Monthly Reviews – lessons from September

First Tuesday of every month, is a review day for us at Magnet. We meet individual teams, discuss about the previous month and set out goals for the current month. It was quite interesting this time. We completed one month in the new office! But it feels it’s been much more! So many things happened […]

Foss.In 2006

foss.in/2006 is around the corner. It happens in Bangalore on 24th, 25th and 26th November. And looking at how it was last year, I am expecting a lot of excitement and happenings this year. I am thinking various things for the event: Talking about how to become an effective programmer Actually how about a track […]

LB : Network Strength Detector

Here’s a new Logic Builder: Display an image with 4 bars. The more the bars, the better the network signal strength. Next to it will be a text box. Values for the current network signal strength will be provided as percentages in this text box. Multiple values will be separated by a new line. Using […]

./john demystified

I got an interesting problem to solve today! Top on a server was showing a process named “./john” under “nobody” owner and it was consuming most of the server CPU. Our server admin figured somebody broke into the server. And even started getting reports from other servers that others servers were being attached from this […]