Dec 06
Atul Chitnis introducing Philip Tellis at FOSS.in 2009
The 2009 edition of FOSS.in came to an end yesterday and this was my first experience attending such a big conference. So how was my experince? All I can say is that I was totally blown away by the spirit, dedication and enthusiasm of the people who were a part of FOSS.in. I salute all the people who made FOSS.in such a memorable experience.
For a first timer like me being at such a event can be a bit overwhelming, but thanks to Laxminarayana Kamath I got to meet up with lot of people right from Baiju, Santosh, Debayan, Sham, Tony, Ankur, Deepak, Anil, Hardik, Vignesh and lots more…sorry folks I am not able to mention all your names but I sure remember you.
FOSS.in has lots of talks and workouts, I attended a few of them and to sum them all up I would quote what Philip Tellis had quoted in his ‘Shut up and hack’ keynote “Have Itch, Scratch”, that is what the conference is all about and the tag line of the event ‘Show me the code’ is justified. If you were at the workouts and seen the number of them this year you could have understood what the Itch can do.
One more thing that made this years FOSS.in special and convinient was that it was held at NIMHANS Convention Center with three auditoriums for talks, one whole floor for the workouts – WOW! Thats how it should be.
So I will wrapup this quick writeup on FOSS.in 2009 with a BIG Thank You to the Team FOSS.in for organising such a big event in such a smooth manner.
Nov 19
Lately I have been looking at improving my command line skills in Linux, and here is a quick tip to truncate a file to zero byte file, helpful to empty huge log files quickly.
:>filename
or you can also use the common method which make more sense:
cat /dev/null > filename
So enjoy and let me know any command line tricks if you know.
Nov 08
vnStat is a simple console based network traffic monitoring software. It is light weight and provides detailed statistics of the network traffic. The statistics can be hourly, daily, monthly, yearly etc.
One important feature of vnStat is that it runs as a daemon and monitors the interface, so it does not matter if the interface is not up when you start vnStat, it will start collecting statistics once the interface is up. So how is this data useful? It will help me know my usage over a period of time, so in future if I need to change my internet provider, I can use the details below to decide on my plan.
You can find out more about vnStat at the site : http://humdi.net/vnstat/
The monthly and the top10 days statistics for me are detailed below:
$ vnstat -m
ppp0 / monthly
month rx | tx | total
------------------------+--------------+--------------------------------------
Jul '09 533.29 MiB | 92.18 MiB | 625.47 MiB %%%%%%%%%::
Aug '09 602.88 MiB | 123.16 MiB | 726.04 MiB %%%%%%%%%%%::
Sep '09 319.09 MiB | 87.87 MiB | 406.96 MiB %%%%%::
Oct '09 991.48 MiB | 170.32 MiB | 1.13 GiB %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%:::
Nov '09 248.32 MiB | 65.81 MiB | 314.13 MiB %%%%:
------------------------+--------------+--------------------------------------
estimated 986 MiB | 258 MiB | 1.21 GiB
$ vnstat -t
ppp0 / top 10
# day rx | tx | total
-------------------------------+-------------+---------------------------------
1 23.10.09 226.22 MiB | 8.02 MiB | 234.25 MiB %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%:
2 25.10.09 127.68 MiB | 10.30 MiB | 137.98 MiB %%%%%%%%%:
3 18.07.09 114.88 MiB | 8.00 MiB | 122.89 MiB %%%%%%%%:
4 19.07.09 111.19 MiB | 9.93 MiB | 121.12 MiB %%%%%%%%:
5 05.11.09 82.37 MiB | 16.67 MiB | 99.04 MiB %%%%%%:
6 07.11.09 72.35 MiB | 24.32 MiB | 96.68 MiB %%%%%::
7 24.10.09 70.41 MiB | 9.49 MiB | 79.91 MiB %%%%%:
8 08.08.09 68.50 MiB | 10.88 MiB | 79.38 MiB %%%%%:
9 21.07.09 70.15 MiB | 7.74 MiB | 77.89 MiB %%%%%
10 31.10.09 56.81 MiB | 11.86 MiB | 68.67 MiB %%%%:
-------------------------------+-------------+---------------------------------
