Author Archives: Diwaker Gupta
Tools I use: tmux
Readers of this blog will know that I’m a big fan of GNU screen. While screen is a great tool, it hasn’t seen any major development or feature addition in quite some time. The code base is pretty old, there are some ancient bugs that still linger, and support for modern terminals (such as 256 [...]
Web based password managers: 3 years later
Almost three years ago (yes, I was quite surprised myself), I wrote about my requirements from a web based password manager. That post generated a lot of discussion, and we have come a long long way since then. I figured it was a good time to step back and present what I feel are some [...]
Happy Republic Day
India became a republic on January 26th, 1950. As a reminder to myself (I often tend to feel helpless about my lack of awareness/engagement with issues back home), here is Wikipedia on Republic:
A republic is a form of government in which the head of state is not a monarch and the people (or at least a part of [...]
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AT&T: How low can you go?
Update: A friend pointed out to me that AT&T is, in fact, technically correct in its “Two phones” ad below. It seems that the CDMA protocol itself has the limitation that it can not simultaneously transmit voice and data, hence the claim. I was under the impression that you couldn’t call a network “3G” (as [...]
Waf: a pleasant build system