Rahul Singh's Blog

Top 10 IT Skills for 2013

Rahul Singh — Mon, 06 May 2013 05:17:03 +0000

We live in a world with many technologies, gone or the days when development would be in just handful of languages. Computer languages have evolved and devised have been replaced. The work is more on the mobile devices. Every successful engineer needs to update his skills with time. So lets see what are the Top [...]

Internet woes in Pune – Wakad

Rahul Singh — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:31:21 +0000

Pune, what is supposed to be am emerging IT city of India with lot of companies opening up a office here. The internet connection remains a main concern here. Just shifted from Mumbai to Pune and its like a village. I have tried almost all options for internet and none of them worked. Slow or [...]

My first Visit to Hyderabad

Rahul Singh — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:45:01 +0000

So, I finally made it to Hyderabad. My first Visit to Hyderabad. Not that I have been waiting to go there but got an official reason to go there and also meet my fiance there. So, couldn’t be better. As a city has it plus and cons. Hyderabad was better than expected. Traffics are awesome [...]

Data Privacy in Today’s Scenario

Rahul Singh — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:07:57 +0000

Information Security is a complex system comprising of hardware, software & wetware. Hardware includes the computer systems that we use to support our environments. Software includes all of the code, databases, and applications that we use to secure the data. Wetware includes policies, procedures, training, and other aspects that rely on people. Protecting confidential information [...]

Restricting zone transfers with IP addresses in BIND DNS Server

Rahul Singh — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:34:05 +0000

Restricting zone transfers with IP addresses in BIND DNS Server is an easy to do task. Let me show how. DNS server can be attacked using various techniques, few of them being : DNS spoofing Cache poisoning Registration hijacking One of the simplest ways to defend is limit zone transfers between nameservers by defining ACL. [...]

Once Programmer always a Programmer

Rahul Singh — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:01:00 +0000

As Said: “Once Programmer always a Programmer” remains true for a programmer. He will always find a program to make his work easier. Be it a punishment as shown in the below image. A C Loop to make work easy

Spiritual and Political Idiots

Rahul Singh — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:05:19 +0000

We love our country. We are not a developed nation but we are a developing nation, facing various obstacles in our path and then there are anti-social elements who just can’t be kept silent without committing crime. And instead of punishing them or eradicating them from our nation, we have other idiots with brilliant ideas [...]

My second winter with no winters!

Rahul Singh — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:31:43 +0000

My second winter with no winters! I thought it would be only – My first winter with no winters ! Looks like here is another one and more to come. Winters have always been my favorite.I have been missing it a lot more lately. Gone or the days when I used to wear jacket. The [...]

Categories of Travelers

Rahul Singh — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:42:52 +0000

Ever traveled alone, in a journey spanning from a day two days in train, Bus, flights. If you use public transport, you will find people and these people happen to be in types based on what they do when they travel. Thus, Categories of Travelers can be divided on the basis on what they are [...]

Things we don’t need

Rahul Singh — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:40:11 +0000

Man’s greed for things has no limit. Thing’s we don’t need, things we might not need and things we thought we would need. There is a famous quote from the movie – “Fight Club” below : We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like. - Fight [...]