Monday, July 5, 2021

The God Of Internet !

One of my friend land up in a trouble few weeks back. He works for a small company whose management missed to renew their department website hosting plan even after multiple reminders. As a result hosting service provider shutdown their website after grace period of 15 days. After 3 days service provider deleted the contents also. Now the problem starts. After service provider shutdown the website management woke up and provided approval but how will be the website restored ? Because the hosting plan that company opted doesn't includes backup . Now all blame comes to my friend that why didn't he kept backup of website. Even though he was not responsible for that. Neither he was trained to do so nor he was asked to do it. During casual discussion he told me that department could suspend him for this ,he got 3 days to put website live again and he don't know what to do. When I heard this two things strike to my mind. 1. Google many times show "cached" option for many web pages in case they not available at particular moment. But that didn't helped. 2. The Internet Archive or The Way back Machine. It digital archive of almost everything on internet. It was launched in 2001 for public use. It is managed by a non-profit organization. It has 585 billion archived web pages. Which keep updated regularly. So we tried take help of The Wayback machine. and Voila we found 3 months backup of website already deleted. My friend confirmed that it is most updated version. So my friend started saving webpages 1by1 but that was not a easy task because there were hundreds of pages, images and documents. After saving all contents it has to be shared with hosting provider to upload and make website live. So I tried again googling if there is any way to download complete page/website with all sub-folders, images while maintaining hierarchy. Here comes Mr. Hartator. He created a Ruby script to download complete website from wayback machine. So i created a linux VM in azure cloud (free subscription). Installed the down loader script. Ran the script. Complete website [2Gb data] get downloaded. Then I created a FTP server on same VM and provided access to hosting company so they can download backup to their server and upload for hosting. Website was live next morning. My friend who was about to get suspended got appreciation from management because they also knew it was near to impossible task. That's why I called "The Wayback Machine" God of internet. Because it watch everything. Even if you posted something on social media website and deleted it after sometime. Anyone can go to internet archive and have a look what you had posted. This is how deleted tweets, posts of celibrities, politician comes in media.

Saturday, May 17, 2014

Glossary of Spices & Condiments - Indian Names

English NameIndian / Hindi Name
AniseedSaunf
AsafoetidaHeeng
BasilTulsi
Bay leafTejpatta
Black Cumin seedsShah Jeera
Black PepperKali Mirch
Black SaltKala Namak
CardamomElaichi
Caraway seedsShah Jeera
Carom seedsAjwain
CinnamonDalchini
CloveLaung
Coriander seedsDhania
Cumin seedsJeera
Dry Fenugreek LeavesKasoori Methi
Dry GingerSaunth
Dry Mango powderAmchoor
Dried Pumpkin / Water Melon seedsMagaz
Fennel seedsSaunf
Fenugreek seedsMethi
JaggeryGur
NigellaKalonji
MaceJavitri
Mustard seedsRai / Sarson
NutmegJaiphal
Onion seedsKalonji
Pomegranate seedsAnardana
Poppy seedsKhus Khus
SaltNamak
SaffronKesar
Sesame seedsTil
SugarShakkar / Chini
TamarindImli
Thymol seedsAjwain
TurmericHaldi
VinegarSirka