Nov 27, 2007

Error at Digg - Can't Shout - My Voice Gone Low

Posted by mhatrey at 9:42 PM

Shouting to friends in digg after a new post is a must to tell them about new activites.I am being devoid of this opportunity these days .A common way of shouting is using share option where you can shout to all your friends at a go .But this is a weird and very irritating problem i encountered in digg recently(3 days).
On the share page after doing all setting like clicking shout to all,entering the description and putting the captcha(what is captcha) I cant just shout.
And problem which i encountered was not one but three!!!
Max time nothing happens and it remains open like i did nothing
Once I got a weird message like

Take a breath! Shouting Somewhere else. .

And more importantly a constantly occuring problem was that it says wrong Captcha!!!
I can tolerate it once or twice but constantly for 3 days!! This is testing my vision capacity really!!

Once or twice i may enter it wrong but not for 3 consecutive days friends.........please....I am not that blind..........
Thought of of giving you friends some proofs(That am not blind !)

This is the page which shows(more specifically orders) that i have input a wrong captcha ......
(Have trust in me friends and see that I had entered correct captcha)

A more enlarged view of what I entered (Captchas are not case sensitive and I tried capital K also...)

What Digg Has to Say To This
I also sent a mail to them inquiring about the problem .
First it wasn't answered but wen i sent it again after 2 days it was.
What they say

This is a known intermittent bug that we hope to have fixed soon. What
browser and OS are you running?

--Digg Support

To my report

in sharing page after selecting shout to all and putting the right captcha and clicking shout!...the shouts are not sent.It shows three kind of errors....sometimes does nothing ...sometimes it says "OOPS Captcha appers to be invalid"and sometimes something like "Take Breath! Shouting somewhere else".The problem is from 2 days .Plz help me....and i am not blind to put wrong captchas for consecutive 2 days repeatedly.

I hope they rectify it soon.......

Posted by : Anuj via Fellow friend's account at his place

Students Note - AICTE Approved Colleges List

Posted by Anuj Kothari at 1:02 PM

Region	State/Union Territory	ENGINEERING
Region	State/Union Territory	NOI	Intake
Central	1. Madhya Pradesh	61	20210
	2. Chhattisgarh	14	4020
	3. Gujarat	37	12965
	Total ----->	112	37195
Eastern	1. Mizoram	1	120
	2. Sikkim	1	525
	3. West Bengal	54	15477
	4. Tripura	1	180
	5. Meghalaya	1	240
	6. Arunachal Pradesh	1	210
	7. Andaman&Nicobar	-	-
	8. Assam	3	750
	9. Manipur	1	115
	10. Nagaland	-	-
	11. Orissa	41	13014
	12. Jharkhand	10	3385
	Total ----->	114	34016
North	1. Bihar	8	1905
	2. Uttar Pradesh	89	28953
	3. Uttranchal	9	1440
	Total ----->	106	32298
North-West	1. Chandigarh	5	800
	2. Haryana	38	12785
	3. Himachal Pradesh	5	1260
	4. Jammu& Kashmir	5	1545
	5. New Delhi	14	4330
	6. Punjab	45	14880
	7. Rajasthan	41	15045
	Total ----->	153	50645
South	1. Andhra Pradesh	236	82970
	2. Pondicherry	6	2370
	3. Tamil Nadu	254	80417
	Total ----->	496	165757
South-West	1. Karnataka	118	46375
	2. Kerala	89	24413
	Total ----->	207	70788
West	1. Maharashtra	155	48250
	2. Goa	3	740
	3.Daman & D,Dadar,N.H.	-	-
	Total ----->	158	48990
	Grand Total	1346	439689

Ethnic minority students asked to boycott Oxford over debating row

Posted by Anuj Kothari at 12:52 PM

OXFORD: Non-white students were urged to boycott Oxford University and up to 1,000 protesters kept a noisy vigil after the university's debating society invited two far-right speakers -- a racist and a holocaust denier -- to talk about free speech Monday night.

