31May 2010 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Facebook Unblocked but are people really using it?

News, Pakistan
Facebook is unblocked as per latest verdict from Lahore High Court but I find many people not using the popular social networking website. I have even seen many foreign friends leaving facebook and publishing email addresses to stay in touch via email. Updated at: 1027 PST, Monday, May 31, 2010 LAHORE: A Pakistani court on Monday ordered authorities to restore access to Facebook, nearly two weeks after the popular social networking website was blocked nationwide in a row over blasphemy. Justice Ejaz Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court issued the directive, reversing a May 19 order on the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to block Facebook over "blasphemous" drawings of Prophet Mohammed on the website. "Restore Facebook. We don't want to block access to information," Chaudhry told the court. A contest…
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12Apr 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Wateen’s Initial Public Offering

News, Thoughts
I got this in my mailbox today (since I am a Wateen consumer since Dec 2007) Dear Valued Customer, Wateen Telecom is a group company of Abu Dhabi group. Abu Dhabi Group is one of the largest business groups in the Middle East and the one of the largest foreign investor in Pakistan. Abu Dhabi group owns Wateen through Warid Telecom International and Bank Alfalah Limited which hold 79.8% and 20.0% shares respectively. Wateen’s successful four years of operations in the telecom industry of Pakistan speak for itself, as it successfully deployed the largest commercial and first nationwide 3.5 GHz WiMax network rollout in the world covering 22 cities and 1,100 sites with over 160,000 wireless broadband customers (60% of wireless Broadband market), 12,000 Broadband customers over fiber and 2,700…
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11Jan 2010 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Webmin 1.5 features

Linux, News, Reviews
Two new features introduced in Webmin 1.5 that really attracts me are Software Package Updates module, it notifies about new available updates and optionally can send email and/or install security or all updates System Status, collects system information by running a background cron job on your system The interface has also improved a little, and its slower while loading (figures!), but gives more information in the dashboard.
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25Aug 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

BBC News: Health – Shisha ‘as harmful as cigarettes’

News, Reviews, Uncategorized
Smoking a shisha pipe is as bad for people as smoking tobacco, the Department of Health and the Tobacco Control Collaborating Centre has found. People who smoke shisha, or herbal tobacco, can suffer from high carbon monoxide levels, its research revealed. It found one session of smoking shisha resulted in carbon monoxide levels at least four to five times higher than the amount produced by one cigarette. High levels of carbon monoxide can lead to brain damage and unconsciousness. Shisha is a water-pipe, popular in many Arab countries, in which fruit-scented tobacco is burnt using coal, passed through an ornate water vessel and inhaled through a hose. The Department of Health said it was difficult to know exactly how much carbon monoxide one cigarette produced, due to the differences in…
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14Jul 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

HashPakistan needs an admin panel

News, Pakistan, Personal, Thoughts
Well, my initial estimates were wrong. I thought I could retweet the posts and Twitter would give me accurate results. The problem is with twitter results. They are giving me wrong and irrelevant results. Also, when I ask Twitter to only send me "positive" tweets, it sometimes does not mark most of the positive tweets as "positive", in fact they are not marked at all. So there are the "positive" tweets, "negative" tweets, "questions" and "unknown" (or "unrated") tweets. A quick look at these tweets and I can see many of them as good ones that should have been retweeted but they were not. To get over this situation, I need to have an admin panel where I can see statistics and possibly "approve" the negative / unrated tweets. Having…
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