the Internet for suicides then add to the list..Internet causes inflation  deflation in stock markets which rises to Oil Proces subsequently everything.The internet  can be used by unscrupulous people to spread cruel and immoral images and information and  it’s difficult to act against them at present. and blah blah blah…
So close the Internet.

Do any one remember we used to write an essay or composition on the topic “Is science a Bless  or Curse?”

I think we should find some better solution
Do u have one?If yes.please write down.

Are you bored up with your same theme of Apple in your Ipod. You wanna have change in your taste? Try this new one

Introducing the Rockbox version of Ipod

Rockbox is an open source firmware replacement for a growing number of digital audio players. It has been in development since 2001 and receives new features, tweaks and fixes every day to provide you with the best possible music listening experience. Rockbox aims to be considerably more functional and efficient than your device’s stock firmware while remaining easy to use and customizable. We believe that you should never need to go through a series of menus for an action you perform frequently. We also believe that you should be able to configure almost anything about Rockbox you could want, pertaining to functionality. It is written by users, for users.

Download Rockbox

Take you ipod in disk mode.

Install Rockbox. And Enjoy.

If you need to go back to your original settings of IPOD just click “Restore” in your itunes.

There are plenty of themes available in RockBox . Some of the best looks like the pictures shown below.

To install themes get themes from the RockBox Theme site. Get the .zip files , unzip them to Root:\.rockbox and Use folder names when you extract the files.

You can also play games in your RockBox Ipod.

Some other features are

• Bookmarking - allows you to resume playback where you stopped listening not just for one audio file but for lots eg: audio books, music, podcasts etc
• MPEG video support - to play video files which take up much less space than Quicktime MOV etc
• 5-band fully-parametric equalizer with lots of pre-sets
• Support for over 15 Sound Codecs, including OGG, FLAC, MP3, AC3, WMA, WAV etc
• JPEG image and text-file viewing

Recently I got a HD print of the movie Armageddon. I have just one thing to tell the Action , Special Effects directors and the Story writers , If i had been in your position I would have done less mistakes than you have done.
The Revealing mistakes ,goofs,factual Errors,Error in geography,Continuity Errors are

1.Dock present in Desktop with full of Widgets from Vista itself
2.Live Preview of Every file Including avi,mpg,3gp,mov,pdf,txt,doc,rtf,html,ppt,pps,odt..and many more.Play the video then and there.Get a idea of the audio you are clicking.Read your pdf here.view your webpage and browse through you presentation file.No need to launch the required Software.
3.A beautiful Dock.

4.Animated Minimize up and down.
5.Start Menu anywhere.
6.Mac OS X like Task Switcher when you bring your mouse to any corner of the Monitor.

7.Animated Minimize down.Background is a video wallpaper.Yes it HD 1080px video.
8.Mac OS X like Dock bar.Background is a video wallpaper.
9.Mac OS X like Dock bar.

10.Mac OS X like Task Switcher in the dockbar.
11.Self created BootScreen and Login Screen.
12.Animated Desktop selector.having 4 Independent desktops.
13.Animated Desktop selector.having 4 Independent desktops.


All of these takes a Maximum Memory of 550 MB along with Vista Ultimate Running with NVidia Graphics card.So why do you require a Macbook of 4GB Memory at all. Vista can Rock itself.Comment Here know all the software details.I will try to combine all of them to make a single Installer.That will for Vista with SP1 only.

Machine Details
Toshiba Qosmio F30
160GB Harddisk,
1.66GHz Centrino Duo,
1GB Ram
128+256 MB NVidia 7600 Graphics Card
Windows Vista SP1

http://oneamongstthecrowd.blogspot.com/2008/01/with-girl-who-has-at-least-little-crush.html

Someone’s idea of a Perfect First Date!

With a girl who has at least a little crush on me.
Place - Any sea beach in Goa.
Time - Evening, Sunset.

And we both are sitting idle, holding hands, just hoping that the Sunset will never end.

Another foolish romantic who whines and moans all day about the importance of love and the agony of being single? Or is it just another of those guys, who actually make life worth living for, those who still dare to find romanticism in the simplicity of sunset over the glamor of posh restaurants and soft music?