A group of 30 protesters broke into the debating venue -- the Oxford Union debating society -- and held up the event for nearly two hours before they were removed, allowing British Nationalist Party chief Nick Griffin and pro-Nazi historian David Irving to speak to an audience of around 400 that had turned up to hear them talk about "the limits of free speech".

The protesters, who turned up in 10 coaches from nearby towns and cities, sparked a security nightmare but police did not throw a ring around the venue and allowed students and anti-racist activists to climb over the wall.

Both men are controversial for their views -- Griffin was convicted of incitement to racial hatred in 1998 and Irving spent a year in an Australian jail last year after being sentenced for denying the Nazi holocaust. Holocaust-denial is a crime in Australia.

The decision by the 184-year-old Oxford Union, which calls itself the world's most famous debating union, to invite Griffin and Irving has already led one senior Tory MP, shadow defence minister Julian Lewis, to resign his life membership and several leading politicians to cancel their speaking engagements there.

The event -- described as a "night of discussion on the limits of free speech" -- descended into chaos when protesters from cities such as Birmingham arrived to register their anger and besieged the Oxford Union building. They draped anti-racist and trade union banners all over its walls and blockaded the building.

AICTE and DELNET Strike Deal To Improve Libraries

Posted by Anuj Kothari at 12:46 PM

Networked Resources for Technical Libraries

DELNET- Developing Library Network is promoted by National Informatics

Centre, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and the Department of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Government of India. More than 600 libraries have joined DELNET as its Institutional Members and it gives access to more than 35 lakh records of books, periodicals, articles etc. (Details are available at: http://delnet.nic.in )

AICTE and DELNET have signed an MOU� to:

			Promote access to more relevant information in each library of AICTE approved technical institute;

			Give training to library staff so that they get associated with database creation work using international bibliographic standards;

			Create union catalogues of resources available within the technical colleges and institutions for resource sharing purposes through DELNET;

			Locate resources of national importance through DELNET online databases and make them available through inter library loan;

			Enable each library to have access to global resources and help them through DELNET in procuring necessary documents on loan for research and reference.

During accreditation process, AICTE also takes into consideration whether the Institution’s Library is part of a National or an International network, with access to remote information. Keeping these issues in mind AICTE has agreed to pay to DELNET Rs. 5,000 as one-time Registration Fee and Rs. 7,500 as the Membership Fee for first year against each approved/accredited Technical Institute that joins DELNET provided the Technical Institute agrees to use DELNET services for at least three consecutive years and pays to DELNET Rs. 4,000 towards Inter –Library Loan fee per year.

The Benefits

Under the MOU, each Library that joins DELNET:

			Gets online-access through Internet to more than 35 lakh records of books, periodicals, articles, CD-ROMs. Video-Recordings, Sound-Recordings, Theses and Dissertations, Indian Specialists etc. These records are growing in number every day;

			Can order books on loan from a Member Library in any part of the country and ask for photocopies of articles which are given at much reduced rates;

			Can get its standard catalogue records merged into Union Catalogues developed by DELNET for resource sharing purposes at the fnatiional level;

			Can order Library Management Software DELPLUS and DELMARC at much reduced rates. (DELPLUS at Rs. 15,000 and DELMARC at Rs. 25,000)

			Is offered free training for one library staff. (TA/DA for the staff will have to be borne by the Member Institute);

			Gets concession in the Registration Fee for participation in the National Convention on Library and Information Networking (NACLIN); and

			Receives guidance in using international standards, gets free DELDOS software for creating catalogue records and is given access to a large number of links to useful sites and databases through DELNET.

Application Procedure

The procedure for sending application is as follows:
Please download the following forms from this site , fill them in and get them signed by the Head of the Institute:

			Application-cum-Proposal for Providing DELNET Membership;

			Text of the undertaking which is to be printed on Rs. 50 stamp paper;

			DELNET Membership Form;

			DELNET MOU; and

			A demand draft in favour of DELNET payable at New Delhi for Rs. 4,000 towards Inter-Library Loan fee for one year.