Sachin Gopalkrishnan

Accidentally came across NSA guide to securing machines while learning more on selinux policy. Here is the Security configuration guides they have online and here are some specific for your Operating System.

If you got a livejournal account like Me and moved on to to wordpress, here is a way to pull out all the entries including comments from livejournal to your self managed blog. Download ljarchive, Feed in your livejournal login and save all the entries as xml. Once done get back to your wordpress and feed in the xml file. Done.

Would suggest to do it before you update your wordpress journal. I can be wrong, but some entries were missing when i did the update on the blog which had previous entries. When i did it on a clean database, it took all of them.

TIP :If you don’t want to miss on people who used to frequent your livejournal get the Livejournal crossposter and when you make a post on your wordpress blog it gets posted on yor livejournal account. Easy, ain’t?

http://www.sachingopal.in Status: –Taken

Today Me and Mayuri celebrated our first marriage anniversary.  At 2400HRS we started with cake and flowers (Courtesy: Cheena) and the whole day with movies and playing with Asmi. Evening we plan to go out with our friends have fun. Love you wife, You are my world.

Today morning 0924HRS Me and Mayuri got blessed with a beautifull girl. Pictures to come soon.

Update: Yes I am coming up with a separate baby section to upload all pictures and videos once the naming ceremony is done. Till then here is my baby girl “Just born” pic:

I have two wireless router lying around now, One a Wrt54G V6 which has just 2mb flash and 8mb RAM and flashing it doesn’t make sense. The Wrt300N V1 has 4MB flash and 32MB ram supported by Openwrt and DDwrt.I plan to hack it on this weekend.

Non geeks: Why flash?

On default there are lot of features you can enable on a flashed router like increasing network range, running services on the router and lot of other cool things.

If you plan to buy a router for hacking from linksys prefer these as (There may be others, this is as far as i know) :

*WRT54GV1 till 4
*WRT54GL
*WRT54GSV1 till 3
*NSLU2 (With external USB, Flexible storage).

Suggested reading: Syngress WRT54G Ultimate hacking, Openwrt hardware support, DDwrt and lots of google.

I plan to get NSLU2 this weekend and shift the wrt54g v6 to my father-in-law house

28 July 2007:last day at working for Xensource. Xenning was fun as the technology is hot, new and happening and i see a wondrous future.But on that, i was wayworn of travelling on weekend and had no way but to quit out. I will miss my friends Deepak, Tatya, Rohan, Pradeep, Ritesh and Vikas. Citrix is buying Xensource. I wait to see how it goes
from here. Farewell Xensource, so long………

Consumed 3 books today, The hackers Challenge, Sacred Evil and a book on Astro science which i cannot track on All Consuming. I look forward to days like these. Now with Good to Great.

Strangely i want to read more Occult books, But why ? hmmm.

As on this day a search on my name Sachin Gopal at google brings my domain name on the top, before www.sachingopal.com

I am on the path for designing my site and realized that always and today i was concerned about online privacy. Trust me one day to find about you, nobody will call you. They will google you. There are already documents and how to’s explaining to delete your online presence.

Back to where i started: Now when i look on to the web world i see services like Plazes, Twitter which are popular. Now i understand that they share a lot of information about me. Honestly i love showing online where i am , what i am doing but when i think for my privacy this is all freakingly scary.

Every time i check my bank or look at a site i am concerned of phishing scams, when i register i try to have pseudo-names, My home machines whenever went online been always on my own hand coded iptables. IDS has been always a part of my home machines. Still there are places you get information on me. Did a google here and you see my Xensource id. A whois gives my home address. Will this come back on me someday ? Will it for you ?