Stomach blues!

I have figured it all out. I can’t eat oranges. I can’t eat spinach. I can’t eat anything high on iron or that is acidic. I can’t eat anything save for what mom, dad and I cook (yes! I can cook. I am very much trained to do all [...]

Spoofing MAC address! (I be very bad)

The cable-net connection I am using as a backup link is different from the mass of desi cable networks available across the city. All I have to do to reach out to the byte world is plug in the patch cable, wait for the DHCP client to request a lease, and that’s it. [...]

Undelivered email

Anyone trying to get to me via my ayaz.pk email address in the last two weeks will have their emails bounced back or not delivered. The hard-disk on which ayaz.pk is hosted died two weeks ago. The data centre folks are rebuilding the system. I am not sure when my website will [...]

Yakuake: The Quake-style terminal emulator

For all KDE lovers, Yakuake is a must have. The moment you launch it, it hides into another unseen dimension on the screen, and when you hit F-12, a scintillating shell drops down out of nowhere from the top of the screen. Hit F-12 again, and poof, it disappears.
I have yet to find [...]

Removing .svn directories …

For deployment, one should ideally “export” a project that is under version control (subversion, in particular, for the sake of this post). However, at times one ends up deploying a tarball of a checked-out copy of the project on the production server. There is nothing wrong with doing so as long as the [...]

Climbing out of The Stone Age!

The primary land line is fixed. Connection from a local cable-net provider got established yesterday. DSL subscription will be enabled by Monday. I will from next week on have a primary DSL link and a fast backup link both. Oh, and I also figured out how to establish a connection on [...]

Sigh.

I wasted over twenty minutes waiting in line at the gas station in the morning only to find that my gas tank had space for 40 PKR worth of gas.

Gems out of the mouth! (Random Musings #26)

With great power comes big responsibility. If the one being entrusted with such power is not responsible enough to use it responsibly and wisely, they are not entitled to such privilege.
Freedom of Speech and Expression is one such privilege.