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Kalpik Nigam
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My Twitter achive

September 6th 2011 in Uncategorized

Have set up an off-site backup of my tweets over here. Its fully searchable too Oh and yes, if you’re not following me on twitter yet, you’re losing out! Follow me @kalpik

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JP6 De-deodexed and zipaligned ROM for GT-I9000 with Voodoo and 2e recovery!

October 19th 2010

NOTE: The ROM has a new home at XDA now. No updates/support will be provided here. Please check THIS POST on XDA. Since Voodoo for Froyo is out, here I’ve packaged Doc’s JP6 rom (full, with fixed Swype) with Voodoo and Circle Battery Mod Version D. Changelog: 19th Oct 2010: Initial release with Voodoo Pre3 [...]

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Weechat v0.3.0 released

September 6th 2009

So lately I’ve been using this awesome IRC client called Weechat! It’s minimal, yet highly configurable. It’s got me addicted to it! Weechat + Screen is the best combo! Anyway, a groundbreaking new version has been released today. And if you’re on an equally awesome distro (Arch), then you should have it ready in your [...]

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Updated to WP 2.8.4

September 6th 2009

Hmm.. So I’ve updated my blog to WordPress v2.8.4, in light of the recent attacks.. Have been negleting this blog a lot lately.. Let’s see if i can be regular here! To be honest, twitter killed my blog

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Online Petition against Airtel’s Fair Usage Policy

February 25th 2009

The members of India Broadband Forum have come up with an online petition against Airtel’s Fair usage policy. I urge all to sign it! It doesnt matter if you use Airtel or not! http://afup.broadbandforum.in/

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Airtel Caps “Unlimited” Connections

February 12th 2009

Last night i was following this discussion over at Broadbandforum.in. And it seems Airtel has put download caps on their supposedly unlimited connections. After you are finished with your quota, they throttle your speeds This is absolutely ridiculous! And before poeple try to defend by saying that speed caps are there internationally too, i say [...]

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Sametime (meanwhile) support in Pidgin on Arch Linux

January 18th 2009

We use IBM’s Lotus Sametime as our IM client at work. And i like to be signed in all the time even on my Arch machine at home. Pidgin does support sametime protocol, but through an external library called meanwhile. Although most popular distributions have meanwhile in their main repos, Arch does not. It has [...]

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New theme

January 18th 2009

Love it? Hate it? Let me know!

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Kernel 2.6.28. Now with stable EXT4!

January 18th 2009

So.. A few days back, Kernel 2.6.28 was released. And amongst the many new features, the thing that attracted me most was stable EXT4 support. For those of you who dont know, EXT4 is the successor to the most widely used linux filesystem, EXT3. EXT4 boasts of being a hell lot faster than EXT3, and [...]

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