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Windows : Explore running processes

One of the Windows server at work started running high on CPU for the last few days.. On checking the task manager, I could only see that “services.exe” was using ~30% of CPU. services.exe is part of the core Windows operating system and manages the starting and stopping of the services. To further investigate, what process was using the CPU, I lauched Sysinternals Process Explorer and voila!!, here’s what I see

Process_Explorer

Looks like the CPU utilization of the services that the services.exe starts show up under it. There are a bunch of other cool utilities at SysInternals that any Windows admin would find useful.

New favourite Chinese restaurant

I accidentally ended up at the “Chinese Friendship Restaurant” on 2830 N. Miwaukee after a recommendation from a friend. I was pretty impressed by the service and food. It was authentic Chinese served with a flourish. The wait staff was very attentive and the owner (at least I like to think so) was making rounds to make sure that all the guests were happy. And a added bonus was their “Tuesday Special” where all the entries were only $8.95. The prices are a bit high for Chinese food but well worth it. Highly recommend the “Spicy Peppercorn Beef” and the “Spicy Garlic Shrimp“. Think this is my new favorite Chinese restaurant :).

March 29, 2006 by admin Food Travel Uncategorized 0

This is UBER Cool!! :)

I think, I am on a flickr craze now :). As I was exploring all the possibilities with flickr, I noticed that you can post blogs from flick itself :). This will make is so easy for me to host pictures on the site now.. God, I love technology!! :).

March 27, 2006 by admin Fun Photography Technology Uncategorized Web 0

2006 – First Bike Ride

2006 – First Ride

Here’s a shaky picture of the first ride in 2006 on my baby :). I stored the bike in an open area this winter and am now wiser by the bitter experience of having to get it cleaned up for ~$200!!.

I should say that this guy is not for the weak hearted :).

March 27, 2006 by admin Fun Uncategorized 0

Party time..

I think it is high time I started using Flickr to post my pictures. I take a ton of pictures (yes, I am one of those crazy guys, that carry a camera on them ALL the time) and haven’t found a way to share them with friends and family without maxing out the traffic on my hosted site. I have been looking at all the photo sharing, social tagging sites such as flickr, fotki, hello for quite some time, but never got around to creating an account and using them. I don’t like sites that require you to register just to look at pictures (kodak!!). We have too many accounts as it is, without having to register on a site just to look at some photos.

Long post short :).. Here is the first attempt to start logging my pictures online. The link to my pictures on flickr is
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kudithipudi/sets/72057594092170857/

P.S: If anyone wants me to delete their photos, pls shoot me an E-mail at vinay at kudithipudi dot org. Thx.

March 26, 2006 by admin Fun Technology Uncategorized Web 0

Lotta Kannula Dana..

I rarely forward chain e-mails, because I think it is such a waste of time and energy. Not to mention that it fills up peoples inboxes :). This is an exception though.. This mp3 was sent to me by my sister and I cannot resist but put it up on the site. For those of you familiar with the Telugu language, this is a classic song in the Telangana slang :). Here is a hosted link of the song

https://kudithipudi.org/patalu/O_Poriki_Pilladana.mp3

March 26, 2006 by admin Fun Uncategorized 0

Google in xx-hacker!!

I was doing some research on “Inter-Tel, Inc.” in Google and came across this interesting link

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/

in the search results. Looks like this is a Google interface in H4x0R code :),

March 21, 2006 by admin Fun Uncategorized Web 0

Another day.. another tech term

IDF – Intermediate Distribution Frame – Otherwise known as the wiring closet in floors or buildings that in turn connect to the core network closet

MDF – Main Distribution Frame – In layman terms, the core network/telecom cabinet/closet in a facility.

March 9, 2006 by admin Technology Uncategorized 0

Updating NFS Share permissions..

Wanted to add this for my future reference. To update the permissions on a NFS (Network File System) share, you need to edit the “/etc/exports” file and then run “/usr/sbin/exportfs -a” to update the share permissions.

Syntax of /etc/exports looks like
/dir/to/export host1.mydomain.com(ro,root_squash)

UPDATE : Looks like the NFS daemon caches DNS lookups when authenticating a client. Am not sure if this is only in older versions. After we updated the exports file, the server still kep erroring out with a “unresolvable reverse lookup” error. I finally had to restart the daemon to make it check on the DNS records for the accessing client.

March 6, 2006 by admin Linux Technology Uncategorized 0

What is NPA NXX ?

I am in the middle of ordering some data circuits for our new office and the vendor asks me for the address of the building where the circuits are going to be terminated. I give it to them and they come back with “what is the NPA NXX??” of the location. Now, I should admit that I haven’t been provisioning hardcode data circuits, but have ordered a bunch of T1s and DS3s during my career. I thought this was come kind of technical spec and swallowing my pride, asked the vendor what NPA NXX means.. and the answer..

“there are no dumb questions 🙂
the first six digits of a phone number“

Looking up on the web, gave me this information

NPA = (Numbering Plan Area code) The area code of a telephone number in the NPA system. The first NPA codes used 0 or 1 as the center digit, such as 201, 212, 301, 312, etc., designated as “N0/1X.” After July 1, 1995, all digits 0 through 9 are valid as the center digit, designated as “NXX.”

All I can say is “live and learn” :).

March 3, 2006 by admin Technology Uncategorized