Life

I feel really bad when I have a look at blogroll and there are no new posts. What has happened to the so called blogger batch? Well, after a bit of inspection, I discovered that *they* (including me) have placements. But should you really give up what you like just because right now there is something else which is driving you nuts? These days, I see a lot of people (who were cool till a month ago) under serious stress. People like KBC, Ganja who are talented in every possible way from watching the stuff of the other type ( ) to studies. But its a matter of one or two sentence(s) to completely break them down. May god help them in interview.

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1. Configure your firefox to cache 1GB of data.
2. Run squid proxy server on your machine in aggressive caching mode by f**cking up with refresh patterns.
3. Then actually use the above proxy server to browse.

Wasted two hours (5AM – 7AM) in debugging a clean and flawless php script on a remote server with pathetic response time because my firefox+squid messed things up and never requested the actually script from server (

Kulbir Saini BC, Computers, Fedora, Fun, Hacking, Internet, Life, Linux Caching, Firefox, Fool, Proxy, Squid

I still remember when I launched saini.co.in in November last year. That was my first website that I owned and I came to know about things like hosting, domains and related things. This year, I am proudly launching cachevideos.com, which will act as an official website for my (now) popular squid plugin youtube cache. The website is drupal based and all I have done is populated the content, modified some CSS, installed some modules, themes etc. It took almost 1-2 days for building that website. Drupal is a real cool CMS if you want to build sites quickly. Will write a post about how I build that site sometime. A big thanks to Sambhav Jain for customizing the header image for the website using photoshop. And train loadz of thanks to SMR for providing fu**ing awesome hosting service at g33k.in. Will write a review about the hosting sometime soon.

Kulbir Saini BC, Fedora, Fun, Hacking, Internet, LAN, Life, Linux, Review, Servers, Success Cache Videos, cachevideos.com, Domains, Drupal, Hosting, Website, Youtube Cache

This happens when you intend to do something positive and its result turns out to be entirely negative I turned on squid proxy authentication on my machine just for the sake of better security. Switched from Firefox 2 to Firefox 3. Firefox started checking for updates for extensions and now you can see what happened

Kulbir Saini Computers, Fedora, Fun, Internet Authentication, Firefox, Fun, Planet, Squid

I have passed my final evaluations for my Google Summer of Code’08 project IntelligentMirror. It was fun and excitement developing the squid plugin. The best thing was I didn’t have to move to a different place or go office for working. Work at home, do what you always wanted to do (open source stuff), talk with people with similar interests(fedora people), get nice payments and have your first project released in open source domain That was GSoC.

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Previous week was a bit more busier than I actually expected. I wonder why I have to attend a lot of meetings. There were 3-4 of them last week.

Kulbir Saini Fedora, GSOC, Google, Hacking, LAN, Life, Linux Google, GSOC, IIIT, Life, Wireless

I never liked to attend any conferences irrespective of the theme and goal of the conference for the past three years. But after attending two-three conferences in recent months and coming across new people with matching interests, I am suddenly looking forward to attend any open source/linux/entrepreneurship conference in hyderabad or nearby cities. BTW, are you planning to attend Eclipse Demo Camp 2008 – Ganymede Edition in Hyderabad on 25th June?

Kulbir Saini Fedora, Fun, GSOC, Google, Hacking, Life, Yum Conferences, IIIT, Life, Open Source

Ever since I joined IIIT, I was getting closer and closer to Fedora. For almost the first two and a half years, I was a user and explorer (not the internet one ). I learnt to use and hack many things as I kept climbing up. Few months ago, I stepped up one more stair and started participating in development channels (mainly #yum).

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Hi all!

This is my second post of the day but I can’t resit my to write it. I will just say that I am “Accepted For Google Summer of Code”. No its not something propritiery, its “Open Source”. Google Summer of Code is a program sponsored by Google where students write code for Open Source Organizations and Google funds them for the summer.To know more about GSOC, go here.

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Though almost 25% of vacations are already gone, I thought of writing down my task list this summer. Maybe somebody out there have any suggestions.

1. Squid Documentation/Tutorials  – Status : DONE
2. IPTables Tutorial – Status : In progress.
3. Firewall And Proxy Server Tutorial – Status : Todo
4. Policy Routing with Linux – Status : Todo
5. IPRoute2 Howto – Status : Todo
6. Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control Howto – Status : Todo

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