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Ranthambore – tiger paradise
Ranthambore is small town on the foothills of Aravali range in Sawai Madhopur district. As soon as you enter this town you see many safari vehicles and hotels in the city as if they are all waiting for tourists. There are more than 60 tigers in the reserve. Reserve hosts good density of tigers which […]
Renukaji – a blissful place to be
Renukaji is a small hill station with a beautiful lake surrounded by dense forest covered hills. Renukaji is in Sirmour district of Himachal pradesh. It is mainly known for pilgrimage to Renukaji temple and bhagwan Parashuram temple, both are located near lake area. Renukaji is a small calm place with limited accommodation options close to […]
My Aquarium
Fishes: 2 Parrot fishes 2 Albino sharks 1 glass cleaning fish Tank capacity 35-40 liter. Submerged filter cum air pump. An external air pump with 6 inch diffuse unit. A 100 watt heater. About 3 kg natural color pebbles. A plastic plant. Couple of ornaments given hiding space to fishes, particularly parrot fishes. Care: Aquarium […]
Blaupunkt sbw 01 soundbar with woofer review
I was looking for a music system with Bluetooth connectivity and good woofer. After searching many options I had narrowed down to Sony HT RT40 priced around 21000 INR. Then during recent big billon days sale on flipkart I came across a blaupunkt sound bar with subwoofer. Blaupunkt is known for quality car audio systems. […]
Build a low cost wifi bridge or repeater
I have my broadband router installed in dining area and my study is a bit far from there. I needed LAN ports in study to connect CCTV DVR and a Linux server. I didnt wanted to extend network in another room using LAN cable. So I was looking for a low cost wifi router which […]
Two days at Pink City – Jaipur
It was quite a while I had not gone out of Gurgaon. I have been to most places around Gurgaon in last few years including Jaipur. But just decided visit there again 🙂 I found good hotel deal on a online travel website and booked “Hotel Mansingh” a five star property in city centre for […]
Delete old data in Elasticsearch
ELK platform provides great solution aggregating and indexing various log, events within a organization. But you may not want to keep old data in Elasticsearch forever. Also see ELK installation and configuration To delete old data you can use “elasticsearch-curator” tool You can simply install it as $pip install elasticsearch-curator Followed by some basic configuration. […]
Realtime monitoring of apartment electricity and maintenance
These days many private housing complexes are providing pre-paid system for electricity and other charges. In our society we have similar arrangement. But there is lack of transparency and sometimes service provider tend to deduct amount for no reason or they charge for generator power consumption while grid supply was available. To monitor such situation […]
Syslog and snmp traps in ELK – Taming ELK
ELK stack is quite capable solution for event, logs, data aggregation and parsing. It offers a very shiny yet highly flexible web frontend. You can extend it to limits you can think off. It is a perfect open source tool for end to end data analytics.So what is ELK exactly ? ELK is composed of […]