23% Failure Rate for IRCTC Transactions in Jan 2010 #india #ecommerce

Filed under: Misc — jeetu @ 7:21 pm

23% Failure Rate for IRCTC Transactions in Jan 2010

February 18, 2010

IRCTC has clocked a total of 6547581 number of successful transactions in the month of January 2010.

In total, there were 77% successful transactions across all the payment categories.

As far as total transactions are concerned, 23% is a huge failure rate and questions the efficiency of payment gateways.

73% success rate for credit/debit cards, 71% success rate for Net Banking, while Cash Cards drive the maximum ratio – 82%.
Interesting to note that debit cards/net banking ruled the transactions (39.7%), followed by Credit cards (26.9%) and Cash Cards (13.1%)
Among the cash cards, Itz Cash cards constituted 76% of the transactions, followed by I Cash and Done card.

Download the Jan data from here.

If IRCTC has 77% success rate, imagine what ecommerce startups go through.

Average U.S. user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube and Amazon combined!

Filed under: Misc — jeetu @ 7:17 pm

Posted at mashable.com

Facebook Is the Web’s Ultimate Timesink [STATS]

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The average U.S. Internet user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia and Amazon combined. Think about that for a moment.

New numbers released by Nielsen today confirm what we’ve known for a while: Facebook () is the web’s number-one time sink. What’s more interesting, though, is just how much more time we spend on the world’s largest social network today than we did six months ago.

Back in June 2009, Nielsen estimated that the average U.S. user spent four hours and 39 minutes on Facebook per month. That’s about 9.3 minutes per day in a 30-day month. In August, that number rose to five hours and 46 minutes, or 11.5 minutes per day.

In January 2010, though, the amount of time the average person spent on Facebook jumped to more than seven hours. Each American Facebook user spent an average of 421 minutes on Facebook per month, which amounts to more than 14 minutes per day. Even if you lump together the time spent on Google () (1:23), Yahoo (2:09), YouTube () (1:02), Microsoft/Bing () (1:35) Wikipedia () (0:15), and Amazon (0:22), it still doesn’t beat Facebook.

As you can see from the tables above, there are a few other interesting stats (the average number of websites people visited rose by 8.4%, while the amount of time people were on the PC went down by 8.2%), but the clear story seems to be Facebook’s still-meteoric rise.

How much more time can we sink into Facebook? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Shared Items – February 15, 2010

Filed under: shared — jeetu @ 8:07 am

Augmented-reality maps: Blaise Aguera y Arcas on TED.com

February 14, 2010 – cool !

Using disown to disown a process #linux #remote

February 14, 2010

Making a Tough Call [Quotables]

Filed under: Misc — Tags: Decision-making, decisions, in brief, quotables — jeetu @ 4:30 am

Posted at Lifehacker

by Kevin Purdy

“When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because, in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for.” [Minimal]

Augmented-reality maps: Blaise Aguera y Arcas on TED.com

Filed under: Misc — jeetu @ 5:53 pm

cool !

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Posted at TED Blog

In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. (Recorded at TED2010, February 2010 in Long Beach, CA. Duration: 8:14)

Watch Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ demo of augmented mapping on TED.com, where you can download this TEDTalk, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 600+ TEDTalks.

Using disown to disown a process #linux #remote

Filed under: tech,tp — jeetu @ 8:16 am

I find myself in a situation where I am logged in remotely to a server and have started a long running process, only to realize that I didnt kick off a screen session before, neither did I use nohup

In such a situation, the disown command comes in handy

disown -h %1

After I background the process, I disown it from the current terminal. The disown prevents a SIGHUP to the process if my terminal dies!

from the man page –

disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...]
Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If the -h option is given, each jobspec is not removed from the table, but is marked so that SIGHUP is not sent to the job if the shell receives a SIGHUP. If no jobspec is present, and neither the -a nor the -r option is supplied, the current job is used. If no jobspec is supplied, the -a option means to remove or mark all jobs; the -r option without a jobspec argument restricts operation to running jobs. The return value is 0 unless a jobspec does not specify a valid job.

Thats it for a sunday morning! To own something can be a lot of responsibility, disown it and rest in peace

Using disown to disown a process #linux #remote

Filed under: Misc — jeetu @ 7:19 am

Posted at jeetu.co.in

I find myself in a situation where I am logged in remotely to a server and have started a long running process, only to realize that I didnt kick off a screen session before, neither did I use nohup

In such a situation, the disown command comes in handy

disown -h %1

After I background the process, I disown it from the current terminal. The disown prevents a SIGHUP to the process if my terminal dies!

from the man page –

disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...]
Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If the -h option is given, each jobspec is not removed from the table, but is marked so that SIGHUP is not sent to the job if the shell receives a SIGHUP. If no jobspec is present, and neither the -a nor the -r option is supplied, the current job is used. If no jobspec is supplied, the -a option means to remove or mark all jobs; the -r option without a jobspec argument restricts operation to running jobs. The return value is 0 unless a jobspec does not specify a valid job.

Thats it for a sunday morning! To own something can be a lot of responsibility, disown it and rest in peace :-)