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Since Orange has imposed its Fair Usage Policy on us, there has been intense discussion here. The latest version of the FUP states that:
Your FUP threshold, i.e the amount of data that you can download will depend on the offer to which you are subscribed to. Monitoring of your downloads will be done on a monthly basis and if [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “What is a heavy user?”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/05/21/what-is-a-heavy-user/” });

What do you think of the new look of my weblog? I’ve tried to keep things simple while enhancing navigation. I’ve also doubled the number of Google adverts in order to get more money
As you’ve noticed, I’ve used a Mac-inspired theme which I find really nicely done. I’ve also added a Random Posts [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “A new look for Noulakaz.net”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/05/05/a-new-look-for-noulakaznet/” });

Since the rebranding, Orange in Mauritius has quietly imposed on us its fair use policy which is described as follows on the website of Mauritius Telecom:

[The Fair Use Policy] is designed to make sure your broadband service is as fast as possible and reliable whenever you are connected.
Some of our broadband customers use file sharing [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “What is the fair use policy?”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/05/03/what-is-the-fair-use-policy/” });

I’ve just come across a very interesting and deep transcript of a talk by Clay Shirky on Gin, Television, and Social Surplus. Here is my favorite part:

It’s better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute captions, hold out an invitation to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Watch TV less. Create more.”, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/05/01/watch-tv-less-create-more/” });

Hello,Ki dir?

More than 1 week already, “orange p vender partout”, but still, no response from the competitors, at least, nothing extraordinary in their business strategy from namely,

Nomad
Emtel
MTML
DCL

Except a small thing from Emtel, you can now epin ur mobile with only rs20, instead of rs25.

r for rabbit modem
I tried to access Nomad’s portal, but a [...]

After nearly 2years, i have revamped my web site, below are some screenshots…

I have also rewritten nearly all the text + added new stuff while removing other pages.
Any additional stuff that i may find interesting will be added in the Cool Stuff section, for example, simple articles showing you how to use any email add [...]

This is simply great !
You Use Messenger (msn, yahoo…) and you want to put a status indicator in either your hi5 profile, blog or web site?
think that am the first to explain properly how to do it !
Just follow the steps and in this example am putting it in my hi5 profile and also in [...]

Transferring pictures over the net can take lot of time if you have a slow connection or the picture/image is huge!
by compressing a picture, the size is reduced hence accelerates the transfer but at the cost of the quality.

This article is for Novice Users
You wont need any extra software, just your simple paint program!
Below are [...]

This Tutorial will show you how to use any email address to sign in MSN Messenger…
Meaning that you can use your Yahoo or Gmail or any other personalised email address…No Need to create a hotmail account just to use msn messenger !Screenshots are provided for each step!

Click On the following link to open the page [...]

The latest version 2.5 of Wordpress was released yesterday and I’ve just upgraded Noulakaz.net.
I use a number of plugins and I had a small issue with one of them, Alex King’s Popularity Contest, which kept generating fatal errors when activated. Fortunately, I came across a simple one-line fix. This is where open source software really [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “I’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.5″, url: “http://www.noulakaz.net/weblog/2008/03/30/ive-upgraded-to-wordpress-25/” });