Posts by: Kalyan Varma

Defacers Challenge!

If you run a website, do watchout. Thanks to the defacement contest, there is a lot of activity within the script-kiddies out there. There is even a warning about it from the us government. There are too many noisy nmap scans too. 🙁

Microsoft Outlook and Security

After getting spammed by outlook users recently with the W32.Sobig.E, I remembered this quote I had bookmarked long time ago. “If Microsoft made your letter box, all some one would have to do is write “Burn the house down” on a piece of paper and post it through the door, and your house would go up in flames.”

peace

Got the much needed Break / Vacation today. Am relaxed, stress- free, happy and cant wait to get back to work. I have the feeling of.. so called ‘one with self’ thingy. random blah : – Night life sucks in bangalore. Each and everything closes by midnight. – glenn : if you are reading this , stop corrupting my site+blog logs. – Formula 1 weekend, sometime to keep me busy on sunday.

Google is Brain Dead

Google Dance happened this week (They have updated their Index, along with updating the shitty page ranking). I donno why google wants to shoot itself on the foot. The already screwed up page ranking system, just got worse and the results are totally meaning less. For example, – Search for search engine and Google itself is ranked 5th. – A week ago if you had searched for linux fundamental, the link to my site would have been the top link, which right now is not even there in the google index. how the heck can they remove a link completely…

Weekend Blast

Finally a ‘non-boring’ weekend. Went to check out this new hangout called Spin on friday. It was jam packed coz of some fashion show, and honestly it did not live up to the hype. Was surprised to see and there ( who were tough to find, considering all the chicks that were surrounding them). Yesterday was ‘s Birthday bash. After making a small pit stop at Alliance Francaise to attend the world music day celebrations, headed to khader’s place. Party really rocked thanks to shanu ( pinky? ), and who can forget the yummy pizza’s. And khader+mona thanks for letting…

Yay

This is one my FreeBSD auth server doing 15,000 requests/day with mysql+apache+xml-rpc ( notice the load on the server 😉 hostname 05:43:18 ~ $ uptime 5:43AM up 501 days, 16:01, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00