https://alphacfter.github.io/A minimal, responsive and feature-rich Jekyll theme for technical writing. 2025-11-16T19:52:07+05:30 Ajith Kumar M.S https://alphacfter.github.io/ Jekyll © 2025 Ajith Kumar M.S /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2025-11-16T00:00:00+05:30 2025-11-16T00:00:00+05:30 https://alphacfter.github.io/posts/Unencrypted-DNS/ aku

DNS? A recursive DNS resolver DNS is basically the phonebook of the internet. Instead of you remembering long IP addresses, your device asks a DNS server, “Hey, what’s the IP of this website?” and gets the answer back. Before it even sends anything out, your device actually checks its own DNS cache first. If it has seen the domain recently, it just grabs the old entry and uses it. If not, the...

2025-07-17T00:00:00+05:30 2025-07-17T12:50:26+05:30 https://alphacfter.github.io/posts/Welcome/ aku

Welcome to my personalized blog. Glad you’re here! 👋🚀 This blog is where I share the stuff I tinker with 🛠️, whether it’s breaking into the internals of Linux 🐧, writing some quirky Java code ☕, ricing up my desktop till it looks like a spaceship 🖥️✨, or figuring out how to spin up entire virtual machines from a button click ⚙️🖱️. I love playing with systems by breaking stuff, learning how the...

2025-07-17T00:00:00+05:30 2025-07-17T00:00:00+05:30 https://alphacfter.github.io/posts/File-Systems/ aku

Filesystems?? How would you feel if your files stored in your drive would look like the image above? Unorganised and untidy mostly like our book shelfs?😅 Ever wondered how your data is stored under a computer or your Smartphone? Even a USB drive with billions of files which could be a document, image, audio or an application knows which files to retrieve and store 💾 ...