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PTA has blocked the entire blogspot.com domain and blogging has never been the same for me ever since. I can still hack my way to blogspot.com but it just doesn't feel the same. I've moved my blog to my own site:http://www.nasim.org/blog/.

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Softec this year was much more than a programming competition. It was a great learning experience for me! I've divided the entire visit into several segments.The FAST Lahore Episode:On day 1, we were only able to solve 1/5 questions which was pretty bogus as most of the other teams got 1 too! Some even got 2 and 3 so the test day didn't work very well for us. Actually the test day was very

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I'm taking an AI course this year and we have started to study some algorithms which will involve graph and tree traversals. For starters, we were given a very stripped down version of the travelling salesperson algorithm to work out in C/C++/C#/etc. The graph is undirected and each city can be visited only once, the salesperson must start from A, visit all cities and come back to city A. The

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We're doing a AI and Robotics Workshop under IEE NED Chapter. Uvais bhai was generous enough to leave his Lego Mindstorm kit with me so I could mess around with it. He has an extra RCX 2.0 module which he has borrowed from Basil (another cousin, 10 years old). Here are the first two vehicles I have designed. The bigger one will be the star of tomorrow's workshop! It is fitted with two light

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"The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight a good fight."Page 51 of Pilgrimage, by Paulo Coelho

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Sharah-e-Faisal at 8:50aMr. Aseel is presenting TechNetSeat shortage! People (uncle-type!) are standing in TechNetChad is literally throwing away T-Shirts!We had some fun on the stage!Munir's first seminar! LOL!

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CIS is now offering wireless network in all the labs and I'm enjoying 100KBps downloads!The wireless network added a special touch to our Software Engineering project presentation today. We presented our software 'Video Teleconferencing' for final review today which is developed using C# and SQL Server 2005. I demonstrated how a teacher could deliver a lecture to remote audience while enjoying a

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... i've been training myself for this murder for a couple of months now. I have been paid in advance and I know the exact date and time when it has to be done. I'm too confident that I possess all necessary skills to get the job done with minimal effort.Finally, the showdown is tomorrow and I'm sitting here loading my guns and practicing my aim when I realize that my aim has gone all rusty and I

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Google has a new toy for us!http://base.google.com/Tariq bhai has put up a neat introduction on his blog.

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Get Google analytics for your blog. Its a pretty neat tool and of course its free!http://www.google.com/analytics/

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This is a very special time for us NEDians. We're taking a very special semester which does not require us to go to the college at all. We have to go to college about once a week and only for a few hours. We can sit home, relax and enjoy! By the way, this is a mandatory semester which every student must take in order to advance to the next year. However, there are some lucky people who don't have

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Today I saw my cousins and a bunch of their friends communicating in sign language without any speech and I think it was the most beautiful mode of communication I've ever seen. Imagine, no distractions, no noise stress etc. They were actually communicating faster than a person can communicate through voice and it was with all the emotions. Given a chance, this is one language I need to learn. It

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Behind every great show, every quality service that you use, all quality fabric you wear, everything that you find up-to-mark and satisfactory, there are several stages of excessant amount of efforts involved. I've learnt this in time that things don't happen just like that; at every level a dedication and spirit is involved and is clearly reflected in the end product. Our nation is not very fond

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I'm writing a research (re-research actually!) paper on AES: Using Rijndael. Cryptography has always been one of my passions and our teacher was kind enough to allow me to change my paper topic from DIP. I'll post a link to the research paper when I'm done with it. I don't believe I'll be able to finish on time for SCONEST 2005.

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Star Wars III is one the best movies I've seen this year. Like Star Trek, the best thing about the movie is the exquisite nature and the solidty of the characters. One of the best thing about the movie was the entire movie plot, it was just awesome! The movie has beaten LOTR 3: Return Of the King in terms of total business. Master Yoda, Windu, Obiwan were great throughout the movie but the most

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Faraz Naseem (Third year, Electronics Dept.) is the Chief Editor of the newsletter publication. I contributed some news pieces and did some final design touches.

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This is the 6th time Fedora's installation has failed on me! My nice friend Muhammad Yahya downloaded the FC4 DVD for me and I was really excited to get FC4 up and running on my spare laptop! After going through the the entire tedious setup procedure, it just terminates abnormally! Bye bye Fedora! I'm installing Slackware on my spare machine!

