Re: Hackers. Bust. Prison. Oh, my!

Hmm! When was the last time I fudged a couple of grades on a couple of my professors’ systems?
Haha. Tongue-in-cheek, tongue-in-cheek! :-P

Hackers. Bust. Prison. Oh, my!

Two female students have been sentenced each a year in prison for breaking into one of their professors’ system, assigning grades to nearly three-hundred students, and using professor’s personal information to send empty CDs and magazine subscriptions to the professor’s home. Interesting!
It reminded of a brief conversation I had with a then-friend and now colleague [...]

Packeted, again!

Argh! I got engaged in a senseless, heated argument with an asshole a couple of nights back. I seemed to have managed to piss him off pretty bad. Acting out of sheer anger, he flooded my puny dial-up communications line with garbage. The incoming garbage inundated the link, and after capturing data for an upwards [...]

listps: Detecting hidden processes.

listps detects hidden processes on *nix-based operating systems which support the /proc filesystem. It is important to clarify what is meant, here, by hidden processes. If a process, in any defined process state, on a system is hidden from view of the standard ps utility, it is, in effect, a hidden process.
listps detects hidden processes [...]

Hypocrite!

I snapped, withholding my emotions, “Honey, I have done all the crying I had to. I am not going to shed a single tear.”
The letters on the small, luminous screen of the cellphone turned blurry. A tear rolled off the left eye. Then another. And another. With eyes glistening with tears, I pressed the send [...]

It is just not possible, I’m afraid …

It is nature’s way of saying, “I am sorry. I know you two love each like nothing, and that if you were to get together for the rest of your lives, you would lead a wonderful, beautiful life, loving and cherishing each other. But, I am afraid, it is just not possible.”
I don’t know why [...]

Parking annoyances!

The office where I work is situated along the main Shahrah-e-Faisal road. This road is one of the longest running roads in Karachi, stretching the maximum distance. It connects the posh areas of Karachi together with the rest of city, including almost all of the three-, four- and five-star hotels. It also passes through most [...]

Ever met a prick?

I met a developer roughly an year ago on irc.freenode.net. Apart from being developers and Linux and Open Source advocates, we both had one more thing in common: Our views towards religion, or lack thereof. We went out together once, to the Oxford book shop, then to another book store, and finally dined at KFC. [...]

Hashes of Hashes in Perl!

Hash is a powerful, flexible data construct in Perl. It is flexible because a single hash can contain within it multiple hashes and arrays. It is powerful because of its key-value nature of storing data. Anyone who plays around with arrays and other complex data structures should give at least a passing look at Perl’s [...]

Random Musings #18

I am a blogger who seems to have lost his edge!