Dhillon

Find Interference free WiFi channel

Dhillon — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:14:24 +0000

Nearby wireless routers may Interfere with your wireless internet connection causing slow speeds and frequent disconnections.

The solution is to switch your router to a less occupied channel.

How to-

Open cmd, type
netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid

Take note of channels used by other routers and select a channel which is not / least in use.

Setup Airtel Recorder Remote with Logitech Harmony

Dhillon — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:14:26 +0000

1. Login to www.myharmony.com and load the setup software.

2. Click Devices > Add a Device

3. In popup window put ‘Airtel’ under Manufacture and ‘HD DVR’ under Model Number

4. Confirm device and Sync your Logitech Harmony Remote

Chabeel

Dhillon — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:20:41 +0000

UNP Members arranged a ‘Chabeel’ on 22 July, serving cold sweet water to commuters in the scorching heat.

more pics here: UNP Chabeel 22 July

Disable error.log and vhost-error_log in Nginx

Dhillon — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:28:39 +0000

If you know what you are doing and have a pretty good reason to do it, this is one way to do it.

ln -fs /dev/null /var/log/nginx/error.log ln -fs /dev/null /var/log/nginx/vhost-error_log

the command will clear the content of the files and create a junction to “/dev/null”. All further logs will be sent to blackhole (discarded).

Cloudflare and Google Crawl

Dhillon — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:55:06 +0000

Within days of Implementing cloudflare, Google crawl stats plummeted across all my sites using cloudflare CDN.
And the following line appeared in Google webmasters tools

Your site has been assigned special crawl rate settings. You will not be able to change the crawl rate.

Things were quickly back to normal once cloudflare was removed.

Crawling plummeted and taking twice much time downloading page.

Hits from Google bots were also down.

Although Cloudflare did helped a lot with server load and I was able to pull a seamless server move with zero downtime.

I’ll monitoring stats for sites still on cloudflare and hope things will improve.

Move servers with Zero downtime using cloudflare

Dhillon — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:48:57 +0000

(A) Few days before moving your site to the new server, implement cloudflare on your site. (i.e if you are not already using it)

http://www.cloudflare.com/

Its free and the process is pretty straightforward.

Switch to Cloudflare nameservers and wait for 2-3 days for DNS propagation.

(B) Move your site to new server.
database driven sites (wordpress, vbulletin) should be put into read only mode before moving.

(C) Update cloudflare DNS settings to reflect the IP of your new server.

After that if you do not wish to use cloudflare just update nameservers at your domain registrants but DO NOT delete domain from cloudflare

Disable error_log and access_log in Apache

Dhillon — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 06:37:07 +0000

If you know what you are doing and have a pretty good reason to do it, this is one way to do it.

ln -fs /dev/null /etc/httpd/logs/access_log ln -fs /dev/null /etc/httpd/logs/error_log

the command will clear the content of the files and create a junction to “/dev/null”. All further logs will be sent to blackhole (discarded).

Old Pictures of Golden Temple Amritsar

Dhillon — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:48:45 +0000

Ayna , Upsy Daisy and Iggle Piggle

Dhillon — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:45:04 +0000

India Speed Post Status and Tracking Online

Dhillon — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:20:59 +0000

Now you can check the status of you speedpost consignment by visiting the following link-

http://services.ptcmysore.gov.in/speednettracking/

India Speed Post Status and Tracking Online

update: tracking works internationally.