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Eugenics – The forgotten scientific travesty of the last century

Posted on June 4, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Most of us know about the crimes of Nazis against the Jewish population and the associated genocide, right? Fewer of the people saying ‘yes’ to my previous question, would know/remember that the Nazis did this because they considered Jews to … Continue reading →

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Of Lawrence Lessig, and the very real menace of child abuse in the society

Posted on June 3, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

For some time now, Delhites have been waking up to an almost daily news story of some sexual assault or the other on women in the city. Now here is the story of another *very* real menace in the society … Continue reading →

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The information divide: A new class war on the horizon

Posted on June 1, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

[Karl's New Manifesto](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/opinion/29brooks.html?ex=1118203200&en=463163d2fa1c1742&ei=5070>) _By David Brooks, NY Times_ (relax. no login required) > The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle. Freeman and slave, lord and serf, capitalist and proletariat, in a word oppressor and … Continue reading →

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Nikon and the dangerous world of proprietary technologies

Posted on May 29, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

[The menace of proprietary formats][1] and technologies, have bitten the photography community as well. The controversy started when an Adobe engineer mentioned on their forums that [Photoshop will no longer support][2] raw/NEF images from Nikon’s new D2X and D2Hs cameras, … Continue reading →

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Patching up Worpress 1.5.1 to fix feeds

Posted on May 21, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

So WordPress just released [1.5.1.1][1] to fix the [RSS problem][2] which has bitten me badly too. The trouble is that I am getting sick of their manual [upgrade][3] steps – backup, overwrite, restore, etc. etc. when the only changes have … Continue reading →

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Greasemonkey – shaking up the web

Posted on May 10, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

[Greasemonkey][gr] is currently not only just the hottest Firefox extension (or plugin) in town, it is also the most disruptive of all browser plugins. It beats me how nobody had thought of such a browser add-on before. Greasemonkey allows the … Continue reading →

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Nice short intro to Bazaar

Posted on May 6, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

Edd Dumbill has written a real nice [short intro][bazintro] to the [Bazaar][baz] – a reimplementation of [GNU Arch][arch] revision control system. I have been getting tired of keeping up with new [Subversion][svn] revisions and the `mod_dav`/`mod_dav_svn` module that I need … Continue reading →

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Free Java and Free Flash

Posted on May 5, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

[Three important projects](http://www.fsf.org/news/free-java-and-flash.html) for creating Free alternatives of these major and popular proprietary technologies.

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Am I an Electric Human?

Posted on April 18, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

For quite some years now, I have been having an odd problem. I seem to get charged up with static electricity very frequently. As many of my friends and relatives would testify, they have suffered many painful and shocking handshakes … Continue reading →

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IBM’s Double Face on Patents

Posted on April 17, 2005 by Sandip Bhattacharya

IBM recently caused a lot of cheer when it announced that [it is lobbying for patent reform][ibm patents 1]. Apart from this, [IBM has also pledged 500 U.S. Patents to Open Source][ibm patents 2] recently. [This post][ibm doubleface] by Greg … Continue reading →

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