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KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia is offering its streamyx GradPack package, which targets college and university students, until Dec 31.

Subscribers will enjoy broadband service at a lower rate, as well as receive some free goodies, according to the telecommunications giant.

GradPack offers two Internet service packages � 384Kbps (kilobits per second) for RM50 a month or 1Mbps (megabit per second) for RM100 monthly.

The students who subscribe will get a free modem, and a streamyx Zone ID which grants them wireless access at more than 1,300 hotspots nationwide.

TM is also waiving its RM75 activation and RM88 installation fees for GradPack users.

Also, subscribers of the 1Mbps package will get access to music portal Hypptunes, video service HyppTV and the Rose Online Evolution massively multiplayer online role-playing game for three months.

In addition to that, they will get a TM�Manchester United special-edition T-shirt for free.

Students who want to subscribe to GradPack must present their student ID at any TMpoint, TMpoint Authorised Dealership (TAD) outlet, or TM authorised reseller nationwide.

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If you are suffering from your ADSL Net getting disconnected in 5 - 10 minutes after connecting and then nothing works then this is the solution for you. Many people suffer from the problem. After a few minutes of their connecting to Internet, a weird Win32 Service error shows up and then you can neither disconnect Internet nor can you reconnect it. All you can do is just restart the machine and then go through this process all over again and again.

Microsoft did provide patches for the same later but by then the problem was resolved by the experts. Also those people who do not have fast Internet cannot use those patches. So is there a solution for it without downloading the patches and just tweaking some settings in Windows XP. Fortunately the answer is yes. There are just 2 changes that you need to make. They are described in detail below:

First of all comes system security. So when you start Registry Editor (method is shown below) take a backup of the Registry as this is one of the core components of your Windows Installation. Backing up registry would help you to restore the changes you will make and would save you from a lot of headache later on. To create a backup of registry, navigate to File and click on Export. This will create a backup of your registry which can be restored again.

Click on Start button in the taskbar and navigate to Run. Type "regedit" without quotes in it and press enter. Now on the left panel, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Expand it and navigate to SYSTEM. Then navigate to CurrentControlSet. In it expand NetBT. Navigate to Parameters. Now in the right panel locate TransportBindName. Just double click it and delete the default value which currently is Devices.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE --> System --> CurrentControlSet --> NetBT --> Parameters --> TransportBindName

Now navigate again to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. In it locate Softwares. Now go to Microsoft and expand it. Locate Ole in it. Now in the right panel just locate the value EnableDCOM. The default value in would be Y. Double click it and make the default value N. Now just close Registry Editor and restart the machine. Connect to Internet and voila the net now no longer gets disconnected.

You could also have changed the values of NetBIOS but generally changing the values of these two parameters would eliminate the problem for all. You would not be required to change those values.

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It's Unlikely US Will Sink Into Depression

Who says there's never any good news?

Five experts on the economy say the United States isn't headed for a depression reminiscent of the 1930s even though just about every day it seems there's dire news of tens of thousands of people being thrown out of work or business behemoths like Chrysler and GM teetering on bankruptcy.

"I see little risk of a repeat of the Great Depression because we've learned from that earlier experience," says Prof. Thomas Hopkins, an economist at the Rochester Institute of Technology. "The actions now underway in Washington will be on balance helpful in slowing the decline and hastening the recovery."

The D-word is seldom, if ever, mentioned in news dispatches ... possibly for fear of scaring people, or it's simply too petrifying a possibility to contemplate. But International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn did declare that the world's advanced nations are "already in depression" after a speech in Kuala Lumpur in early February, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown used the word "depression" to describe the global economy, though his aides dismissed it afterward as just a slip of the tongue.

In any event, there's no standard definition of an economic depression. Suffice it to say that grim memories of the 1930s in America ... the stock market crash, an unemployment rate of about one-third, farmers being foreclosed by banks, numerous banks failing, and ragtag unemployed former executives selling apples for pennies on the street ... give most people enough evidence of what one would be like.

"No, we're not going into a depression, but we are in a severe recession," says Prof. Sean Snaith, director of the Institute for Economic Competitiveness at the University of Central Florida. "Comparing the United States in the late 1920s to now is beyond comparing apples and oranges. Some similarities exist but today's economy is markedly different. There's globalization of financial markets for one thing, and federal deposit insurance for another."

At the height of the Great Depression, more than 20 percent of the municipalities in the U.S. were in default on their bonds ... generally due to the collapse of their revenues. "Today, while revenues are declining, we're nowhere near those extreme conditions ... less than 2 percent of the nation's municipal-bond issuers are in default," says Michael Stanton, managing director of SourceMedia's Capital Markets Publishing group, which includes The Bond Buyer, the daily newspaper of public finance.

What got us into our predicament?

