Posts by: Kalyan Varma

I got this mail today, and after googling I realize there is some banking protocol called PeSIT.( For those of you who dont know, PESIT is the name of my college) .I wonder how this guy managed to get my pes.edu mail ID. From: XXXXX XXX <jijexxxxxxx@yahoo.com> To: kalyan@pes.edu Subject: PeSIT Enquiries Hi Kalyan Verma, I am facing difficulty in finding much help about PeSIT protocol on Net. Can you please guide me in this regards. And I would also like to know wheter there is any Internal Pesit Server available for testing the appilications. Thanks Mr. XXXXX XXX

Finally visited the doc. and no I do *not* have SARS. Apparently its just an extension of the cold which I had last week, and the doc says this could last for another week. Had a very long chat with my co-workers today.. about how things were changing around here. When I joined this company about a year and a half ago, I think I was the 8th employee, and now there are close to 100 of them. One year ago, we were a small start up, and now a full blown company ( I am talking about the bangalore…

Bad cold and cough is killing me. For the last 3 days, I havent been able to sleep in the nights coz as soon as I hit the sack, I start coughing… been only able to sleep after drinking tea at 6am everyday.. and this intern is screwing up my work schedule. When I do get to work, I am all sleepy, lazy and drowsy. Added to that body feels so dead these days. Been planning on going to gym, I should start sometime this week, else soon I will be a dead man.

Couple of hours of hack was worth it. I finally managed to write a script which automatically embeds a img tag in the post with the Unique ItemID as part of the URL. So if you have your own webserver, or have access to some webserver with CGI access, then you could use this to keep track of the number of hits for each of your individual posts (along with all the usual referrer, IP ,UserAgent etc). Just download this script and fill in your $username, $password and $post_url (The URL where you want the Post ID/Item ID to be…

Just found a perfect userpic for myself

W00t! For those of you who dont know, last week a new worm hit the Internet. This one like the previous ones, would spread by bombarding people from outlook express’s address book. However this was just one of the things the worm was equipped with. It would also setup a smtp server on your machine and use that server as an open relay to send out thousands of mails. Its also connects to IRC channels and builds tons of botnets, waiting for an instruction to be sent. It also builds up these bots via AOl Instant messenger. Another feature that…

Woke up today and realized I could not speak out a word. My throat was totally screwed. I think prady called me up in the morning. He could not hear/understand what I was trying to say. Added to that, hunger and bad sleeping hours is killing me. Need to get back to normal and should not try to attempt to wake up at 9am. Aatmatrisha went by this time. I might go there tomorrow, If i find some company that is. The frag-fest was canceled too. Looks like another lazy weekend headed my way. Atleast this is the F1 weekend….

So today another one of those outlook virus/worm whatever breaks out. I did not hear it till tariquesani pinged me about it. Though I get paged for ddos attacks or worms like the Slammer ones, I did not know about this at all. Anyway this new virus apparently connects to a Geocities site and gets regular updates for itself. I was pretty suprised coz I had not received any mails about it. So after contacting Kaspersky Labs, I came to know the site was this. Pretty Interesting because this site does not exist and the username was never created with…

I think I need a Vacation.

Since I’ve been sleeping at 5am everyday for this week, I got used to that time, and now I am not getting sleep. Its almost like a jet lag. Been trying to sleep since the last 2 hours and haven’t had any luck. Looks like I will need to catch some sleep in the afternoon. To make things worse, I cant find any food in the house… 🙁 Watched Titan AE, the graphics and sound sucked, though the storyline was pretty decent