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there are bug bugs.. bug bugs and then there are even more bugs 🙁

Yep. Thats right, I joined Yahoo exactly an year ago. So people have asked me.. do you fell happy/ any regrets. Well, to be honest, I never have any regrets in life. The past 12 months have been extremely fun. Learned more then what I would have learned in 4 years of CS. Met some amazing people, and have got to work on some really amazing stuff. I do miss my college ife, but it was an entire diff life. I will not mind going back 2 – 3 years in my life, and go through the college life all…

Just got this on my mobile “HI bangalore, use SMS – THE BEST ADVERTISING MEDIA for effective marketing. for further details contact info@happytexting.com” :((

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*