Well, whatever it may be, I have just one thing to say to the guy. If you made this up, you could be a brilliant poet or a politician. And if you wrote it from your heart, any girl would be lucky to have you.

All the best!
Posted by Rahul at 4:34 PM
3 comments:

arupendu said…
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January 18, 2008 9:25 PM
Debalina said…

Well, a silent evening at beach looks like lot of people’s idea of perfect date, including me.
April 18, 2008 11:38 AM
arupendu said…

The first Comment which I posted and deleted after few days..Posting the same Comment again with few Modifications.
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In my Profile in Orkut
it was written sometime.
ideal Match:A bit less confused about herself then other girls.A less freaky about any decision.And a girl who is not sure that she will get the ideal match she has written in her orkut profile.
and lastly beautiful .
Abhi bhi agar Attitude pe nahi laga and any girl thinks herself suitable then can apply by a scrap.You will be well entertained.

Well girls always remains confused about whom to choose as their life partner.And boys do not..it is because girls are in need for Permanent relationship(not another breakup ) and for boys(Specially IIT boys)…”yaar ek gf to mil jaye….yaar nahi mila…aab koi bhi chalega…yaar ek to search kar de”.(hehehe) Boys goes after looks.A Girl goes after boy who can have some time for her and will love her a lot.
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Now coming to the point..The perfect date part.I like Goa sea beaches the most.Time is evening because i dont like morning time or sit in the afty sunshine.The situation will be more enjoying if it is spring time and a bit less windy day.Now if the girl has a little crush for me…and i have some for her also…in the date i will try to know her she will try to know me.(it will most probably be enjoying :P)
Else(if either of us have no crush or interest or like that) I will end up with discussions on matters like good features of Vista/Linux or she will end up with what she did with her Ex Boy friends.(bored up!!!)
If we both are hoping for the sunset not to end then both are enjoying what we are talking about.And Thats life!!!

About Posh Restaurants and Soft Musics..Ppl i am a bit short of Money.I will change it soon when i get a good Job.
What i wrote abt this date..It was not fully from my heart.Some other ideas were modified with my choices of place and time.
Among Some more ideas i like…
“Its a long straight highway in the midst of Jungle.I am slowly biking with her on my bike.”

–Complete–
Hopefully I don’t look frustrated (as many ppl infer abt me :D) And People please do comment about this discussion.I am liking it.
April 18, 2008 2:22 PM

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find out any song of your choice from my list.You will surely find is soothing.

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Find out your colour

Read this first
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1&theme=&usrsess=1&id=168276

In my 4 yrs i have learned one thing not to do in IIT is “don’t get out of the heard of sheep…you will not be able to enter into it any more.”

Well Decrease the JEE level a bit more.and make some more Reservation.you will earn some more money.yeah i ll also bribe you some time so that i can pass.
I remember one of My Friend who got the highest marks in “Mechanics” in my first year is now in a position that he may have to discontinue his Studies as he got too many backlogs in many subjects.He is from one of the Top Departments of IIT Kgp.Apparently it seems that its the fault of IIT System.Let me tell some thing about him.He plays a lots of Computer games ans has upload download business.Can you please ever ask him what made him leave all his studies.He has actually nothing to tell because he is so much hopeless about the IIT system that for him it is better not to go after any dream which has no future.
Let me tell you .Every Student had lofty dreams before coming to IIT.And for that dream they repeatedly tried to get into IIT.The One who failed to get into IIT …I think they are lucky.Those who came here forgot what they once dreamed of.IIT Authorities made them forget .My friend was bright in studies but a bit week in his Determination.He has chosen his path now.He can’t come back.And the rest who are not like him …who tried to remain in the heard of Sheep get some huge package in some foreign banks and some Software Companies.

