Posts by: Kalyan Varma

Its happening

Something that I’ve been pushing for the past couple of months is finally taking shape. It will take couple more months before I can tell anyone about the secret project, but I wont bother telling anyone.. coz everyone one will see it for themselves. If it does happen, it will take up most of my time and the next 6 months could be one of the most hectic periods of my life. And I still have to work on my regular job parallelly. Only time will tell …..

I am offline for 24 hours, and I have 511 new mails sitting on my mail server :(( Came back from chennai a couple of min ago, about to hit the sack. More updates later

I’m off to chennai to attend a friends wedding. Will be back on friday Life has been very hectic.. I mean very very hectic… wish a day was 50 hours long or wish I can live with no sleep.

Vasantahabba

Finally after all these years.. managed to get to Vasantahabba. I should have reached there a bit early, could not get into the main amphitheatre. Watch most of the show outside on the big screens. How was it ? Well, I’ll let fus do the talking Met many of my classmates / old pals, whom I have lost touch in many years. ( The place was almost like a kumbhmala ) Came back at 9am today.. and been pretty much sleeping the whole day

Must see

A journey from 10 million light years to 100 attometers. ( requires java enabled browser ) http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

~ Shit Happens ~

When it rains… it pours. This week has been peaceful so far.. but today hell broke loose and I have shit loads of things to finish. I hate tight deadlines… rather when people are not deploying things.. coz they are waiting for me to finish some stuff. Work has taken its toll on me this week. I’m too exhausted and I need a break… and looks like I will have to sit through the weekend and work too. abiligiri : you are the only one who can save me dude. Been hacking pretty much the whole day on C++. Life’s…

Oooh..aaaaaaa ouch Its tought to code in C++ after coding in perl for an year. coredumps..coredumps and even more coredumps.. In other news.. Matrix reloaded trailer came out this weekend during the superbowl. Cant wait for May 15th…

.mil hacking ?

I came across this piece yesteday and today skjaidev gave me this link http://www.nic.mil/cgi-bin/domain Thats right. Its the NIC website for the .mil domains. You can add/modify/delete any .mil website. Cool aint it ? Well. think again. Port scan on nic.mil given some suspicious info. It is running Trinoo server ( pre-historic ddos tool), IRC server , and lot other services. Amazingly its running some conflicting services. Its running X11, tftp, finger, sunrpc etc – signs of a Unix box ( nmap tells me its Solaris ) However its also running netbios, ms-sql, NetBus etc – things usually found on…

more on the ms-sql worm – cricinfo was not accessible ( manu pointed this out ) – 5 out of the 13 DNS root servers went down – 95% ( thats right , no typo ) packet loss across UUnet / Worldcom. – upto 210MB/sec traffic seen on some routers. – if you plug an infected machine into a port on an HP4000 switch it would freeze. anyway the traffic seems to be going down slowly.. and hopefully I can get some sleep tonight. many people have asked me how to filter it out on their linux box. So here…