Petition Against Airtel India unFair Usage Policy
As many would know, Airtel has implemented their so called Fair Usage Policy(FUP) that puts sever limits on the data transfer on unlimited connections. This, coming from the most reputed ISP in India has literally shocked many users, including me. I have sworn by Airtel for their quality of service for 3 and half years, and happily recommended it to various other friends/relatives.
But this FUP puts an end to all the goodwill they created. Not only is it outright cheating, it also defeats the very point of unlimited connections. And in a country like India where internet is slowly expanding, it is a major roadblock.
To view the complete details of the policy, visit this page
To view the draft of an online petition, created by members of http://broadbandforum.in, visit this page
Sign the online petition against the policy here
Quake Live Public Beta
Yes! Quake Live is finally going into public beta. The announcement was posted on the quake live beta forums yesterday. The beta will be available on the public domain http://quakelive.com from Feburary 24th.
What beats me is that a very serious crash bug, that affects both FF and IE has still not been resolved. Maybe I don't know what others seem to know!
Openslide – Open source alternative to slideshare
Just a quick heads up. One of the nice guys in India has floated a open source project to create an alternative to http://slideshare.net. The project is in the planning stage, so if anyone wants to help, you can contact the admin.
Read more about the project, straight from the guy who started it on his blog here
The sourceforge page is here
Transmission 1.50 Final Ubuntu 8.10 Deb Package
The transmission team is out with the final release 1.50. The release has various bug fixes, enhanced IPv6 support among others. You can see the complete changelog here.
Download the pre compiled one-click install package for Ubuntu 8.10 32 bits
Google needs to update gtalk
Gtalk is great. Since it was released in 2005(?) I've always stuck to it, and even chucked out yahoo messenger. There is something about the little white window, the simple interface and functions, and more importantly the no mess, no junk small application. Its 2009, and google doesn't seem to update Gtalk at all! I mean it DESERVES to become better. Here is my wishlist:
1. Multi platform support - Yea, I'm talking Mac OSX, Linux, etc. You can argue that adiumx/pidgin do work on the gtalk servers, but hey, file transfers are broken! Would love to see the standalone ported to the other popular platforms.
As far as I know, the core is based on libjingle, which google has open sourced. This library is what takes care of voice calls, and file transfer in the gtalk application. Can't it be ported?
2. Smileys - Please! I beg you!
3. Video Conferencing - Its available in your google mail. Why isn't it available on gtalk?
4. Multi User Chat - Like those yahoo conferences where many people can talk crap simultaneously.
Oh! That reminds me. Gtalk is still in beta (shock!), so they are probably working on a few things. Just hope they give it out to the masses a little sooner.