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An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

I am planning to migrate my primary domain from praveen.ws to kumar.in. As a first step my blog is moved from the old place to here. If you have a direct bookmark to my blog, please update it accordingly. If you have subscribed to my RSS feed through ...


After I have moved from BTM Layout to RT Nagar, I was a sort of handicapped because of lack of Internet at home. I used Airtel broadband when I was at BTM Layout. When I tried to transfer my Airtel broadband to my new home, I found that Airtel doesn ...


<praveen@aphrodite> (Fri Sep 29 21:11:28) [/store/ubuntu]
$ axel -a -n 64 http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu-6.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso
Initializing download: http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu-6.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso
File size: 716517376 bytes
Opening output file ubuntu-6.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso
Starting download

[ 73%] [0123456789 ...

Finally I have moved out of my old host canaca.com beacuse of all the difficulties I was facing with them. Even the IP address of my hosting server was blacklisted and they were not ready to do anything about it. I got pissed off with thier service and finally ...


I have applied for a Tata Indicom broadband connection and waiting for the connection almost one month. Everyday I call them on status they would say either the status is unknown or they will call me back. Nobody has called me even a single time. Finally when I called them ...


I might move this site to another host soon. You may see some flakieness.


I have bought a new virtual server from VPSLink a couple of days back. It runs OpenVZ for virtualization. It provides me with 20GB of hard disk space, 512MB of RAM running on a Intel Xeon processor. Looks like a bit less for an extensive server. I have associated the ...


When you are behind a HTTP proxy and you want to SSH to a server on the Internet, the best choice is to use corkscrew. After installing corkscrew in your PATH, the SSH command goes like this.

# ssh -o "ProxyCommand corkscrew <Proxy server> <Proxy port> %h %p" <SSH server>

Jonathan has a new post on the Sun Grid. Looks like they have finalized with the domain name for Sun Grid and ready to roll out pretty soon. Due to export regulations it seems that Sun Grid will be initially available only for US customers. Well, tons and tons of ...


Avalon towers at Peninsula is a heaven of internet.

praveen@aphrodite:/home$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade...Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
cron debianutils flac gnome-about gnome-desktop-data info libaudio2 libflac7 libgnome-desktop-2 liboggflac3   openssh-client openssh-server reiserfsprogs ssh texinfo
15 upgraded, 0 ...