http://platonic.techfiz.info Reaching out to others Fri, 16 May 2008 02:08:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hey! will you please stop this crap? Image source : NDTV People are getting killed around temples, market places, tourist spots. Whom you're really targeting to? What is the message that you want to give to the world. Is this is right to be monsters? Think twice it could be one of "your ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/05/16/jaipur-blasts-inhumane/ The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 9 (Sulphur). To download Fedora, visit http://get.fedoraproject.org. The most interesting thing is kannada language pack which has been made available with this linux distribution. Prasad and his team has done a good job with it. Spins, Jigdo are couple ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/05/14/fedora-sulphur-released/ It's a pleasure to be on this blogging journey and with this post I'm logging my 100th post! I have been googling around on the net for years now but could not really start off with blogging and other online activities. I used to create some online pages for the team ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/05/11/messy-thoughts-while-scoring-100/ True, a well known government transportation corporation tries to mimic the Volvo standards. I found an old Pushpak bus in Majestic - Electronic City route,route no. 356 C on Friday showing off its "Value added" A/C service on city roads. I couldn't believe that its not a original Volvo bus ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/05/10/bmtc-piracy/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/05/09/nessus-vulnerability-scanner/ Wow! GilChrist. See how he flies in air. I don't follow up much with cricket. But I love to look at highlights of some selected matches. Today morning I was just looking through some old pictures posted at Sampada and this picture caught my attention. Find the original post here. Image source: ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/05/09/flying-in-air/ I couldn't belive that I never tried Moodle before. I might have installed it before but never used this wonderful OpenSource educational tool. I explored this tool couple of weeks back as there was a need for me to automate an aptitude test for our hiring process. It made our job ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/05/07/moodle-automation/ OSSEC is an Open Source Host-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS). It performs log analysis, integrity checking, Windows registry monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. OSSEC is now out with its release v1.5 with more bug fixes and features listed below : -New log formats (info): Solaris BSM auditing logs Asterisk logs Checkpoint and ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/05/07/ossec-v15-released/ Its really hard to compiling php on plesk servers, that too for newbies. I have been searching for PHP 4.4.7 source rpm or ready solution or a script so that I can quickly give it to my team to resolve such requests coming from our customers. By chance I found it ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/05/07/running-php-447-with-plesk-830/ Pizza-hut was one of my favorite place for pizza's. But today I got to think twice before entering into pizza huts. I ended up tasting rotten O' Tomato and Grill O' Delight to finish with my Weekend. I didn't regret going to pizza hut last December and did enjoy ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/05/04/worst-weekend-pizza-hut/ Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/28/gnulinux-habba-team/ [wp_youtube]Ne8xms38tGc[/wp_youtube]Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/27/gnulinux-habba-videocast5/ [wp_youtube]J1sItubcJ70[/wp_youtube]Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/27/gnulinux-habba-videocast-3/ [wp_youtube]iElJG-zGW0E[/wp_youtube]Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/27/gnulinux-habba-srinidhi/ Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/27/gnulinux-habba-video-cast1/ "Gnu/Linux habba" did bring in around 200 people who were eager to checkout how they can type in 'Kannada' on their laptops and computers here @ SERC, IISc campus today. It might take a whole day for me to tell how did it go. Mean while have a look at some ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/26/we-will-be-back-again-habbain/ Originally posted in Habba.in Festivals! The very word brings a smile on our face. A time to set aside your worries and other negative feelings. A time when the cultural diversity of India sheds that 'diversity' feeling and gets into the celebration mood. This is why festivals have become an integral ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/25/feel-the-zeal-habbain/ Isn't it a great idea to show case how festivals are celebrated? Check out habba.in Gnu/Linux Habba owns this top level domain to have the logs of activities. This web space will also have the blogs of volunteers involved in the event where in they will be sharing their experience Hari and ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/18/gnulinux-habba-on-habbain/ It was an awakening event organized by software professionals, students, teachers and others. Candlelight vigil for Document Freedom. It's we who will decide what is needed for us and for our future. Ensure you have enough freedom and don't let any one dictate what to use to read your own documents. ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/17/ooxml-or-odf/ Do you know where I stay? I lost so many of my comrades recently... Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/15/im-alone-today/ The Candle light vigil demands India to appeal ISO approval of ooxml based on its comments and no vote. We also demands the Department of IT to draft a clear national policy for the use of Free standards for data storage. This programme is planned as a starting point for various ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/14/document-freedom-candle-light-vigil/ As planned earlier we met exactly at 3 Pm in Bugle Rock Park, Basavanagudi. We discussed various aspects of the event. Lots of points were pointed out by each volunteer.  It was really a nice brain storming session for cross check our readiness for the event.  Updates and minutes ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/14/gnulinux-habba-volunteers-brain-storming-session/ My Precious! Its mine... Thanks to my friend for suggesting this model. I always used to dream about joining Indian Airforce, but couldn't make it. Now wearing a Titan Aviator ;)Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/13/my-precious-titan-aviator-1352sl02/ We are planning to have a small meet up with out technical volunteers on coming Sunday at Byugal Rock Park, Basavanagudi. Join us if you are willing to volunteer as a technical resource. Place : Basavanagudi, Byugal Rock park, Near DVG statue Time : Afternoon 3pmShare This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/11/volunteers-meet-gnulinux-habba/ Yesterday Bangalore's Mid-day news paper published a blurb on Gnu/Linux Habba in its IT Hadda column (9th page, right column) Find pdf copy of the page here. We thank Mid-day journalist friends on behalf of Sampada Team for spreading the word and encouraging us . We wish media will continue to encourage ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/11/mid-days-blurb-on-gnulinux-habba/ Visit Platonic on your WAP handset and grab updates where ever you're.Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/06/platonic-on-wap/ If you have Fedora Core 5/6 or CentOS 5 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 on your server and are experiencing troubles with respect to upgrades (forced or otherwise) of Click Be! or Fantastico or Universina, please check the wget version that you have on your server. If it is wget-1.10.2-3.3.fc5 ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/05/unable-to-install-fantastico/ Hurray! EvDO works even on Hardy and this time it was simple and easy. Today Ubuntu released an upgrade for the kernel 2.6.24-15-generic which found to be having a very good airprime kernel module which is required to identify the BSNL EvDO USB device. You might have read my previous hack on ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/05/bsnl-ev-do-works-on-hardy/ Fantastico is an automated tool for installing forums and other php softwares into your webhosting account via Web hosting control panel "Cpanel" Here is how you can jump in and do a fresh install / upgrade of Fantastico on a Cpanel Server SSH to your server(s) and enter following commands: cd /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi wget -N ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/05/fantastico-for-cpanel/ If any one wants to send emails from an external email client like Kmail, Evolution, Ourlook express etc, he need not provide authentication details if he pop's emails from his account before sending emails. If you've already read mails from the server, the servers lets you send emails at the ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/05/disable-pop-before-smtp-on-qmail/ As soon as I install Linux I need all multimedia tools. group chat applications, codec's etc. Medibuntu repo bring in many of these so that I can quickly get it installed and start using them in minutes. Non-Free Media Codecs (w32codecs, libdvdcss, etc) Acroread Google Earth RealPlayer Skype Popular Media Players without stripped codecs (amarok, xmms, mplayer, ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/04/medibuntu-fills-in-fun-with-hardy/ Google Docs, Google's Online Office Suite is now in "Local Languages". (Kannada,Hindi, Telugu, Tamil etc.) Find my google docs account in Kannada. This 2nd Image tells you how you need to change the language in Settings. Enjoy Localization!!Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/04/04/google-docs-in-indian-languages/ 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 : ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/29/opendns-fast-secure-reliable/ 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 ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/27/gnulinux-habba-in-bengaluru/ 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. ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/27/reason-554-546-too-many-hops/ 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 ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/25/nagioschecker-thermometer-for-servers/ 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. ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/23/brings-in-more-hardy-heron/ 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 ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/22/nfs-hickups/ 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 ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/21/tax-making-a-big-hole-in-your-pocket/ This picture was taken in SLV restaurant Basavanagudi, Bangalore. How much you know about yakshagaNa? comment on this topic...Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/17/yakshagana/ 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 ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/09/motoming-my-new-smart-phone/ 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 ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/08/unlock-windows-via-firmware/ Radio Sparsha Channel 106 on WorldSpace satellite radio is one of my favorite Radio Channel. It brings an another unique program on air every sunday @ 9:00 AM. A program which awakens Kannadiga's.  Don't forget to listen to the program. A show that's sure to make every kannadiga from any part ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/08/anweshane-in-search-of-our-identity/ Cpanel Blog :: SECURITY ALERT An arbitrary file inclusion vulnerability has been discovered in the Horde webmail application. At present, we can confirm that this security vulnerability in question affects Horde 3.1.6 and earlier. Based on incomplete information at this time, we also believe this affects Horde Groupware 1.0.4 and earlier ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/07/horde-arbitrary-file-inclusion-vulnerability/ Mall's? Multiplexes? The most "exiting" places? Yes, they are as they are luxurious. But what is really happening out side a Mall here in "Namma BengaLuru"? View this image carefully. It will tell you the story and put hundreds of questions in front of us. I took this picture couple ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/07/fun-world-near-garbage/ Monitoring Mail server queues is always not an easy job. That too when our servers becomes victims of spammers, it takes hell a lot of job to identify the spammer and block him. Yesterday I came across this wonderful tool called "Isoqlog"written in C. A turkey software development team at ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/06/isoqlog-monitoring-mailq/ Evolution-Data Optimized or EvDO yet another wireless telecommunications technology to offer you better internet connectivity on the Go! It offers more mobility and advantages over your WiFi. Learn more about EvDO here. I always wanted wireless connectivity which is cheap, affordable and reliable. Reliance and TATA Indicom did come ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/04/hacking-bsnl-evdo-on-linux/ Are you a FaceBook Fan? Then you have one more good news. Facebook Music service will make you rock.  Check their band pages launched on 28th Feb. Facebook's new service provides space for artists and their bands to share, advertise their music, videos, pictures, and sell them etc. You will be ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/02/time-for-music/ ImageMagick is a tool which I have been recommending, installing for many all these years. I even configured many websites to use ImageMagick in their gallery's for that for years now. But I really didn't use it much for my own work. My Canon digital camera which I recently purchased, ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/02/magic-with-imagemagick/ Hey, have you ever tried installing google applications on Ubuntu/Debian? Yes, Picasa and Google Earth. We can have it running in Linux. If you haven't tried installing them here is a simple to-do. Just follow and have fun! First : Add the Google repository to apt sources list.You can find it here. /etc/apt/sources.list ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/02/google-tools-on-ubuntudebian/ I was in a hurry to install the new version of "Picasa" on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon as previous version of Picasa didn't allow me to upload the images to web directory. After adding the apt source to the sources.list, I ran aptitude update on my laptop and was hit by ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/02/gpg-error-ubuntu-apt-get/ If you're on Microsoft windows you will surely be complaining about this. Or at least some of you have this issue on your computer. Aha, see this error message. Orkut IS BANNED, orkut is banned you fool The administrators didnt write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!! You're the victim of “Heap41a ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/03/01/orkut-youtube-firefox-banned/ Video clip : Times Of INDIA's "Lead INDIA" campaign   Keep moving INDIA   [wp_youtube]hLnDwLmVIyY[/wp_youtube]     तुं चलॊ तो हिंदूस्तान् चलेShare This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/27/one-step-to-make-difference/ Proprietary software companies seem to behave as though they rule the world. Here is an another instance where a free software faces threat from the propritory world. ClamAV antivirus is one of the famous platform independent free software. You find this software on most of the email servers today. Barracuda Networks, ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/24/boycott-trend-micro/ World is so colorful isn't it? I was talking about learning to create such a thing on my own by taking some lessons from the "Creator" in one of my article earlier. Today there were second thoughts about that in my mind. Hey, there are so many people on this ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/20/filling-in-colors/ Oh yes, Drupal new version is out. Now you can build your community faster than ever and there are lot more reasons to choose Drupal as your CMS. I'm planning to test it right away to check what all I can use from this new