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It was mighty fun today! We had to workout the tickets, so we missed the Intel keynote today. I attended the 'Databases' track today. I was able to answer some of the questions by the speakers which they said had not been answered in any other TechEd 2005 sessions in different cities! He was happy to know that I was from Pakistan and that I was an undergraduate student.I drove on the roads of

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Hey I'm finally in New Delhi! Flew on PK-272 from Karachi to New Delhi and landed on the Indira Gandhi airport. We visited the malls today and watched an indian movie! The malls are just radical and the sky scrapers are just amazing! Still trying to get hold of Gagan!

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After a series of hurdles we are finally waiting at the airport lounge at Gate 25 for our flight to New Delhi. We are a delegate of four from Karachi and five people from Lahore would join us for the TechEd conference. I'll post the entire story when I get over there. I won't be having my laptop with me! Mr. Vaqar just offered us some coffee and we're all set to leave. I still don't have Gagan's

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This poetry was written by my father in 2002. He maintains his own blog as well. I hope you will find it as inspiring as I did. I wrote a poem too, called The Time, feel free to make a comparison!June 16th, 2002.The Cry of the TerroristBy Naseem MahnaviTo aim to kill or not to kill?That is the vital question.For many, an act of deliberate will;For some, a mere compulsion.In a jungle full of

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We had a conference on Linux and Open Source Adoption in Pakistan, jointly arranged by IBM and PSEB at Hotel Sheraton here. The number of people attending the conference was close to 400, as claimed by Mr. Humanyun Bashir, Country General Manager IBM.The agenda of the meeting was as follows:09:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee09:30 Welcome Note: Mr. Humayun Bashir, Country General Manager, IBM

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Running Slackware 10.0 GUI under VMWare 5 on Windows XP. As simple as: 1. Start VMWare, 2. Create a new physical disk, 3. Boot! 4. startx

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I've started another blog on Hacking MySQL 5 at Hacking MySQL 5. I'll post detailed reports and analysis of new features as well as source code hacks!

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We reached a bit late in the morning and we directly went to Sir Saqib's session where he was presenting on Web Services in Visual Studio 2005. The next session we took was on Avalon by Clemens Vasters. It wasn't any fun at all because I had taken Avalon sessions last year as well by Mr. Hadi.I missed the third session as myself and Muhammad Zeeshan were upto no good in the community lounge. Sir

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due

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Having read a couple of blogs about PDC day 1. Here's my go at it. I'm very critical about the beginning of any ceremony and I watch closely how the master of ceremony deals with certain situations. Here's a little breakdown of the starting ceremony:09:25a - Rahat Kazmi on the podium09:30a - Jawwad Rehman makes his opening speech09:50a - Rahat Kazmi09:55a - Rafal makes a speech10:25a - Rahat

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There was another programming competition in the university today, titled as CodeRun 2005! It was very similar to CIS Infinity. This competion was under INETA and since I'm an executive member of INETA, I didn't get to participate. Instead, I was the chief organizer of the event and I prepared all the questions as well. I delibrately chose one extremely tough question which was extremely hard for

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I did my second poetry for a Creative Writing competition in NED. I don't have the results of that competition yet! We'll get the results and we'll have recitals after vacations. I've also submitted this poem to be included in department's magazine titled as The Vision.I received a number of comments regarding this poem from my friends! I wrote this poem in about one hour span and its full of

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May 24, 2005: IEE NED planned a whole-day visit to HUBCO. The registrations had begun early in the past week. On the morning of May 24, about 31 students and 4 faculty members left for HUBCO. The journey was long and somewhat tiring. We passed through deserts and greenery on the way, the natural beauty not seen inside the city anymore. We reached HUBCO at about 11:00am and we were very warmly

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After the success at FAST Procom and FAST Softec, we wanted to arrange a local programming competition at our university as well! We've been able to gather a lot of interest and the competition happens today! Its titled as CIS Infinity Speed Programming Competition 2005. Its scheduled to start in about 4 hours. I'm not taking part in the competition as I (with a few friends) am organizing the

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We are having sports week in the university! I participated in Squash competition earlier and I lost the BEST OF 3 by 2-10 and 6-10. It was about 2.5 years since I had played squash! Just for fun, I wanted to test my strength in the weight lifting competition. We have a programming competition planned day after tomorrow as well and I'm the chief organizer for it! We had to set up all the

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We reached the dynamic programming contest place on time but they had problems and the contest got delayed a bit. We roamed around the software competition place and came back, only to find that all the teams were in position and were ready to go! I was sitting next to a bunch of indian teams. The one on the immediate right was Kunal's team! This time we had a really weird computer with a 14 inch

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The night at the PTCL lodging was nice. I woke up early, took a bath, did a shave and we were ready to raise hell! The bus was a bit late but we made it to FAST well ahead in time before the contest started. We ate a bunch of Shawarmas before the contest started. We did a photo session with the indians during the lunch session and we made good friends! Gagan, Supreet, Kunal... only to name a few.

