Author Archives: Ajitabh

End of Journey – 4th Jan 1999 to 23rd Sept 2005

Dear Friends, I wanted to take a moment to let you know that today is my last day at NIIT / British Airways. I will be joining a new position at Broadcasting Data Systems (a BBC Broadcast company) on Monday, … Continue reading

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A laptop for me

Yesterday I received my IBM Thinkpad R50e. R50e is a solid IBM machine and cost me around £750. The specs are Pentium M 735 1.7 GHz RAM 512 MB HD 60 GB DVD-Writer Mdm – LAN EN, Fast EN 802.11b, … Continue reading

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Cracking attempts on my PC

Since the day I switched on ssh server on my home PC I saw a very increased number of people attempting to crack into my PC. For few days I kept quite as I saw clearly that none of the … Continue reading

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I am looking forward to joining BBC

Yesterday I got a call from BBC HR that my Work Permit has come through. Today I finally resigned from NIIT. Nothing much to say here, its just another milestone passed in life.

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Security Softwares

On Unixreview.com came across a secrity tool to be used for SSH servers. Denyhost is a python script which finds out invalid login attempts from the log files and can add the IP address from where the login attempt was … Continue reading

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