Yesterday, I had trouble accessing my own site from my WinXP machine. It was really slow. It didn’t make too much sense. So I ssh’d to my FreeBSD machine and ran netstat on it. I saw a LARGE number of connections to port 80 (http). I don’t know who all these people were, or why…
Category: Nerdy Stuff
India
I am in India right now. It’s been great! I got here on the first. The very next day, I left at 3:30 am for Trivandrum. I got there at around 8:00 am. I got myself a hotel room and met up with Sadhana, Vibha, Rachna and Prakash (Suraj’s brother). It was weird meeting them…
DS9
I have all seven seasons of ST: DS9! Woohoo!
Wisdom Teeth
I have been living on Tylenol for the past two days. My wisdom teeth have started to emerge from my lower jaw. The upper ones have been no trouble. The lower left one was no trouble either. However, the lower right one refuses to behave like his brothers. It is an eruption of pain. Day…
DS9
I’ve been watching DS9. I never got into it when it was playing. But now I’ve been downloading all the episodes. I’ve already downloaded the first three seasons. It’s been easy with my DSL speed upgrade! It seems pretty interesting – the shows. Not as good as TNG, but still good. I can’t wait till…
Bumped Up
I bumped up my line speed from 640k/256k to 1.5M/896k. Expect faster downloads from here!
Things I would like to do
Sometimes I wish I had time to do the many things I would like to do. First, I would like to code a lot – no surprise there. Then, I want to do some linguistic stuff. Read up on all sorts of languages; try to make inferences as to their relationships and their derivations. I…
Dr. Pheanis’ Last Class
Today was Dr. Pheanis’ last day as a professor. We were his very last class. He said he would remember us the most because we were his last class. I think it is very fitting that the CSE 521 class would be his last. We are essentially (in his view – I am not just…
Whoa
I had my very first code review. It was interesting and slightly unnerving. I had all these people who had gone over my code, tell me what was wrong with it. Luckily, nothing too serious! Just minor issues. I learnt some new stuff though. THEN, I found out that my highschool friend is GETTING MARRIED!…
I hate spyware
I hate spyware. Spyware companies are run by malicious bastards. You heard me. Anyone who makes spyware (exploits, trojans, whatever) or runs a company that knowingly makes spyware or is involved in its development, is a filthy bastard. I just removed a Trojan that was hijacking my start page. It was using a rogue dll….