"Americans have been on a consumption spree that has eaten up all savings and resulted in mortgaging of their souls," says Rod Klein, a capital financing expert and University of Phoenix (Chicago campus) faculty member. "We believed the value of houses would keep up an explosive growth. Real estate was so alluring that many decided to invest in real estate ventures in lieu of more conservative savings options. A large part of the spectacular growth in real estate values comes from the simple principle of supply and demand. Demand has sunk!"

Klein also points out that the U.S. government, starting in 1977 with enactment of the Community Reinvestment Act and sparked by fundamental changes in 1994 of bank lending practices, "loosened underwriting standards, including the size of the mortgage payment relative to income, credit history, savings history and income verification. A massive amount of mortgages represented subprime ventures which homeowners would be unable to afford if the economy soured."

As a result, "the states most (currently) affected ... Florida, California, Arizona, Nevada ... were the ones front and center in the housing market boom," says Prof. Snaith. "Texas didn't participate in the housing run-up and has fared well by comparison during the housing bust. However, no one is completely insulated from a recession as deep and long as this one has turned out to be."

Veteran banker John Jackson, president & CEO of Lending Cycle, Inc., Louisville, Ky., believes that "inflated wages and revenue in the 1990s, combined with easily obtained credit, created an environment that couldn't be sustained. Once those wages and revenue returned to normal levels, our economy couldn't continue at the heightened pace. People and companies continued to spend beyond their means."

What's getting us out of our predicament is basically a determined effort by the government to energize the economy via the massive bailout bill. "We're seeing a lot of rapid and dramatic policy action to prevent things from getting worse," says Prof. Snaith. "As for improvement, things have to stop getting worse before they can get better. There are some signs of that ... we're not seeing thousand-point swings in the market. We're out of the panic mode."

One danger as the U.S. bounces back, if indeed it does, is inflation resulting from all the forceful government activity.

"America will face chronic inflation owing to immense government and private debt burdens," Klein predicts. "At this time, the two sectors of the economy owe in excess of $100 trillion, half the debt to units of governments. The government portion consists mainly of Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid program obligations. Compounding this burden is the diminishing savings Americans have to meet retirement or personal debt obligations. Our citizens used to enjoy a high rate of savings. Not any more."

Prof. Hopkins notes that "the expanded rate at which the Fed is attempting to ease credit does indeed create a risk, once recovery begins, of ratcheting inflation rates upward. But the Fed is equipped to swing into a credit-moderation role and should be able to forestall that problem from getting out of hand. At present, of course, there are more signs of price declines than increases, and deflation is just as damaging as inflation. But I am optimistic that the Fed will be able to navigate us between both extremes."

And the best possible outcome?

"We have the opportunity to emerge stronger and smarter," says Jackson. "I am optimistic about our county's future."

By Gerry Storch

Gerry Storch is editor and administrator of http://www.ourblook.com , a political discussion/media analysis website that fills the gap between a blog and a book. The five economic experts mentioned above contributed Q&A articles placed on the site as part of a project on whether we're headed for a depression, the pros and cons of the massive bailout bill and whether governments should bail out newspapers. Mr. Storch was business editor and sports editor of Gannett News Service, a feature writer with the Detroit News and Miami Herald, and Accent section editor and newsroom investigative team leader at the News. He holds a B.A. in political science and M.A. in journalism, both from the University of Michigan.

Is HP trying to do away with computers entirely, or trying to turn its printers into an ornament for your living room? We’ve all seen wireless printers before, but HP’s latest Touchsmart Premium Printer with Touchsmart Web is certainly looking to lure you away from your computer. It boasts a touchscreen interface, which can be used to browse various widgets, enter text, and navigate a limited web space, allowing you to print directly without having to go through a computer. Widgets included with the printer offer tools from USA Today to get news, Google to get maps and email, SnapFish for photos and Fandango for movie tickets, not too bad eh? The only snag is (as always) the price tag, which is going for around $400, and considering that most Wi-Fi enabled printers go for about $200 nowadays, it’s going to be hard to justify a $200 premium to customers.

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There are a lot of companies in Internet Speed Test UK fighting broadband isp ratings supremacy in the mobile phone market and you'll find that almost all of them are offering incentives at the moment. Would you like a free mobile phone with a free Wii? Or perhaps an XBox? With so many companies out there, the main problem is finding a company who are safe and reliable with a good reputation. Everyone has heard the stories about firms who offer fantastic cashback and line rental offers, but when you get around to claiming them, they've vanished with your money and left you in the lurch. You'd then contact the network, but find that the incentive was nothing to do with them and was offered by the retailer, so you'd have absolutely no claim and, furthermore, you'd be tied into a contract that was very attractive when you agreed to it, but without the incentives isn't good at all.

