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- When it comes to blowing one's own trumpet, no channel comes near Times Now,no newspaper like ToI 5 days ago
- RT @NilimDutta Norwegian authorities list Bhattacharyas' shortcomings http://t.co/S8GvF1Sz | Ridiculous charges 2 weeks ago
- Trying hard to stick to 1 of my new yr resolutions - read less twitter & more blogs. Not quite successful yet. This is quite some addiction 2 weeks ago
- Something is seriously wrong with Bangalore. It has not gone completely dark yet but I can already see fog near my house. Brr. 2 weeks ago
- Suddenly, there are hardly any FOSS conferences happening in Bangalore this year, it seems. 3 weeks ago
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Bangalore Restaurants blog’s 2011 highlights
One of my favorite and highly recommended Bangalore specific food blogs – Bangalore’s Restaurants, has just published their yearly summary for 2011. For those, like us, who are always looking out for new places to try, the blog post provides … Continue reading
Blog merge
There was a time when I used to blog frequently. After the age of twitter, it reduced. But rather than keeping on writing, I focused on an issue which was a lower priority – splitting up blogs so that the … Continue reading
Humbling tweet of the year 2011
Quite an irony that this very honest and non-jingoistic tweet was made by the Chief Minister of a state that the rest of India is so jingoistic about.
Vim git commit color weirdness
I have been noticing that writing a commit message in git just like I have been doing in svn or CVS gives me a rather colorful output (see the credited link below for a screen grab). Searching on the web … Continue reading
Fedora 15 Fixes
Spending all my time at work with Redhat’s suite of products and at the same time sticking to having my primary working OS to be Ubuntu was causing too much dissonance. So I finally decided to move to Fedora as … Continue reading
Quick tip: Making ssh agent work in screen sessions
The only annoying this I find in the otherwise indispensable GNU Screen is the fact that once you have launched screen (not resume) and have detached and logged off the first time, ssh-agent magic stops working in the screen sessions. … Continue reading
ISP data caps taken to court in US with very convincing arguments
We Indians have been cribbing about ISP data caps for broadband called very insultingly as Fair Usage Policy (FUP), but I have heard few making a very good case about why this is a bad idea for the market. And … Continue reading
Automatic folders for mailing lists using procmail
Here is a quick tip which I have gleaned from multiple sources which makes using procmail filters a breeze. I subscribe to dozens of mailing lists, and it really is somewhat of a chore to create filters for every mailing … Continue reading
microUSB cellphone charger becomes EU standard
The European Commission has put into effect a June 2009 agreement stating that major cellphone manufacturers should standardize their charging/data connection ports to the popular microUSB format. via blogtechnical.com Finally. It took over a decade (in Indian market) to get … Continue reading
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Android will be using ext4 starting with Gingerbread
Theodore Ts’o reports that … Starting with Gingerbread, newer Android phones (starting with the Nexus S) will be using the ext4 file system. Android Arena mentions one of the main advantages: YAFFS is single-threaded, which would have been a bottleneck … Continue reading
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