Civil Services Exam

Posted on July 29, 2011 by admin

Civil services is one of the most coveted jobs in India. Examination for civil services is conducted by UPSC(Union Public Service Commission) , government of India. There are several different posts which are filled through civil services exam. IAS or Indian Administrative Services is the most sought after post filled through this examination. The next most important post is IPS or Indian Police Services.

With these posts, comes administrative power and recognition desired by many. That makes this examination very difficult to crack. Out of more than 200,000 applicants every year, only few hundred are selected every year. However, the main difficulty in clearing this exam is not the requirement of higher level of intelligence but it is the ability to grasp wide range of subjects and syllabus in short time. If an average student can complete the syllabus and subjects with good understanding devoting several hours everyday without break, he or she can very well clear this exam. Selection of subjects according to your interest and ability is also very important to clear this exam as this will determine your final preparation of the exam. For civil services examination, an ideal student is the one who studies 8-12 hours everyday without break even a single day. He has chosen his subjects very wisely and already knows the basics of his chosen subjects. He has good writing and speaking skills in the medium of examination which can be any Indian language.

Eligibility conditions for civil services exam is only bachelor’s degree in any subject. A candidate is free to choose any subject which can be different from the subjects he or she graduated in.

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My Experiences With Different Web Hosting Providers

Posted on August 3, 2011 by admin

Over the years, I have tried many different web hosting providers. I tried free web hosting in the beginning of my online adventures, then many different shared web hosting providers and some virtual private server hosting and also dedicated server hosting.

VPS ( virtual private server ) and dedicated server hosting are the most convenient, trouble free web hosting solutions which can give you almost no downtime. The reason is server resources provided to you will not be shared with other accounts or other customers like you. But, these don’t come cheap and you probably don’t need them if you are not particularly trying to make your websites popular.

Free web hosting providers are generally not recommended to anyone because paid shared hosting is already quite cheap and nobody should mind paying a few dollars every month for shared hosting if they enjoy creating websites even a little. But still you can find good free web hosting providers. The first condition of a good free web hosting provider is, it should not be popular because the popular ones will have too many websites running on their servers resulting in poor uptime. Good free web hosting providers can be found in webmaster forums where webmasters who bought reseller web hosting may be willing to share their hosting space with other webmasters.

Paid shared hosting is the most popular type of hosting and you should not mind paying a few dollars for it. It gives your website, a kind of security. If you choose some of the popular web hosting providers, you’ll get good customer support. But, that doesn’t mean you’ll get cent percent uptime. Paid shared hosting has problems too mainly created by other accounts on the same server.

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Assembling My Latest Desktop

Posted on June 3, 2011 by admin

My desktop computer had some problems going on for sometime now. Motherboard won’t recognize my old IDE hard disk. Sometimes while the computer was running, I used to connect the hard disk and it got recognized and I could use it but after rebooting, it vanished every time.

Last week, computer refused to start. It starts, fans start running, hard disk and DVD drive make sounds. All this happens for few seconds and everything stops. Most likely the culprit is either motherboard or processor. I read a lot about this problem on internet, but nothing helped. They say a faulty PCI card or RAM can be problem but I don’t have a PCI card installed in my system and I tried putting RAM in different slots but looks like its not a faulty RAM problem or a problematic DIMM slot problem either. I put RAM in a different computer and it worked fine.

Though I can get my motherboard repaired or buy a new one or buy a new processor if the processor has gone wrong, but I have thought why not go for a complete upgrade. I generally like to buy AMD processors and motherboards because I like to upgrade my desktop every few years. AMD processors and motherboards are somewhat cheaper than similarly performing Intel processors and motherboards. I plan to use parts from my old desktop in the new desktop. The parts I’ll  have to change are processor, motherboard and RAM. Budget is also a constraint. And I like to upgrade every few years so I don’t need to spend a lot on high-end processors and motherboards. And these are going to get a lot cheaper next year so why buy them now if my latest video games are still running fine on my current system. I’ll go for a cheap AM3 motherboard and AM3 processor and DDR3 RAM. My old motherboard is a AM2+ with dual core processor 2.2Ghz. I also can buy a AM3 processor and use it with my old AM2+ motherboard if motherboard is fine. I’ll sell the old DDR2 RAM if I change the motherboard also. I plan to used my old power supply glacial 550w, seagate hard disk 160gb, moserbaer dvd writer, graphics card nvidia MSI geforce 9600gt 512mb and CPU case.

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Blogging Is Fun

Posted on May 31, 2011 by admin

In recent years, number of bloggers has increased rapidly. Many people have learnt making money through blogging and have become professional bloggers. Also rising is the number of SEO professionals. Blogging and SEO has become an incredibly easy way to make money and you can make huge amounts of money. I still don’t take it as a real profession or even an useful work. Its a waste of time and nothing more but you can make lots of money. Its useful only if you are a student and you are trying to meet your expenses. But, I don’t think anybody should do it for life as a means of earning livelihood. SEO has only helped increase web spam and SEO professionals have made billions of websites with false information which doesn’t help the real internet users who are looking for real and helpful information online.

I am also not sure about the future of SEO. Right now, one can make lots of money becoming a SEO professional but most likely within few years search engines will become lot smarter making SEO efforts on websites futile. Chances are SMM ( Social Media Marketing ) will take over SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ).

I am also part of this whole blogging and SEO game but I am in it for fun only. Money is not the main thing for me. Money is a side thing whereas fun is the main thing for me. This is never going to be my profession. I love playing computer games and for me, its just a different computer game full of fun.

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Free Debt Consolidation

Posted on December 11, 2011 by admin

There is no such thing as free lunches. Nobody is going to invest time and money into something which doesn’t give even the slightest hint of making money and definitely not, if they don’t even hope to get the invested money back. While there definitely are free debt consolidation programs available but they are not totally free and you can’t simply hope to relax after consulting a professional offering free debt consolidation.

Debt consolidation programs which charge some money are usually the best because they are the companies with more experience and expertise and have much more to offer. Companies offering free debt consolidation are the ones who are new in business and they may have highly experienced professionals but you may need to be a bit careful and check around with other people. When people are in debt, they try to find a solution in which they have to spend least money which they don’t have.

As I said you can’t have totally free debt consolidation programs. Usually consultation with a debt professional is free. Professional advises you about different courses of actions you can take to eliminate debt. After that, you can either take help of the professional or you can do all the needed work yourself. Professional will charge you some money and will do all the needed work for you and you can relax. There are some professionals who make money through affiliate commissions from financial institutions. In that case, debt consolidation program can be entirely free but professional advice will be biased in favor of the financial institutions which make them money. In this case, you may end up even spending more.

In most cases, the usual solution to debt problems is replacing a high interest loan with a low interest loan also called debt consolidation loan.

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