In the office elevator yesterday morning – Me (getting in first) to the lady: What floor maam? Lady: 7th please Me : *click* Me : What floor sir? Him : 20th please Me : *blink* *blink* Me : there is no 20th floor in this building. Do you mean the last one – 10th? Him [...]
Yet another weekend, yet another upgrade scheduled at work. The difference this time was that we had an office picnic planned on saturday and a team meeting on Sunday morning (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.). I was supposed to be present in both of them other than finishing the database server move. Somehow managed to [...]
Sometime in 2000, I did a linux install for a corporate client of mine in Indore. It fetched me some small amount of pocket money and loads of experience on how to configure linux email/intranet servers. Today, they pinged me on IM with some problem. In 2000, they were on dialup. Lot has changed since [...]
Walk into office to find out that a script which was supposed to send one email to a group of people has sent out 500+ emails in the past few hours and counting. The reality of the situation got onto me in a few milliseconds. The human error on my part was soon figured out [...]
Need to do something about this. msnbot faq mentions a robots.txt entry, which would block all bots (which they conveniently refer to as blocking msnbot only). Top 30 of 1684 Total Sites # Hits Files KBytes Visits Hostname 1 57746 34.58% 44693 34.31% 706465 38.71% 113 6.63% msnbot64127.search.msn.com 2 54639 32.72% 41988 32.24% 672753 36.86% [...]
