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Guys and Gals – We are famous now :)

Kulbir Saini — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:16:15 +0000

One of my previous posts threw some light on Bureaucratic System at IIIT. A few hours ago, Zenwalker posted an interesting story on his blog regarding Creation of a mailing list for the purpose of a magazine. These were few things about IQ level Now, lets study the ego levels of people at

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Farewell Speech (Tech Issues)

Kulbir Saini — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:48:00 +0000

Below is the soft copy of my farewell speech on tech issues. Good evening everyone. Carry forward the legacy left by one of our seniors, I am going to narrate a short story. There was a boy, by name OMI, who came to IIIT without having any background in computers. He used to spend all this time

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Best April Fools’ Day Ever

Kulbir Saini — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:49:11 +0000

08:50AM April 1st, 2009 Alarm!!! Ring Ring!!! I had a class at 8:30AM. But thinking that I’ll sleep for few more hours, opted to miss the class. 10:26AM April 1st, 2009 I was in deep sleep (went to bed at 5AM) when my mobile started ringing. I hate it when somebody calls me when I am sleeping.

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Mumbai Trip and First Time Flying Experience

Kulbir Saini — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:40:24 +0000

As I said in my previous post, I was asked to visit Rediff Office in Mumbai. I thought Wednesday (25th) would be a great idea. Informed the same to HR. I got the return ticket to Mumbai on Tuesday. This was the first time I was going to Mumbai and also the first time I

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Rediff Interview

Kulbir Saini — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:53:04 +0000

A few days back I got a call from an alumnus about a job opening at Rediff in my domain (server side craziness ). Initially I was a bit surprised because I was not expecting something like that at all. After discussing a bit more about it, I returned to my room and forwarded

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Busy with videocache

Kulbir Saini — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:41:18 +0000

VideoCache project has come a long way since I started it in June last year as youtube_cache. I have released 18 version in last 8 months of time. Complete log of versions is available in the videocache code repository. Currently it supports audio and video (including HD) caching from 14 websites. It has been an

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My first interview for a job!

Kulbir Saini — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:18:04 +0000

After failing few (will be disclosed later) written tests in a row, I got a call for an interview. I was pretty surprised as I never expected it to happen. Initially I was nervous because I don’t know c/c++/data structures/algorithms. All I know is Python, Computer Networks, a few Open Source technologies and how to

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Back Links to VideoCache

Kulbir Saini — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:51:07 +0000

This post’s aim is to boast a bit about my plugin videocache and generating some more backlinks for the website Recently videocache was discussed on a lot of Thai tech forums. They helped me a get a lot of traffic and exposure for the plugin. Tutorials in English and Other languages Youtube Cache with

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The ultimate feel of freedom

Kulbir Saini — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:41:26 +0000

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

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How to make a fool of yourself?

Kulbir Saini — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:28:43 +0000

Configure your firefox to cache 1GB of data. Run squid proxy server on your machine in aggressive caching mode by f**cking up with refresh patterns. 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

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