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Ever wondered why firefox extension install makes you wait for a few second
2009-01-07 06:46:00
I was quite surprised to know the reason behind it. The reason for the delay is to prevent a very intelligent attack. Read about the attack here: http://www.squarefree.com/2004/07/01/race -conditions-in-security-dialogs/BTW, the attack is quite cool. I am impressed!
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My first Skydive!
2008-10-28 09:31:00
13000 feet, 60 seconds of freefall and 5 minutes of parachute fall!Spent a fortune for it :( But the experience is totally worth it.So finally after a lot of searching I could find this cheap skydiving centre which was like in the middle of nowhere! That is why it was half as expensive as compared to those in San Francisco (SFO) and still offered a jump from 13,000 feet which is much more than the 9000 feet that you could have done in SFO. This was the place for real skydivers! So, next time you are in california, don't go to SFO but Parachute Center at Acampo. This is their website:-http://www.parachutecenter.com/S o I drove to Acampo (about 2 hrs from MountainView) . And I can't stop boasting that I drove! This is another thing that I learned here in US. I can now easily drive on US highways at the speed of 110mph (177kmph) :) You get tickets for driving so fast... Normally one should not cross 85mph. ok, enough of boasting!We reached this place, paid money at the counter and the...

My first self-cooked dinner!
2008-09-16 20:14:00
Today my roommate and I moved our lazy asses and cooked some dinner. And we completed it in a record time of 1 hour 15 minutes on our small electric stove. The menu included jeera rice, dal, mashed potatoes and panner butter masala (PBM) :D And mind you, we even made the paneer from the milk ourselves.Here is the pic:-And it was quite tasty given that it was our first time. Actually, I have helped my mother several times in making rice and dal, but that was more of a mechanical process where my mom would keep guiding me with the amounts of rice, waters, etc. that I needed to add and the number of whistles of the pressure cooker I needed to wait for. Today we were on our own :)We read the recipe for PBM on net and then found out we didn't have tomoatoes and a few spices. We added some tomato sauce to compensate for the tomotaoes :P A nice looking gravy came out of that. And it tasted just fine!
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Add Topcoder SRM Events to your calendar
2008-07-27 11:25:00
If you don't participate in Topcoder SRMs or you don't know what Topcoder is, then this post is not for you.Many times I miss SRMs because I simply forget to see the topcoder event calendar. If you use google calendar, use the add by url option and this to your google calendar:-http://sprawdzaczka.ii.uni.wroc .pl/~embe/tccal.icsOther calendar softwares that support ics/iCal format(most of them do) can also use, obviously.Now no excuse for missing SRMs :)Thanks to embe for creating this.
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IIIT Lan Browser updated for Firefox 3
2008-06-12 14:14:00
ILB(IIIT Lan Browser ) is now compatible with Firefox 3. Download now. Automatic updates have been disabled. To have automatic update functionality, download from mozilla website, when 1.2 becomes publicly available there, after gettin reviewed (which could take a month).
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List of FTP Servers in IIIT?
2007-04-27 21:37:00
PS: Blog is blocked. Use students.iiit.ac.in/~sandeep_kr/cgi-bin/F uckProxy/ .So how many FTP servers do we have? 15? 20? 30?............Well... there are at least 110 that I know of. Some of which are useless :-)ftp://172.16.2.19ftp://172.16.2.29ftp: //172.16.3.5ftp://172.16.3.19ftp://172.16 .3.20ftp://172.16.3.24ftp://172.16.4.45ft p://172.16.4.48ftp://172.16.4.62ftp://172 .16.5.5ftp://172.16.5.15ftp://172.16.5.20 ftp://172.16.5.25ftp://172.16.5.28ftp://1 72.16.5.31ftp://172.16.5.81ftp://172.16.7 .28ftp://172.16.7.38ftp://172.16.8.77ftp: //172.16.8.79ftp://172.16.8.172ftp://172. 16.8.173ftp://172.16.8.175ftp://172.16.8. 177ftp://172.16.8.181ftp://172.16.8.186ft p://172.16.8.222ftp://172.16.8.234ftp://1 72.16.8.243ftp://172.16.8.252ftp://172.16 .9.3ftp://172.16.9.7ftp://172.16.9.11ftp: //172.16.9.61ftp://172.16.10.5ftp://172.1 6.10.15ftp://172.16.10.31ftp://172.16.10. 35ftp://172.16.10.42ftp://172.16.10.50ftp ://172.16.10.60ftp://172.16.11.16ftp://17 2.16.11.21ftp://172.16.11.33ftp://172.16. 13.16ftp:...
