Comments on: Condition for a getting a degree

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:22:44 +0000

@Kulbir 2 questions
1. Who chose U to be sys admin (urself??)
2. Do u do it for free?

Some suggestions/observations
1. Come up with a strong password mechanism for all. Do not allow any one to create weak passwords.
2. Solve the problem. You are throwing your pant due to “chillad” in it. Kill them. Do not become nude and feel ashamed.

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By: Kulbir Saini

Kulbir Saini — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:32:47 +0000

@Bharat i was not irritated by the flooded mails and will never be .. i love to help people in trouble .. but one should not ask how do i find the ip of web.iiit.ac.in … and if i say web.iiit.ac.in (i give a domain name instead of ip address), one should not try to ssh to that from his/her browser 🙁 that irritated me a bit … i am (was) so proud of being a iiitian 😐
@satya please read my answer to Bharat. hope that help you to have a feel good about it. on the other hand, we blocked ssh due to the security issues. people have really weak passwords and more than 10% people have the standard iiit password. That exposes the server to all sorts of attacks and that was the reason server was compromised 🙁 Now you can ask web.iiit.ac.in is still there. I’ll say mails are more critical that webspace. if you don’t have your website up for 5 days, it doesn’t really matter but if you lose mails even for an hour, it may hurt seriously. I hope you’ll understand now 🙂

By: satya

satya — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:16:52 +0000

all you said in the mail is:

1.ssh access to students server has been disabled permanently. It’ll
not be allowed. Please stop sending personal requests.
2. As ssh is permanently blocked, access to pine is not possible.

you didn’t mention *why* it has been blocked and i asked for a reason in the comment above! do u think you’ve answered the question? and is it such a stupid question that it irks you this much?

By: Bharat

Bharat — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:26:29 +0000

U did not really answer satya, anon or zenwalker and unless u do so such queries will keep popping up. Ppl are curious(and they should be). and they do have the right to know, don’t they? The reason they are asking u is bcoz they know u and will trust the rationale u give them instead of the approaching the server room staff and boy they do have a reason to be cynical about their views.

The best way for u to curb the ppl-asking-stupid-questions menace (if thats what u think it is) should be to just tell them and not try to patronize them.

I do understand that being flooded has irked you but comeon you are one of these (non-idiot-to-be smart) students.

By: Kulbir Saini

Kulbir Saini — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:38:50 +0000

@Kunal true
@Sashidhar temprory frustration …
@Sultan +1
@rahul when you said system … i remembered few dialogs from sarkar …
@satya, anonymous awesome stuff guyz … i just wasted those minutes to write and proof read those emails ..
@Gopal 😀
@Nithin no comments … i have to complete my b.tech.
@Full Time BC you are the best … you rock … you rock harder then anyone …
@Zenwalker 🙁

By: ZenWalker

ZenWalker — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:15:21 +0000

Yeah…we need ssh… maybe u can block outside ssh access…but atleast from within IIIT we shud be allowed…

By: Full Time BC :D

Full Time BC :D — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:11:01 +0000

1. Of course I know how to use a browser !! I check my e-mails daily….. I just wish they make a browser in which I can open two websites simultaneously.
2. I know how to bypass the proxy. Just remove all the entries in the proxy field when you wish to browse a local website and write them again when you wish to surf the net again. Simple !!
3. How can I know the IP address of a domain name. Server room people never send a mail to students after alloting an IP. 🙁 You can’t blame us for your mistakes.
4. Isn’t https plural of http?? :O
5. What??? You don’t have a security alarm installed on the server??… See, poor security measures.
6. Hey… I hope u can help me with this..I saw everywhere but there was no IP address sticker on the back of my laptop 🙁

By: Nithin

Nithin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:16:59 +0000

Man i think otherwise, even profs should have appear for those tests.
Daily i get many calls to look their comp and idiots they dont set their ips and complains my device drivers are screwed….

By: Gopal

Gopal — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:36:00 +0000

‘And server can only display text and it will not cry/shout “Access denied”.’ ROFL!