Ajitabh Pandey's Soul & Syntax

Exploring systems, souls, and stories – one post at a time

Author: Ajitabh

  • The Duel – Pakistan On The Flight Path Of American Power

    The Duel : Pakistan On The Flight Path of American Power ImageThis book is a great analysis of the current situation of Pakistan with historical background. The author demonstrates his great knowledge of political and social situation in Indo-Pak region.

    I used to get very agitated by the name of Pakistan mainly because of the trouble they created and are still creating for India. After reading this book, I feel sympathetic for the people of Pakistan. The current condition of Pakistan is primarily because of the Army, Politician and religious extremists.

  • Until We Meet Again

    To My Colleagues / Friends at ITC / BGI / Blackrock

    Today (16th Dec 2009) is my last day at ITC Infotech as I have decided to explore opportunities elsewhere in India. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all and let you know that I have enjoyed working with you over the past almost three years and am greatful for the opportunity to work with you.
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  • Creating VPNs with OpenVPN

    Introduction

    A VPN is a set of tools which allow networks at different locations to be securely connected, using a public network as the transport layer. A VPN produces a virtual “dedicated circuit” over the internet and use cryptography to secure it.
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  • Upgrade to php5 in CentOS 4

    Recently one of my clients requested that he needs php5 on one of his production servers. The server runs CentOS 4.7 x86_64. I had recently migrated this server from RHEL 4.7 (see Migrating RHEL 4.6 to CentOS 4.6).
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  • Locale Problems in Debian and Ubuntu

    Recently I have been facing some issues with locales in Debian and Ubuntu based Xen based virtual servers. These typically appear while running the man command and apt-get or dpkg commands.
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