June 2010
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There goes the third
I’ve felt three Earth Quakes in my life. Yesterday was the third one. Just thought to write about my thoughts while the quake was going on …
The first one, back in 2001, Madras. It was around 9 in the night I guess. I was sitting before a my computer (yeah, I’m spoiled right from child hood) in a dark room and editing an image to create a funny image of some bad guy behind 9/11...
March 2010
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... and he comes to rescue
Day before yesterday, I went home in my car, which I wanted to do from a long time, drive home - which is around 150 km from the city where I work. One of my old friends joined me for that drive and everything went smooth. I reached there, spent time with my parents and the next day, it was the time for starting back to the city where I work.
I took my backpack, and another bag with laptop,...
February 2010
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Oh boy, floating points really float
I was reading a thread on Hackers News a while before and stumbled on a site wtfjs.com. The site points some crazy things done by JavaScript, at least, that is what I thought for a while before reading comments on the thread. Then, I read the comment that the author of wtfjs is just naive and doesn’t know about floating points. For a while, I thought it was just anomaly of JavaScript ( I...
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Mathematics is the language of nature
The last time I was on a small learning adventure was when I was solving challenges at http://hax.tor.hu, and I managed to finish it in couple of months. Then back to boring life without learning anything new. Then, life was the usual, 5 movies a week and regular work without real use of brain.
Then, I remembered Flute, one of my teamies was a big fan of one site named Project Euler. The site is...
January 2010
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It happens only in ...
Of course India. So, the latest rumour is that Mukesh Ambani is behind YSR’s chopper accident. Now, let’s go through the story.
One Russian website tells that that Larry Summer’s ex-boss’s enemy is dead in Chopper crash. This article links to another article which tells ..
Larry Summer’s ex-boss’s brother (Anil Ambani) chopper’s gearbox was...
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LandMark, XSS and The Injection
So, Landmark, a famous book/music/movies store in India is on the net at LandmarkOnTheNet.com. I was there to check whether they sell 3D glasses, even though there are some cheap paper glasses on ebay.in, but I want better quality. As usual, the bad habit of checking for SQL Injections and XSS tingled in my brain.
Apparently, LandmarkOnTheNet has both the problems.
and for SQL Injection, I...
December 2009
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It's a new decade
And … Good Luck for that.
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Etherpad; Opensourced
Etherpad is a lovely app which is bought by google and was opensourced 10 days before. Now, just to add a drop of water to the ocean.
A small how-to on deploying Etherpad
The package
Etherpad source from http://code.google.com/p/etherpad
Some minor fixes and changes, here and there
File Imports [gist]
File exports to DOC/PDF/ODT using Oo.org [gist]
How to compile, run and test
Grab...
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Zimbra and EC2
Zimbra offers an awesome Open Source collaboration suite. EC2 is an awesome compute cloud service. The points I learned and did while deploying Zimbra on EC2.
Zimbra on Ubuntu is supported on Hardy (8.04), but not newer. Install only if you want an adventure. I didn’t want an adventure, and I love Hardy.
Hardy EBS backed image was not available on Amazon (by today) So, I did this, and...
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EBS backed EC2 - Life made easy
After Amazon launched EC2 back in 2006, they’ve been adding new features in regular intervals. On EC2, for starters, one thing that confuses a lot is the lack of persistent storage - in simple words, you lose all changes made and data once you reboot. There were options like S3 and EBS though to over come this problem. But, much configuration is needed, need for regular backups, booting was...
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Migration of blog to Tumblr
After two years of my last migration from blogspot to wordpress, Here I am, after 3 years of blogging, migrated to third service. This time, moving out of self-hosted wordpress to a nice hosted solution Tumblr. You might haven’t seen many differences other than theme becoming extremely minimalistic.
Well, there are the changes.
Now, the service is no longer wordpress, its Tumblr :D
All...
November 2009
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Its a year and ...
Its been a year that Bombay was attacked by terrorists and killed a 166 innocent people. Well, whats happening after that.
- India has got a new guest. Terrorist Kasab. Yeah, Government has spent 31 crores for his safety - Pakistan is still playing blame game that India is not giving enough evidence to arrest Saeed, founder of a terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba - US is giving more and more aid to...
