Nagios4 : A trip down on memory lane A brief story When I joined the first ever company I worked for, we were doing a migration from nagios to icinga2. I did not read up more about it at the moment, I did not know anything at all (fresh out of college), and all I wanted was to
philosophy Forgiveness I forgive myself, for the wrongs that i did I forgive myself for the rights that i should have done I forgive myself for not trying I forgive myself for trying too hard I forgive myself for caring too much I forgive myself for not caring enough I forgive myself
tmux config from scratch (WIP) This will be an attempt to create the tmux config that I want from the start. In the past I have started with someone's config like oh my tmux with some customization on top. I think it is time that I start listing what I want to do
content Some days all you need is a little rick and roll This is definitely content This is definitely not spam
rambling My problem with Thanks Rant Alert So, one of polite words that everyone is taught from their childhood days is thanks (the other one being sorry if you are wondering). We are taught to thank anyone who has helped you in any way. It is a way to show appreciation and be polite to
Travel like a local in Goa On my recent trip to Goa, I was stuck in thought. I had to decide how do I reach my destination near Anjuna Market from my getting off point - Thivim Railway Station. I as travelling from my native place to meet and spend some time with friends. My first
Understanding SSD Life This is to get an idea about the life remaining of the SSD on my laptop to make sure that I am prepared enough if I were to be hosting something that does not have enough backups So, firstly, we will look at the SMART data that the drive spits
D-link DIR-615 T1 unlock firmware We start with a little bit of back story before going ahead to how we performed the firmware unlock. Backstory When I got my first high speed internet connection at my home, my options were limited. The only decent option was the DOCSIS supported Hathway internet. When everything was said
rant sudo vulnerability hysteria Its a normal work day, and you hear your collegues talking about the new big vulnerability, how all the systems we manage are vulnerable and how we need to start working to get things fixed right now. The plan: find all vulnerable systems and remove the usecase that would lead
tech Aeropsike Resizing (Just another day at the office) This is a Knowledge Base article regarding changing the topology of aerospike that we were using in our team. Timeline to Problem * We had a 7 node aerospike cluster using i3.xlarge nodes. * The cluster was designed to keep cookie data, hence the i3 instances were used which provide ample
philosophy Introspection Below is a poem that I wrote some time back. Do get back with suggestions. Once upon a time, there was this guy, Filled with guilt his days went by. For he had lots of people who loved him a lot, Moving away from them, with life he fought. For
philosophy Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder What is beauty, if not in the eyes of the beholder? Naruto had a few characters obsessed with art. They might be evil in the series but their questions do ring a resonance with the heart. All had their versions of what is beautiful. All tried to be remembered in
beliefs Theories of Life 001 More often than not, people that I talk to say "You should totally write about that" after I have had some or the other philosophical conversation with them. This is my experiment to understand the feasibility of it. This is a work in progress so, suggestions are always
love My one true LOVE I happened to make her acquaintance when I was in college. While strolling around the internet, I got fixated on the popularity that she enjoyed. I was intrigued. I wanted to know why everyone seems to be so fond of her. I looked around, and found hundreds of pages of
nginx Debugging Web APIs (nginx) This post lays down how we can log both the request body as well as the response body using nginx as a reverse proxy.
philosophy Clearing out my mind Normally I am a jolly person, unaffected by anything else. But today is not any other day. Today is different. Today I feel my head is heavy. Feel like I have a lot to worry but when I try to figure out the things that are troubling me, nada. Normally
