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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

Happy New Year – 2006

2005 has been nothing short of interesting..
I have completed my second marathon..
Got a promotion at work..
Met new and interesting people..
Travelled to my fourth foreign country..
Finally got my H1 visa approved..
And last but not least, got ENGAGED!! (yep.. no more of that bachelor freedom for me 🙂 )

Let us raise our glasses in wishing for a even more interesting year..

WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR
HOPE THE YEAR OF DOG WILL BRING YOU LUCK, HEALTH, LOVE AND PROSPERITY.

Blogging from a browser

One of the challenges I have in writing blogs is choosing the right editor. I have been using w.Blogger to far and have been very satisfied with it. But it is an additional program that I have to install and launch. With the powerful flexibility that Firefox provides, I have been trying moving all my “functions” to it. I use the multiple search engine functionality built into it. I just discovered “performancing.com” today. It is a firefox addon to publish blogs.. Hooho.. Open source rules.

802.1x : RADIUS : IAS : Fiasco

We use 802.1x for our wireless security at work. The wireless controller uses Microsoft’s IAS as the RADIUS server. Recently during one of our maintenance windows, we installed a couple of critical patches and rebooted the IAS server. This was over the weekend and we didn’t check if wireless was working after the maintenance (one of the lessons learnt from his story :), put in automated monitoring so that you don’t have to worry about what services have come up or not after a maintenance window).

On Monday, our helpdesk gets swamped with calls of “wireless is not working”. We checked the controller and everything looked okay. Only error on the controller was that the RADIUS server was not responding. We checked the RADIUS server and the IAS service was running fine. But there were a ton of errors in the System event log with the following details

Access request for user XXXX\XXXXXX was discarded.
Fully-Qualified-User-Name = XXX.XXXX.NET/XXX.XXX/TECHNOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT/XXX XXXXXX
NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.128.10
NAS-Identifier = ACHIAS01IT
Called-Station-Identifier = 00-0B-85-06-0C-A0:wacker
Calling-Station-Identifier = 00-14-A4-28-4C-EE
Client-Friendly-Name = ACHIAS01IT
Client-IP-Address = 192.168.128.10
NAS-Port-Type = Wireless – IEEE 802.11
NAS-Port = 1
Proxy-Policy-Name = Use Windows authentication for all users
Authentication-Provider = Windows
Authentication-Server =
Reason-Code = 23
Reason = Unexpected error. Possible error in server or client configuration.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Unexpected error. Possible error in server or client configuration.“, now that is real informational :). We scratched our heads.. Thought it might be an issue with the controller (it was on an older firmware). Upgraded the firmware and rebooted the controller. Still no go. Same error. Finally frustrated, we opened up a case with MSFT. Even the eng. from MSFT was flabbergasted. The usual “Everything looks good, it should work!!”.

Finally we resolved the issue to an expired computer certificate for the IAS server. The certificate had expired a couple of weeks ago, but looks like the authentication was cached and when the server was rebooted, it caused the IAS service to error out. Renewing the cert caused the wireless clients to start authenticating immediately.

Am looking into what other services depend on a valid cert to work properly.

Cool picture..

I think of myself as a good photographer :).. And fortunately for me, the shots do turn out good sometimes. Another thing to brag about :). Here’s a picture I took of Naveed, when we visited the Hoover Dam during the Vegas trip.

[Naveed : Cowboy!!]

DNS over VPN

We use Microsoft PPTP as our VPN solution at work. Although PPTP is not robust as a IPSEC based vpn, it is a lot easier to deploy and maintain. The biggest advantage is that most of the Microsoft OS’s (Windows 2000, XP, 98) have PPTP clients built into the OS. With IPSec, one has to deploy client software to the workstations. Recently SSL VPN‘s have made strides in the remote connectivity market and are even easier to maintain.. but that is for another post.

We had a very interesting problem with remote users trying access hosts/URLs in our network recently. We have several nodes in the network, which we publish on external and internal DNS. So users on the internal network would access the node via the internal IP address and get access to privileged areas, while public users accessing the node would be restricted to only some areas of the site. Users connecting to the office network via VPN were being directed to the external address even though their VPN was configured to use the remote gateway as the default gateway. This in theory should direct all traffic to the internal network. We scratched our heads for a while 🙂 and during the troubleshooting session discovered that the DNS of the node was resolving to the external IP address. So the workstation was using the DNS server provided by the ethernet interface rather than the PPTP interface!!!.. How do we solve this?? Well Google, to the rescue and we find this obscure article on Mircrosoft’s website, which tells you how to change the bind order of the network interfaces so that the PPTP interface is used by default. Since this is a registry change, we have to figure out a way to push this out to the workstations. But that is a story for another post :)..

Banff!!!

Picture of Banff city center. Highly recommend visitng this Ski resort. Beautiful place. More of it in a later post..

Gotta check this out..

I am still working on the Vegas trip post.. But here is something I stumbled upon. A very unique way of using the collective power of the web.

www.stumbleupon.com. This is a site, where you can tag interesting sites based on your interest, you can “stumble” on it. You can install a plugin for Firefox for it too. BTW.. Firefox 1.5 is out. If you haven’t tried it out yet.. Highly reccomend it. Fast, Small, Easy to use broswer as an alternate to MSFT’ Internet Explorer.