desolator

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

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Climb

A visualization exercise open to interpretation

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

dailylog

Day Log 2022 06 08

Today's events * Woke up early ✅ * Binge watched accelerator ✅ * Went to visit some relatives ✅ * Proper food ✅ Things that I had planned for today and updates Major * Sleep on time ❌ (For some reason I stay up late) * Wake up early ✅ * Eat healthy ✅ * See the sunset ❌ Just stayed in Minor * Dental

dailylog

Day Log 2022 06 07

Today's events * Long phone call with a friend ✅ * Played "werenotreallystrangers" (Sounds like a nice game for close family/friend gatherings) ✅ * Went for dental appointment ✅ * Dinner at relatives ⚠️ (Unnecessary social pressure) Things that I had planned for today and updates Major * Sleep on time ❌ * Wake up early

dailylog

Day Log 2022 06 06

Today's events * Woke up early. Still on Singapore time, will try to continue ✅ * Talked to a few people from India over phone calls ✅ * Did absolutely nothing else ❌ Things that I had planned for today and updates Major * Sleep on time ❌ (Slept late as hung out with cousins) * Wake

dailylog

Day Log 2022 06 05

Today's events * Woke up early. Still on Singapore time, will try to continue ✅ * Chilled out most of today. Stayed in bed for the morning. ✅ * First dental appoinyment ✅🤕 (Work has atleast started) * Hung out with cousins for the evening ✅ Things that I had planned for today and updates Major

dailylog

Day Log 2022 06 04

Today's events * Crazy tiring day (I do miss the rush of trying to get things just out of grasp - In this case a train that was to take me from Mumbai to my native place) 🥰 * Flew to Mumbai without any issues ✅ * Reached my native place ✅ * Met some

dailylog

Day Log 2022 06 03

Today's events * Lunch: Sea food Donburi * Packed for India Visit ✅ * Went to sit at Marina Bay ✅ * Met a new person 🥰 * Dinner: Cake ✅ * Did not sleep ❌ * Saw a bit of the light show at Marina Bay ✅ Things that I had planned for today and updates Major * Go to office

dailylog

Day Log 2022 06 02

Today's events * Woke up early ✅ * Went to Office ✅ * Breakfast: Black Pepper Chicken Roll * Lunch: Indonesian stall * Went to 11AM fairprice finest ✅ * Shopping for India Complete ✅ * Went to sit at Marina Bay ✅ * Dinner: Wagyu Steak bowl at Raffles Place ✅ * Came back and slept late ❌ Things that I had planned

dailylog

Day Log 2022 06 01

Today's events * Cup noodles for breakfast ⚠️ * Tried to cook egg in boiling water ✅ Should not cook for long, or it absorbs a lot of water Not sure if adding salt before hand to the egg would have helped It turned out to be too mushy draining water was

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

dailylog

Day Log 2022 05 31

Mood (sad, bad, ok, good, happy) * Start: good (decent sleep) * Mid: good (work was nice) * End: ok (being triggered when I should not have been, people should affect me less) * Avg: good Things that I had planned for today and updates Major * Go to office ❌ * Eat healthy meal in timely

dailylog

Day Log 2022 05 30

I have decided that I shall be starting an end of day blog post which will have some thoughts about the day and will be structured enough to allow me to track my progress for the things that I want to do. The general format will be: Mood (sad, bad,

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