Domain Renewal 2008

I have just renewed my domain, dom20.com for a further year. Since I do not possess a credit card yet, I have renewed it through a forum. I had to push my domain to the forum admin so that he could kick start the appropriate procedures for the domain renewal.

Since I am hosting this blog on my domain, I had to reconfigure the address kamal.dom20.com so that it points to roonaldo78.blogspot.com. This was accomplished by adding a CNAME record with the alas kamal pointing to the address ghs.google.com in my DNS settings. I also had to configure blogger so that it points to my custom domain.

Now I am more relaxed knowing that dom20.com is mine for a further year. I can start thinking about new projects, and services which I might provide using this domain. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please let me know.

New PC

My old PC crashed last Monday. According to the technician, the motherboard had become faulty, and thats why it was restarting continuously. Well, I did not switch it off during the weekend, and maybe the infernal heat had the better of it.

It was a P4PE ASUS motherboard with 256 MB DDR RAM, a 40 GB Hard Disk, a 128 MB GeForce graphics card, and a Pentium IV 2.8 GHz processor. For around three years it worked perfectly, sometimes it would be switched on for more than 20 hours per day. I did my University final year project on it, and many more other projects.

Now I have a PC with a BIOSTAR motherboard, 2 GB DDR2 RAM, 512 MB GeForce 8400 GS graphics card, 160 GB SATA hard disk. I am using my old processor on it, and I have also added my old 40 GB hard disk in it.

Its only a few days since I got my new PC, and I can feel the difference with the old one. This one is faster and with this one, I can install as many applications as I want without any fear of running out of space!

I hope I can get 4 to 5 years out of it, before its time to consider buying a new one, and most importantly, it will work as smoothly as the old one!

World's cheapest car

The World's cheapest car, named Nano has finally hit the market today. This vehicle costs around $2,500, which is around MUR 75,000. It was unveiled today in New Delhi, India by Ratan Tata, the chairman of Tata Motors, which creator of this automobile.



This car is really small as you can see in the picture above and it can accommodate at most five persons. The basic version has no radio, no passenger-side mirror and it has only one windshield wiper. Air conditioner is available only in the deluxe version. It has seat belts, but no air bags. The Nano is about 10 feet long, 5 feet wide. The 2-cylinder petrol engine delivers 33 horsepower and a top speed of just over 60 mph.

For now, the car will be sold only in India, but Tata eventually hopes to export it. The Nano could become the basis for other similar super-cheap models in developing markets around the world.

The most obvious concern is that with such cheap cars, anyone can aspire to be a car-owner, hence increasing the already large amount of vehicles in circulation, and increasing the amount of pollution released. However, the Tata chairman insists that this vehicle pollutes less than motorcycles, and will pass domestic and European emission standards and averaging about 50 miles per gallon.

What are your opinions on the World's cheapest car? Do you think it will be a success? Will you buy one? Please let us know!