Broadband has arrived in India not so long ago. But it has already reached the desks of almost all the internet users. Sadly though, the broadband service has not improved considering its exponentially growing popularity. This time my eye is on the premium Broadband Internet Service Providers in India and how they fair or fail to impress us in individual segments. So without much ado let us go there directly.
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You can always be sure of something exemplary when it comes to Google. And they moved many a steps ahead with their reputation with the advent of Google Analytics. Therefore, the obvious question is, what exactly is this Google Analytics?

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What do you mean by a virtual world? A place where you can come and work and chat and play and leave. What if I tell you about a whole new world where you can live, breathe, play, sing, dance, do every damn thing you can do in this (sorry?) life of yours? And what if "I make you an offer that you can't refuse?" No I am no Godfather. Today, let me take you to a virtual world where you can be a REAL millionaire! The world I am talking of, may seem nonexistent unless you bump into your Second Life. You can earn real money from a virtual world and loads of it. You can be a millionaire in less than 2 years! You can earn hefty amount just by spending some time in the internet and you can even rule a world (let it be virtual for now) of your own and make your own rules. All of them and more @ Second life. And here I am with not 1 or even 2 but 18 unique ways to guide you to a hefty check in US dollars through Second life. So start living now! Read more (2025 words) »

As you may have noted, Simple Thoughts sports an enhanced headline section with 4 tabs. They are:

• Headlines - Provides latest news we deem to be worthy of headline
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This blog is actively protected by Comment Guard Pro, WordPress Comment Spam protection plugin for pro-bloggers and semi-pro bloggers. We don't allow any spam, even apparently innocuous ones in this blog. Even with that, thanks to my readers, we are close to 10, 000 comments on this blog. There are currently 2,394 posts and 9,739 comments in this weblog.

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Windows XP, arguably the world's most popular operating system, still has lots of tricks up its sleeve. Today I will show you some hidden rooms, some unknown corners in this column that you never knew existed but wanted to. Without much ado lets login to the wonderful hidden world of Windows XP.
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"In India, fears about the experiment spread rapidly through the media" - Reuters & quoted verbatim by MSNBC

"But in deeply religious and superstitious India…" - Reuters & quoted verbatim by MSNBC

What kind of stupid yellow journalism is this?

Who gave Reuters the right to categorize and denigrate a whole country based on its incorrect and biased views?

As an Indian, I deeply resent this piece of yellow journalism from Reuters.

Yellow journalism, in short, is biased opinion masquerading as objective fact. Moreover, the practice of yellow journalism involved sensationalism, distorted stories, and misleading images for the sole purpose of boosting newspaper sales and exciting public opinion. It was particularly indicative of two papers founded and popularized in the late 19th century

Yellow journalism is journalism that downplays legitimate news in favor of eye-catching headlines that sell more newspapers. It may feature exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, sensationalism, or unprofessional practices by news media organizations or journalists.

The job of a journalist is to report facts and only facts. The facts in this case was that a simple village girl was mislead by media (yellow journalism) into believing that the world was coming to an end. The media incorrectly highlighted speculations by some doomsayers without highlighting the negation of their views by reputed scientists. As a result a poor young women decided to end her life.

So yellow journalism by Indian press took one life in Bhopal and yellow journalism by Reuters managed to denigrate the whole country by telling the world that India as a whole is a "deeply superstitious" country! Bravo Reuters!

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The business of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro and Angsuman's Translator Plugin Gold has been transferred over to Wordpress Translator. All future news and updates on Translator Plugin Pro & Translator Plugin Gold will be available from the new site.
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I mean every word of it. I found this simple configuration tip after days of continuously looking at MySQL logs (mytop), top, slow log queries, debugging the hell out of applications, reading tons of MySQL optimization tips (and pulling my remaining hairs in frustration) on the web. Even MySQL optimization tips from MySQL doesn't mention it. And yet this single tip solved all my MySQL headaches and performance problems. Here are some of the problems I faced:

My powerful dedicated server was frequently consuming 100% of the CPU even with moderate load.
Even with tons of optimization and indexes, I found my server idle CPU going to 0%. The key resource consumer was MySQL. The worst part was that MySQL refused to serve new request as all threads were exhausted waiting (for some miracle to happen?).

Does any of that sound familiar? Then read on for the gory technical explanations and the tip.

BTW: My initial reaction to such problems was the standard one. I looked at MySQL master-master replication (this is better than the master-slave replication which WordPress.com does for its sites) to take care of the increased load. Fortunately this single configuration change made my server take at least 10 times more load than before.

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