By The Way who am I to blame IIT Authorities.They Provided us 24 hrs High Speed Internet Connection,Good Hostels to live in,Sports Equipments for our Overall development,A big Central Library(The biggest in Asia) where we can get any books for our so called research works…The list doesn’t ends.What IIT didnt Provided me is a Faculty who can tell me what should I learn from his lecture.I just mugged them up before my Exams and vomited them on the Answer Sheet.
Another of my junior who failed in the “Digital Electronics” and gave Summer Exams,The Prof told me that that boy was even better in studies than most of the students who got good grades in the original Exam.
Oh I am for the wrong Information sorry..Internet,Gym,Good Hostel,VGSOM ..all has been provided by IIT Alumni s …Not IIT Authorities.
And Recently IIT cannot Provide Lab Equipments and faculty for Students ..yet has doubled its Intake.Well Let them Continue.After all Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution says that the Fittest Survives.I Hope I will finally Survive.Give me Best of Luck.

All Characters in this story are real but without any consent of the people whose stories are their.I am sorry for that.

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(This Blog is still on its developement) 

It was the 28 th  Night(i should say start of the next day) at 12:30a.m….We had New Delhi-Puri Superfast from Kharagpur.At that spur of the moment i could feel the waves of puri beach beckoning me.The mesmerizing effect of friendship coupled with rejuvenation was enuf for me to carry forward a trip of a lifetime..however it was only a train trip and that too late which just incremented the flavours and colours of mind that was already in an ecsatic state…..On 29 th Morning we reached Hotel Ashray ,Puri. A sumptuous breakfast, even though limited by constraints of time was good enuf to plunge all of us to the end of where we live(land) and the start of wat covers 3 quarters of earth(the aquatic mania)…Bathing at puri sea beach was like a mouth watering ransom for everyone but 2 of us MARATHE and SAIKI preferred not to take the bait and instead watch over our bags lest it might fall bait to thieves….Returning to the waves it was an awesome experience.It s not for the first time that i bathed at sea…but it was the first time parental advice and hardboundedness was absent leading to complete acclaimation of guardianship over myelf…….The recipe for enjoyment to the daredevil extent was prepared by RUPA,SHREYAS and BOLLAM with whom i had a unique experience that took me to new heights while i diving to new depths down at the sea……..The strong waves making me somersault like innocent clothes that are treated in a washing machine but who cares……….COME ON!!!!!!!!! u r not going to come here daily so lets rock……yippeee………A couple of hours  bath is enough for any one to catch cough and cold and Mandal was the first warrior to be slain in this battle.I don’t know how i managed to make an escapade from this battlefield…….

Lunchtime ringing bells in our appetites…..everyone satisfied his grudge and after an unconscious sleep of a couple of hours we made our way to the holy Jagannath Temple.The aura of the temple created an atmosphere of silence and devtion among us……..but that did not cripple us before the pandas conceding to their demands…….we were predetermined not to spend money on them…MARATHE and I bought prasads and had our prayers reached to LORD JAGANNATH .Even though the main temple gate was closed but emotions can cross hurdles and barriers….The temple visit instilled  confidence and hope into each one of us for our hard way to the future ahead and the faces of my friends beaming with confidence  and light seemed like a reflection to my thoughts………Well it was time for some shopping at Puri sea shore shops.You need to have good bargaining skills to have both your desires and your pocket meet.In a joy of victory after scaling down to Rs100 from as high as Rs300 i soon found myself a newbie in this field when Sumit crashed down prices like dashing waters on beach as he made it from Rs 20 to Re.1….The fried prawn at the seashore was so sumptuous…ummmmmmmmmm……..i can still feel it…SAIKI and MARATHE booked a Sumo for the next day.We had a long trip that would take us across cities unravelling many mysteries.A very tiring yet expectant journey it was going to be….it demanded sleep and rest for the bruised and aching self that nite.