October 2009
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Diwali - Here and there
The South Indian version of Diwali - Naraka, [Son of Lord Vishnu (Varaha avatar) and Bhudevi] got killed by Satyabhama (Sri Krishna’s wife, avatar of Bhudevi). Simple version, a pissed off reincarnated mom killed her son because he is an idiot.
The North Indian version of Diwali - Rama came back after killing Ravana and finishing 14 years exile. Simple version, an exploited poor son, who...
September 2009
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Rediff and its chat app
Title has Rediff, what else is it going to be ? Yet another bug in their app. This time, the app is in their Chat Application. Background of the application is … they invite some celebrity or counsellor or some expert in some field and enable them chat with the usual rediff junta.
Now, the app, doesn’t allow any two users to login with same username (even if you juggle with...
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Moved Karteek dot Net to App Engine
I had a single landing page with links to my social networks and etc., while Ashok and Bala migrated their main blogs to Irresistible theme on wordpress. That’s an awesome theme with loads of features and both of them can use the features perfectly. I didn’t want to move my blog outside Selfdabba and did want to make use of Karteek dot Net for more than just a single landing page.
So,...
August 2009
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SRK and his detention
Shah Rukh Khan was detained for couple of hours in US lately, and the whole bollywood as well as normal junta are angry over the issue. And on the other hand, few sensible people are angry that bollywood is unnecessarily making an issue of a small thing. I’m not sure which side should I take, but this is what I think. Of course, US immigration should have some sense in detaining celebrities....
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Before buying a Magic
In one of my previous posts I mentioned few interesting things that can be done with your Android phone. Well, if you wanna go ‘Droid’ you better know few of these things.
As of now - Tuesday, 11th of August 2009, 1.45 AM, few variants of HTC Magic phones are not rootable. Yeah, you cant root few models. No Root = No fancy stuff like your own distro or custom builds or Hero or Wifi...
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Luck is Yuck
Guess is right. Its about the movie ‘Luck’. Contains spoilers, so don’t read if you want headache after watching the movie. Movie sucks. Sucks very bad. I wish Shruti Hassan had a better debut. Imran Khan’s luck is not going good. Well, yeah, what can one tell. He is choosing wrong stories and movies. Probably he would have chosen a worse movie for debut, if it wasn’t...
July 2009
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Spam and Recaptcha
I’m getting few spam comments once in a while, even though Akismet is working hard to protect me from them. So, I thought to add another layer of protection from spam, I’ve installed reCAPTCHA.
It’s about giving a helping hand through you guys as well as stopping spammers. reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows....
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Idle 'harmful' brain
Idlebrain, the telugu film website is one site almost all Telugu movie lovers go after release of any Telugu movie to read reviews. The website is so greedily filled with ads that I’ve almost stopped going to that site. Well, hope they have learnt their lesson atleast by now. Guess why ?
Well, WTH Idlebrain ? How about learning some basics in ‘everything’ from...
June 2009
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Few interesting things you can do with your...
I’ve been working on and about Android from last couple of months. I ended up learning few nice things about android from XDA developers and web sites of few other android hackers/developers. Starting with few bad things - No android phone is released in India yet - Google/HTC - WTF ? Ofcourse, Google is selling its ADP1 (Android Developer Phone 1, in other words completely SIM unlocked...
May 2009
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Hola. Como Estas ?
Its been long time that I didn’t write anything here. Well, I’ve been busy. Very busy. I was at Santiago, Chile for last month working on one of the nicest things in current technology world. I was working on Android and I truly enjoyed each moment of it.
Coming to my experiences, I have seen too many nice, funny and great things this time. My travel to Santiago was itself a nice experience, its a...
March 2009
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WTF Moment – 15 Mar 2009
This is the scene …
I stopped at Tiruvanmiyur Signal (Chennai)
Two guys were sitting on Activa and one guy was in a Chevrolet Tavera
They looked like they were having a conversation on ‘why honking’ when there is no way
The driver of the car just drove his car to far left (he seemed to be going left)
The rider of Activa seemed to have said something offensive (I wasn’t able to...
February 2009
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Battery Performance – Macbook Pro
Well. This Sucks. Sucks big time. Guess you understood what sucks. Battery life time of the my MBP sucks now. A small Google search resulted in few facts. There are so many people who have their Battery Load cycles more than 400 and even then their battery health better than 80%. And few with battery load cycles less than 200 and their battery health better than 80%. I’m in a awkward stage...
