PC-BSD Up and Running

Finally 4 hours of khawaari[mental torture] lead me to finally install PC-BSD
from CD1. The fact that I relied on i.e. that the faculty proxy is fast, has
just been nullified. The speed dropped from 40K to 3K today. Murphy's law!!!!
[google for it]. now I have to download and install all the necessary
software which include but are not limited to:-

OpenOffice
Java
Mozilla Firefox
NetBeans

Hopefully this is the start of a new and more stable operating system. Windows
crashes, viruses, spyware and the likes were really affecting my throughput.
And now that I'm a compilers T-A, the only tools I'm using are Java, Python,
gcc, Office, Acrobat, Media Players, Downloading, Browsing etc ...

So I hope that this move is for the better.

Plus 101 TAship is a hassle because the 101 Lab has 1/4 windows PC's. Really
old PC's with windows installed. I really dont know why they havent been
installed with Linux. I mean linux is the thing to breathe new life into old
and dying hardware. So sometimes I need to set up an FTP server and the 1 CD
version of Ubuntu does not come bundled with it. I need to also Download
Knoppix and burn it, but on 3 K bandwidth I guess we can safely assume that
it'll take ages.

Note to Self : Get webmin up and ready too, you'll need it someday.

Okay dudes see you next time.

ACM Softcom

As usual this is your host I-T reporting live, but this time from ACM Softcom speedprogramming competition. Although I've never been a contestant, I'm proud to be a judge. Devising test cases and looking at outputs and handling pressure is fun. Plus you get free food and thats definitely a plus point . *Enjoying sandwiches*

 

Later on Azi and Hashim are also going to come in as judges for the quiz competition. Oh and Tiffy, I got your email. I'll post updates soon enough. Oh cool, some submissions are coming in. GTG guys.

 

And congrats to Maria on getting a job, well done sis!!!. I'm now relying her to buy me a ticket to Aussie Land so that I can go and visit and drive her Toyota Supra. :D

 

See you guys later,

 

Till then TOODLES!!!!!!!!!!

The office in the stairs

Well as usual this is I-T reporting live from the office in the stairs. I wish it could be in the clouds, but I guess stairs will have to do for now. For those of you who are wondering where the hell I've gotten to, I'm in GIK at the moment working in the Faculty of CS as a TA/Lab Engineer. About GIK well, its different then when I was a student and by different I mean reh eh eh eh eally different. Society work looks meaningless. When I look at kids I look at idiots wasting their time, time that should've been spent on something more productive. The ironic thing is that I used to be one of those idiots. Anyways TA ship is still a good experience. Its fun desiging a lab course and also fun spending entire afternoons drinking Tang and lemonade and later on drinking Milkshakes in the evening. Nashes company is going great and now we're thinking of launching in Sweden too. So hence I'll have to start work on code in order to do that. Need to manage my time a little more in order to accomplish this task at hand.

Apart from that everything is going on great. Azi and Shah were over this weekend. We went to Abaseen the restaurant by the river that literally means Father of the River. However we ended up eating chicken. Due to limited space in Dabba's Car, Farhan, Zubair and I went via cycle. It was really fun. Cycling in the night time is amazing especially if you're holding out a mobile phone in one hand to see where you're going and being ocassionaly blinded by truck lights heading your way. Moreover since the roads were so full of cracks and crevices not to mention the absence of proper roads in some of these areas, the ride was really really bumpy. Visibility was at an all time low because of all the dust in the air courtesy Road Construction. It was fun. When we reached there we ate Chicken Karahi and had the regular cold drinks followed by Kawa which was followed by regular tea. The meal wasnt extraordinary in any way however the experience was great.

Just today I got a phone call for Atif Anwar aka Tiffy. He's a friend of mine who is currently studying in the university of Southern California and doing his Masters in the field of Industrial Engineering. Real fun talking to him after so long. So for those of you who happen to know him, he's doing great.

Apart from that my sis in Australia just called me over the weekend and told me that the Crocodile Hunter Steve just passed away and the whole of Australia is struck by greif. For those of you who knew Steve or watched Animal Planet, he was an energetic and funny individual and really I didnt think he would go away this way.

