Posts by: Kalyan Varma

This is my 1st year out of college… I miss college a lot.. but I still manage to have the college fun here and there. Most of my close friends have left bangalore for higher studies.. and many more are leaving soon.. makes me wonder, why I’m sitting all alone here in blr and working. but heck.. I am enjoying what I’m doing. This is also the year, where I moved from being a sysadmin to a developer. Since my college days.. I’ve always been a sysadmin.. and the last bit of programming that I had done was in my…

Party over…. everyone still sleeping … house is a mess… and I’m online

Just watched Shawshank Redemption for the 10th time, and I still love it. One of my fav quotes from the movie : “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird…

I know I should not be feeling this way… Why… why now.. why after all these years…

words of wisdom from klooloola There must be a better way to avoid browser timeouts while your CGI is waiting for scripts to finish but here is what i found. it just sets the alarm signal which when called outputs a html comment to keep the browser happy. select(STDOUT); $| = 1; # make unbuffered alarm(2); $SIG{“ALRM”} = sub {print “\n”;alarm (2);}; # do a lot of waiting for other scripts to finish here ex $results =`slowprogram`; # when done $SIG{“ALRM”}=”IGNORE”; print $results;

Fuel in your car : Rs. 300 Dinner at shezan : Rs. 400 Celebrating life with the one your love : Priceless

really bugged

Well this week was a blast. So finally the much waited Linux-Banglore 2002 happened. It went really great , and amazing response. How were the talks ??? Well I cant tell, coz I could not enter any of the halls. They were just jam packed and there was no place to even stand. I think the next time, we need to have the event in palace grounds. My talks went very well. I was kinda nervous about my ‘Secure Programming in Linux’ talk, but managed to pull that off well ( with some last min help from fus. Spent most…

Do *not* try this at home

My childhood dream comes true today. I sang…. on stage… on mike … in front of people…with band performing with me… boy it feels good. and not just one.. but many many of them.. more later/..