Ghost DNS Lookup Puzzle on NIS Clients

September 3rd, 2007 Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystems (see below) to an image file. It is a free and open source alternative to the popular software Norton Ghost or DriveImage.

October 24th, 2008 Would you give a thin client to your Java developers? My friend is trying to have 8+ Java developers working on thin clients running Eclipse. He is using a 8-way big iron with 8 GB RAM.

June 2nd, 2006 As I mentioned previously my Apache server was inexplicably hanging every morning (PST). And in panic I had to restart my VPS, whenever I could find it.

June 24th, 2006 HitTail is a nifty utility to get suggestions for writing your blog entries following the long tail model. All throughout the day I couldn't login to their site, proving once again - If it sounds too good to be true...

February 6th, 2006 This is a short list of highly recommended free softwares for total protection of your Windows PC (Computers with Windows Operating System). It protects you from Spyware, Adware, Malware, Virus, Trojans, Spam etc.

September 3rd, 2006 A Kolkata girl, Sulagna Ray, was arrested on Friday morning from her Behala home for using stolen credit card details of US residents, whom she served during her work at a call center selling DishTV, to buy goods worth $4, 500. The call centre, where Sulagna worked, does the back-end operations of another e-commerce site in the US.

August 27th, 2009 Imagine if you could see what a journalist (the guy with the camera) does all day (from his point of view), covering important events like the Presidents speech to mundane tasks like watching a beautiful skyline to waiting for someone or something special (Ted Kennedy related?). You can hear their idle chatter, name dropping their relationship with Kennedy family, and everything in between.

June 10th, 2006 Google is also known for its interesting interview questions. Enjoy this one and my solution.

September 19th, 2007 Automattic hosts WordPress.com using dedicated servers from LayeredTech. According to Todd Abrams, President & COO of Layered Technologies: "The Layered Technologies support database was a target of malicious activity on the evening of 9/17/2007 that may have involved the illegal downloading of information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and server login details for 5 to 6,000 of our clients." "Due to the significant amount of uncertainty in determining which accounts may have been impacted, Layered Technologies felt that it was in your best interest to take the precautionary steps of reaching out to you and all clients regarding this issue.

December 21st, 2007 SSH is aptly termed as poor man's VPN. You can use it to either forward local host host name and port to a remote server running ssh daemon.

May 15th, 2007 Let us assume that you have already setup your NFS and NIS server. Now you need to configure your clients.

May 13th, 2009 Do you still open twitter each time you use it? Well, Twitter isn't a website you need to open time and again. Twitter offers an outstanding API that allows different desktop applications to send and receive tweets to and from Twitter.

June 23rd, 2005 I was a long time user of mycgiserver.com which is the first and only provider of free JSP Hosting that I am aware of. As some of you know it was saved at the last minute by Rick H of JavaLobby fame, who supported continual survival and health of the company.

August 14th, 2007 I discovered a really cool way to use Subversion, my favorite version control system - automatic versioning / commit on save. Essentially with this simple tweak you can use subversioned files like you would use any ordinary files.

August 26th, 2006 In two simple steps: 1. Login as root.