August 27, 2005April 16, 2024General So close, yet so apart As I’ve mentioned before, the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad are right next to each other and are usually counted as […]
August 22, 2005April 16, 2024General iinix – Reloaded After some time of keeping a relatively low profile, iinix Solutions is ready to make a comeback. I’ve thought things through and […]
August 19, 2005April 16, 2024General ICE – In Case of Emergency Here is a great idea that should have come into more common use a while back: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/14/ice_mobile/ ‘The idea is that you […]
July 31, 2005April 16, 2024General Horrific Perl Perl has been driving me crazy lately. I’m having to test, debug and develop somebody else’s code, which itself isn’t fun, and […]
July 27, 2005April 16, 2024General Riding the Motorway on a Wheelchair It’s been a while since my last entry though there’s been a lot to blog about. I’ve been so busy with work […]
July 11, 2005April 16, 2024General Internet Link Restored Almost two weeks after the undersea cable problem that crippled the country’s international bandwidth, things are back in full swing. The issue […]
July 2, 2005April 16, 2024General The Hottest Days While in other places, people were celebrating the Summer Solstice and complaining about temperatures of 30°C+, we in Pakistan were going through […]
June 30, 2005April 16, 2024General Pakistan’s Internet Link Cut Pakistan’s only fiber-optic link to the rest of the world was cut Monday night and we’ve been suffering for three whole days […]
June 16, 2005April 16, 2024General VHS vs Digital I was just reading this discussion on Slashdot about how VHS technology will not become obsolete anytime soon (and here I was […]
June 11, 2005April 16, 2024General Vim’s Built-in Encryption I just discovered this great feature of Vi. Previously, I was managing sensitive information by using shell scripts which decrypted PGP encrypted […]