Monthly Archives: March 2006

COMversations returns with more tips and tricks to help you through CyberSpaceHi there, and welcome to COMversations ’96! It’s been a year since the last COMversations episode hit the pages of PC Quest, and a lot has happened since we … Continue reading →

How to connect to the Internet and use the VSNL Shell account – with a few useful tips…Welcome back. Last month, I explained what sort of Internet accounts you can get in India (at the moment – things are likely … Continue reading →

Proprietary network technologies are history. If you want to survive, look at INTRAnets – very, very seriously“Could you pick up my messages please?” “Please get me a printout of the latest sales figures” “I think we should print a company-wide … Continue reading →

How to really mess up a great conceptIn June 1995, Kishore Bhargava and I were planning a seminar tour. We were finalising the “story line” of the seminar – with me sitting in Bangalore and Kishore in Delhi. In a … Continue reading →

Tips on setting up serious Internet accounts, with PPP and SLIPKishore Bhargava and I just took off from Madras, en route to Calcutta for the next leg of our “Business on the Internet” seminar tour. Though the flight feels somewhat … Continue reading →

In August and September of ’94, Kishore Bhargava and I were on tour around the country holding seminars on datacommunications. Though we expected (and got) a lot of questions from the 450+ people who attended the seminars, one question really … Continue reading →

Late April was a rather busy time for me. I was in Delhi setting up PCQ Online. Now Delhi is a hot place in the month of April, but that wasn’t really bothering me (I could even live with the … Continue reading →

Here’s a question for you -Q: “What is the fastest way to drive Atul Chitnis round the bend ?” A: “Send him to a place where he can’t connect his notebook computer’s modem to the telephone line !” In the … Continue reading →

In the past few articles I have been writing about how to communicate using modems. While a lot of ground has been covered there, we have been assuming that you are calling from one place to another via a direct … Continue reading →

Many of you who have attended my seminars across the country will be very surprised seeing an article by me that actually acknowledges faxes. My (opiniated??) stand about faxing seems to be legendary – I don’t like faxes, and I … Continue reading →