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BSNL this week launched its ISP arm named ‘NetOne‘ in Bangalore, which lets you connect without any internet packs or complex procedure. Here’s the press release Benefits ? – 10 paise / min ( ~ 10 cents per hour ) – You can postpay the bill (along with the telephone bill), without any installation/setup charges. – You can register online or just call 172222 ( notice that this was the ex-VSNL dial-up number) and register by phone. – Your phone number is the username and they use callerID to check if they match ( no more stealing accounts ) Not…

After weeks of staying away, I’m back with playing WarCraft 3. We recently got hold of the new expansion pack, with tons of new maps, new heros and the game itself has changed quite a bit. Also with new person in office joining who enjoys the game, now we are playing 2 vs 2. It seriously rocks. Rest of the office is busy with team meetings, team lunches and training blah. This is when being alone in a team kinda gets annoying. I should not complain because I get away with half the things in office which rest of them…

Today at work, the old vi vs Emacs fight broke out. Few new hires joined and bunch of us were trying to help them around with basics of BSD. As soon as I asked him to use vi for editing, another person jumped at me and said I was corrupting the new hires. years and decades pass by and the battle never seems to end. I am primarily a vi user. I started out my unix on SCO ( yeah i know ironic ) and the editor I started out with back then was vi. It took me many weeks…

My website ( http://kalyanvarma.net ) had been hacked, as part of the Defacers Challenge. Go check out the defaced site 🙁 Damn you script-kiddies. Are you happy with your fucking free 500mb webspace now ?

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. 🙁

If you know manjesh, then you should check out his b’day pic. Too bad he does not know about it yet 😉

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.”

This strip explains what SCO did to IBM very well 🙂 LOL. If you dont visit Hackles, then you should

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.

If you have few PC’s and have few more Monitors, then you *must* setup this one.