version. "After one year of development ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/18/drupal-60-love-first-sight/ Hey, don't you think you need a tool to test your internet speed? I need this tool in almost all the system I use to ensure that I won't get affected by the internet. It is also required to trouble shoot ISP issues. They do provide us with the link to ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/17/how-fast-youre/ At last I got my MMC Card reader working on my Dell M1210 which is running on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10. MMC Devices found on my laptop: 03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller 03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) 03:01.2 System peripheral: ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/17/dell-m1210-mmc-card-working/ Learning is a continuous process. Survival is the biggest question in this fastest growing world. You will be competitive in this world only if you have domain knowledge. i.e., You got to know more about almost anything which exists or doesn't exist on this world. "Jack of All" can ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/15/simulate-to-learn/ I was able to peep into this event on 11th and 12th here in IISc Bangalore. I was wondering what Microsoft has got to say about its OpenSource initiatives. Also it Sundip Menon from Novel made it clear why Novell really joined its hands with Microsoft in CTOSummit. "OSIW-2008" its ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/14/opensource-india-week/ The entire world seem to be on the run. It's longer than marathon and there does not seem to be an end for this. Alas! its already 9th Feb 2008. I might submit this post on 10th ;). Are we in a "Time Machine"? H.G Wells took us to the ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/10/on-the-run/ Grammar is important...it's the vessel that carries your ideas. Many of us depend on various tools to correct the errors in our write ups because we fail to identify the silliest mistakes which we keep repeating every now and then. Its very much important to read and re-read our letters, memos, ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/03/error-proof-vessel/ I wrote about "Fun with Crash" on 31st Jan. But forgot to mention about biggest Internet Outage which affected many businesses in two continents very badly. Find the detailed report here CNN and Renesys Few cuts in internet cables under Mediterranean did bring in lots of chaos and work was at ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/03/breaks-and-impacts/ We talk about technology and talk big about bringing that nearer to common man. How much successful we are? Piracy is one of the biggest problem which we keep discussing all the time. Are we really fighting against piracy? We also know that there is a community which works for ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/02/03/linuxaayana/ Its all fun to destroy the world for few. This is what happens when you try to destroy Linux. Check out what this guy is upto on this virtual box. [wp_youtube]D4fzInlyYQo[/wp_youtube] FYI: Don't be cruel to your Operating System else you will be killed. "rm -rf /" Strictly ProhibitedShare This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/31/linuxminix-fun-with-crash/ He has got an eagle's eyes and he has got a dream. Dream to reach the top of the world. He resembles Mohammad Ali. He made his opponents shudder with his lightning performance and the world was thrilled to see him in finals. He was almost there to make ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/30/beautiful-dreamer/ Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Maria Sharapova proved the youth power again by lifting the Grand Slam at Australian Open and created yet another history yesterday. How much does it take to "Create History" and who can do it? Its you and me who can do it, all that it takes is ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/28/creating-history/ I went out for a movie on Sunday after a long time and we found the movie every interesting and entertaining. Galipata as per every one's expectation really had something new in it and song, direction, scenes were pretty good. So far so good. When we started to walk ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/21/dont-relax-youre-on-road/ Its all about filling in confidence to explore a new world of possibilities. What can bring attention of a newbie to learn more about a technology? How we can make him/her hack into the in depth features of a technology to crack the master's test? At the end at ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/21/linux-gun-shot/ Here we start celebrating festivals for the year 2008. Today is Makara Sankranthi. Every year we celebrate this festival on Jan 14th or 15th without fail. Across India this festival is celebrated in different names like Pongal etc. I really have no much interest in celebrating festivals. We normally don't ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/15/lets-start-celebrating/ I had few complaints on my Ajax features installed on my blog. I just went through this cool Plugin called (AJAXed Wordpress) AWP. It forced me to exclude almost 75% of my other plugins . Now I can take care of many Ajaxed features via this plugin without ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/14/tidying-up-wordpress/ Who can teach you better than David Allen about GTD? Find him talking about Work life balancing and learn Self Management [wp_youtube]Qo7vUdKTlhk[/wp_youtube] Sharing few videos which I thought you might miss in your busy Internet life.Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/14/getting-things-done/ I have been digging into the reasons for the Firefox crashes and its heavy memory usage. Following links did throw lights on various Firefox extensions and also gave me lots of workarounds to improve my experience with Firefox. Tips and tricks to Reduce Firefox Memory usage Firefox - Flash Memory usage Problematic extensions ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/13/smash-buggy-firefox-extensions/ Yes, Smith's Cloud is heading towards Milkyway at 240km/s. An uninvited guest  or may be a Messenger from an another galaxy, Or is it is a start of new "Star War" series on our Galaxy? How much time we have got to get ready with out swords, ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/13/they-are-coming-towards-milkyway/ Where we are heading to in 21st Century? What challenges are ahead of us? How it used to look like in 1970's? Learn more from Google's Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, a youtube Video from Google's Official Channels. [wp_youtube]Hf0rjtnwC9A[/wp_youtube] Sharing few videos which I thought you might miss in your busy Internet ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/13/21st-century-internet-with-vint-cerf/ It was scary to upgrade some firmware when there were no one to help you on board at DC on a weekend and you are sitting in a remote location connected via broadband facing technical glitches. Firmware upgrades failed yesterday as I had directly started upgrading the RAID Controller ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/13/dell-poweredge-2850-firmware-upgrades/ Sir Edmund Hillary, Man of determination, greatest mountain climber, who made it to the top of The Great Mount Everest along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953 is no more with us today. Died in Auckland because of pneumonia on 11th January. He leaves us with the great history ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/13/at-the-top-of-everest/ KDE 4 is out at last. The most awaited release of K Desktop Environment which enables the end users to enjoy and experience hundreds of rich applications designed for Internet, entertainment, education, graphics and software development etc in much better way. Its beauty, Its improved and its Free. Feel ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/12/a-new-era-starts-for-kde-lovers/ BackTrack, a Slackware based Linux security distribution focused on penetration testing. With its 3rd release its becoming more stable, usable and compatible with various hardwares. Bundled with more than 300 up-to-date tools its ready for security professionals use. Read its history on the project page. Its very interesting. You can ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/06/blacktrack3-beta-optimized/ The world is going wireless. I would always like to be on Wi-fi as its easy to use and more powerful.  Youngsters are found to be going mad at the wireless gadgets which have come in this era. Hmm, but what about security? We have already found so many security ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/03/hack-wifi-made-easy/ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, how many of you still remember this sweet little rhyme. Do you know there are many children who can't even read it? We are all so privileged to be able to read, write, walk, talk and do many other things. I remember one of my ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/03/twinkle-twinkle-little-star/ I use this for logging into all my messenger ID's. Its an easy and convenient messenger tool. It does come with a rich set of plugins to enhance my chatting experience. It has been my favorite for years now. Pidgin was formally know as Gaim Messenger. ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2008/01/02/off-the-record/ There was some happiness, sadness and few moments filled with sorrow. It was a joyful year altogether, brought in many new things to our lives and took back few things too. It end in just in an hour from now. Leaving all those memories in me for rest of my ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/31/keep-a-step-ahead-2008/ Its a story of a man who started his life all over again and started living happily at a CoffeeShop in one of the World's biggest city Newyork. He finds his job better, gets back his happiness, children, benefits which was not given even for his high position ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/30/riches-to-rags/ It has been a while since I had applied for BSNL B-phone + BroadBand connection. Even after getting the phone line, modem etc, I had no luck enjoying the services for 3 weeks. I found that many of my friends also did face the same issue. BSNL officials kept on ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/30/at-last-im-on-broadband/ Server security is always a threat when you have shell access open for users. Especially in shared hosting environments. How you like your remote users to be logged into your servers? Are you afraid of giving shell access? Does they require to just have ftp read only access? Do you like chroot to ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/29/shell-access-no-worries-use-scponly/ 25th December, It was never all that great in previous years @ my work place. This year it was just great... Check this out, Me as Santha X-mas Tree My Team Merry Christmas!!!Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/29/santa-brings-joy/ Spread the word "Free Software" and educate your friends about Gnu, GPL licenses etc. Free Software Foundations main website www.gnu.org is already available in many languages. We recently started Kannada translation team for Gnu. Check if your language is listed in available translations. If not, volunteer yourself and start translating. If you ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/25/gnu-project-in-your-language/ Its now N.Y.S.E's turn to adopt Linux and take advantage of Polished technology on 200 of HP's ProLiant DL585 four-processor servers and 400 of its ProLiant BL685c blades. Check why they preferred Linux over Unix and more here...  Read moreShare This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/25/nyse-goes-smart-with-tux/   Burt Munro, the Southland motorcycle legend is obsessed by his motorcycle. Alone, troubled, tortured, still determined to set a new land speed record at Bonneville Salt Flats with his modified Indian Scout motorcycle. It has taken all his life time to perfect his motorcycle. He made it against all odds ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/23/worlds-fastest-indian/ Nandidurga or Nandi Hills is very famous weekend spots for Bangalorians. I don't want to write up all the history here, read the Wikipedia article. I had never got a chance to visit this place before as my family is not used to picnics etc. and even my school/college days ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/23/weekend-retreat-nandi-hills/  Yulop has started a new website for kannada book lovers called books.yulop.com. You can find more than 2000 kannada books in various categories and subcategories. The website has been designed very well to provide numerous valuable informations for book lovers of all ages.  You can also discuss on various books ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/20/yulop-and-kannada-books/ "Car Car Car" song from "America America" seem to be tempting all Bangalorians to buy new cars these days. High class transporter and its going to be reachable for middle class families in near feature (cars are going to be much cheaper - wait for Tata's mini car if you ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/20/transporters-bangalore-version/ I'm always used to service command for starting, stopping and restarting services on my Linux boxes. Bit lazy to type in /etc/ini.d/<servicename>. When I use my laptop to work with services like apache, ftp etc I had to type the complete command earlier as I had not found an alternative ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/17/be-quick-on-ubuntu/ Are you into development? No, I'm into System Administration and I also provide advise on security. Yes, I can do database administration. Oh yeah I work with Firewalls and Routers. I can fix your PHP or Ruby code. Redhat, Debian, Suse, Fedora, CentOs, FreeBSD they all serve my purpose. Why don't ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/14/matrix-its-all-about-sysadmin/ Vikram Pandit is now the CEO of Worlds largest financial services organization "Citibank" “Vikram has earned a reputation as one of the most respected leaders in the financial services industry. The combination of his deep executive experience and long history as a strategic thinker makes him the outstanding choice to be ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/13/born-to-be-chief-executive-officer/ You're young, strong, energetic, happy with the money you earn or have it inherited from your parents. When you check your self in the mirror you see the happier moments which are there infront of you or which you can grab into your finger tips. One fine day you may ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/12/look-beyond-the-mirror/ Are you bothered about the source of the E-mail which you receive? No, most of us are not even bothered to check if the mail has come from a trusted source. Its not our fault, as we just need the messages to reach us and most of us busy in ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/12/i-got-an-e-mail/ Hmm, I used to write my diary at least once in a week (Once upon a time). Its no fun doing so any more as many things which has happened in my life are known to others ;) yeah like an open book. There is much to share with world ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/12/log-in-a-blog/ mac4lin one of the finest Mac transformation pack which I have ever found on Internet. Thanks to Anirudh, the author of this theme: Fetch the project from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin Here is the screen shot of my desktop ;) Share This http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/11/mac4lin-magick/ 8th and 9th December 2007, Palace Grounds was found to be full of "eyes" searching for opportunities in various IT Companies of Silicon City and Abroad. Naukri job fair provided a stage to those who wanted to hunt the talents as well as the desperate candidates searching the right place to ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/11/job-fair-a-hope/ Why I'm writing here? I was on orkut and various other community forums but just logged out from many of them. Yes, they did make it easy for me to reach out so many of my school and college mates and even others who are thousands of miles away... but I ... http://platonic.techfiz.info/2007/12/11/life-its-reaching-out-to-others/