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2006 – First Bike 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 :).
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.
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
Google in xx-hacker!!
I was doing some research on “Inter-Tel, Inc.” in Google and came across this interesting link
in the search results. Looks like this is a Google interface in H4x0R code :),
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.
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“
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” :).
UBUNTU : Quick tips
I have heard a lot about the new Linux distro Ubuntu and wanted to try it out on my test machine at home. I chose the “base” install, which apparently just installs the base packages to operate the machine as a server. Couple of things I had to do to get the system up and running
1) The root account in Ubuntu doesn’t have a password by default. This means that you cannot log in or “su” to root. This can be fixed by issuing the following command
“sudo passwd root”
while logged in as the user you create while installing Ubuntu
2) Configure the network interface (eth0, if you only have one) with a static IP address. This can be done by editing the “interfaces” file in “/etc/network“. My file looks as below after the edit
| # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).# The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces. # They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem. mapping hotplug script grep map eth0 # The primary network interface |
The text in bold is what I edited
3) Configure apt-get (package installer) to use the Internet archives as the source. This is esp. useful if you don’t have the install CD anymore. This can be done by editing the “sources.list” file located in “/etc/apt/” and commenting out the line with cdrom as the source. In my case it looks like this
“# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.04 _Hoary Hedgehog_ – Release i386 (20050407)]/ hoary main restricted“. If you have a different version of Ubuntu, the description might be different, but the source should still say deb cdrom.
Cheesy Tollywood Dialogs
For those of you who know what TollyWood is, you are also aware of the cheesy dialogs that are used in the Tollywood movies. For the uninitiated, Tollywood is the equivalent of Hollywood in the Telugu speaking South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Tollywood productions are greater (in quantity) than Hollywood. Although, I should say that the quality is a totally different matter :). My personal belief is that the Indian population is still not ready to view Cinema as an expressionist art. It is still purely an entertainment avenue. Hence you see the heros in the movies fighting 100 villians single handedly :). Something comparable in the western culture would be the “John Wayne” movies. Tollywood actors are worshipped in a Godly manner. One of the biggest kick I used to get as a kid when watching Tollywood movies was the cheesy dialogs that were used in the movies. I don’t think there is a collection of these dialogs anywhere on the net. Hence this effort to document them. I created a page to document them. Please feel free to send me an e-mail at [email protected] with new entries and I will keep updating the page. Would appreciate if you can include the following in the e-mail
Movie Name | Actor Name | Dialog