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Just another trying-to-be-a-geek's blog
Missing me? :P
Feb 1st
Well, sorry, i wasn’t here for the last 10 days and have a long list of stuff to post in here but i got into a small accident on bike (which i still haven’t fully recovered from) and then this strange weather, almost having a 247 fever, can’t help it. Let me get well and i will be back to post some more “geeky-looking” or atleast “trying-to-be-geeky” stuff
Rinetd: Redirect TCP connections from one IP address and port to another
Jan 19th
I have came across such a situation a million times where we move a machine from one IP to another (mostly when policy audits occur) and things stop working even though we modify DNS to reflect changes, just because some *beep* people still fiddle around with the old IP or some software were configured with IP instead of DNS (why? never got the answer, even though everyone knows DNS is here and hostnames are so much intuitive like a webserver having web.domain.com, an irc having irc.domain.com or in some cases chat.domain.com when we run multiple chat related tools like irc More >
Google Chrome Trial
Jan 19th
The other day i installed Google Chromium OS on my laptop for a test flight. I like the idea but chromium has still a long shot before people actually start preferring it as a primary OS. (more…)
Why wouldn’t you use google chromium os?
Jan 17th
I experimented with google chromium last night for a bit and kindda like it. I am thinking of some ideas that i would like to implement in google chromium based on the response i get on this post. So everyone please answer the following questions to help me.
Why wouldn’t you use google chromium os? Or more specifically what is it that you miss in google chromium? What features would you like to be implemented? Have you used Google Wave? Do you like the idea of dashboard/showcase applications? Have your used WebOS? What do you feel about their future? Do you More >
Packaging software with RPM, Part 1: Building and distributing packages
Jan 15th
The principal benefit of open source software is, as its name implies, access to the inner workings of an application. Given the source, you can study how an application works; change, improve, and extend its operation; borrow and repurpose code (per the limits of the application’s license); and port the application to novel and emergent platforms.
