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CNN’s untold story – Land of missing children

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Yesterday, I saw this very well made documentary on CNN called “The land of missing children“, part of their series “World’s untold stories“. The documentary was about underage sex workers in the brothels of Kolkata and Mumbai, a dark side … Continue reading →

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Mark Shuttleworth on free and “non-free” Linux distros

Posted on January 19, 2007 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Mark Shuttleworth writes in this blog post on a topic I get really emotional about: We have to work together to keep free software freely available. It will be a failure if the world moves from paying for shrink-wrapped Windows … Continue reading →

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Aren’t Indians the most racist of people on this planet?

Posted on December 28, 2006 by Sandip Bhattacharya

A Bollywood actress caught saying so-and-so is amazing as a director. He can make even a black African look pretty”. A Bollywood actor saying: (I knew) it was time to leave Shanghai and Hong Kong after six weeks of stunt … Continue reading →

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“Banga-lured” Finally

Posted on January 11, 2006 by Sandip Bhattacharya

On Jan 9th, 2006, I joined Yahoo Bangalore. Am living out of a suitcase in a guesthouse right now. Will be moving in lock, stock and car next month after I find an acco. All those who live here and … Continue reading →

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“Ours is a country of laws, and not men”

Posted on December 20, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

In the ongoing controvery of [President Bush authorising illegal surveillance of its citizens](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/18/AR2005121801446.html?nav=rss_print/asection), here is a [marvelous post](http://cryptome.org/small-call.htm) making the real issue much clearer. > Ours is a government of laws, not of men. That means if the President disagrees … Continue reading →

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The number of fonts in your KDE desktop might be slowing it down

Posted on November 30, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

[http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1654](http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1654) >Now the problem is that KDE doesn’t need one font, but about five (monospace, sans serif fonts in different sizes). And as QFont is per process, every KDE/Qt application does this calculation from scratch. It very much depends on … Continue reading →

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The downside of Skype for Indian Users

Posted on September 25, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

India has one of the most expensive Internet bandwidths the world over, even if Indian ISPs command a significant amount of undersea cabling world wide. But we all know this – how Indian ISPs, by forming some sort of a … Continue reading →

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WordPress tinyurl plugin

Posted on June 26, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

I was in a quandary. I wanted the long permalinks for my blog posts,which made links self-describing and also search engine friendly. And I also wanted short URLs that I could pass on in emails. I share [the sentiments of … Continue reading →

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Using svnreplicate

Posted on June 7, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

[Here is an article that I have just written][doc] on using [`svnreplicate`][svnr] to replicate [subversion][svn] repositories. `svnreplicate` allows you to have a single master repository, and multiple slave repositories. The document uses a walkthrough approach to explain how to configure … Continue reading →

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Reformatted Bazaar docs

Posted on June 6, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

I have been converting the present [Bazaar documentation][1] to [texinfo][2]. At present I have converted two documents – Building Baz and Following Tux. The source is available at my Bazaar repository at . Under sandip@lug-delhi.org/bazaar-docs–devo–1.4 Generated PDF and HTML files … Continue reading →

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