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  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-20

  • Tail Gating

    Tailgating is a term which comes from the practice of driving too close to the vehicle in front of you!  Its obviously risky and uncomfortable!

    In the corporate this term is commonly used to refer to an event where people pass through secure doors without swiping their cards when the door is open!

    At my new organization, folks have a lovely habit of ensuring that they swipe the card even though the door is ajar before passing through, however a recent system crash and subsequent recovery time is pushing people to tailgate! Even though the discomfort in doing that is obvious!

    Its nice to see so many following a process diligently, and not so nice to actually look for open door opportunities to walk through! I have been stuck at my 6th floor cubicle a few times already, before I called security to walk me out, in absence of me being able to tailgate 🙂

  • Restart

    While I understand that restarting a windows machine is probably the most common and successful fixes of all times, its just shameful that a lot of desktop support systems ask you to restart without bothering to ask if the caller has done a bit of fact-finding and troubleshooting on his own!

    When I started my career back in 2001 with Dell, working as a Tech support associate, I  was told to ask questions, and rephrase to understand the problem before suggesting a fix! and today, its rare that a technical support engineer would ask you the problem or try to understand it before fixing a problem. Most service desks are happy sending a desktop engineer across or asking you to restart and call back!

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-11-07

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  • Name Servers

    For the technical inclined Name Servers are a common thing to be referred to!!!

    I had been facing the issues with NS for my url www.chaikidukaan.com since the time I started the migration from blogger to WP…. Somehow managed to figure out the issue today, and am able to complete a tracert of chaikidukaan.com to my domain space provider… Can think of the next steps now!

  • Move to a different Platform

    Chai ki Dukaan is undergoing testing to move to a different platform… It could be intermittently unavailable over the next few days!

    Please adjust maadi!

  • Single hand drive

    My car is a single hand drive and literally so!

    Its rare that I use both my hands for steering.. One of them is usually on the gear stick!

  • Do Not Disturb me PLEASE!

    “The Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulations, 2010” comes into play today! and looks like it that some processes are better defined that the last time it was enforced!
    What it also does is that some important communication, e.g. from your online shopping vendors, the Delhi Traffic Police, etc would not be sent out to you. However, there is an option of partially blocking the unwanted communication (SMS and Telecalls).
    Here is what you need to do to stop all unsolicited calls…
    To stop all commercial calls/SMS, write START 0 and send it to 1909
    To start some calls and SMS, these are the codes :
    Health – 1
    Education – 2
    Tourism and Leisure – 3
    Banking/Insurance/Financial Products – 4
    Consumer Goods and automobiles – 5
    Real Estate – 6
    Communication/Broadcasting/Entertainment/IT – 7
    To start any of these, write START followed by the category code and send it to 1909, e.g. if you want to get SMS/Calls related to Health Services, the SMS that you need to send to 1909 is START 1
    If you want to deregister from the DND registry, send STOP 0 to 1909
    In case you’d like to check the status of your requests you can click here.
    I personally feel that its not completely thought through from a SMS perspective, and here is why :
    • Logically, if I want to stop the unwanted calls/SMS I should send a STOP message and a START message otherwise. The current process wants me to send a START if I want to STOP all unsolicited communication
    • Also the categories should have atleast 1 State related SMS category, e.g. the Delhi Traffic Police SMS. I do not understand what category it falls under right now!
    It is a good start though. I am hoping that the number of SMS that I get reduces to a minimum (I get atleast 30 messages and 5 calls per day)
    This information is written with reference from all major Telecom Services Providers and the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Portal of TRAI.

  • Nissan Sunny missing from the official vehicle list

    The internet world is abuzz with news of Nissan launching Sunny at an ex-showroom price of about 5.67 lakhs!

    As an internet user, its normal for me to go to Nissan India’s website and check out the details of the car…. and what do I see? Nothing! The car does not appear the list of vehicles showcased on the website yet!
    I do not know what went wrong, however it feels that during the launch project planning, someone failed to mention website update and comprehensive testing as a critical checklist item! Even though there is a dedicated website built for the new car, and a link on the homepage, vehicle list and other related areas are not updated! A test plan failure maybe?

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    To make things worse, the contact page “OK” button does not work either, and obviously Sunny is not in the list of models on contact form either!!!

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  • 7 Years young today!

    Its Chai ki Dukaan’s Birthday today!!!

    7 years and still going strong! Could not have happened without all the people who have made Chai Ki Dukaan a part of their lives in some way or the other!!!
    A big THANK YOU!!!!!

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