My brother in sweden on the other hand has to cook his own food [:D] BURN however he can download stuff at a 100K so this has backfired and is obviously not working.

Anyways best of luck people. See you all next time.

The night before another farewell

Well this is I-T as usual reporting live but this time from home on the eve of a very important special event, the night before the day when KB, the eldest of the bhatti brothers is leaving for sweden but on a literary epic quest one that will take him to the depths of Gotenberg. Just to be exact, Chalmers University. At the moment everyone is tired after scurrying about from here to there, running errands and stuff. Relatives have been visiting since the last three hours and now it is 12:30 AM. Last days are well ... umm... different if not anything else. The day started off with us getting gadgets and tech accessories. In fact the fact that we were out getting tech stuff today was because of yesterday when we weighed KB's PC. It weighed a whole 5 KG. That was too much for him to take and too much to handle, so he set a budget a budget under 50 K Rupees. Once that had been done, I contacted yet again the person who does not exist that I .... well used to work for, but still do in  a virtual way. He suggested ibuy a pretty cool site that is the authorized dealer of quite a few makes. There was this Decent dell machine availible just under 50 K, well I doubt that you would've guessed it but its a Dell Inspiron 1300 and they had it stocked. And that was when we got one booked. Only to go forth and get it. THen came along the addons e.g. clipon webcam, IDE 2 USB converter. I bought myself a 512 MB MP3 Player and USB Mass Storage Device while running around Hafeez center. I've been using it since the last well, 8 hours and it has served me well. And it continues to do so. At the moment I'm listening to Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Zephyr song. Anyways buying this made me do one thing that I have wanted to do since quite a bit of time and that is organizing my music collection according to my desired mood. My current desired mood is relaxed. Other desired moods include alert, cool, 80's, oldie(thank god its not gay anymore). This is the kind of stuff you'd expect from a geek computer nerd. CS kind of does that to youk, but then again there are positive sides to the story as well.

Ahhhh now where was I, so many relatives visiting means that I wont be able to depart for GIK today, which is bad in a good way because I wont be able to get started on the Compilers Manuals that I intended to, however I will be able to go and see KB off at the Airport. Oh goodie, Desert Rose is on :) Another step closer to my current mood goal of relaxed and once I reach to that state, my next mood goal is anticipated to Dark and my friend Rappie knows what that means, yep Rappie if you're reading this you guessed it NIGHTCRAWLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay dudes this is I-T going *kapoof*. See you guys next time same blog time, same blog channel.

Oh man blog composing on this laptop is so soooooooooooo goood. I want to run away with it. This night I'll play Golem, KB will be Frodo and well we all know what the laptop will be. Its going to be a long night Sigh!!!!!!

Back to GIKI

Well I went to gik today afte a lon itme and I saw Hatim blogging an d I decded to give it a try on my wy back from teh daweoo termail even though they have sucky ekbord with key s really heard to press ti wa sitll a good way to kill time. After going yesterday to bytesenes. the 2nd last time I go there as an empoyee, i deided to work at the university(GIKI) as a TA. I went fo rthe interiew early in the moring after a journey that lased toe whole enight. I reahed IGKI and it looked diffrent. Met a lot of old freinds. Had a lot of fun. The TAhship intreveriew was great. I wodnder if you gcan read this. I acan but mayee it is i n my head that mwhy .

I got 2 labs. I have to share the burden of 1/3 of the 300 CS101 students and pierre is getting them hooked on linux from the start. This should be interesting. Apart from that they gavee me the compilers and langauge lab too. Hve to decide its course content from scratch with Usmnan the instructor from scratch because it is being foffer d for he first time. This should be fun. Masroor said he would help me with algos for code Jam. I hoep tht the busy s`heduel allows me to tke time out for everythig.

I wen t bcak with Hatim. He generously gave me a ride till pindi daewoo even thought he himself got off at Hasan Abdal. Great Guy. He's the reason I got into microsfot ni the first place. Inshallah Nice things will happen to nice poeple.

now my fingers hurt these keys are as hard as rocks with litlte rocks between thim. Will post this later. Mouse not owrking. Onlly enough engery to save as draft. Cant find quick post contact in list.

I-T out. Might wriet from Lahore