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Labour day weekend : Good Beer, Good Friends.. Good times :)

It’s amazing how fast holidays zip by :). Wish, it was the same with work days…. Lakshmi and I didn’t get a chance to travel during this long weekend, but we caught up with some sightseeing in Chicago. We visited the Field museum, using the free family pass you can get at the Chicago Public Library. For those of you who are not aware, you can get free passes to most of the attractions in Chicago. All you need is a membership at the library. Each library has limited quantities of the passes and it is given out on a first come first serve basis. A great way to explore the city without breaking your bank :). It was great day to visit the museum. I took some snaps from the trip and posted them on Flickr

We also got a chance to catch up with old friends..Sudheer and his charming wife, Neelima flew down to Chicago for the weekend and all of us got together at Ravi’s place for a night of fun, beer and food :). It was great to catch up on life and fondly remember our days at school. As usual, me and my camera were busy snapping pictures of the night…


[Left to Right: Back Row: Shekar, Achi, Ravi, Byna, Sudheer Front Row: Nirmala, Pallavi, Madhavi, Deepthi, Lakshmi, Neelima]

September 4, 2006 by Family Fun Travel Uncategorized 2

Disaster strikes Kudithipudi.Org – Part II

One makes mistakes in haste, or so goes the ancient saying :). As soon as I discovered that my hosting company for the past few years did not store backups for longer than a day, I switched to 1and1.com, but little did I know that 1an1.com doesn’t provide web site logs (statistics) with their basic package. Well, serves me right for not doing my research right. Now I am with the third hosting provider in as many days. While the admin interface is not as polished as 1and1.com, I like that hostrocket provides all the features that I want for a relatively inexpensive price and the fact that it has a 20-something CEO.Hopefully I am going to be here for a while.. 🙂

One a side note, I am working on restoring all my old posts. Expect to see them up in a few days. Need to engage my uber-database-guru friend for help with the restore :).

August 28, 2006 by Networking Rantings Technology Uncategorized 0

Disaster strikes Kudithipudi.org!!

As many of you might have noticed, Kudithipudi.org has been down for the last couple of days. The database containing all the posts got corrupted and my hosting provider didn’t have backups from which I could restore the data.. As you can imagine, I have a new hosting provider now. I am trying to restore as much data as I can from the old site. This is pretty embarassing for me, since I am in the business of providing IT Services. This just validates the need for a good backup :). I am going to start using the new feature in WordPress which automatically sends a backup of the database to an e-mail address. Live and learn!! 🙂

August 27, 2006 by Networking Rantings Technology Uncategorized 0

HOW TO : Update non-domain members using WSUS

WSUS is a free tool from Microsoft that enables administrators to easily manage and deploy updates across the organization. WSUS is mainly used is enterprises with AD deployments, where the WSUS settings can be easily propagated to the workstations using group policy. So how does one keep their workstation/server updated without being part of the AD domain? You can do it by

1) Edit the local computer policy of the workstation/server by running “gpedit.msc”
2) Drill down to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update and change the settings for “Specify intranet Microsoft update service location“.
3) Restart the workstation.

August 18, 2006 by Technology Uncategorized Windows 4

R u LinkedIn???

I have started using LinkedIn as a way to keep in touch with my colleagues (past and current) and expand my professional network. LinkedIn boasts more than 6.5 million members and is growing pretty rapidly. It is fascinating to see how social networking works :). In less than a year, LinkeIn has become one of the top destinations on the web. Here is a graph, showing the popularity of LinkedIn for the last one year, as compiled by Alexa

Link to my profile on LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/a65/110

August 13, 2006 by Networking Technology Uncategorized 0

Qmail : Domain specific relaying

Recipe to forward e-malis destined to a particular domain in qmail
1) Edit smtproutes (usually located in /var/qmail/control) and add the following line
DOMIAN_TO_FORWARD:HOST_TO_FORWARD_TO

2) Edit rcpthosts (usually located in /var/qmail/control) and add name of the domain

3) Restart qmail

Note: Make sure that the domain is not listed in the virtualdomains files too. Or qmail will process the virtualdomains file first and ignore the smtproutes entry.

August 11, 2006 by Linux Networking Technology Uncategorized 0

Qmail : Trick

If you are using vpopmail and qmail to host virtual domains, you can get a list of all the aliases in a domain by using valias. The syntax is
valias -s DOMAIN_YOU_WANT_TO_LIST_ALIASES

If you want to list the users (and NOT aliases) in a domain, you can use vuserinfo. The syntax is
vuserinfo -D DOMAIN_YOU_WANT_TO_LIST_USERS

August 11, 2006 by Linux Networking Technology Uncategorized 0