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DNS management, is that is hard for you? Let some reliable service manage it for you. Have you ever tried using OpenDNS?

Its world’s largest and fastest-growing DNS service. Makes your network safer, faster, smarter and more reliable. It’s free and millions are using it across the globe today.

Software/Hardware installations : Not Applicable

Features :

Content Filtering, Phishing Protection, Domain Blocking, Adult Site Blocking, Web Proxy Blocking, Domain Whitelisting, Statistic, Large Cache - No more DNS outage,Ultra-Reliable Network - To bring you reliable DNS service

How it is faster?

Its tailored to bring in fastest DNS service.

OpenDNS has servers situated strategically at the most well-connected intersections of the Internet. Its Anycast routing technology answers your DNS requests from one of its closest data center no matter where on the earth you’re. You will be routed to a different data center in case of maintenance or downtimes. This makes your Internet faster and more reliable.

It’s a smarter way to gain more out of your network. Give it a try.

Celebrating an unique festival, it’s first one of its kind. At least for Karnataka.

The Kannada Localization Initiative Team and Volunteers team at Sampada is very happy to announce the GNU/Linux installation festival, GNU/Linux Habba.

Gnu/Linux Install Fest aims at bringing technology to people. You will get answers for your questions on Gnu/Linux to the best of our knowledge. You will also learn to enjoy the “Freedom” of Gnu/Linux softwares. The best thing is you will learn to use Kannada on your PC/Laptop quickly. We will show you how you can use local language on your system.

• Are you good at Gnu/Linux? Volunteer.

We will need non-technical volunteers too! Let us know if you like to Volunteer.

• How Do I Participate? How Do I Register?

Follow thins link, You can also use event page on Sampada

• What you will be doing at the event?

Learn to do it by yourself. We are right there to walk you through the technology.

If you like to install GNU/Linux and use Kannada on it, bring your laptop or Desktop. We will be there to help you install and configure it.

Do you have questions related to Kannada on GNU/Linux? Put them across and we will try to answer to the best of our Knowledge.

• When is the event?

April 26th, 2008

• Where is the event?

SERC IISc, Bengaluru (Bangalore).

• Read more :

Updates on the event is available on Wiki

What is there in the event?(Article is in Kannada)

ಸಂಪದ ಫೌಂಡೇಶನ್ - Sampada Foundation

Be there, don’t miss this event.

Hey, why do some one complain that they are unable to send emails to my domain name?I even found that they get this message along with the bounce back message

—– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors —–
<info@yourdomainname.com> (reason: 554 5.4.6 Too many hops)

Fix:

 It’s quite easy to fix this issue. All I had to do is to check the MX records set for my domain and ensure that high priority MX is set to my email server’s IP.

 ex:
domainname.com.  IN MX 0 mail.domainname.com

Let me know if you find this hint useful for resolving your email server issue.

NagiosChecker! Yes, its a Firefox extension made as the statusbar indicator of the events from the network monitoring system Nagios.This is one extension without which I can’t live at work.

The extension fills in the Information parsed from Nagios web interface. All you need to do is filling in your Nagios web interface URL, eg. http://www.yourfirm.com/nagios/ and let the button to locate status script url. It is succesfully tested with Nagios 2.5+, 2.0, 1.5, 1.3 and 1.2.Now, I got it working on Firefox 3.0 beta4. . It lets you add multiple Nagios URL’s. Give it a try…

Visit Project Page

Nagios Checker 0.11.9.1 Beta Works very well on  Firefox 3.0b4

This is how it looks when you put it on your Firefox. (Image from project page) .

Ubuntu 8.04, Code named Hardy Heron beta is out now. Give it a try to day and have fun before it gets released.

I can’t wait for something new to happen. Visualization, Security, Ease of Use, Rich interfaces, hardware support. Check out what else you can expect out of Hardy dear. Have a look at its features here. Enjoy the test run.

I spent my valuable minutes working on NFS early in the morning today as it stopped to work at once. All were due to login at 7AM and NFS won’t let the system mount their home directories.

I’m used to NIS + NFS + Autofs on floor and the only issue I have been facing with this setup is NFS locking down due to improper logouts or multiple logins from users on different workstations. All this info regarding the filesystem mounts are logged into a file called rmtab by NFS server, which is supposed to get updated dynamically. There is no log entry which confirms this as far as I know. Only thing which you could notice is that, NFS service won’t restart. It locks you down with the message, Starting NFS….. Oh, don’t restart your server, you won’t see much more than this. You will end up waiting for something to happen.

My quick fix for this issue is to remove the rmtab file and restart the service and you’re on run again.

/var/lib/nfs/rmtab contains a list of which filesystems actually are mounted by certain clients at the moment.

Now, I have added a line in rc.sysinit to remove this file during system reboot to ensure that the service won’t get hungup causing more delay in starting my NIS+NFS server. Anyways I don’t want my NFS server to remount the mounts when my server is restarted at least.

 Linux NFS Overview, FAQ and HOWTO Documents

blogging this topic here to recall the fixes…

It’s PITA to pay income tax when the cost of living in my own city where in I have been living for almost 25 years now, is going high like a rocket. I find it really hard to enjoy life when there are too much of commitments in life and there is not much money to  splurge on things which I would like to enjoy at this age. Yeah, law says we got to pay tax, tax and tax. Fine, good enough. We got to contribute to the growth of the country blah, blah, blah. How much right it is to put tax for those who’re really not enjoying life and still struggling to live comfortably? It’s true that next year I can save bit more money as they have revised the tax exemption limits etc. But,  already there is a big hole in my pocket, got to spend time weaving rest of the year.Why can’t they go and collect tax for  all the black money from bumpy rich out there and stop sucking blood of we middle class people?

What’s your views on this? Do share it with me.  hope my employer reads this message and gives me a hike.

This picture was taken in SLV restaurant Basavanagudi, Bangalore.

How much you know about yakshagaNa? comment on this topic…

Motorola Ming A1200 my new smart phone is just awesome. It gives me all freedom required to play around with the phone and its internals. It runs on “Linux” and it turned out to be a small PC for me. Mobile OS source code is available under GPL. What else is required to explore the mobile technology?

Check out Motorola product page to see its features and video here.

Are you interested in knowing what all I have done so far? here it is.

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News of Owning Vista from the boot with VBootKit developed by NVlabs Nitin and Vipin is still buzzing around our ear and this year you’ve an another hot news. Guess what?

Yet another tool to unlock the windows box without password is now on internet. It’s HOT.

Boileau, a New Zealand based consultant with Immunity Inc., demoed a tool way back in 2006 to gain Firmware memory access. Years have passed but no solution to this serious issue from Microsoft. Finally Boileau decides to release this tool on his websit. Its called Winlockpwn, bypasses windows authentication via firewire, as demoed at Ruxcon 2006, and released on Risky Business, 2008.

This tool lets you inject the code to modify the Window’s password protection code. All you need is to connect to the target machine via its Firmware port from your Linux-based computer and gain the full write access to its memory.

Read more about this project and tool here