Ask: Persistent issues with PTCL Broadband DSL service.

I have been facing two slightly related issues with PTCL Broadband DSL connection consistently ever since I started using the service.
I am using the de facto SmartAX MT880 DSL modem PTCL ships out as CPE with their broadband package along with YCL CPF105C ADSL splitter device. The modem is set up in [...]

Mid-week nightly Perl useless magic and fun!

Last night, I was sitting at my desk, watching text scroll by across an IRC session open in a terminal screen set in black, when my eyes came to halt at Pixelized on ##slackware on FreeNode soliciting help with a particular use of grep. To cut the rather overly technical story short, what Pixelized [...]

Blessed is I

… for I have an Internet connection at work that is so fast, so fast (and I can’t seem to be able to emphasize enough) it will blow your mind off. Some proof is in order:
ayaz@worklinux:$ ping www.google.com
PING google.navigation.opendns.com (208.67.217.231) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from google.navigation.opendns.com (208.67.217.231): icmp_seq=160 ttl=53 time=4228 ms
64 bytes from [...]

My best wishes and happy birthday!

Where ever you are, what ever you’re doing, I only hope you’re in the best possible health, state, situation. I wish you a happy birthday. I wish you all the success, happiness, and joy in life–for life’s too short, too cruel, too difficult. I wish you all the luck in life that [...]

Drenched memories.

“It rained heavily, and periodically for a little over an hour.”
The downpour, following an intermediate sand storm, was one that happened roughly after a whole year, or something to that effect. It came as a surprise, as with many other aspects of mother nature, but was, nonetheless, a moment to be cherished by us Karachiites.
Coincidentally, [...]

Dual-Head: Sharing laptop’s desktop with external LCD.

I bought a second-hand 17″ HP LCD from a college friend. I got it to use with my headless Dell desktop box, but since it runs Slackware and I work with it remotely, I have the LCD now attached to the laptop as an extended display. Luckily, the ATI Radeon card on the [...]

Of managers and wrong people at workplace.

I have been reading the book “Good to Great” for months now. It is such a wonderful read that I am intentionally resisting from devouring it in one go. I went through a few pages last night, and felt an itch to put the following excerpt on the blog. I typed it [...]

Resource! (Random Musings #27)

The client complains, “Where is the resource? The resource hasn’t reached yet for testing.” The project manager frantically responds, “Our resource is on its way for on-site testing.” At another point in time, the project manager is caught writing, “I am aligning my resources for activities planned for today“.
Resource this. Resource [...]