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- When it comes to blowing one's own trumpet, no channel comes near Times Now,no newspaper like ToI 1 day ago
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- Trying hard to stick to 1 of my new yr resolutions - read less twitter & more blogs. Not quite successful yet. This is quite some addiction 2 weeks ago
- Something is seriously wrong with Bangalore. It has not gone completely dark yet but I can already see fog near my house. Brr. 2 weeks ago
- Suddenly, there are hardly any FOSS conferences happening in Bangalore this year, it seems. 3 weeks ago
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Quick local DNS caching for your workstation in Ubuntu
The latest Ubuntu releases makes it real easy to set up a local DNS cache for your workstation using dnscache from the well-known djbdns software by D. J. Bernstein. For those who have historically installed djbdns/ucspi-tcp/daemontools from source because of … Continue reading
Akamai awesomeness and Opendns lameness
Akamai footprint awesomeness. My IP address. sandipb@pluto:~$ wget -O – -q http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp;echo 122.167.0.79 sandipb@pluto:~$ host 122.167.0.79 79.0.167.122.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ABTS-KK-Dynamic-079.0.167.122.airtelbroadband.in. Akamai CDN for downloading Adobe AIR. sandipb@pluto:~$ host airdownload.adobe.com airdownload.adobe.com is an alias for airdownload.wip3.adobe.com. airdownload.wip3.adobe.com is an alias … Continue reading
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