Archive for 'Technology'

Bandwidth

The joys of working at the networking giant.

RIP santa

Maybe I am flowing with the moment but if you have anything to do with systems administration, you would understand this -

[vaibhav@xxxxx] ~$ ping -c 5 -w 2 santa.vsharma.net
PING santa.vsharma.net (69.31.43.218) 56(84) bytes of data.
— santa.vsharma.net ping statistics —
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1999ms

Sitting in a rundown datacenter in the heart […]

FOSS.IN/2007 ready to go

We just closed the online delegate registration. I am sitting behind the on-the-spot registration desk, setting up the registration related machines. The venue has blanket WIFI coverage (much better than last year) and a 2Mbps internet link. All the stalls are almost ready and the sponsors have started trickling in to setup their show.
I reached […]

Ham Radio “Technician” Exam

I passed the US “Technician” level Ham Radio exam this morning with 33 out of 35 questions. I had the choice so I made an attempt at the second level “General” class 35 question exam too but I failed it by 5 questions scoring 21 out of 35. Need to study for that one now. […]

Ham Radio

Back in school, we had these “extra curricular activities”. Some of them, we could opt for during school hours and the others were available after-school hours.
Instead of taking “arts and craft” like everyone else (so that they could just sit and pass time / mischief), I opted for playing musical instruments and that too percussion […]