Monthly Archives: January 2005

Lynx is jinxed

By abhinav | Published: January 28, 2005
(via boing boing) A Londonder made a donation using lynx — a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others — on Sun’s Solaris operating system Solaris 10. BT admins found this “unusual” in their IDS logs, and had him jailed. Should people just stick to firefox ? The bbc post here
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By abhinav | Published: January 26, 2005
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Intro to tcl

By abhinav | Published: January 26, 2005
This is a great place to start with tcl scripting. Provides a quick overview of the language, something anyone familiar with some other language would appreciate.
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Bye Bye google .. ?

By abhinav | Published: January 24, 2005
(via boing boing..) A study on internet search engine usage shows that most users are “unsophisticated” about their search techniques, using only a few different engines at max. Whats wrong with that? With the technology google provides, one is generally enough for a lot of information anyone would want to search. I used to use altavista, yahoo, [...]
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Lyrics – Kisna

By abhinav | Published: January 23, 2005
The lyrics of the best song in Kisna. Lyrics : Jaaved Akhtar Music : AR Rehman/Ismail Darbar Singers : Udit Narayan / Sadhna Sargam hum hain is pal yahaan jaane ho kal kahan hum mile na mile hum rahe na rahe rahegi sada yahaan pyaar ki ye dastaan sunegi sadaa jise ye zameen asman (2) Rang dhal jaate hain din badal jaate hain raatein so jaati hai raahe kho jaati hai pyaar [...]
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coincidence .. ?

By abhinav | Published: January 23, 2005
I was about to send my friend a congratulatory email on his getting engaged, when I glanced upon my gmail .sig, which I had placed only a couple of days ago; A man in love is incomplete until he is married.  Then he is finished.                 — Zsa Zsa Gabor, “Newsweek” The coincidence is a bit unsettling .. [...]
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(one of) My Best Friends’ Wedding..

By abhinav | Published: January 23, 2005
People who know me are generally right in thinking that I have very few friends .. but then I believe in quality, not quantity Mayank, a friend of mine from Kolkata since our school days, got engaged a couple of hours back .. Its amazing how these things work ..just a few weeks back [...]
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Kisna – The Warrior Poet

By abhinav | Published: January 23, 2005
Yesterday a friend and me made the fatal mistake of watching the latest Subhash Ghai movie, ‘Kisna – The Warrior Poet” at Rex. It is probably one of the movies you would never wish your enemies to see (Ok, I may be exaggerating a bit..). I was planning on detailing the screenplay a bit, but [...]
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Dilbert

By abhinav | Published: January 20, 2005
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How true…

By abhinav | Published: January 20, 2005
Current (Omnipresent?) Thought: “About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.”  - Herbert Hoover
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2nd Attempt

By abhinav | Published: January 19, 2005
This is my second (serious) attempt to maintain a regular blog. The first attempt resulted in erratic posts, followed by a period of total silence (The calm before the storm?). Hoping this innings will be a longer and more consistent one.,, One of the major happenings between the time b/w my last post and now has been [...]
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