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SMS to Reliance mobile phones.

March 9, 2004 by Bobby

Update (Sep 2 2004): Since this page is getting lots of hits, I have decided to summarize the information from the comments below.
– SMS to reliance mobile phones can be sent from the internet using www.smscountry.com . But it is a paid service.
– SMS can be sent to reliance mobile phones using the format 91+mobile_number@ri.irisme.net .But the email has to be sent as an email message from a mobile phone. The message will not be delivered if it is sent from a normal email account.
– Direct SMS from US mobile phones to reliance mobile phones in India does not work in most cases.

Original Post (Mar 9 2004): For the past few days, I have trying to figure out a way to send SMS to Reliance mobile phones in India. Finally succeeded today.
SMS can be sent to Reliance mobile phones using the service from SmsCountry. It is a paid service. Outgoing SMS is charged 3.2 cents (Rs 1.49) per SMS. Incoming SMS is free. A useful feature is that message notification can also be received at a specified email id. I have set it up such that the email id is that of my cellphone. So, when someone sends an SMS to me through SmsCountry, it goes to the SmsCountry Inbox and also to my cellphone. So, it is like sending an international SMS from India at local SMS rates.
Rediff Mobile (i.e. upgrading your basic rediffmail account) is also good for sending SMS to mobile phones in India. However it does not work for Reliance mobile phones.
Rediff SMS2India does not work for Reliance mobile phones. In fact, it did not work for most mobile phones I tried to send SMS to.
Strange, but I am able to send SMS from my Cingular mobile phone to Reliance mobile phones in Calcutta but not in Delhi.

CS Home Area Quotas

March 3, 2004 by Bobby

UTK-CS home areas have quotas from today. I was highly over quota and and had to spend a lot of time backing up by data and deleting the unused files.
Also learnt that the UNIX command for deleting a non-empty folder is
UNIX> \rm -fr dir_name
-f option for force.
-r option for recursive.
Cooked Chole today after many many days.

Snow!

February 26, 2004 by Bobby

It snowed today morning. But I woke up a bit late and at that time, there was much less snow than that in the morning.
Am in library now.

Reserved MS-Access/VBScript field names

February 21, 2004 by Bobby

The following words cannot be used as field names for MS-Access databases when using an ASP(VBScript) frontend.
level

Monday afternoon

February 16, 2004 by Bobby

Just adding this entry because my blog page looks blank!
Today is Monday. Not doing anything much at present. Feeling a bit hungry. Maybe I will have some Maggi. How I hate cooking food!
Lot of stuff to do.
Manish just came and went out again for office work. Milk, Orange Juice and Eggs are over. Guess, I have to go to Bi-Lo tonight.

maisnam.com; Saumil’s Marriage; Ek Hasina Thi

February 7, 2004 by Bobby

Officially launched maisnam.com today. It is now my portfolio website. The speciality of the site is that it uses a auto-generated menu.
Saumil and Jaya’s marriage was held today at HCC. Had a nice time there. Took some video and lots of photos. Here is one photo and another one here.
Watched “Ek Hasina Thi” on DVD. It’s a great movie! Saif and Urmila’s acting was superb! Here is a review from IndiaFM.
Learnt about local access calling cards. Tried one from callnation. Call quality was pretty good. Since they don’t have local access numbers for Knoxville, I tried a number in Athens, GA. Only drawback is that you always need to call from a cellphone if you want the reduced rates. (Of course, you can call from a landline but then you have to pay the long distance charges upto the local access number. And that makes no sense!)