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Picked up a Laptop for my dear dad today. I got his machine to bangalore for playing with linux tools a year back. :)

Accidentally came across NSA guide to securing machines while learning more on selinux policy. Here is the Security configuration guides they have online and here are some specific for your Operating System.

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If you got a livejournal account like Me and moved on to to wordpress, here is a way to pull out all the entries including comments from livejournal to your self managed blog. Download ljarchive, Feed in your livejournal login and save all the entries as xml. Once done get back to your wordpress and feed in the xml file. Done.

Would suggest to do it before you update your wordpress journal. I can be wrong, but some entries were missing when i did the update on the blog which had previous entries. When i did it on a clean database, it took all of them.

TIP :If you don’t want to miss on people who used to frequent your livejournal get the Livejournal crossposter and when you make a post on your wordpress blog it gets posted on yor livejournal account. Easy, ain’t?

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http://www.sachingopal.in Status: –Taken

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Today Me and Mayuri celebrated our first marriage anniversary.  At 2400HRS we started with cake and flowers (Courtesy: Cheena) and the whole day with movies and playing with Asmi. Evening we plan to go out with our friends have fun. Love you wife, You are my world.

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Today morning 0924HRS Me and Mayuri got blessed with a beautifull girl. Pictures to come soon.

Update: Yes I am coming up with a separate baby section to upload all pictures and videos once the naming ceremony is done. Till then here is my baby girl “Just born” pic:

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28 July 2007:last day at working for Xensource. Xenning was fun as the technology is hot, new and happening and i see a wondrous future.But on that, i was wayworn of travelling on weekend and had no way but to quit out. I will miss my friends Deepak, Tatya, Rohan, Pradeep, Ritesh and Vikas. Citrix is buying Xensource. I wait to see how it goes
from here. Farewell Xensource, so long………

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And i give myself http://www.sachingopal.net. I am still not sure about how to make postings on this self managed blog and livejournal at the same time. May be a python script. Here i never had to think of database, design, backup. With my own site up i have to look for all these. Something has to be done. Or may be different postings.

As on this day a search on my name Sachin Gopal at google brings my domain name on the top, before www.sachingopal.com

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I am on the path for designing my site and realized that always and today i was concerned about online privacy. Trust me one day to find about you, nobody will call you. They will google you. There are already documents and how to’s explaining to delete your online presence.

Back to where i started: Now when i look on to the web world i see services like Plazes, Twitter which are popular. Now i understand that they share a lot of information about me. Honestly i love showing online where i am , what i am doing but when i think for my privacy this is all freakingly scary.

Every time i check my bank or look at a site i am concerned of phishing scams, when i register i try to have pseudo-names, My home machines whenever went online been always on my own hand coded iptables. IDS has been always a part of my home machines. Still there are places you get information on me. Did a google here and you see my Xensource id. A whois gives my home address. Will this come back on me someday ? Will it for you ?

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Yes, I am alive! Long time no posting and its not that i don't have things to write, I procastinate or write it down and loose it........And blah blah blah.

Just read Digg on the "Top 20 geek Novels" and i just read barely Six* of them.


1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

Even i thought Stepehenson would top the list and was quite disappointed with the users choice. Time to check others.

Somehow i cannot deny that i got a odium for Internet Explorer (Nothing related to Windows, Yep Privacy sure).

Got my brain tumid working on Windows-XP for the last 4 days (Even FireFox Misbehaves and Opera takes over), and i realise how much i miss Debian, Wait is over today finally when i would have my system powered up by Debian Sarge(Stable) Dvd's, Courtesy:Ganeshan working as a Debian developer for Cisco Systems. Check out his profile here

How Nerd are you?

He: I am network security.Linux intrusion i guess in here.
Me: (Ponder) .
He: I think its a Rootkit?
Me: Did you run chkrootkit or Rkhuter or?
He: No, Whats that?
Me: Like a trojan finder.
He: Never heard that for windows.
Me: There are even for windows.
He: Ok what do i do to find why it fails to run?
Me: Try "strace".
He: Whats that?
Me: strace -fro somecommand /tmp/pslog.trace ps, or ptrace.
He: Explain please whats pslog.trace command?
Me: Arghh! Its a log file, pslog.trace and its shows system calls
done by this command. Look at the end. You are on the way.
He: What are you?
Me: Trying to get into network security:)
Me: Install snort, tripwire. Hope you have a firewall.
He: Shorewell.......
Me: Ok, Seee you then. Bye

I too got a Technorati Profile and I am Alive!

Brother Appu was here in Bangalore, and some of my best time childhood memories was courtesy :him. Aparna (Wife) is the best that happened to him.

Was at DELL for a Security Compliance Check on behalf of Dream Quest*. The dell website has a inside site specifically which checks online for security patches and Norton Antivirus was a part of it.

Also all the pre-installed WindowsXP was trashed in for Windows2000 coz there security standards were built on em. I still assume why? As most of the patches were

installed manualy like ie6 which need not be on Windowsxp. Or may be those softwares they are on is not XP compatible.I still remember that rulle (I use on linux, sorry not windoze) that if "Something ain't broken why fix it".

Ladies and gentleman, here we introduce to you Sachi* THE CHEF
I made dal and rice in the afternoon
(Who says geek can't be cooks ?)