Lifetime experience

5

Reviewed Kavaratti

Jul 07, 2006 4510

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 kilRead more...

Yahoomail is no longer advisable

3

Reviewed YahooMail

Apr 22, 2006 10959

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 yahRead more...

Researcher's operating system

5

Reviewed NetBSD

Apr 22, 2006 3505

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 oRead more...

Slimmest desktop operating system

4

Reviewed OpenBSD 2.7

Apr 22, 2006 2670

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 Read more...

Most popular mobile in India

4

Reviewed Samsung SGH R220

Apr 22, 2006 6680

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 minRead more...

Possibly best value for money from Nokia

4

Reviewed Nokia 1600

Apr 22, 2006 6254

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 phoneRead more...

A must read for everybody

5

Reviewed The Adventures Of TinTin - Herge

Apr 21, 2006 6188

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 itRead more...

Gmail is a mixed bag

3

Reviewed Gmail.com

Apr 20, 2006 4779

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 Read more...

C programming language, God of computing

Reviewed Choosing a Unix Variant

Apr 20, 2006 2586

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 dRead more...

10 Linux command line utilities

Reviewed Ten Best Freeware

Apr 20, 2006 3540

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 Read more...

Don't design without a reference

Reviewed General Tips on Software Design

Apr 20, 2006 2377

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 prRead more...

Programming cannot be taught, has to be learnt

Reviewed Tips on Programming

Apr 20, 2006 7745

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 SoRead more...

Technical writing is not an art

Reviewed Tips on Technical Writing

Apr 20, 2006 3313

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 programmRead more...

Learning Vim is time profitably spent

4

Reviewed VI Editor

Apr 20, 2006 2116

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 doRead more...

Debian is the biggest and best linux distro

4

Reviewed Debian GNU/Linux

Apr 20, 2006 2994

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 thRead more...

Possibly the best operating system on earth

5

Reviewed FreeBSD

Apr 20, 2006 7392

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 usableRead more...

Excel excels by saving you hard earned money

5

Reviewed BSNL CellOne / Excel Mobile Operator

Apr 20, 2006 3332

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 suRead more...

BSNL DataOne truly rocks!

5

Reviewed BSNL Dataone Broadband Service

Apr 20, 2006 7714

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 professioRead more...