I use one company who I've dealt with a few times with absolutely no problem. I agreed 18 month contracts for three new Sony Ericsson mobiles in September 2006, one for me, one for my wife, and one for my daughter. From the list of incentives, we each decided to have a Sony PSP and cashback. To claim the cashback, all we three internet to do was send in our bills for specified months (May and August in our case) and we received a cheque by return. We did this and had no problems.

Our contracts Streamyx earlier this year, so we contacted the company and agreed on three new phones with contracts and again received the free phones with free gifts and cashback.

If you're looking for a new phone, consider this : You could go direct to the Network Provider, but you'll end up paying the same for your contract but not getting a valuable free gift. This way, you're getting the latest phone free, on a pay monthly contract and, in the case of the phone with a free Wii (you also get Wii Fit on some contracts), a 300 game console. If you take it on a 30 per month contract, you're paying a total of 540 for a phone, a premium game console, all your calls and all your texts, even less if you have a cashback deal! I know what I'd rather have : a phone with a free Wii!

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Where to Purchase Your Bulk Beans and Grain

Okay, I admit that I cheat. I don't currently have a food mill so I use already milled and processed grains to make my breads and pancakes. For years now I would go to the local supermarket and buy the packages of products to use at home. My 2009 plans include the purchase of a quality grain meal so that I can take advantage of bulk purchases of items such as yellow corn and beans. You may laugh yourself off that easy Malaysia Broadband but I have discovered that bulk supplies of grains are easily obtained from my local feed store.

In these feed stores you can readily find supplies of wheat for approximately 8 to 10 dollars for a 50 pound bag. Not bad at all considering the current price of a loaf of bread. Now this same 50 pound bag purchased through one of the bulk food suppliers would cost you about twice that amount. The major difference between the two bags of wheat is that the least expensive bag is intended for planting and for feeding livestock whereas the more expensive is for actual cooking by humans.

These packages may very well not receive all of the necessary inspections that those intended for human consumption would. Nor would they arrive at my home in "For human consumption" containers. The feed store facilities may not actually conform to the Department of Health standards in effect at this time for the human food storage locations however there is really not much difference in the actual feed version verses the human ones.

Both way the corn that one purchases at their local feed store appears to be very clean and pest tmnet streamyx setup A broadband speed check point to keep in mind is that should the corn have any pathogens present the cooking process is sure to destroy them.

It would only make good sense to me that if you have no additional means of obtaining your grains and beans in bulk quantities at a reasonable price you may wish to consider this option. You can always purchase the high quality products at a later day if you so desire.

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January 6, 2009

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Image via WikipediaBy Gabriel MadwaySAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple’s iPhone has emerged as a serious videogame platform, fulfilling the long-held promise of mobile phone gaming and positioning itself as a legitimate competitor to handheld consoles.The Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last week was abuzz with plans about games for the iPhone and its WiFi-only

When Trk Telecom was finally able to deliver ADSL Broadband capability down here to us things to do in malaysia the Aegean Seacoast in 2005, it came not a moment too soon -- to stop the bleeding of our Internet phone bill, which had leaped suddenly and alarmingly in mid-summer to $150 a month for simple 56kbps dial-up service.

ADSL service came late to our Western coastal township, even later to us beach-side residents. It had arrived in Turkey in the new millennium and had been fully operational in the big cities (starting with Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir) since 2002 -- and in most smaller West-country municipalities since 2004. But it didn't reach our minor Izmir-province municipality until August 2005.

In fact, we had installed our first Internet phone line in 1994 (a year after the commercial Internet became operational in Turkey) as a separate analog line -- so that Peri could use our first line for voice... And, back then, our dial-up usage costs had been about $20 a month including a small amount of KDV (Katma Değer Vergisi -- Value Added Tax) -- in the neighborhood of 5%, if I recall correctly.

In 1996, when we upgraded to 56kps digital dial-up service, our Internet phone bill increased to about $25. And it stayed around that level for quite awhile -- until KDV for telephone service was boosted in 2003 (coincidental with the coming to power of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's religious-right AKP political party) to the maximum KDV tax rate of 18%.

But, when 18% wasn't enough to satisfy the new government's tax man, he invented an additional one called İV (zel İletişim Vergisi -- Special Communications Tax) which socked in at 15% right off the bat -- without much warning in 2004.

So, our once perfectly reasonable monthly Internet phone bill during 1994-2002 got bumped by 33% in 2003-4 -- not due to increased usage on our part, but due to phone bill taxes.

And there it stayed, around $35 a month, until 2005 -- when something strange began to happen with Trk Telecom reports of our Internet usage. And, our Internet bill began to climb steeply -- in clear disagreement with my own cost calculations (based on my hitherto impeccably reliable dial-up service computer logs).

