Archive for August, 2007

Trying out belenix

Now that we have an official Open Solaris user group in our college ,i can find execuses to find computers and free internet .Last weekend i download belenix 0.6.1 and wanted to test it out .So i created some extra gigs on my laptop and installed it out .
Surprising that even though belenix has come [...]


tool to optimize websites

The need to speed up websites and optimize them has assumed importance more than ever .To increase hits and clicks your site must be able to arrive at the user’s browser much faster than mail :) .
But how do you know what makes your site load slower or what is that takes maximum resources and [...]


Analyze log files with splunk

Maintaining a unix/linux based server is not easy ,especially with so many log files and if you were to trace an attack on your system ,it goes from /var/log /whatnot :) .
Many a times when i needed to look at some clean logs like my sendmail logs ,http logs ,looking through the text files can [...]


of lies and hype

Do you know a guy who lives in NIT,Trichy,a former google intern ,coder,a guy who was woed by microsoft and google for 48,50 lpa’s , do you know a guy who is the first indian to get in to Google USA ( first time i have heard someone saying Google USA) and also he has [...]


Blogs for the college students

Yes NIT-Trichy follows the big league.Now students have their own blogs from the college .
Its great to see that we are one of the first in the country to offer blog space for students.Other big universities that offer student blogs are Stanford and harvard .
It comes with a lot of aniticipation and also interesting how [...]