baby boy singhal

ok, first off, we’re not sure which last name we’re going to use.  mine or hers.  she’s not attached to hers, and it’s “natural” for the woman to give up her name.  blah blah blow me.  tradition my ass.  i’m not really attached to mine, especially since my dad’s brothers are both guptas.  something about [...]

6 blocks in the cold and hurt

i decided around t-day to start going to krav again.  last week i didn’t, b/c we needed to neaten/tidy/dare-i-say clean up before her mom came on thursday.  not a lot of time to work with.  monday this week was the followup ultrasound (and yes, baby DOES have a heart!  not just a heartbeat!  you’re telling [...]

ssh keys

most of today, at the office, was spent digging through mysql code, to figure out where and how it authenticates, so i could know where to try putting in the ssh key code then, once i think i identified the right places in the daemon and the client, it was into the ssh code :o  [...]

ugh, now i remember

1.A as in Umm , Anar (Pomergranate);..2.AA as in Aunt , Aag ( Fire) ;..3.I as in India, Emli ( spice) ;…4.Ee as in East , Eent (brick) ;…5.U as in oops , ooloo (owl) 6.oo as in moon , oon (yarn) A as in “umm” ??? AA as in Aunt … great, now i [...]

hindi alphabet site

found this site yesterday. shows how to pronounce the letters, how they look, how they combine, how they read, and even how to write them . so maybe i’ll try to learn hindi/devangari (devangari’s the script/written; hindi is the language, general) http://www.ukindia.com/zhin001.htm

ssl certs, ssh keys and agents, oh my

i swear, i’m gonna make a new cat for security shit.  or programming shit.  or both, but they’d overlap a lot.  of course they overlap work most times, too.  go figure anyway.  mysql5 (maybe 4) added the option for SSL Client Certificates to authenticate a user, instead of using passwords.  This is handy, if, for [...]

my name is barkinupigous

all afternoon evening and night, eeeesh bark bark bark bark bark.  i need to go pee.  i need more water.  i need to pee again.  i gotta go bathroom.  i wanna play.  i wanna sit on your lap.  i want you on the sofa.  i want to play.  i wanna sit on your lap.  i [...]

white box black box

so, there are two general mechanisms for testing: blackbox is what most users are aware of.  You put stuff into the magic black box and answers come out.  you don’t care how it gets from A to B, as long as B is what it’s supposed to be whitebox is the developers mechanism.  you put [...]