Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

I had to connect to a Cisco 3000 VPN gateway for establishing a VPN with my office network. Cisco provides VPN clients for Microsoft Windows and RPMs for Linux. I am basically a Debian user. When I tried alien for converting the RPM into deb file and installing it, the ...


The complete migration of the site to a new host is over. Here are the new changes that are done to the site.

Journal: The URI of the journal is changed. http://journal.praveen.ws is the new URI for the journal. The old URI may still take you here ...


Had to migrate the site to a new server again due to unavoidable reasons. Comments after this point until notified further will be lost. Sorry about the inconvenience!


It was a real good news that Airtel has doubled the speed of my plan for the same cost. I was using 128 kbps unlimited plan for INR. 999. Now for the same cost, I am getting 256 kbps unlimited. All that I had to do was call up Airtel ...


I was trying to post a comment in one of my friends blog in LJ using the OpenID. But based on my ISP (at office), LJ didn't allow me to post the comment as the IP pool is in the spammers list! What could I say? But Sify technical ...


Due to some reasons, I need to migrate to a new server. I am in the process of restoring the existing contents in the new server. I hope this would be over by this weekend. Till then no more new posts. Also some of the comments after this point may ...


I am planning to go for the BSNL Dataone broadband connection. I am aleady using Sify broadband that really sucks. Most of the time, there is some problem with the connectivity. So, I am planning to ditch Sify and go for BSNL. It seems that a guy out here at ...


Atlast, I have decided to (forced to for some personal reasons) go for an Internet connection at my Home. I planned to go for Sify broadband. Recently, I heard a lot of ill about Sify. Things like they are forcing you to use McAfee virus scanner, bad in customer service ...