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Over the last few months, a lot of people have been grumbling about how they have 256 Kbps and higher speed internet lines and yet they only get 32 Kbps download speeds… First of all, it’s KBps .. Let me elaborate on this a little to make it understandable to all the non-geeks!

Network connection speed is usually measured in Kbps, which stands for kilobits per second.
Your browser or download tool usually shows you the speed in KBps, which stands for kiloBytes per second.

A bit is a single unit (0 or 1)
1 Byte consists of 8 bits

So, if you do the math, your download speed of 32 kiloBytes per second is actually 32 Bytes x 8 bits = 256 kilobits per second.

So, yes, you’re not being robbed or cheated.

For those of you who aren’t aware yet - we’re shifting all Warrenasia operations to our new 110 sq. mt. office - which is almost ready!

I’m going to order the tiles tomorrow morning and then the only work left will be fitting of the tiles, electrical stuff and fitting of the doors and windows.

Once we’ve shifted, there’ll be a few job openings - for graphic designers, web designers, web marketing teams and computer hardware engineers. Anyone applying for any of the jobs should be able to work at our office - we will not be providing work-at-home jobs.

If you’re interested in working with us, send along your C.V. addressed to Warren Rodrigues. Interviews will be held mid-May.

• Applicants for Graphic designer’s post should send us some of their creative works.
• Applicants for Web designer’s post should send us a few links of websites designed by them. Knowledge and experience of PHP/MySQL will be an added advantage.
• Applicants for Web marketing team should have experience working with online forums, directories and a basic knowledge of HTML will be an added advantage. No experience in Web marketing is required.
• Applicants for Hardware engineer’s post must have experience in assembling PCs and trouble-shooting hardware, network and OS problems.

I just heard this track titled “Glamorous” by Fergie featuring Ludacris. I’ve always loved Ludacris’ hilarious lyrics and I guess he’s one reason why I love this track; the other reason being Fergie - she just sounds so classy on this one.

All in all - a super combo and a great track!

p.s. hip-hop fans should check out Dr. Dre’s mixtape - DRETOX - simply amazing, featuring a whole load of artists.

In 1999, I started off as a graphic designer. Since then, I’ve shifted my focus more to web development, S.E.O. and the like.

8 years later - I continue to run one of Goa’s largest and most successful web hosting and web development house.

I come to realize though, that the quality of graphic designing in the Goan market sucks! Newspaper advertisements are so clichéd and boring and generate no interest level in the reader. Except for a few adverts that come from Bombay-based ad-gurus, the rest should just be thrown into the bin without a second thought.

This called for the birth of Warrenasia’s latest venture - THINKTANK - an advertising motive that will take a bite out of your competition. That’s our aim here at Warrenasia - letting our client lead the way, so far ahead, that their competition has a hard time trying to keep up.

We do it on the web, with technologies like S.E.O. (which involves many days of research and understanding human psychology to target the right keywords for our clients), and, now, we’re brimming with confidence to do something similar on print.

In the last couple of days, we’ve got our stationary and other material ready and, also, organized the squad who will handle THINKTANK. We should be storming the market in a couple of days. Watch out!

Problem:

Windows XP doesn’t allow you to format a drive larger than 32 GB in FAT32 - you would essentially need to format it in NTFS. But sometimes, we need to format a large drive in FAT32 - specially external hard disks that we would plug into different computers at different points of time, and NTFS security permissions shouldn’t stop us from reading/writing data.

Solution:

You could either use a third-party disk partitioning program like Partition Magic, that would allow you to do the needful or you could just pop in an MS-DOS boot disk. Yes, DOS!

Warning: The procedure below will erase all existing data from your hard disk.

• Restart your computer, booting through a CD or floppy, to DOS
• At the DOS prompt, type fdisk and Hit ENTER
• Answer Y to answer questions
• fdisk is pretty self-explanatory, so just create the partitions you want/need
• Now, exit fdisk
• At the DOS prompt, type format d: (if D is the drive that needs to be formatted)
• format will run for a while and there you have it - a partition larger than 32 GB and in FAT32.

Additional Notes:

Though some experts say that the maximum size for a FAT32 partition can be 2 TB, I’m not absolutely sure about it. Microsoft says that fdisk can create a partition upto a maximum of 512 GB. You would probably need to use a third-party application to create a larger partition.

I have created single FAT32 partitions on a 40 GB Samsung, a 60 GB Maxtor and an 80 GB Western Digital. Anyone who’s created any other size FAT32 partitions, do let me know.

In no particular order…

We have top rankings on LIVE (MSN) and Yahoo! too, but since Google sends us the most traffic, we concentrate our Optimization efforts for Google rankings. We also get visitors who use various other keywords, but not all of them are of too much interest to us.

If you find any keywords that you think are good enough to be added to this list, send it to us and we’ll credit your name on the find!

Problem:

You keep getting an error message when trying to defragment a drive, saying that chkdsk is scheduled to run for a particular disk at the next startup and so defrag cannot run; but chkdsk doesn’t run at startup. It could be possible that the dirty bit is set for that drive and you’re gonna have to follow the steps below to fix it:

Solution:

1. Open a command prompt window (START > RUN > type cmd > hit ENTER)
2. Type fsutil dirty query c: (if C is the drive that’s not defragmenting)
3. This will tell you if the dirty bit is set for that particular drive
4. Next type chkntfs /x c:
5. Restart your computer
6. Open a command prompt window again.
7. Type chkdsk /f /r c: to do a manual check of your disk
8. Once chkdsk has completed, type fsutil dirty query c: again and it should confirm that the dirty bit is no longer set.

You should, now, be able to defrag your drive!

Additional Notes:

We encountered this problem on an HP laptop a few days ago and fixed it. We’ve not seen this problem too often in the past though.

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This is a limited time promotion, so don’t waste time thinking - it’s less than a hundred Indian rupees!!

We are so confident of the quality of our web hosting services that we are allowing you to test and then choose us. You don’t have to sign any yearly contract; you don’t even have to stick with us after the first month if you don’t like our service - you could choose to opt out with no questions asked. Your .INFO domain still remains yours for the entire year, no matter where you host!

Warrenasia is Goa’s premier Domain Registration and Web Hosting firm, offering the lowest rates on all domain registrations (.com/.net/.org/.info/.in/.co.in and more) and the best deals on web hosting too. Most other Goan companies candy wrap their services and charge you ridiculous prices for Domain Registration and Web Hosting. We beat the competition by, simply, being transparent. No hidden fees and no hidden clauses. What you see is what you get!

So I just got another AMD machine! And this one’s a beauty…

• an AM2 socket 3000+ processor
• ASUS M2N-MX board with an nVidia chipset
• 1 GB of DDR2 RAM - running at 533 Mhz

And that’s not all. For the first time, I’ve fallen in love with the cabinet - an 8.5 KG silver/black beauty. As x3t put it - a nuclear bunker!

Anyway, I’ve not got a chance to work on it too much yet - I’m still on my older 939-pin AMD (with 2 GB RAM ;))

Once I’ve run all the tests on the nuclear bunker, I’ll post my findings here.

Till then, peace!