What money has become is.. a substitute for trust. It has now become our primary source of security in the world and what I am trying to do personally is to find my primary source of security in the friendships I have and in my local community and my relationship with earth. Because most countries, such as Argentina and Indonesia and currently Zimbabwe have experienced this hyperinflation and you can have a million dollars in the bank. One day with devaluation, it can almost be worthless. No matter how badly I behave, my friend’s don’t devalue me that quickly. And I think real security comes in our relationships, whether to it be with our planet or whether with our local community. I think what we all can do is build a bit more diversity in how we meet our needs and to not be so reliant on cash.

You can get the full interview at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TTBOOK/~3/X009WjbiqB0/tbk120205a.mp3. Segment with Mark starts at ~42 min.

You know.. funny thing about work, it has to get done!!

The guys were discussing about how their wives don’t understand the pressures of work .

Today (1/18/2012) has been designated as “Protest SOPA/PIPA day” by the technology world. I believe in the old adage, put your money where your mouth is .. so I checked on the top 25 US sites (according to Alexa) to see how many of them are supporting this protest in a visible manner. Only 4 out of the 25 sites, put visible content on their websites regarding the protest. I think Google’s message was the most effective, where they did not reduce the functionality of the website, but provided a lot of visibility to the protest. I know which companies I am going to support/use moving forward . I was very happy to see that three of the sites that I use on a regular basis (google, amazon and wikipedia) are supporting this protest. Here are screenshots of the protest from the the  4 sites that are in the top 25 visited sites in the US

Google.com

Amazon.com

Wikipedia.Org

WordPress.com

Screenshots of some other sites that I visit on a regular basis and are supporting the protest

Boingboing.net

Wired.com

Arstechnica.com

Reddit.com

DuckDuckGo.com

That is one of the reasons, I believe G+ will be one of the first real contenders to Facebook. Even though Facebook boasts of more than 800 million users, it is still a “seperate” site that folks have to log into unlike Google plus, which is fast becoming part of the regular Google experience. Esp with the tweaks that Google made last week with incorporating G+ data into the search results, the line between  a Google search and using Google Plus gets blurrier.

So the question (for me) is not if it is Facebook or G+.. but if it is the blog or G+..

Virat Kudithipudi, was born on 1/9/2012 at 22:22.

We went through a lot at the end of the pregnancy. First Jhanvi got shingles and then I contracted chickenpox from her. At one point, I didn’t even know if I would be able to be at his delivery. But thankfully everything worked out and I was cured by the time, Virat decided to arrive on planet earth. When the pediatrician checked him the day after his birth and announced that he was perfectly ”healthy”, I chocked up. I understand you better now mom ..

BTW.. if you didn’t get chickenpox as a kid.. run to the drugstore and get vaccinated for it. You don’t want to go through what I went

Welcome to the world kiddo..

Collection of pictures of the first few days..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kudithipudi/collections/72157628830321025/

Happy New Year!!

Wishing all of you and your families a healthy and loving 2012. If there is one thing I learnt in 2011, it is that if you are healthy rest of the things in life will follow.

I haven’t posted any updates on my 2011 resolutions in the last few months. So here is a final recap

• Lose the gut
• I really didn’t accomplish the goal of losing the gut. But I gained some good habits (eating breakfast, eating consistently throughout the day, keeping track of my weight)
• I have collected some interesting data as part of tracking my weight through the year. Plan to do some analysis on it later on.
• Final chart of my weight in 2011
• Increase traffic to Kudithipudi.org
• I wrote a bit more in 2011 than in 2010, but not as much as needed.
• Snapshot of 2011 traffic compared to 2010. As you can see, the traffic has increased nearly 80%.. 
• CISSP Certification
• Didn’t attempt this at all.
• Wanted to do this in the last quarter, but things got a bit hectic .
• Take a Vacation
• Successfully went on a vacation to India.

Overall, 50% of the goals were accomplished. As they say, the glass is half full . Not bad.

And yes, I am going back to my old habit of not making resolutions .

Steps to add new rule to existing configuration

• Check the list of rules and their corresponding sequence

sudo iptables -vL --line-numbers 

• Add the new rule at the required location/sequence

 sudo iptables -I INPUT LINE_NUMBER RULE 

Example :

iptables -I INPUT 8 -s X.X.X.X/24 -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 3128 -j ACCEPT

• Save the configuration

 sudo serivce iptables save 

Thx to Sijis for helping with the commands. ]]> http://kudithipudi.org/2011/12/12/how-to-modify-iptables-rules/feed/ 0 http://kudithipudi.org/2011/11/28/how-to-fix-jboss-startup-script-for-centos/ http://kudithipudi.org/2011/11/28/how-to-fix-jboss-startup-script-for-centos/#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:50:22 +0000 Vinay http://kudithipudi.org/?p=1140 Quick note for myself on fixing the default startup script provided by Jboss to work on CentOS. Thx to Shankar to finding the solution.

The default startup script (/$JBOSS_HOME/bin/jboss_init_redhat.sh) that Jboss provides does not work properly in CentOS. The start option works fine, but when you try to stop Jboss, it gives you a “No JBossas is currently running” message and quits.

Here’s a quick way to fix it. Edit the jboss_init_redhat.sh file and replace

JBOSSSCRIPT=$(echo $JBOSSSH | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/\//\\\//g') 

with

JBOSSSCRIPT=$(echo $JBOSSSH | awk '{print $1}')

BOOKMARKING :

• SERVICE : Every switched your computer and were frustrated of having to remember and bookmark all the links you saved up on your old computer? I use delicious, to save me from this frustration. Delicious is the grand daddy of online bookmarking services and even though there are several competing services with more social networking capabilities, delicious works well for me. It allows you to store all of your bookmarks in an easily accessible URL (for example, all my bookmarks are at http://delicious.com/kudithipudi) and annotate them with tags
• COST : free
• OTHER CHOICES : pinboard, StumbleUpon, Google Bookmarks (being discontinued from Dec 2011), Firefox Sync, EverNote

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