Krishnan's Blog

Email is a major means of communication today. Everyone has an email address. Every communication today be it professional or personal happens through email.  With all possible communication taking through email we might at times feel overwhelmed by the amount of email coming into our inbox. This greatly affects our ability to reply or act based on an email and decreases our productivity. Most of has have tons of email in our inbox and no time to read. Important emails are buried deep inside the pile of unwanted emails. Do we work that hard, that we do not have time to check, respond to our emails? I don't think so. So what really happens? The problem lies on the fact that we only use our mailbox to send and receive emails. Yes I'm serious. To be efficient and productive we first need to have the best tools of the trade. You cannot create a green revolution by using ploughing your field using bulls. I use Gmail for personal use and Google Apps for official us...

In the past I have gone to the Police station to file a complaint, have gone to the court to file a case. In all these instances I did not get justice, they only added on to my problems. These experiences have taught me that in India (my country) it is easier to solve problems on our own than going to the police station or court. Which means a common man like me does not get free quality education, free quality medical facilities, and easy justice in this country despite paying taxes. The recent brutal gang rape has compelled me to write something about it. The protest is result of the above mentioned situation faced by the entire nation. Its clear everyone is totally upset about the current situation of the state and the government's zero effort to improve it. Every case (including rape cases) take ages in the court and it takes almost a decade for conviction. Above all the conviction rates are low as well. The police has the duty of putting culprits behind bars but it totally...

I recently watched a video " The Beautiful Truth " which emphasized the importance consuming organic food. It is indeed good health. I live in a rented apartment in the city and consuming organic food is not easy as it sounds to be. The only way to consume organic in a city was to start growing your own plants. Well I have done it. I kick started my garden by sowing coriander seeds (dhaniya/kothamali) for the coriander plant and mint twigs for the mint plant (pudhina) and curry stems for curry tree (kari pata/karuvepilai) . I have also started a blog where I will be talking about my new found passion Gardening and also the growth of my organic garden. You can find the blog here  http://krish-organicgarden.blogspot.com/ . Meanwhile you can watch this interesting video.

Blogging is an art and to blog regularly is a talent coupled with the desire to write. I have always loved to write about random stuff but my inconsistency has been a big drawback in my writing endeavors. I get a spark every now and then to write about various stuff but the desire runs down after some time and of course there is professional and personal life which eats up all your time. I feel that every human being should have some time alone, because that is when one can understand their own inner soul and what they are capable of achieving in the real world. I recently read an article written by the founder of Gmail, Paul Buchheit . I loved the article. That kind of an article could only come when one is alone. The world indeed is running towards material wealth and money takes the center stage. A man's worth is directly proportional to his net worth. I live in this world and I follow the rules and of course run behind money and do every bit of an effort to increase my net...

In this post I am not going to talk about setting up your LDAP using OpenLDAP. There are lots of websites explaining that. However when I tried to upload users in bulk into the directory I was not able to do the same. The reason there was not even a single article which could give me some information on the same. So here is how to do it. Environment: Ubuntu 10.04 Server OS, OpenLDAP with phpldapadmin. I had the user list with the first name and the last name and the email address. I converted this spreadsheet into a .CSV file. # sudo su - (only for convenience)   # cat user-file.csv Krishnan, Sethuraman, krishnan@mydomain.com Anidha, Krishnan, anidha@mydomain.com Tanya, Krishnan, tanya@mydomain.com My requirement was to populate the following attributes in the LDAP. dn: uid=krishnan,ou=people,o=mycompany changetype: add objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectclass: top cn: Krishnan Sethuraman sn: Sethuraman uid: krishnan mail: krishnan@mydomain.com userPassword:...