Posts by: Kalyan Varma

Loads and loads of stuff happening in my life and around me and I just cant seem to keep up with them. abiligiri, who used to work with me, moved to another group this week. Now its time to find a replacement and I have no idea how to do so. Though anand agreed to help me with stuff till I find a replacement , he will have other work. Two folks from japan had come down this week to get trained and understand some security stuff. Well all went well, except for food. For 3 days I had to…

This is the end, Beautiful friend This is the end, My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end Anand, I know you are just going to be moving few more meters away from me, but yeah it still feels odd 🙂

SCO has gone a bit too far this time. FUD, FUD and more FUD Bad enough they go after IBM and other linux vendors , now its the Linux users. They want licensing fees from every linux user and if you are a company you are forced to buy SCO UnixWare licenses , which allows to use unlimited linux within your company. Quoting the CEO from eweek : “With more than 2.4 million Linux servers running our software, and thousands more running Linux every day, we expect SCO to be compensated for the benefits realized by tens of thousands of…

India will host a Formula One race in the future, the sport’s boss Bernie Ecclestone has said. “We will be having an F1 race in India, for sure. When and where it will be I cannot say,” Ecclestone told Indian news magazine ‘The Week’ in an interview”. I thought it was going to be in Bangalore, though it looks like it will be in Hyderabad. As for tomorrow’s race, things look interesting. Today’s qualifying had too many shockers.

Its been one hectic week.. loads and loads of things happening at work The bangalore office finally went live, officially. Yahoo took over Overture Yahoo announced that it will buy over Iverture, and lot of activity within the company. Also we are moving to a new office next month and loads of preparations going on for that been pretty much reaching home only after 5am. That also meant getting back to work only by evening, and missed all the meeting/all-hands etc at work. Oh well, intend to chill out this weekend and just prey next week goes OK. and now…

A major flaw in cisco routers surfaced this week. By sending a carefully crafted packet, one can completely hang any cisco router/firewall/switch. To make matters worse, the exploit came out today which I think is the reason why I cant access half the sites out there. Took a crash course in cisco routers and cisco security in the last 2 days 🙁 Juniper has put up a nice set of Anti-cisco cartoons 😉 As for other stuff, someone really needs to shove a coconut up Microsoft’s ass. First of all the Homeland Security Department has chosen Microsoft Corp. as its…

BSNL this week launched its ISP arm named ‘NetOne‘ in Bangalore, which lets you connect without any internet packs or complex procedure. Here’s the press release Benefits ? – 10 paise / min ( ~ 10 cents per hour ) – You can postpay the bill (along with the telephone bill), without any installation/setup charges. – You can register online or just call 172222 ( notice that this was the ex-VSNL dial-up number) and register by phone. – Your phone number is the username and they use callerID to check if they match ( no more stealing accounts ) Not…

After weeks of staying away, I’m back with playing WarCraft 3. We recently got hold of the new expansion pack, with tons of new maps, new heros and the game itself has changed quite a bit. Also with new person in office joining who enjoys the game, now we are playing 2 vs 2. It seriously rocks. Rest of the office is busy with team meetings, team lunches and training blah. This is when being alone in a team kinda gets annoying. I should not complain because I get away with half the things in office which rest of them…

Today at work, the old vi vs Emacs fight broke out. Few new hires joined and bunch of us were trying to help them around with basics of BSD. As soon as I asked him to use vi for editing, another person jumped at me and said I was corrupting the new hires. years and decades pass by and the battle never seems to end. I am primarily a vi user. I started out my unix on SCO ( yeah i know ironic ) and the editor I started out with back then was vi. It took me many weeks…

My website ( http://kalyanvarma.net ) had been hacked, as part of the Defacers Challenge. Go check out the defaced site 🙁 Damn you script-kiddies. Are you happy with your fucking free 500mb webspace now ?