Archive for the ‘Office’ Category

Have you checked your IP address ?

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Have you noticed this ? Your PC's IP address at office. It generally starts with 10.X.X.X or 172.X.X.X or else with 192. X.X.X. Why ? Off all the zillion options to pick the IP address, why only these three. The reason is RFC 1918. Each address is a reserved pool in ...

Wikitravel

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

If you are a trotter then wikitravel should be your first companion on the web. Almost one stop for all your travel needs. From History, Facts, Climate, transport to what to see and what not to miss, all told in a tourist friendly language. [caption id="attachment_578" align="alignnone" width="280" caption="Your local guide"][/caption] It's ...

Korea in camera

Friday, September 19th, 2008

I have not had anytime to look around in the city. Probably this visit was meant to be pure business. I did not have any time to upload these pictures and regather my thoughts as well. Just four more days to go before I say good bye to Seoul. 1] That's ...

24X3 = 72 -6 = 66

Friday, September 5th, 2008

24 X 3 = 72 2 X 3 = 6 72 - 6 = 66 Wondering what math is this ? It's crazy. I broke all my past records. Six hours of sleep in past three days. I still cant figure out how did I manage it. This was for demonstrating and Bench ...

Looking East

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

I have seen a bit of west, but never been to east. [caption id="attachment_531" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Aerial view of Seoul"][/caption] I would be visiting Seoul, South Korea for next three weeks, starting this Monday. Before you say wow, let me tell you it's a zero-pleasure-trip. Language and food are the other concerns ...

How to be productive on Mondays ?

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Drew on a Monday to deal with mundane Mondays. How do you tackle your Mondays ? Free-to-print-poster for your cube.

Understanding IPSec/IKE Phase 1

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

IPSec/Ike is a difficult-to-grasp security protocol. Because it is one protocol which does many things. Authenticates, encrypts and establishes a secure tunnel. I have been trying to get a understading of message exchanges between the initiator (eg: mobile) and responder (eg: security gateway) before the tunnel is established. In ...

Symbol speak

Friday, May 30th, 2008

It's the team I work with at office. Team lunch this afternoon at Jalsa. Tried putting symbols to match the personalities!!(Click to enlarge)

Good Luck Tania

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Tania Biswas, is a best friend, than just a colleague of mine. Her last day at office today. We worked together for 2.5 years. My best mentee so far :)Ever smiling, enthusiastic, full of energy and jumping to learn ...and yes argumentative ( Bengali ?, yes ). ...

It’s working. Net-working.

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

It was a very very very hectic week at office. I was to implement a network using two Cisco catalyst switches with virtual redundancy routing protocol (VRRP) enabled. This too over bridged MRV switches. Sounds geeky ?! It isss.....It took me two full weeks right from working it ...