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Of cognitive surplus, and pigs in the digital age
Just a lighthearted reminder that, even if the lure of the connected digital world gets people to skimp on the Gilligan’s Island reruns, that doesn’t necessarily mean their replacement behaviors will be any more productive. They could instead bring an … Continue reading
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CNN’s untold story – Land of missing children
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
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?
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
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
“Ours is a country of laws, and not men”
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
[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
The downside of Skype for Indian Users
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
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
Using svnreplicate
[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
