Category Archives: tech

Microsoft using Secureboot to lock down ARM

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Thanks to a tip from a colleague – Anshu, I found out further confirmation that the Secureboot issue, that I blogged about earlier, is going to bite us badly just as we expected. According to this post of the Software … Continue reading →

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Should you easily hand over those encryption keys to the law?

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Don’t try this in India yet, but in US, a district court is about to judge on whether you have to hand over encryption keys to the law if asked. Or can you decline because that is akin to self-incrimination? … Continue reading →

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One of the highlights of the upcoming Windows 8 is …

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

.. the easing of reinstalling it. I am not joking. Here is the official blog post about this: Refresh and reset your PC As Business Insider says it well: Think about any other product that is so unreliable and degrades … Continue reading →

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The incoming Secureboot/Restrictedboot war

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

For those who aren’t aware of this, FSF (Free Software Foundation) has been running a campaign for the last few months about Microsoft’s malicious Secureboot initiative (which FSF calls restricted boot). Given the mostly Microsoft friendly corporate IT environments out … Continue reading →

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Blog merge

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Sandip Bhattacharya

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 →

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Vim git commit color weirdness

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Sandip Bhattacharya

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 →

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Fedora 15 Fixes

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Sandip Bhattacharya

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 →

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Quick tip: Making ssh agent work in screen sessions

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Sandip Bhattacharya

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 →

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ISP data caps taken to court in US with very convincing arguments

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Sandip Bhattacharya

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 →

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Automatic folders for mailing lists using procmail

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Sandip Bhattacharya

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 →

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