Posts by: Kalyan Varma

Spent the past couple of days trying to get my code to work with some machines which were throwing me out. After days of hacking… realized it was not an issue with my code. Started hacking with perl , and that seems to be fine too. Finally after further investigation and hacking, I realized, its a bug with apache. Basically if the apache is patched with the chunked encoding bug, and if you get a 302 redirect page with a request that is chunked encoded, the headers that come from the server for a form submit are corrupt. Yep, the…

Came across this really *FAST*, light and small browser( did I mention fast ?? ). Its called dillo and the binary is only 200k

Today’s Linux Users meet has seriously been the best till date. Ofcourse the usual talks went on, followed with good food. But what followed that was the best part. The usual last bench junkies in BLUG sat down, to wait for the rain to stop. Thats when mmk makes a statement like ‘gtk sucks’. Our very own Linus , Hanish Menin from somewhere at the back screams back saying ‘What Crap’. So then starts the gtk vs qt / C vs C++ / bad design vs bad coding war. best part was all of us sitting back and watching mmk…

had been to ‘sumerkand’ for dinner. Amazing place and even more amazing food. I seriously recommend everyone to go there at least once. Its in GEM’s plaza. Its slightly on the expensive side, but *totally* worth it. Just finished playing 2 games of WC3 with nandu. Boy its relaxing. 🙂

Had an long talk with my boss last night. Here are couple of the things that came out : – I will be going to Sunnyvale sometime in December ( will be there for couple of weeks). – After I come back, he will no longer be giving me work. I am on my own , and will have to make my own work. That basically means more freedom, but also more responsibility and commitment. – Till now , I was working only with application security and crypto stuff. Now i have to get into incidents handling, product auditing and…

alsoravi on spamming spree. Everyone repeat after me .. *Sendmail Sux*

Finally got to participate in an IT Quiz after more than a year. Today there was the It Quiz at IISc, CSA fest. Never thought I’d pass through the initial round. Ended up getting the 1st place 😉 I was suppose to get the prize today, but those guys said they’d mail it to me later. ( All coz the chairman of IIsc was not there.. and they would not give out the stuff without him signing it ). anyways had to treat mrinal, manu , yathin and gandhi at Corner house. Felt great to meet up these guys after…

Got my much need break today. Just love to take days off and spend time with noelladsa. We got to spend time with ourselves after a long time. Car’s still stuck in the service station… I Hope to get it by monday. We had been to meet one of our old friend ‘sriram’. He is working with action aid in gujarat. Will post more about it later..

Opera users click here Does anyone have the source code/malicious code for the new mod_ssl bug ??

Too many thoughts on my mind.. about life.. my future.. my job.. Life is so confusing at times…