19Feb 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 2 Comments

Microsoft Vista – Resource Hog

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Most of you already know that Microsoft Vista is a resource hog in terms of disk-space-consuption and memory (RAM) but this is ridiculous. Today I got an alert in Microsoft Vista that my 20G partition is running out of space and has nearly 300MB left in it. I have all my programs installed in a seperate partition AND all my documents / desktop is also in another partition. It was really surprizing for me. I ran Disk Cleanup and it revealed there 2GB can be freed from primary partition where Vista is installed. Here are the screen-shots. It really is a resource hog, but even then I love working in Vista :)
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08Feb 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 1 Comment

Pakistan enjoys the world’s largest WiMAX network

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Originally called WirelessMAN, WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) is the El Dorado of wireless data transmission, with versions of it providing both high-bandwidth point-to-point links and mobile cellular-type access. It’s potentially a viable wireless alternative to cable and DSL. In the last 12 months, several WiMAX trials and actual commercial networks have been initiated worldwide for last mile broadband connectivity for both the consumer and enterprise segments. Until now, however, America has lagged behind the rest of the world in terms of WiMAX build-out and adoption. The WiMAX standard originated with the IEEE 802.16 wireless broadband committee. Conformance and interoperability testing was formalized with the industry group known as the WiMAX forum (founded in 2001) formulated a set of product guidelines based on the 802.16 standards or “WiMAX profiles”.…
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06Feb 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Monitors Subversion repositories for new commits

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As the website says Monitors Subversion repositories for new commits and shows a notification to the user when that happens. Download Commit Monitor @ Google Code. It is a great tool that helps me monitor when a new commit has been made to SVN by a developer working on the same project as I am :), cool na? P.S. Its a Windows tool
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27Jan 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 7 Comments

Wateen sending stupid letters!!

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Wateen has been sending some really stupid mails (yes, letters via normal mail). See the one attached that I received today in the afternoon, it was dispatched on 23rd Jan 2009. Click on it for larger preview I am a subscriber of Wateen WiMax since 24th Dec 2007, apart from the three months tenure (Aug-Nov 2008) when there were no coverage, I have been its active user. After receiving and reading through the letter that is dated 21st Jan 2009 and dispatched on 23rd Jan 2009, I am pretty sure that the people at Wateen do not know how to operate things especially their billing, marketing and support departments.
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21Jan 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 7 Comments

Digsby Review

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I tried digsby after looking at a Yahoo Ad. It took me half an hour to download, install, run, test and decide to uninstall it. It is really very heavy, takes too many notification icons in the system tray and takes LOTS of resources. One of the things that I didn't like was that it shows me more details then I need, e.g. one of my acquaintances got a post on their WALL (in FaceBook), like I care? It does not function like the normal FaceBook. My experience was not too good so I dont recommend it to anyone. But if you are an enthusiast like me, go ahead and test drive it today :) Here are a couple of screenshots of Digsby
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13Jan 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Is Windows Live really stable?

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I just came up with this question today morning when I am not able to even check or see old mails in my Windows Live mail account. I had previously blogged about Windows Live policies on the number of email per hour and you know what? I cannot even get ANY email pass through that server to my hotmail live account even though my domain (and all its IPs) are not blacklisted. Check the screenshot that I have been redirected to since morning
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