January 2009
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When the Internet is ‘no’ longer safe
Yes. Internet has never been safer, but only few things on it. Now, Google shows that everything in the world is a Harmful Site.
As some great fellow told, ‘No computer safe is unless it has been switched off, hidden few meters underground’ – Google has been ‘compromised’.
Edit: Google posted on their blog about the problem and itseems the problem was human error processing the list from...
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Meeting with Lord Counter Guy
I had a ‘weird’ experience today with Indian Railways. I don’t understand what exactly is wrong with our guys (or with me for not being able to understand this) Here is the scene.
I’m in a hurry
I need to buy ticket for traveling from Tirupati to Madras
Ticket Fare is 46/-
They don’t accept credit/debit cards
Not all will have exact 6 rupees change with them, some times not even a...
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Truly ‘biased’ review of Nokia 5800
I’m big fan of Sony Ericsson phones. Among 19 phones (as far as I remember) I’ve used during last 3 years, there are 3 Motorolas, 2 Samsungs, 1 HTC and all others are Sony Ericssons. This can show my love for Sony Ericsson phones. I simply love their UI, simplicity and I feel that the price tag they keep for their phones is more reasonable than the other manufacturers.
The longest running phone in...
December 2008
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Merry Christmas !
Financial meltdown, terror attacks, tensions because of neighbouring countries … Well, so what? No one can take of the excitement of festive season. Things happening everywhere. Good things happening to me. Great things happening to my close friends. In simple words, its Christ’mast’ time thats going here for me. Hope this season will be same for you folks too.
Wish you a merry Christmas and a...
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WP 2.7 ‘Coltrane’
Wordpress guys have released another great version of Wordpress codenamed ‘Coltrane’. I’ve just upgraded to it. I loved the dashboard as well as new features. Most of the things for which I had to use plugins are now part of the core package. But, it broke my previous theme, so I had to switch to another theme ‘iNove’. Looks cool eh ? ;) In fewer words its a ‘Must-have Upgrade’.
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Out of frustration
Today, I could see what fear can do to us. I had to come to my home town from Madras, and I went to railway station. Auto Stand was moved outside, Ticket counters were moved to next building, Platform tickets were cancelled, Metal detectors, Cops checking for baggage and sticking stickers like airports. All this not just because today is 6th of December, but also because of tragedy that happened...
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… and back
Been long time, after thinking about future of gmail, I got lost for a long time some where in my work, life, etc and etc. Just thought to come back to routine of writing here at my K World. Well, last two months were .. different.
After coming back from London, I had another assignment and I went to Finland for 4 days. That was an all action trip that I wouldn’t want to miss any time. There was...
October 2008
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An year after 'Android'
Well, this could be the result after a year of Android.
Google could pretty much record everything and maintain a history …
Or even do this … yeah, they are quite capable ;)
September 2008
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Day Out in London
Yesterday was a boring day. It was so boring that I don’t want to think about it one more time by blogging about it. In short, yesterday I took a ride on open-top Original London Tour bus sat through out the journey thinking where should I get down and take a look at the place. By the time I made up my mind (by not stepping down any where because that place is huge and I will be bored to...
August 2008
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Database Error on Wikipedia
Mediawiki Zindabad. This was the result when I tried adding some stuff on Wikipedia :P
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300 Spartans vs 21 Sikhs
I guess, most of you guys might have seen the movie ‘300’ (based on novel by Frank Miller). If you haven’t, well, watch it. I wont tell that its a master piece but its certainly one of its kind. Extreme boredom on a fine day resulted in watching the movie for the second time and doing a small research on the story line.
Well, these are the important points …
Its about...
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Unpack JS
Without any intro - crap that I usually write explaining why I had to write this post, I’m going for the subject. You(general junta or web developers or scared security guys) might see some eval packed javascript which phishing idiots ask you to copy paste on your URL bar and hit enter key.
Unpacking JS is a PITA was an answer that my brain use to give whenever I think about it. Just now, I...
