I recently read Srijit Banerjee’s excellent article, which brought to light ugly things done by service providers to fool their customers who have grown accustomed to the ping google.com command to judge the quality of the internet. While he has strayed away from how this is done, I feel that educating people on how this… Read More »
So the past few weeks have been quite hectic for me. I managed to get my Mikrotik MTCNA cert, had a nice vacation in Delhi and my friend’s place at Rohtak, took up a new job in the national capital and am typing this from there. 😉 The MTCNA certification was quite fun and in… Read More »
I needed a fast connection between my NAS and my VM server. So I set on to the mission of doing 10 Gbps network connectivity for as cheap as possible. This is mainly to run iSCSI for VMs. I had looked at Infiband as well. However driver support was poor and things aren’t guaranteed to… Read More »
So after pondering for a while, I finally decided to make the switch from the QWERTY keyboard layout to Colemak. This post will be about keeping track of my progress for my reference. I can touch type with QWERTY and have been typing on the layout for close to 10 years now, my average speed… Read More »
Encounter the “Not logged into Rocket League servers” error while trying to get online on the Rocket League game on Linux? Here’s a fix. Rocket League needs SSL to communicate with their servers. So the first steps would be to: Make sure the system time and date is correct. I use UTC hardware clock. Make… Read More »
These instructions apply only for GCN 1.0/Southern Island cards and GCN 1.1/Sea Islands cards. You can check if your card falls in this categories here. The AMDGPU driver is a newer driver for GNU/Linux and promises better performance and Vulkan support. You will need to do two steps to make it work. Userspace drivers –… Read More »
This post is constantly updated with whatever information I can get my hands on. Refresh for updates. World wide panic!!! Google is down! Grab your routers and run!!!11 Well not really but internet services were massively affected due to the Cyclone Vardah near Chennai. To my knowledge three major things happened. Google(AS15169) had huge problems… Read More »
So I was planning to start an ISP in India but a few things happened and I gave on the idea. I did however do some research which I can share with you and hopefully you’ll find that interesting and helpful. 🙂 An Internet Service Provider or an ISP is basically an organisation or a… Read More »
Short blog post to post a script I wrote to backup LXC containers with encryption and push notifications. 🙂 Manually backing up LXC containers was a pain and I wrote a script in some free time that I had to automate all of this. Plus it pushes updates to Twitter, Pushbullet and email and encrypts… Read More »
Excited by the prospect for Steam for Linux I fired up Steam to download some games. The problem was that finding a mirror with the best speed for seeming problematic. So I decided to do some analysis. 😀 I am testing all of this from AS55836 Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited. I primarily use this for… Read More »