Krishnan's Blog

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:...

I read a few blog posts on people describing the content of their wallets. I was pretty impressed by it and wanted to do the same. Well here it is, the contents of my wallet. Money Some coins for  Election ID Card Postal ID Card Driving Licence PAN Card Apollo Advantage Card My Business Card Debit Card Lord Vinayagar's Photo My Wife's Photo (want to replace include a full family pic) Hospital ID Card Eye Hospital ID Card My lucky Re1 coin So what do you have in your wallet? ;)

Bought this book today through Flipkart. WIll write a review once I finish reading it.  Blead for me by Michael Robotham .

What is Zabbix? Zabbix is a network management system created by Alexei Vladishev. It is designed to monitor and track the status of various network services, servers, and other network hardware. (Courtesy Wikipedia). I wanted to learn Zabbix as it is a very important tool to monitor servers and hence decided to install it and practice. To install and use Zabbix you must first install LAMP on your machine. I followed the following steps to install Zabbix on my machine. Install the server: sudo apt-get install zabbix-server-mysql Install the agent   sudo apt-get install zabbix-agent Install the front end   sudo apt-get install zabbix-frontend-php Browse to http://localhost/zabbix Login as admin with a password of zabbix Change your password immediately by clicking on the profile link to the top right and clicking the Change Password button. Follow the Zabbix QuickStart Guide .

Will post soon.