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Not in IIIT? but still of IIIT? Its for you then...
2007-01-11 18:28:00
What a catchy line! Steve Jobs should choose me to campaign for Apple's iPhone ;)This post is just about a Firefox extension that I made that I allows one to browse IIIT LAN when you are outside IIIT! Yes, from any part of the world. It supports http, https, and yes ftp also ;) Its called IIIT LAN Browser. (suggestions for a better name?). However its meant to be used ONLY by IIITians. So you are required to login using your 200 ID(once per session). I guess alumni still have their 200 IDs, right?And there is one more Firefox extension. FuckProxy 0.2 is released. Its basically the old one with with a few bug fixes and auto-update support. I request you for the last time to uninstall your previous version and install this one. Auto-update will then take care of all future upgrades.
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Rona dhona...
2007-01-07 18:51:00
Got the first C at IIIT this semester. Its not that I am pissed off at getting C. I am expecting D or even F in compilers and similar low grades in a few other courses as well. But what I am pissed off at is that I got a C in an HSSM, Philosophical Discussions on Human Desires to be precise. This was the course that I was counting on as the saviour of my SGPA this sem! I always heard from my seniors that the least that you can get in Human Desires is B. And most probably one gets A or A-. To make matter worse, I have taken STS(Science, Technology and Society) this sem which is again under the same prof. Looks like I need to be a regular in STS and keep asking doubts to the prof to ensure that he considers me a sincere student and gives me a better grade this time.

FuckProxy Update
2007-01-05 03:33:00
Use the following url to view this blog: http://192.168.36.200/~sandeep_kr/cgi-bin /FuckProxy /showPage.cgi/http/sandy007smar ty.blogspot.com/FuckProxy has been updated to work with latest firefox version 2.0.0.1.I have kept the old version number, so in order to install it, please uninstall the previous version first.I am thinking of enabling the auto-update option so that firefox automatically looks for updates as it does for other extensions. But that will take time.Also FuckProxy has been disabled for requests that are from outside IIIT intranet. This has been done to prevent possible misuse of IIIT resources.Enjoy!!PS: My blog is unblocked now in labs. Will have to check for hostels.
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Finally Sysadmins managed to block my blog in labs too...
2006-12-29 13:52:00
http://192.168.36.200/~sandeep_kr/cgi-bin /FuckProxy/showPage.cgi/http/sandy007smar ty.blogspot.com/PS: Use the above link to view my blog for the time being.I guess the title says it all...
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Sysadmins blocked my blog! - but failed at that too!!
2006-12-11 00:54:00
http://192.168.36.200/~sandeep_kr/cgi-bin /FuckProxy/showPage.cgi/http/sandy007smar ty.blogspot.com/2006/12/sysadmins-blocked -my-blog-but-failed-at.htmlPS: IIITians plz use above link or FuckProxy to view it.I highlighted a couple of truths about the sysadmins and they blocked my blog.But how could a linux newbie who doesn't even know commands like ls; who searches for notepad on a linux system; who tries to use a mysterious command called unblock whose working only he knows; who creates 100 accounts manually; who sends mails like this; could ever successfully accomplish a task as tough as blocking a website?Yes. You guessed it right. They couldn't even block my blog completely. Its blocked for Wireless LAN(in hostels to be precise) but unblocked in labs. So this once again exposes the sheer inability of IIIT's so called 'system administrators'.But think how low they could go? I never wrote any abusing words about them. I only wrote truth(to the best of my knowledge). I just tri...
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How about a projector without a canvas and on the battered corner of your r
2006-11-29 15:01:00
How about a projector which does not need a white canvas or a flat surface to project on?I was reading about my BTP(Smart Camera - Project or Systems), and then found this cool application of it. No need to roll down a big white canvas anymore for a theater experience. Just select any part of your wall, or just a curtain, a table cloth or just anything. The surface need not be even flat..., you can even choose corners of your room as a screen..... To know what I am talking about see the pics below:-A scruffy corner(yes a corner of a wall!):-Output of a normal projector(notice the effect of choosing a corner as your viewing screen):-Geometry-Corrected output by the smart camera-projector system:Geo+color corrected output by smart camera-projector system:For more read this or this research paper(pdf).Here a few more cool pics:-Projection on a natural stone wall inside a castle vault (click to get a larger view):-Projection on a checkered curtain:-Its cool!!
