Lifetime experience

I lived the first 17 years of my life in Kavaratti, the capital of Lakshadweep the smallest union territory of India. It is an island of area 3.6 square kilomet...read more

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Yahoomail is no longer advisable

Dear reader, For many people Internet means email and email means yahoo!. For people who are not computer savvy like grandpas and our fathers and mothers yahoo!...read more

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Researcher's operating system

Dear reader, You can find on the NetBSD homepage that if you want hype go somewhere else. I think that is true. I have read about people using even OpenBSD on t...read more

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Slimmest desktop operating system

Dear reader, Normally only Martians use OpenBSD. I happen to be one. I have been using OpenBSD for around 3 years now. I am a cryptographer and I wanted to impl...read more

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Most popular mobile in India

Dear reader, I think at least this used to be the case. Maybe not true any longer. But for a long time when cell phones were just coming out of the elite mindse...read more

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Possibly best value for money from Nokia

Dear reader, Unlike most youngsters and even some old people I really don't enjoy making a fashion statement with my cellphone. The fact that cell phones today ...read more

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A must read for everybody

Dear reader, For Tintinologists, Tintin is a cult. It is a religion. The fact that it is a series of comics is easily forgotten. For them Tintin is joy in its p...read more

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Gmail is a mixed bag

Dear reader, I would have easily written the title eulogizing gmail but I am really frustrated with the recent connectivity problems I have been facing. And goo...read more

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C programming language, God of computing

Dear reader, You can very easily come to the conclusion that I must be a stupid person because even after a decade of exposure to software industry I still don'...read more

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10 Linux command line utilities

Dear reader, This a very short and pithy summary of the tools I love and use in my UNIX love affair. 1) netcat or nc This is known as the networking Swiss army ...read more

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Don't design without a reference

Dear reader, I don't want to repeat what I mentioned in my programming tips article since these two go hand in hand. A good designer has to be a good programmer...read more

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Programming cannot be taught, has to be learnt

Dear reader, Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

• Oscar Wilde

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Technical writing is not an art

Dear reader, I can say with the deepest of conviction that technical writing is not an art or black magic. It is not like systems software design or programming...read more

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Learning Vim is time profitably spent

Dear reader, What is vi? Or what is vIM? (Vi Improved) Anybody will tell you it is a text editor. Then people will be quick to advice, ''please don't touch it w...read more

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Debian is the biggest and best linux distro

Dear reader, Debian people are very idealistic. They think they are going to change the world with their ideology, value systems, ethics, morality and all the v...read more

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Possibly the best operating system on earth

Dear reader, Most excellent things in life are free. By free I mean both gratis in terms of not having to pay any money and also freely accessible and usable in...read more

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Excel excels by saving you hard earned money

Dear reader, Unfortunately there seems to be a misconception among the peoples that BSNL's cellular service is very poor. In fact BSNL could have had such a rep...read more

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BSNL DataOne truly rocks!

Dear Reader,I am an avid Internet surfer and my entire life revolves around the Internet since I am closely associated with Internet protocols in my profession....read more

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