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Dell India gets notice for over-pricing products

New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) Computer major Dell India has been issued notice by a district consumer court here for allegedly over-pricing products and supplying a faulty laptop to a customer.
A consumer court in Shalimar Bagh, while issuing notice to Dell India earlier this week, asked the firm to file its response by Dec […]

DELL sells over MRP

Though, no doubt there are lot of decided matters on the issue of MRP, but big MNCs like DELL are not interested…
Archer Softech Pvt Ltd purchased a battery from DELL which was charged as Rs 5,100 and even invoice issued for the same amount but the battery box reads MRP as Rs 2,100 (inclusive […]

Upgraded to Adobe Design CS4

Recently upgraded to licenced version of Adobe Design CS4, which includes Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Indesign, Illustrator and more i.e. all required for a perfect web design. Previously, I had licenced version of Macromedia MX 2004. Upgrading was cheaper from US, as $200 extra discount was available in North America and there are no geographical […]

Windows Vista/Fedora 9 dual boot

Finally shifted to FEDORA 9 from Fedora 6… but as soon as I installed Fedora, VISTA stopped booting… “MISSING BOOTMGR” error !
Finally, found a solution at: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=201456
Edit file —> /boot/grub/grub.conf
Change the “Other” section here…
Code:
title Other
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
…to this…
Code:
title Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

Linux Commands - to remember !!!

For my own reference…
Remove Directory:
rm -rf /var/www/[folder name]
Copy folders
cp -r /home/radmin/[to be copied] /var/www (www is the destination)
Make Directory
root/var/www/[folder name]
MySQL commands…
Login:
mysql -u [user] -p
Restore Database (before logging into MySQL)
mysql -u [user] -p [db name] < /home/radmin/abc.sql

CyberLawTimes Monthly Newsletter February 2008

Setback for Indian Cyber Law - A shame
Lakshmana Kailash K, a computer engineer, was wrongly arrested from his home in Bangalore in August 2007 for having defamed Shivaji on Orkut.com, he was tracked with the help of information shared by ISP, Bharti Airtel. He was taken to Pune and put behind bars, where he spent […]

MCA complete…

Recently, completed MCA degree this year… it will help in career as a Cyber Lawyer !!!
It has been long journey since high school in 1995…
1995 - Senior Secondary School
1998 - B.Com (Hons)
2001 - Company Secretary
2004 - Oracle Certification
2004 - Bachelors of Law
2005 - Cyber Laws
2007 - Masters in Computer Application

SIFY pays ahead of court date

I had filed application under section 27 of Consumer Protection Act, 1986 before District Consumer Redressal Forum, Shalimar Bagh, Delhi. Court date was fixed up for 27 July 2007 but they paid up the compensation ahead of the date, as they were left with no option, as time for appeal already expired way back in […]

Cyber Law Times Newsletter

June 2007 Highlights:
1. Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia introduced cyber crime laws.
2. India: HC issues notice to Centre to block web contents.
3. Hackers Successfully Hijack Google AdWords.
4. US Senators demand more regulations on Net pharmacies.
5. Europe considers new identity theft laws.
6. Hong Kong Looks to Protect Copyright in the Digital Age.
7. US Cyber Security Bill […]