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LOL at sysadmins
2006-11-24 18:35:00
Yesterday, when Wireless LAN was down, the following mail was sent to the students mailing list by help@iiit.ac.in for helping us out of the problem:-dear student, wlan is not working due to some technical problem. In yourbrowsersetting (mozilla) you select direct internet connection setting it will work.thankssysadminDo I need to say anything more?GOD help us...........
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Performancing For Firefox : Review and How to install
2006-11-12 19:01:00
PS: Since IIIT Network does not seem to be coming back to normal, contrary to what is claimed here, so you can help me by trying out this.Hey, right now I am blogging straight away from my browser using Performancing For Fire fox or PFF in short.Performancing for Firefox is a full featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted text from the page you happen to be browsing, and take notes as well as post to your blog.Get the PFF extension from here. Blogger beta users should install the latest version(1.3.5 Beta 3) from here or you will have troubles. Learn to set it up from here. Remember that Blogger beta users should give their google username(e.g. bla@gmail.com) and password when asked.Now lets have a look at the features. This is the list of features that I got from performancing's home page.Features Full WYSIWYG and source editingSave as NotesAdd all your various blog accountsTechnorati Support...
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Ain't it cool?
2006-11-10 14:30:00
Warning : This is a crap post ... so read it at your own risk....Hey... I have edited my template and gave it a totally new look. The new blackish template looks fcuking cool to me. Hover your mouse at the bookmarking buttons at the bottom of each post. Such a nice effect. But I haven't seen any comments saying its good. Isn't it cool? Or is it that exams' tension is stopping people from reading blogs and dropping comments. Or is wireless LAN not working? Or is net not working? Or is slow net keeping people from reading blogs ?Or is it the thing that I fear the most... its fcuking bad? No No. Please don't say that. I made it during the exams. Devoted(or wasted?) so much time on it during exams. Hey, I know my template is worthy of appreciation. At least its not copied. I mean I edited an existing template on blogspot to get to this. This is the original template:-And here is current template(just for the sake of future reference):-I call this "Black Beauty".Some of you might pr...
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Image Storage
2006-11-08 20:12:00
I created this page just for the purpose of storing images on blogspot.Just now I created my own template for blogspot and needed to store my images somewhere. Stor ing them on iiit's server would mean increased load on our server, apart from the fact that it is fucking slow. So this is the post that will contain all special images that I need for blog. Just using those images in this post will allow me to store them on blogspot. I want this page to be the central repository of all my *special* blog images. Image s appearing just on one post don't count as special images.feed-icon32x32.png:http://photos1. blogger.com/blogger2/6946/1885/1600/feed- icon32x32.pngheadbotborder.gif:http://pho tos1.blogger.com/blogger2/6946/1885/1600/ headbotborder.gifouterwrap.gifhttp://phot os1.blogger.com/blogger2/6946/1885/1600/o uterwrap.giftechnorati.pnghttp://photos1. blogger.com/blogger2/6946/1885/1600/techn orati.pngdiamond.gifhttp://photos1.blogge r.com/blogger2/6946/1885/1600/diamond.gif commentbug.gifht...
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Shaatsra SEO Contest Results
2006-11-08 13:53:00
So here are the results of the contest in which I wasted almost one month.Atrieecs http://atrieecs.seo.iitm.ac.in Saarang http://saarang.seo.iitm.ac.inPriya Venkateshan http://priyaven.seo.iitm.ac.in Yes, my contest blog is not there. So sad!!But I am sure I am fourth. And I am sure I would have been second or third only if Google hadn't banned by blog. It banned my blog just when it reached the top. You are so bad google bot. You didn't ban when others were spamming. And you banned all when my splog(spam blog) came at top. So bad!!! You are partial google...PS: Made my own blackish template. Its fcuking cool!!PS1: Blogger offers so less templates. I don't know why I am not shifting to wordpress.Technorati: blogging, contests, google, SEO, Shaastra
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IIIT's Network blogs out its woes!
