socio-personal notes

FUCK this! I am sick of all the marriage invitations that try to present themselves as "hip" by providing some 2 bit banal bull shit about

1. movie /trailers
2. wicket gone/ end of life

and other such analogies, the whole point of doing it was to do something new, and when people repeat the same idea, how is it new...its not.

I am also sick of every other noob, focusing his camera at arbit things and acting like a full professional photographer. One particular picture is to focus at yourself by using a mirror ,and putting it as a dp. WTF!

A quick calculation : rare images in are supposed to be "RARE", to capture them you need to think unlike others. However when you have people who do things because its in vogue , it defeats the purpose. I am not sure they could provide rare images because most of them would try to mimic each other resulting into uniformity rather than rarity.



Some times I am so amazed at level of un-individualistic thoughts represented by some people.Its as if they have no shred of independent thinking instilled in them.

This although seems to be good in a narrow scope of life, its not. Once you dont have any individuality left, you are merely a slave to society (read those who control it).
However, I am not entirely sure if its all that bad.


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Also, i was just thinking about an interview question that was to count the number of words in a given string .

If scopes are fixed, this is a pretty simple problem, but throw into it unicode, internationalization and bunch of memory allocation schemes and VOILA !

you have got yourself a real tough problem to handle.


Shit that puppy is still installation phase, can we ghost the installations ?
I think this should be trivial, since a file is hdd, we could probably make multiple copies.



Later!

Internet simulation on your laptop and your single IP ISP

I have planned to create a simple simulation that will allow me to actually get the feel of implementing the SI framework on planet lab before hand, the main work for my thesis.Its very late ,but i intend to deliver a solid experiment and analysis , no matter what!Because this is one of those parts of masters, that really makes the course different than undergrad courses.

Behold I am doing everything from my laptop . THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN, virtualization , the best thing that ever happened in CS.



Above image describes a rough drawing of how things will work.The hp laptop would host all the virtual network described by the devices inside the circle.
One of the virtual machines would possess 2 nics , one for internal networking and another for external.

I am going to let it be bridged nic, so that i can use ip aliasing to get all the ips i need to simulate pooling of ips.

One machine on the virtual network will act as a dns server, and another as a world wide web server.

When the setup is complete , the expected result is I would try to access a www server of virtual domain from my hp laptop. Hopefully , it should return a different ip each time i try to hit the website with a different ip.


And this is how , ladies and gentlemen , I propose you could do awfull network simulations with minimal hardware.

The only downlfall is this: I cannot just move my laptop to another location and start doing experimentation. This is because, my virtual router (one machine with 2 nics) would require the same changes that my pc would, and I am not sure till now how can I do that in case of virtual box.


One awwwwwwwfully lame experience is installing operating systems using virtual box. It takes billion years to install, and you need to get a good distro so that your machine wont be overloaded. I used two candidates damn small linux, and puppy linux.

DSL is faster ,based on knoppix and all, but it sucks at package mgmt.
puppy is a bit slower than DSL, but apparently its better at packet mgmt.

I choose puppy cause need to install stuff for admins eg. dhcp scripts and all...

If your a new guy in masters, i suggest you to go for a big processor and memory, you will need it because you will more or less have to use virtualization.


Bye till later

Did some reading on ip and natting

Yesterday I read quite a lot about natting and ip. It seems what I am trying to do has already been implemented primitively . The rfc nos. 2694 DNSALG and 2663 twice nat are two informative issues.

awesomeness.

Thesis work

shit I need to do a lot of stuff ,and that too in a short time.

The planet lab machines have not arrived as of yet.

I think the basic ip aliasing thing is over. However I am not sure how it should work out in case of public ips because public ips are limited.

I need to understand natting in order to get the bigger picture.

The overall structure of the internet can be summarized as leaf network --isp1 --isp2--- ispn.

and finally at the top there will be one network interconnectiong several others...

as such internet could be represented as a tree-ish hirerchical structure.


Well moving on...

Job interviews conflicting with thesis meetings

Dammit, I am sick of thesis meeting poping out of nowhere and disturbing everything.