Google announced that it's making 2 DNS servers available publicly. The servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . They've also givenconfiguration instructions on their DNS page. I configured my /etc/resolv.conf to refer to Google's DNS. Before this I ran some quick tests using …
User agent GTB or GTB5 is the Google Toolbar
Was checking out this blog's visitor stats recently when I came across this User Agent "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 GTB5". I was wondering what GTB5 was. Some googling and testing later I found out that …
Gingerjoos.com visitor stats on a map
My friend Arun Prabhakar recently started playing around with some visitor stats reporting for his site. He has been gracious enough to extend the service to his friends and now the public as well(by invitation only) :) The service is still in beta, so occassional hiccups might occur. He's been …
Copying files from one unix box to another with scp
ssh is a very powerful and widely used protocol in all the Unices. If you've used the ssh client in your Unix/Linux box, you must have realised how indispensable it is. There is another indispensable tool that uses the ssh protocol - scp (secure copy). scp was meant to be …
Intel 8085 microprocessor simulator
My friend Arun created an Intel 8085 microprocessor simulator as a hobby project sometime in his college. It's written with php and javascript.
If you're into 8085 programming, do try it out and let me/Arun know.
http://labs.kitiyo.com/8085/free-online-assember-simulator-8085.html
Useful vim commands
I use vim at work for most of my text editing purposes. Vim is a very powerful editor. However, it comes with a somewhat steep learning curve. The best place to learn it would be the vimtutor program. It's got a pretty good "for dummies" approach which is useful if …
The most difficult captcha there is
I was browsing through the site of a celebrity recently and came across the contact page. I was shocked to find the captcha there. Take a look yourself and be amazed : http://www.gulpanag.net/contact_gul_panag.php
Why would anyone display the captcha as text ready for a bot passing …
Mobile updates on Orkut?
A while ago I got a message on my mobile from "TM-Orkut". It was a scrap written by a friend on my Orkut scrapbook. I suppose this means they're trying out mobile updates. There's nothing about this yet on the Orkut blog. Looking forward to this feature. Hope it comes …
Enabled Google Analytics
I enabled Google Analytics a while ago. Reports are yet to come in. Cause.. no one has visited this blog yet.. heh heh :D
BrandAdda release 1.0
Update : SmartCrowds had to close down. Brandadda.com is no longer online.Hi folks! :)On March 31, 2009 we opened up release 1.0 of our site to the world wide web. It was surely a proud moment for all of us at SmartCrowds who worked so hard towards it …