Segmentation Fault: Core dumped..;-)

Another day in Silicon Valley..;-)

anand — Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:13:17 +0000

You rent some office space from Cisco Systems Inc. You start a company and hire nine engineers. Eight months later, with no products and no revenue, you sell out to your landlord for $13 million. Another day in Silicon Valley.
- Cisco Buys Startup for $1.2M per Employee

Yup! Sounds just about right to me. Too bad I never had such a landlord who would buy my...well, never mind.

Quote of the day…

anand — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 19:34:25 +0000

At Cisco, work is something you do, not a place you go!
Brad Boston, CIO Cisco Systems, on the needs and benefits of "Remote Access Solution"

Video Telephony, Cisco style

anand — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:19:29 +0000

John demonstrates VT

Innovators John Restrick and James Tighe demonstrates VT

Pretty neat (and addicitive) stuff! Now you know what kept me from active blogging almost all of last week Btw, if you like these clips, you may be interested in perusing through the entries in the "Video Archive" section of News@Cisco site.

Enjoy!

Warriors of the Net - IP for Peace: Learning IP Networking Concepts visually..

anand — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:58:19 +0000

If you ever wanted to get a nice little animated movie explaining the internals of how IP packets flow on the Internet, look no further. Click here (or on the image above) to download the movie. NOTE: The movie is about 120 MB and make sure you're on a really, really fast internet connection. If you'd rather see a trailer (size: 5MB), click here.

If you're even remotely related to the IT profession and have even an iota of interest in Internet and how it works, this is a movie you CANNOT afford to miss!

Santa comes down the chimney VoIP pipe..;-)

anand — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:50:04 +0000

Cisco Links Santa with Children's Hospitals
For kids in the hospital during the holidays, a visit to Santa can be a challenge. Those who are too sick to leave the hospital miss the simple tradition of sitting on Santa’s lap to ask for a cherished toy.
However, this holiday season, more than 140 kids at Boston and San Diego children’s hospitals shared the love and happiness that only St. Nick can deliver – with a little help from Cisco video telephony. In a program called “Santa, Live from the North Pole” children saw and spoke directly with Santa Claus. The connection to the North Pole was as easy as making a phone call.
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Nice

How do you manage DNS entries for your domains?

anand — Tue, 04 May 2004 07:43:19 +0000

So, I am just about ready to start working on my new server at ServerMatrix. I have always enjoyed setting my penguin puppies (read, Fedora servers) up by installing my favorite language platform(s), compilers, APIs and then services like Web server (HTTP/HTTPS) with plugins, Application server/J2EE stack, Relation Database server, SMTP server with IMAP and Mailing List server and a Source-code Control Repository. However, I really have never tried running my own DNS server. Always used EasyDNS service. I pay around 35 bucks per year per domain which is pretty expensive

How do folks who blog handle their domain names in general? If you're someone who uses BIND to do your name servicing on a Linux box, I would luv to get some pointers from you. I think I would like to try it out this time around if time permits.

Note to myself: Need to write detailed HOWTOs on i)Customizing MT: Lessons learned and ii)Configuring AWStats

Planning to switch over to ServerMatrix Hosting in the next few days

anand — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 08:16:40 +0000

My current server hosting provider is JohnCompanies. I must say that I am thoroughly impressed with the company, especially "John". However, thanks to the fact that I have started blogging in all earnestness and so has my dad (not to mention a few more folks waiting in the wings to jump right in), I have somewhat outgrown the machine that I am currently on. Have already lined up my new server over to ServerMatrix. It's a wee bit costlier, but I think it's well worth the money. Here are the specs:

Server: Super Server 2.4 GHz Primary HDD: 80GB Hard Drive Secondary HDD: None RAM: 512 MB RAM Number of ips: 5 IP Addresses Bandwidth: 1000 GB Bandwidth Uplink Port Speed: 100 Mbps Uplink - Monthly Fee: $10.00

Should be a lot of work and fun. Plan to complete the move latest by next Tuesday. So, if things look flaky over the weekend vis-a-vis the site, now you know why