I ran across Aharef’s blog while I was browsing the net. Was pretty impressed by a applet he wrote to visually represent a website, using the HTML tags as a source. Here’s a picture of my website
You can get a graph of your website using the URL below
http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/.
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 :).
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!! 🙂
Terminal 1 at the O’Hare International Airport in Chicago is dedicated to United Airlines flights and is one of the busiest terminals in the airport. Accordingly, it is a pain in the rear to get through security here. Try the security check-in at the extreme left of the terminal (next to the bag check-in counters) and you will be surprised, how empty and fast it is :).
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.
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
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.
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
I was in India recently for Sri’s wedding.. It was a short, but hectic visit. Here are some pictures from the wedding.
http://flickr.com/photos/kudithipudi/sets/72157594230473530/
I flew Lufthansa, on my recent trip to India and was very impressed by the hospitality and the services offered. One of the coolest service on the flights was “Wi-Fi” hotspots offering Internet service. While the service was a bit expensive at $10.00/hour, I tried it out just to satisfy my geeky urgings. It was a blast chatting with friends and telling them that I am doing it from 35000 feet in the air ;). For anyone wanting to try this, I would reccomend getting the “unlimited” access for the entire duration of the flight for $29.95. I would love to look at the technology behind this setup. I am sure they are using satellites for the Internet access. Just interesting how they make sure that the connection stays steady while the flight is moving, since satellite service is very dependent on “point-of-view” access to the satellite.
