Relating to my last blog entry, I was quite surprised to see a message saying that my IP was banned when I tried to open Slashdot (News for Nerds) yesterday. The banned IP belongs to our proxy server so it means other users also can’t access it, though it seems that not many of them […]
This Slashdot article points to a step-by-step account of what a person did to stop a fraudster from selling his software on a copycat site. It didn’t seem that interesting to me, until I clicked it and realized that the original owner of the software eventually traced the fraudster to Pakistan and that a local […]
The death toll for yesterday’s quake near Indonesia’s Sumatra island, is now hovering around 23,000. Coastal areas as far West as Somalia and Malaysia to the East were affected by the waves it generated. More details here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4126971.stm They’re expecting smaller aftershocks which may cause tsunamis, already a frightening phenomenon. If these are the result […]
After about seven months, I was back in Karachi last week, this time for a wedding. Regretfully, it wasn’t one of the best weddings I’ve attended and the rest of the trip was pretty awful. A number of people from Islamabad and Lahore couldn’t attend due to the timing of the event and those that […]
I haven’t blogged for almost a whole month. Early to mid December was not a very interesting time and I had a lot of uninteresting things to do so had neither the time or good material. Last Saturday, I got back from a wedding in Karachi so have a few things to write about. Will […]
Have so much to write about, but the last couple of weeks have been especially hectic. In brief, Babar got married and all three events of the wedding went really well. Congratulations Babar and Qudsia. Nabeel also got married, though since the wedding fell during weekdays and at a time when there was lots of […]
Gmail now lists email forwarding and POP3 access on it’s about page: http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html While I’m quite happy with my Exim+Mutt setup, all this talk of Gmail made me create an account and check out what’s good about it (other than the 1GB of space). I was thinking of putting a webmail system on top of […]
It’s been a really long, hard day. Although the later part of it was spent doing some critical (and very tiring) configuration on remote servers for totally unrelated projects, my day started at the courts. Ever since my accident a couple of weeks ago, the windshield-less car has been gathering dust and who knows what […]
Firefox, the lean and mean browser from the Mozilla project, has reached version 1.0. Mozilla’s download site, as well as mirrors, are swamped with traffic and I’m still trying to find a place to download it. The torrents I got had some issues so it may take a while to get a good file. Optimized […]
The last company I worked for before leaving Japan was kind enough to host my server together with their own servers. There, I had a reliable, very fast connection with a fixed global IP. A good friend, who still works there, made sure nothing went wrong and things were running very smoothly (thank you Rey […]