Twice we contacted Trk Telecom to check our Internet line for inadvertent overcharging. Twice they checked and found 'nothing'.

And then in July 2005 the lid blew off the pot... We received a dial-up service phone bill for a whopping $150+.

That was absolutely impossible...

So, after we (grudgingly) paid the $150 bill, we lodged a complaint, and requested an investigation...

Refusal to pay a disputed phone [or electric] bill is not really an option in Turkey. If you don't pay your bill on time, they Dish Satellite Internet disconnect the service -- unceremoniously and without warning. They also charge interest on your unpaid balance until you do pay -- and, of course, you have to pay extra to have the service reconnected.

And we waited to hear the result of their investigation.

It never came. The following month, as mentioned, Trk Telecom delivered the ADSL service -- and our complaint (and the details of their investigation) got lost in the shuffle.

But that's not quite the end of the story...

[Click following to access a fully illustrated HTML version of href="http://www.learningpracticalturkish.com/high-speed-internet--006-08-06.html"
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Jim and (co-author) Perihan Masters are a husband and wife team, living on the Aegean Coast of Turkey just 50 miles south of Izmir. Jim was born in Shanghai, China -- of American military parentage. Peri was born on the Black Sea coast of Turkey Italkcom Trabzon, of Turkish military parentage...Enticed by a Financial Times advertisement, Jim joined a NATO sponsored enterprise in Ankara in 1974 where he met the beautiful and brainy Perihan, a rising young Turkish banking executive. Settled now in the heart of what was once the ancient Ionian Empire -- the couple live an idyllic internet lead generation by the sea.. writing, drawing and painting, teaching English, and providing computing service support to local businesses. They also sponsor the MSNBC award-winning Learning Practical Turkish Website which has built an enthusiastic international following of devoted Turkophiles and inquisitive language students of all ages.

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Dial-up internet is slowly but surely being phased out with more and more households turning to a broadband connection instead. But with so many providers around, each offering a different package, finding the right one for you fastest internet seem like an uphill struggle.There are some things to consider when shopping around for a broadband provider

These are some of the most important and best charity car donation tips you'll need to consider before donating your car, truck, van or other any other vehicle. You can donate cars, trucks, boats, airplanes, ATV's, even old motor homes and many other types of vehicles and get a good tax deduction.

1. First it's important to know that the laws were changed in 2004 limiting the donor's used car donation tax deduction to the amount the selected charity ends up selling the car for.

2. You want to find out if the charity is rightly eligible to be the receiver of tax deductible contributions so make sure that you ask for the organization's Internal Revenue Service's "Letter of Determination." This will verify their status.

3. Make sure to get a good well-documented receipt from the charitable organization for your dsl internet access or car donation.

4. In order not to send up any red flags on your income tax return know that the IRS looks carefully at non-cash donations so make sure to clearly document the correct car or vehicle value and keep accurate detailed records.

5. If your used vehicle is worth $500 or even more, then complete the newest Internal Revenue Service tax deduction form, the number may change form time to time, fill out the proper portion and attach it to your income tax return. You must also include a written acknowledgement from the charity.

If your charitable organization sells your donated car, then they must provide you with the sales price within 30 days with a certification the automobile, truck, van or other vehicle was sold at between parties not related to each other. The donor's tax deductions must be limited to the total the charity sold the car or vehicle for. If they don't sell the car, they must provide you, the donor, with a receipt within approximately thirty days of the sale, whenever that occurs. They must also certify to the donor how it intends to use or upgrade/repair the car and state in writing that they will not sell the vehicle or transfer it to any other party.

6. If your car is valued at $5,000 or more you'll need to get an independent appraisal and complete the appropriate part of the Internal Revenue Service form.

7. For cars or vehicles that are worth under $5,000, use either Kelley Blue Book or a guide from NADA to determine the current market value. Use the right and correct figure for the date, mileage, and car's condition. Don't just pick the highest figure for your vehicle year and model and not note other important factors. The IRS will look down on this.

8. Take several close-up pictures of the vehicle inside and out.

9. Save all your receipts for any upgrades including any new tires to document and verify the car or vehicle's value.

10. It's important to know that it's not the charity or charitable organization, who is obligated to come up with the correct value and you'll have to pay any penalties if the IRS audits or challenges you and finds your figures are unfounded.

Finally be aware that some charities use a donated car or vehicle for transportation or for hauling and they benefit directly from the donation. But in most cases the vehicles or cars are sold by the charity, dealer or car donation center to help raise funds for the charitable organization. When this happens, if it's the dealer, the charity may get only a flat fee and may be as little as $50 for your used car. So check with the charity on how they intend to handle the donation if this is important to you.

These are some of the best charity car donation tips you can put to use immediately if you're considering donating a car, truck or other vehicle to a charitable car donation program.

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