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Escape from Phishing Nets
Recently, too much action happening when it comes to email accounts. Couple of friends complained that they’ve lost their logins all of a sudden. One friend from college complained that his girl’s email account was compromised. They believe that some hacker at brazil opened his terminal and wrote ./hack user@gmail.com to hack them. Few really think that it as simple as opening...
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DNS Vulnerability and our stupid ISPs
Guess you know what is DNS ?
If you don’t know what it is …
Its Domain Name System. All the servers will have some set of numbers to identify them (IP), to recognize them easily we give them a name (domain name) and for internet to work, DNS maps these names to numbers. (Duh, read wikipedia for more info)
For the techie folks who know whats DNS, you might have missed this news....
July 2008
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Love you Google
Google introduced a new feature in Gmail service. Gmail now shows last 5 access types and IP addresses which accessed the current account and lets you end sessions from other locations (where you might have hit remember me option)
Seriously, this is one kick ass feature I’ve been looking for in gmail and they’ve done it with a sweet add-on (I never expected the remote sign-off...
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The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci
This is an old news, but I came to know couple of days before when I was watching TED Talks couple of days before, I came across “The true face of Leonardo Da Vinci” by Siegfried Woldhek. The presenter himself is an artist and he has done a good research on finding the true face of Da Vinci. He uses the known facts about Da Vinci and proves that Da Vinci did three pictures of himself....
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Crappystory 2050 and my Alien Planet
As usualy, after watching a movie, rather than going back to my normal life, I started to analyze it. This time the analysis was even more as the movie is one of the worse I’ve ever seen. Even after watching Rajeev Masand’s review on CNN-IBN, where he clearly told that movie sux, I shouldn’t have watched it. But after watching it, I understood that the movie was not just crap but...
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Result of Jedi Neo(phyte)
A shocking revealation. A good friend of mine was hiding some thing from us from long time and he revealed it finally in his blog post. This image will make it straight forward for you guys to understand what he was hiding from us.
Yes, I was as surprised as you guys are when I came to know this truth. But, I ‘was’ happy to know that he was doing something what he loved from his...
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Pleasant Moon
I had a small hobby of doing some neophyte art images on computer when I was in my college. I lost that after college. Some good old albums made me remember good old days of passing time tryign to render the 3D worlds on a 700Mhz processor computer with 128Megs of RAM. Today, I wasn’t able to sleep properly, was little sad that my DSLR’s sensor wasn’t cleaned properly by the...
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Change of Server and loss of data
My host has informed that the he is moving the server and asked me to take a complete backup. As a good boy, I did the same. But, just realized that he didn’t move the server for past 10 days and I had done couple of posts. Now, all of a sudden the old server stopped working. I’ve updated by NS entries to make my blog point to correct IP and realized that last two posts are missing in...
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The saga of rediff comments
I love rediff. I love it a lot. I’m aware that I’m contradicting myself. There are loads of posts where I’ve accepted the fact that I hate rediff. But, come on. Do you think life would be great with no stupid thing around you to make fun of ? or atleast do you think that life would rock in monochrome ? Rediff brings lots of colors of my day, every damn day. Well, I...
June 2008
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Twitter down again !!!
May 2008
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Internet is NOT for hatred
Goddamnit
Google is Evil
What the heck happened to democracy
Threat to freedom of expression
Big brother
Hypocrisy
These the few comments I’ve seen on a post today at TechCrunch The post is about an Indian software Engineer getting arrested for creating a community in Orkut. Well, its not ‘any’ community but a community which he named “I hate Sonia...
March 2008
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My Friendfeed
Friendfeed is a one great service which I’m using from few days/weeks. So, I thought, I will publish my friendfeed on this blog. Well, as usual, I’ve some of my own requirements. Requirement is that I dont want to show it on my sidebar, but I want to dedicate a page for it. So, I need to take json/xml/rss/atom from friendfeed and create html out of it. Obvious is that I’ve to...
February 2008
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Bullets and Broken Hearts
Scared and bored of this stuff. Even before the traces of VTech were gone, one idiot did same crap in Finland and now another idiot did the same thing in Northern Illinois university.
As everyone tells, US Govt. should do something regarding this. I’ve no clue what they should do, but they should do something. They should do that ‘some thing’ so that this ‘same thing’...
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Breaking News
BREAKING NEWS !!! Sorry, couldn’t resist.