July 2006

Scan UDP ports using NMAP

NMAP is an open source network scanning utility. It has tons of options and is a very powerful tool that every administrator needs to know about. Recently, we were checking if UDP port 88 was open on a certain server. NMAP to the resuce :)..

nmap -sU -p 88 DESTINATION_SERVER_IP did the trick. The “-sU” option forces nmap to only scan UDP ports and “-p” forces nmap to only scan the specified port.

The "sticky" cucumber

I loaned “Spirited Away” to one of my colleagues at work and she watched it with her children. The kids loved the movie and wanted to draw a thank you note for me.. My colleague asked them to draw the note and stick it to a cucumber from their kitchen garden so that she can give it to me as a gift. So she wakes up in the morning and here is what the kids come up

They really stuck the note to the cucumber :). Here it is after the tape was cleared up

Thx for the cute note guys 🙂

Cheesy pickup lines :)

On of my friend sent me an e-mail with the top 10 pickup lines.. I thought they were hilarious and wanted to publish them here

Was your father a thief? Because he stole the stars from the sky and put them in your eyes.
Didn’t it hurt when you fell from heaven?
You must be tired, because you’ve been running through my mind all day.
Excuse me, I seem to have lost my phone number. Could I borrow yours?
Do you believe in love at first sight, or shall I walk by again?
Excuse me, do you kiss strangers? No? Well let me introduce myself.
Do your legs hurt from running through my dreams all night?
I’m new in town. Could you give me directions to your apartment?
Do you have a map? I keep getting lost in your eyes.
The only thing your eyes haven’t told me is your name.