2006-11-06 07:33:00
IIIT's Network after being sucking for so long could not stop itself from blogging. Well, blogging is the new buzz and how could the ultra savvy techie iiitians' network remain behind? Confused? Well.. it seems like some iiitian after getting frustrated over the condition of IIIT internet, started an anon blog, thats quite good to read.PS: The blog claims the network is back to normal and will be better very soon. Lets hope its true.PS1: IIIT's Network back to normal => one of my almost finished project(beta already released) is now useless :(PS2: IIIT Blog roll seems to have gone weird. It shows refreshed 20 mins back and still doesn't show the post posted 4 hours back. Heard smr is adding some new features. Waiting eagerly for the new features! One of them is really cool.... don't want to spoil the surprise.PS3: IIIT Blogroll has gone even more weird now. Its now even refusing to publish my blog. [UPDATE: Its published now after about 3 days. ]Technorati: iiit, network, blogging
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Server Room Tragedy: #11
2006-11-03 00:34:00
Well.... tragedies are happening so frequently that I don't even have time to report them. This tragedy happened before I reported the last tragedy... but I didn't had time yesterday to report it.Well this time the server room staff knowingly or unknowingly changed some configurations that blocked SAS. Those who don't know, SAS stands for Simple Authentication Service. Its purpose is "One person One password". That is, you can use your 200 password for all IIIT portals. It is used in almost all IIIT portals- Mess Portal, Movie Club, ISAS Portal, Student Information Portal, News portal, TV Portal, Election Portal, and tens of other portals that students make as a part of their projects.Most probably(just my guess), they tried to make the 200 more secure by blocking unused ports and in the process blocked port 61237, that was being used by SAS. Well, the shocking thing is not that they blocked it (because they did it by mistake), but that they could not unblock it back themselves....
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Server Room Tragedy: #10
2006-11-02 00:13:00
Server Room Tragedy series was started by nirnimesh sir. But now he is out of campus and no one is reporting the blunders that are still being done by the server room staff. We need to highlight the problems(apart from several other things) that the stupid server room staff is creating. So I thought I might report the latest tragedy in the same series. I hope there is no copyright issue :) Links to the previous 9 tragedies are at the end of the post.Well... 200 was hacked!!! Yes! On monday evening(30th Oct. 2006), students logging into 200 were greeted with the message :-"You have no profile. Permission Denied."The prompt was changed by the hacker to "I don't have a name".Running pine would ask you "who are you?"[UPDATE: If someone has a screenshot supporting this, please mail me. I would like to put that here as a proof.]As far as I know, this was the first time in the history of IIIT that 200 was hacked... Not stupid hacking... but someone could actually hack into the system and...
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Omkara Song Video Spoof by IITD Guys
2006-11-01 04:47:00
Its quite good. Watch it. Technorati: personal, life, bakwas, video
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So its true - Google is intelligent and it penalises you if you try to be o
2006-10-26 14:44:00
Google has blocked almost all the sites that were participating in the Shaastra Google SEO Event, including mine :( Now if you search for the keywords Shaastra Thamesportal Zalecenia Autophytes Invernesshire on google, you will find blogs that have just one or two posts, blogs that have been started but never taken care of, and blogs that are not at all participating in this contest!!Yes ... a big blow to all those who have been trying so hard for over a month now. Here is a screenshot from my google webmaster page that clearly shows that google has removed all my pages from its index:-You can also see it was last indexed on 19th Oct,2006. That was when my page achieved the top spot. You can still see the cached page here. But now, its banned......... :(My dream of SANDEEPs winning this contest is shattered :(Now I understand. Google, you are intelligent.Ohh... I forgot to mention why has it been banned. It is banned because of Keyword Spamming. One-tenth(not sure) of the words on m...
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Who selected the sysadmins?
2006-10-25 15:09:00
Well... I have been asking this question for long to all my friends. But today, after being EXTREMELY EXTREMELY HIGHLY HIGHLY FRUSTU over the performance of internet and NO PERFORMANCE of WLAN and DC++, I want to ask this question to the concerned authorities.I know that Profs like DR. Kamal, Dr. Sangal, Dr. Govindrajulu, Dr. PJN, etc. read blogs. Well.. if you are reading this post, then consider it as your responsibility to defend the selection of the sysadminsorAccept the inability of the sysadmins and remove them.How come someone employ such system adminsitrators who don't even know linux, to monitor / administrate around 10-20 important linux servers in the server room that are the lifelines of IIIT?I want to know what was the process followed when selecting the sysadmins. I want to know who selected them. Those who selected them, don't they know that all IIIT servers, proxy, etc. are linux systems and only a linux bond can administrate them. Forget linux bond, you have not e...
