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Kalpik Nigam
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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, [...]

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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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BarCamp Delhi 4!

May 15th 2008

Calling all campers! BarCamp Delhi 4 is just around the corner! Considering how much fun i had last time, ill definitely be present in this one! From the BarCampDelhi4 Wiki,
BarCamp Delhi is proposed to be a camp where we get together and discuss/rant/brain-storm/share opinions/information/wisdom about anything. Be it Web Technologies, trends, Mobile Internet, Hacking, Blogging, [...]

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Latest Pidgin/Rhythmbox repository for Ubuntu

December 18th 2007

Here is a repository i use on my gutsy install which always contains the latest builds of Pidgin and Rhythmbox. So no more hunting for debs or compiling sources
Steps to add the repository:

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I’m officially in Love!

November 23rd 2007

Hehe.. With this car actually.. Audi R8

Some wallpapers.
Now to see if i can muster up the $109,000 to own it. And trust me, one day i will

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