Archive for December, 2009

Booking tatkal tickets on IRCTC the supercool way

This article is a short demo to using Firefox’s Autofill Forms extension to book tatkal tickets. First step is to go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4775 and install the extension. You’ll need to restart Firefox for the extension to take effect. Now that it’s done, head to the IRCTC website and login. Now head to the Quick Book [...]

CKWL on Tatkal railway ticket

So the other day I booked a tatkal ticket online from IRCTC. After the usual 500 errors and multiple tries I came to the “Congratulations!” page where they gave me the ticket details. And this is what I found in the ticket’s status “CKWL 23″. I wondered what the heck it was. Googling did not [...]

Comparison of Google Public DNS and Open DNS response

Google announced that it’s making 2 DNS servers available publicly. The servers are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . They’ve also given configuration instructions on their DNS page. I configured my /etc/resolv.conf to refer to Google’s DNS. Before this I ran some quick tests using dig to compare it with OpenDNS. <br /> $ dig @208.67.222.222 gingerjoos.com</p> [...]