Shantibhushan Naik

Tag: world

  • Is recent IT talk just a show of hands

    I recently attended Oracle Events at Westin Hotel here in Ebisu. My topic of interest was to see what’s the future for a product we’re using that now has been acquired by Oracle.

    Quite interestingly the first session from a senior, hi-ranking Oracle official failed to woo me. I mean, c’mon. Just piggybacking on stuff that’s so prevalent nowadays with Apple doesn’t really make a case for Oracle to progress ahead. Big words were just thrown out on every page, every sentence. I sometimes wonder do these guys actually value much as far as the company is concerned. Oracle seems to be calling their new (but nothing novel) buzz as “Oracle Experience” to demonstrate an end to end service to their customers. Every experience you know about purchasing a thing is the exact same thing Oracle wants to offer?

    Just what is the customer these days? A lump of flesh, an idiot, or a baby who needs your constant attention, and love to continue using your product? Much recently, the Apple has garnered alot of attention, craze, hysteria within the so call consumer market. Now everyone wants to try it out – suddenly everyone’s got ‘it’.

    The Oracle Event was a prelude to their sudden attention to their customers. Surprisingly, I didn’t come across a single presentation that meant anything for the ‘customer’. Every statement was proclaimed as seen from where Oracle stands. At times I felt trouble just bearing the innate nonsense these guys keep churning about every keynote presentation they make.

    Make a genuinely good product that last forever, satisfy what the customer needs, and …

    just stay out of the way for f*k’s sake.

  • Eset Nod32 blocks Trusted zone IPs

    Last whole week I was stumbled by the fact that my home network with 3 PCs suddenly stopped working. None of them were able to “see” each other, except for a little while… strange.
    Technically (since it is easier to describe), A, B, C – my 3 computers – could reach each other, share files, host apache, download files without any extra configuration.
    Last week, however while using C’s http server from A suddenly stopped. Puzzled, I thought the machine might be overloaded, or something like this must be causing page to timeout, or apache must have hanged (does it?). But things seemed to be working OK on C, in fact top showed a load average below 1 ?
    Further puzzled, I tried pinging A to C, and vice-versa. It worked… but only for a while. Pinging after a while seemed to stop. Huh?
    Scourging over the Internet wasn’t easy for answer. Maybe my way of searching was wrong, but I did spent a good week trying to fish out the ping issue, then next to dig deeper to find that accessing C’s IP from outside (it already has a global ip; though dynamic, paired through dyndns to the world) worked. Now each of them – A, B, C – have no internal 192.168 ip’s, just public ip’s. What good are public ip’s if I have to access them from outside than just sitting home?
    Something was wrong.
    To cut short, I called the ISP, asked them if they have changed anything recently (well, I was using A, B, C sharing files for over 6 months now). My ISP reported that no such upgrade, or settings were done. Deeply mad about this situation, I chose to disable the firewall (Eset Nod32) on A, and then tryout the ping – which worked effortlessly to C, and back.
    What the hell! Why did Nod32 suddenly seem to block my own A, B, C from seeing each other? ARP Poisioning? I don’t know, only thing I know is that it shouldn’t block them. 🙂
    Well, atleast things are fine now. I’ve changed settings on Nod32 to Not block threat detected addresses henceforth.

  • Nicolas is the world’s cutest baby

    Isn’t he the cutest boy?

  • What a wonderful world!

  • Hello world!

    Hi All! Finally, I managed to get up my own website running from my home server! Phew, it was a bit tedious setting it up with Web Caster 110, over NTT B’Flets 100 Mbps internet connection. The steps were well documented, and even a search over Internet proved the fact that nothing else needs to be set. However, my webserver was not working!

    Ok, I try to slow down before scaring you with all nitty-gritty (?) details about my home server setup.

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