Thanks to global warming even in april there is quite a heavy snowfall in surrey. I took a few pictures in the campus today. You can see from the picture of my shoes how deep the snow is.
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Surrey’s climate is really unpredictable. It is shiny one day and the same night it snows. Yea even in late March when Founders is full of daffodils we got ocassional pour down of snow. Not to mention whenever Im out without my umbrella it starts raining. A took some pictures of a whole lovely bunch [...]
A talk on Open Source on Software Freedom Day
Posted: October 15, 2007 in Codes & Utilities, Programming, Random Writings, Reverse Engineering, Security, Security Testing, Virtualisation, Web SecurityThe world celebrated the Software Freedom Day on 15th September 2007. We had some 100+ countries and more than 300 groups covering the free software world in different form of activities, presentations and events. The webmasters of FAST-NU Karachi also organized an event and talk series on the day and I felt really honored and [...]
Im had been passing through a period of writers block since months now, where I had a feeling of just nothing to write or say. Had been running away from people too (which is my usual nature) so this blog entry is just an effort to break some ice and start over from where i [...]
Freedom of speech, upgrading of the network infrastrucure, internet facilities in all parts of the country is what our government claims. but starting from the new Year they gifted us with another ban on the worlds leading free blog provider: wordpress. Earlier last year the Pakistani authorities blocked blogspot. Earlier this year they suddenly realised [...]
For the first time in Pakistan, the responsible in a “cracking-for-ransom” case was arrested by authorities. This was the announce made by The Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) last week and immediately reported by the Daily Times of Pakistan.As a FIA agent declared, authorities arrested a man named Waqas Abrar for hacking into e-mail systems [...]
I was recently requested that the liscencing of RCE (GPL Liscence) is too restrictive. I do not wish to debate over the difference liscences available for the open source community, yet I personally believe any kind of a restrictive clause in a liscence hurts the cause and the spirit of the foundation on which free [...]
Last month was sad (my beloved lappy got stolen) termed by mom as my 2nd wife (the first being the old system i used to have at home), losing all ur technical belongings in one go is surely very painful (not to mention frustrating) as well. Last month was busy – Had to go 8 [...]
Some time ago i wrote about internet privacy and some steps to hide your online presence. I have been an aggressive user of Tor lately running a Tor server myself. Lately i was asked by quite a many (not so technical people) to have an instance of Tor running on there systems (whatever purpose they [...]
A bus station is where a bus stops, A train station is where a train stops, On my desk, I have a workstation …. – Anonymous. Blogged with Flock
