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Apart from spamming you, he will have his cousins spam you.

he: hi
he: who is this?how come you in my msn buddies?
me: i have no idea
me: i got a request from you for getting added 
he: where are u from?
me: and i was wondering the same thing 
me: balaji 
he: I am from Dubai 
me: coimbatore
me: nope, no chance 
he: u know anybody in Bangalore? 
he: I am native of Bangalore
me: i live in bangalore
me: whats your name? 
he: or have you travelled last week  Mumbai to Bangalore by train 
he: Nagaraj
me: nope
me: related to linux?
me: or anywhere on linux mailing lists?
he: yes
he: you know by nake Vikrant aivalli
me: nake? 
he: name
he: name
me: ok?
me: yes. what? 
me: i know him
he: ok,he is my cousin. mostly he did this job
he: he is using linux
me: so?
he: how u know him?
me: he added you to me?
me: what the heck
he: i will ask him,? in detail
me: ok! coolness
me: :-))
he: its ok,thanks for your kind info
me: np 
he: bye for now

Pictures from yesterdays meet are here. Turned out to be a geek meet with flashy bluetooth devices and everyone looking for Mike-yo.

Pictures of Saturday's meet with Aivalli, Premshree and Yazad Jal are here. And my new userpic on LJ comes from one of those.

Seems my sync between my MT and LJ is screwed up. Atleast two people have now said that they are not able to see my posts on their LJ friends page.

Does this one work? If not, i am clueless.

Want to find the birthday of your friends on Livejournal. Here is a script which fetches and displays the info from LJ. It uses the HTTP::Lite perl module.

Its self explanatory.

Comments welcome.
http://balajin.net/download/getbday.pl

Wish you all Merry Christmas

Please welcome anandsubbu and sivaram_n to LJ.

Anand, is part of the GNOME Foundation and IndLinux group.

Sivaram is a friend of mine at Wipro.

Was getting this error for the past couple of hours when I was trying to start snmpd (net-snmp) on a Solaris box.

"init_kmem: kvm_open failed: Error 0"

Was thinking that either some necessary library was missing or some permission issue. Finally managed to find the reason thanks to Google. Had installed a package meant for Solaris 2.6 on a Solaris 8 box. Shit... Never work when you are half asleep.

Atlast got some time to install Fedora Core I on my laptop. Looks good.

1. Lilo is gone.
2. The boot up process is now a fancy gui. Not that OK / Failed stuff. So Windows users must like it.

Got drivers for my modem and it works fine. Need to get power management working.

Dont know if i will be able to switch to Linux fully at work. The only major bottle neck seems to be Sametime Client. Rest can be managed.

Let us see where it goes.
-balaji

From ET:

If you ask the Andhra chief minister's office for a list of Chandra Babu Naidu's engagements next week, you are certain to be told that it is a state secret.

In fact, his security detail is told about them only 24 hours in advance. But shockingly, hackers have been privy to such information weeks in advance. (Do you think Internet has made security lapses easier?)

For six months now, they have been hacking into the CM's mail server and downloading his schedules for 20 days at a time. This includes his engagements, his tours of the districts, the visitors calling on him - in fact, everything he notes down in his diary.

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