Next day  i woke up @ 4:30 even before others dared to part their eye lining.Having a bath and then getting ready was no mean task on the chill that was driving me to madness but the more daunting task was to get others ready especially GOLU([:)]).Our journey started at 7.a.m……Konark sun temple was our first due destination.The guide over thr. was an ingenious in himself,seeing a group of college spoilt brats he was on his toes as to wat kind of explanatory stories we were seeking and stories of ancient temples are often luring enuf for both the customers like us as well as their narrators and that these stories would not be pursued in a family environment….The guide enlightened us more regarding kamasutra positions of love making and unorthodox concepts of sex existing centuries ago….Infact his elicitations regarding these topics dominated more than the actual information about the temple that we were seeking for and ready to fork our money out for….neway our konark temple trip was filled with hidden smiles waded out to each other before bursting into peals of laughter after chilling out on coconut water….every bit of that discussion was tangential to GOLU…while MARATHE having a constant naughty eye on THAKUR….well cheers to the guide…..After that we went to DHAULGIRI, a Shanti Stupa.The milk white colour of the temple denied its creation centuries ago…the eloquent paleness of the temple colour coupled with the height at which it was located making the entire world looking like tiny tots sparkling in the shimmering sun…felt like we could spend hours there just gazing at the immortal beauty of nature and somewhat moulded by man tooo……. Not too far LINGARAJ was our next stop..a complex that encompasses around 100 temples….alas we weren’t allowed to take camera to photograph those inevitable memories….After lunch we were planning to go to Kalinga Institute of Technology.Shreyas had som1 as good as his better half whom he wanted to meet and from our side appreciation and perhaps a tinge of enviousness(hahaha just jokin).Unfortunately the sands of time that pass by,didn’t allow us to stick by..finally our penultimate destination NANDAN KANAN,or better a hybrid of a zoo and sanctuary was on the booze.The place is inexplicable  because of its amassing beauty and diversified outlook….i do not have points of explaining it down on a piece of pen and paper and neither did we hav the time to explore its beauty within the confined and counted hours that we had…..though we had only a couple of hours at our disposal we made sure to embark on each of the species present there and capture it in camera….it was a pity indeed to see them trapped for the entertainment and amusement of cruel humans….humans who have made them devoid of their natural conditions and confined them to live in drastic horrible conditions wherein decay,degradation and ultimately death is the inevitable longterm outcome…..however to put a pause to such an endless chain of pitiful thoughts we had a ropeway travel…the constant yellings thru our journey or greetings to the tourist canadians was good to counter my Hypsiphobia(fear of height)….we departed NANDAN KANAN with a heavy heart…perhaps the time we spent with each other knowing hardcore realities of life and things passing in the twinkling of an eye,all drawing to a close….
@ 5:00 p.m.we reached the bhubaneshwar station..our aching souls and tired bodies all desperate for reservation in pursuit of a cosy well deserved sleep suffered a setback to find seats full…a group decision to board the general compartment of utkal kalinga exp. 5 hrs. from then closely followed…The time to pass away was difficult but not for some idiots

reservation Shreyas and Marathe had enjoyed the journey a lot(i ‘ll tell u latter about it).While we were waiting at the station platform Mandal and Thakur had a visit to their respective friend’s house.Sumit was calculating the expenses of the total tour.Being a leader he needs to do it,lol.Marathe and Shreyas  searching for “Hariyali” on the station platform.Golu,Vamshi by nature sleeping.Bollam and Saiki waiting for their Raita.And I was as usual searching where to get my favourite juices.I loved them a lot.4 glasses of juices and an Appy juice in 2 hrs was enough to satisfy me.At last the train came.Somehow we manages to get seat.Shreyas and Marathe got to talk with some close friend of Saiki which made their journey enjoying.
I don’t know when did i slept.Someone waked me up telling that Kharagpur is coming,Wake up guys.So the journey ends at last.From Kharagpur Station we finally came to our hostel back.Finally the trip was an awesome.I would remember it all through my life ,not that for the trip but for the friendship that we have among us,We as a whole better known as Patel DTE(D-Block Top East wing,Patel Hall,IIT Kharagpur)It was our teamwork which i will remember throughout my life.I love you Patel DTE.

The team Members
1.Sumit Kumar-Captain
2.Abhinav Sarkar-Golu
3.Aditya Marathe-Marathe
4.Shreyas Ashok Karkhedkar-Shreyas
5.Vajrapu Saikiran-Saiki
6.Vamshi Krishna-Vamshi
7.Arun Kumar Bharti-Thakur
8.Rupesh Kumar-Rupa
9.Sridhar Bollam-Bollam
10.Arnab Saha Mandal-Mandal da
11.Arupendu Bayen-me the Photographer