A blanket and some thoughts!

Staring into a screen mounted over a desk placed alongside several desks in a computer laboratory in the University on a late Monday morning, exerting undue pressure on mind to cause it to think up of something to blog about, flapping legs in and out sideways in a fit of nervouness, gliding my gaze from [...]

Re: Hot!

I guess the meteorologists flat-out lied in predicting Karachi’s weather.  Evening is about to get underway here in Karachi, and I can safely say it has been anything but hot so far.  Specks of clouds are abound, and the breeze is soothingly cool.  I hope it stays like that.

Hot!

Something is seriouly wrong with Karachi’s weather.  According to an early morning weather report, which I couldn’t help but hear while sipping early morning tea, most other cities in Pakistan are forecasted with either low temperatures or cloudy weather.  On the contrary, Karachi’s weather is projected to soar in coming days.  The predicted temperature is [...]

VLSI: What a joke!

If I say “we’ve been fortunate enough to have been offered the course VLSI this semester“, I am sure I would be considered, by classmates, as going out on a limb to suggest that.
Yes, VLSI is a great Engineering course, but only in the way it is taught in most other foreign universities.  In my [...]

Heart-broken?

How do you console a heart-broken person?  Simple.  You can’t!  You could, say, crack jokes to see them laugh, say something to make them feel special, divert their attention to a totally different thing, etc.  While those might work, in reality, what they end up accomplishing is proving to others that the heart-broken individual feels [...]

Moving over to WordPress.com

Roughly a month ago, the Pakistani government, acting to censor online content deemed blasphemous, blocked access to blogger.com blogs. The rationale given: SOME of the blogs there re-posted the cartoons and accompany commentary that are considered extremely blasphemous [by Muslims]. Read, SOME, not all. Instead of stretching their muscles a bit, [...]

A Toast to FAST’s Administration Department!

As I approached the notice board in the most populated area of the University, and glanced a look at the exam schedule, I nearly passed out. A paper that was going to be held the following day had been rescheduled today, late in the afternoon. I was shocked. I had no idea when that happened.
Moving [...]

Excluding sub-directories when creating tarballs via tar.

Thanks to gm142 on irc.freenode.net##slackware, I learned how to instruct tar not to include certain sub-directories into the final tarball. Here is how it is done:
tar –exclude /dir/to/exclude -cpf /dir/to/save/tarball.tar /dir/to/backup

Smile!

When I fell ill earlier this year, I almost gave up. I just couldn’t bear it anymore. And if it hadn’t been for mom’s support [and care], it likely would have taken a lot longer for me to recover. Despite having a fickle memory, I clearly remember mom’s words, which she gently expressed when I [...]

Looking for old version of applications?

Surfing Slashdot.org tonight, I bumped into OldVersion.com. Surprisingly, it makes available a humongous 638 older versions of some 67 programs. Phew!