September 2011

RESOLUTIONS : 2011 : May – September Update

After a long hiatus :).. here’s a quick update on my 2011 resolutions. In short.. NOT GOOD.. I haven’t made progress (in fact slid back) on any of the pending items.

Lose the gut

I have gained back nearly all the weight I lost.
I blame it mainly on my mother-in-law :).. She was visiting us for a couple of months and it is amazing what good home cooked food can do to you tummy :).
I passed the annual insurance discount health check (my cholesterol came down), but need to concentrate on losing the weight.
Here is the obligatory chart..

Increase traffic to Kudithipudi.Org

Again no progress.. haven’t written a lot and the traffic is plateauing as a result.

CISSP Certification

The books are serving as decorations for my bookshelves :).. Need I say more.

Thinks look pretty dark eh… Let’s see if we can turn them around. Anyone has ideas on how to stick to the plan?

Coolness factor..

You know, you are working at a cool company, when one of your favorite podcast mentions it in the show :). Check out the September 19th episode of Tech News Today and Tom speaks about how Gogo is going to improve the speed of in-flight Internet access by 4 times.

BTW.. if you want to work at a company that is changing the industry (of in-flight access and entertainment).. we are hiring :).

Inspiration..

I love my “work” to the point that most people that know me think that I am a “workaholic” :). One of the reasons, I love my job is the ability to share my passion for technology. And I know that I am on the right path (despite the long hours), when I receive notes like this (from an ex team-mate)

Hi Vinay,

I hope you are doing great. I would like to take this opportunity to express my thankfulness to you, for introducing us the Modular approach in Perl Scripting during the tenure at TravelClick.

Without your support, I probably wouldn’t have gained confidence to develop script which runs more than 500 lines. Hence I wish to dedicate this script to you.

Btw I started writing a Technical Blog over a year “http://ashok-linux-tips.blogspot.com”. I request you to have a look.

I must admit that the idea of sharing technical solutions via Blog was mainly inspired after seeing your https://kudithipudi.org J

Once again, thanks for all the support extended to us.

Regards

Ashok

Nice job Ashok :).

September 8, 2011 by admin Management Technology Uncategorized 0

HOW TO : Find the clients connecting to a NFS server

Quick tip to find out the clients connecting to a NFS server.

Check the ports that NFS uses

[code] grep -i nfs /etc/services [/code]

Check the clients connecting to the server using the port from above

[code] netstat -an | grep 2049 [/code]

September 1, 2011 by admin HOWTO Linux Technology Uncategorized 0

HOW TO : Search ownership of files in Linux

Say you have a directory with a bunch of sub directories and files and you want to see if all the files are owned by a particular user, you can use the following set of commands

[code]ls DIRECTORY_PATH -l -R | awk {‘print $3’} | grep -v USER_NAME[/code]

The set of commands do the following

ls -l -R shows the list of files and directories
awk prints the name of the owner of the file (it is the third column)
grep shows only the lines where the owner name doesn’t match

And yeah.. this works in most variants of Linux :).

September 1, 2011 by admin HOWTO Linux Technology Uncategorized 2