Bird and bug watching

On last Saturday Aasim got promoted to 1st standard, this means after summer holidays he will be in school from 9am to 3:30pm will have to carry a bag and will have exams… He is a BIG boy now!!!

Finally I found a good bookmark server Sitebar. Works great with Mozilla and is written in PHP, allows multiple users, groups and shared bookmarks. Also some time during the week version 3.0 of my earlier favorite text editor JOE was released I am almost tempted to go back but most remote servers only have Vi(m) these days…

The hilarious site for the week was https://badmash.org , I found this particularly funny 🙂

Most of the week I took a lot of bird pictures in the garden… most of them turned out real lousy due to the fact that I had to use at least 1.6 digital zoom. I think if I have a 2x tele converter it will be great. Most of the pictures can be found here.

On Saturday someone raised a bogey of security vulnerabilities in Coppermine it turned out that the said things affect only the older forked versions for PHP nuke and then also depends on a PHP nuke vulnerability to assume Admin permissions… All credits to CPG for CMS team for a fast patch up

On my way to XUL nirvana I came up with a nifty utility – Coppermine sidebar for Mozilla. It displays categories and albums of a gallery as a tree, shows the last uploaded photo and has some small user preferences settings, so if you use mozilla and want to add my photogallery’s sidebar Click Here(Damn, LJ does not allow javascript: in href) will release the code as soon as I write some basic documentation for it

Work as usual

Work as usual

I guess I finally may have a use for GMAIL – collect all the porn from Yahoo Groups there, I was almost heartbroken when Yahoo stopped storing attachments in the group archive 😉 Jokes apart it will interesting to watch how GMAIL evolves… I finally got to handle the Nikon D70 and the verdict for

A mini vacation and a bit more

Returned on Friday from Vizag. For the first time it has happened that nothing major got screwed up in the office or home while we were not here. So how was the trip? The days essentially consisted of catching up, sleeping in the AC and cursing the heat… the evenings however were great We landed

hARP Storm

The highlight of the week was – Vivek – *the* fashion photographer of the city (also happens to be Swati’s friend) calling up to say that he had been to https://tariquesani.net and was very very impressed. He wanted to help me and wanted to me to help him as well!! Me an Swati promptly landed

Mail, males, and run of the mill stuff

Mail, males, and run of the mill stuff

After nearly 4 years of faithful service I decided that it is time to retire my current local mail server, so I got a headless box with 1gig of RAM. Whoa! I don’t need that for a mail server, mail servers are puny machines in dusty corners which nobody notices quietly doing their work till

Titali dabooch li maine :D

The week has been a very hectic one, spent a lot of time preparing for the final release of Coppermine V1.3, with more than 225000 recorded downloads and several ISPs giving it as default install the dev team is happy, but I feel that major task lies ahead for us, while the software has been

Building redundency in your team

It is an eternal dilemma for small companies like ours – what if the key programmer on a project leaves suddenly! I lived in that dread till I went through it and survived successfully. Here are some notes on that in no particular order. First and foremost – how so ever small you are, no

Has life been reduced to insipid, semi technical one liners? It may look so from what I have been putting in my LJ since nearly past two months,

After several years of using ipchains / iptables scripts borrowed from friends and several sites, then tweaking them by hand I finally chickened out into using Guard Dog for all the machines which are directly connected to the net. It is easy to use but somehow leaves me feeling a bit uneasy no particular reason…

Working these days in a very tense milieu but thats just tense not stressed out. As I explained it to someone tense == manageable == good stress == out of control == bad The experiment that I started here did progress very well but I have to abandon it as I soon realized that I