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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 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 Fun Uncategorized 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 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 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 Technology Uncategorized

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
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.10
gateway 192.168.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255

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.

January 5, 2006 by Linux Technology Uncategorized

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

January 4, 2006 by Fun Uncategorized

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.

December 31, 2005 by Fun Sports Uncategorized

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.

December 24, 2005 by Networking Technology Uncategorized