Securing the WordPress Login page

Of late I have seen quite a lot of brute force attempts to login into the admin account of this blog. The source IPs are wide and varied, ranging from Istanbul, Germany, Greece, US and more. In fact according to ArsTechnica article this has been happening for sometime now on a huge scale. I see a [...]

Configure your Belkin N150 router for BSNL broadband

Login to your router dashboard. It should usually be at http://192.168.2.1. Now under “Inertnet WAN” click on “Connection Type”. Here select “PPPoE” and click on Next. Provide your BSNL username and password. Leave the “Service Name” field blank. For “VPI/VCI” field provide 0 and 35 as values. For “Encapsulation” field choose “LLC”. Leave all other [...]

Calculate Root of Any Whole Number in Java

The following Java program can find any root of a whole number. The logic is simple. Start by guessing some number and check if that is the correct value. If that overshoots then subtract some from the guess number else add to it. We added or subtracted some fixed constant. If that constant is too [...]

My Flickr Photostream

applegrew’s photostream on Flickr.

Dawn at Dum Dum

Dawn at Dum Dum, a set on Flickr. Till now some of my best nature photography.

Django-Select2 version 3.1.1 released

Just released Django-Select2‘s version 3.1.1. The key changes are:- Updated Select2 Javascript library to versino 3.2. This new version fixes a lot of bugs, along with providing a high resolution icon image, to be used in Retina displays. In my last release (version 3.0.2) I introduced some new template tags but unfortunately I did not [...]

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