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Finally at top
2006-10-22 19:08:00
Yeah... I am at top finally. After weeks of effort, I am top now in google search results for the search string "Shaastra Thamesportal Zalecenia Autophytes Invernesshire". Just 3 hours before I was at a meagre 5th position and now I am at top!! Atriiecs has been pushed dwon to second. He he, the wish that I made here in Postscript(PS1) seems to be coming true...
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Spamming under my name !!!
2006-10-19 17:11:00
There is an entry in iiit blogroll with the name "sandy" that is not mine. That blog is contesting for the google seo contest. Now as soon as I stopped spamming, someone else is doing this under my name!!UPDATE : That blog has been removed now. so here is the screenshot:-Read on for the full story.....For quite long I have been spamming in my splog(spam+blog) Shaastra Thamesportal Zalecenia Autophytes Invernesshire. This all I was (and I am) doing for the Google SEO contest being conducted by IITM as a part of its techfest Shaastra.I also used comment spamming hoping to increase my PR only to find that most blog sites(wordpress, in my case) put the attribute rel="nofollow" in all links posted in comments. That attribute was started/proposed by google and basically means that google won't consider the link with this attribute for page rank purposes.Then I slowly realised that I should not comment-spam. I also apolozised. Then I realised that I am also spamming blogroll by registerin...
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New Look 2
2006-10-12 17:38:00
Changed the template once again :)Technorati: blogger, blogging, blogspot, template
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New Look
2006-10-11 03:44:00
As you can obviously see, I have changed my template. Does it look better?Of course, it looks better, atleast to me and that is all that matters. The old template had lots of images which made it very slow to load. This one is much faster to load.I am planning to make my own template for blogger, which would look like one of those ajax sites. No ajax, but look would be look like that. Its not that only ajax sites could have that look, but normally such looks are present in ajax sites.Technorati: blogging, template, blogger, blogspot
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My take on attendance policy
2006-10-08 12:14:00
A hot debate is going on on Karan's blog regarding the attendance policy. Here I am presenting my own views and solutions.My Views:-1. 85% is too much. Should be reduced to 70%.2. Reducing grades should not be the punishment for less attendance. Faculty says you perform bad if u dont attend classes. So we already get punished by getting bad grades. Then why to reduce grade further on top of it.Note: Faculty says we perform bad if u we dont attend, not I :) There are tens of examples of students who got an A and then their grade is reduced because of less attendance(including me :( ). So, in a way faculty's argument itself is at fault. Either way, its proved that reducing grade is not a solution.My Solution:-If at all there has to be a punsihment, then it should be doing some kind of social work for a week or two, like teaching slum kids, etc. Or may be attend Jivan Vidya for a week. Prof. Sangal will agree to it :) There should be an FSIS where we can say to the faculty to change ...
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Oops!! down to seventh
2006-09-29 21:51:00
Pre Script: Nowadays, whatever I am writing here I am also posting it on my Google SEO Contest blog to fill it with little more of some sane content.PS2: My blog in this post refers to my google seo contest blog.Ohh no!Search google for Shaastra Thamesportal Zalecenia Autophytes Invernesshire and look for my blog. Done?What happened? Why did my blog slipped from 2nd to 5th to 3rd and then finally down to 7th? Did my comment spamming using bot really worked against me. Well after working like hell for 3 days and fucking my exams for it, I was surpsrised when one of my comment-spam-target-blog-writer pointed out to me that those links in comments are of no use. Worpress automatically adds the attribute rel="nofollow" to all the links posted on comments. Havoc!!! All my effort gone waste. Thats when I started receiving comments back to my blog all blaming, accusing, threatening me and what not. Well in India, don't expect cyber laws to work. I dont fear the threatenings. But then a m...
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eXlinks - explode links
2006-09-29 19:19:00
eXlinks stands for exponential links. They say:- “EXLINKS is the ULTIMATE, EXPONENTIAL LINK-SWAPPING, SITE EXPLODING SYSTEM.” So go and register for free here. I don’t know whether it will really help or not. Or is it for real or some scam. But after reading about it in various blogs at digg and technorati and after knowing that its from the same people who made Blog Mad, I think it may be for real, but may be a little too hyped. Anyways spending 5 secs to sign up is not much. For those who don’t know about Blog Mad, its another cool service aimed at redirecting traffic to your blog through a system of credits. Go to the site to know more. Now the keywords:- Shaastra Thamesportal Zalecenia Autophytes Invernesshire .I will win :)Technorati: blogging, Autophytes, Invernesshire, Thamesportal, Shaastra, Zalecenia
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