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March 11, 2005Day 0, 7:30pm: Six of us (3 from NED, 3 from FAST) united at the airport to fly down to Lahore. We took the most economical ticket of Shaheen airlines (the plane was delayed by 30 minutes!). FASTians received Rs. 4000 per person for expenses in Lahore and we had only submitted the application which had not been approved then. The journey was smooth and calm! There were two kids

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[Fri, Feb 4, 2005] ... so it started like just another morning... we missed the FAST point by 2 minutes so we had to chase another point near Karsaz... fun was in the air and we were not ready for the competition... Usman and Mehroz joined me on time. As scheduled, the first round started right on time. Llack of planning, lack of concentration and lack of sufficient interest got us at 8th place

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We had a conference on Open Source Adoption in Pakistan, jointly arranged by IBM and PSEB at Hotel Sheraton here. The number of people attending the conference was close to 400, as claimed by Mr. Humanyun Bashir, Country General Manager IBM.The agenda of the meeting was as follows:09:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee09:30 Welcome Note: Mr. Humayun Bashir, Country General Manager, IBM Pakistan09:

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I'm finally in the US! I'll be making my trip blogs here: http://fnasim-usa2004.blogspot.com/

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I started NED class blogs a while ago. Forgot to post the URL here. Here is the URL: http://cis2006.blogspot.com/ I'm still busy in my exams! They're ending on Nov 29, 2004. I have big plans after that. I hope everything works out well.

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I had some free time before my first OOP examination so I thought I'd take another crack at both Mobilink and Ufone. I was able to work out the SMS gateway for both this time! The application does not require upgrade. SMS to both Mobilink and Ufone can be sent directly through the mobile phone at the GPRS cost. Please read my earlier post on this blog to see how it works. Here's the URL to the

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I've been a member of Orkut.com for quite a while now. Its a really cool place, but sometimes I feel its just a waste of time like MSN. I made a lot of new buddies... people who think just like me! I found my old school buddies too! This is so radical! One thing I've thinking is that... this might be Google's entry to the instant messaging arena. Like, its really hard to come up with a product

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Google Toolbar, Picasa, BlogSpot and now Hello.com (integrates with picasa and blogspot) are really awesome! I recommend hello.com to all blogspot posters.

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Finally... after weeks of waiting I got my NT device. Its a SANTIS (Siemens subdivision, I believe) NT box which connects to my PC through USB. My internet is zooming at 64kbps right now. Satnet's ISDN is working pretty smoothly! I'm soon going to try a 128kbps package.

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Finally the troublesome week of the practicals is over at NED! We have final theory exams after two weeks and they're going to last for about 2 months! This year passed reallllly quick... just 2 more years... woW!

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Finally, the LDST project was completed and submitted today. We got maximum marks on the project. The Snake game, coded on 8515 microcontroller. It worked like a charm! I'll be uploading the report and relevant material on the following website: http://www.nasim.org/academic/NED/LDST/

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After a series of failures we finally got the atmel 8515 microcontroller do our biddings! ;) It always worked with the assembly code but it never worked with the C code we compiled on AVR-GCC. I really wish it offered a delay function... we'd not have wasted weeks because of the stupid delay problem. Its a 8 MIPS RISC processor and we were hoping to create a second long delay with an empty loop

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Its been so long since I wrote a blog... I'm back! A lot of things about my university first: Our OOP teacher Sir Saqib Ilyas is teaching some cool things at the end of the session. Its really exciting to take his classes, he doesn't only cover the academic side of the course but sometimes the personal views he expresses in the class are really appreciable. For example, in the last class he

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The final happened between Greece and Portugal today and Porto lost to Greece by 1-0. I wanted Porto to win but I guess Greece were too strong for them!

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I'm not a great fan of football but I've been following Euro 2004 with keen interest. Okay, I've seen only two matches and both of them were really spectacular! The first one was the first game of Euro2004, France vs England. Zidane stole the show! Two goals after the 90th minute, that was one heck of a game! Today, I watched the second match which was between Portugal and England. I got to watch

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Finally! I've worked it out. I've made my first J2ME application which is actually a frontend for my WAP-based WhizSMS thing, it still lives here: http://nasim.org/mobile/sms/ Okay, here's how you install the Java app on your cell phone: Go to: http://nasim.org/mobile/download.wml click on 'WhizSMS' and it asks you for download. Just hit okay and it'll download the 3KB application on your cell

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Just upped: http://nasim.org/mobile/lookup/ Go to that URL with any WAP-enabled phone and you can lookup any PTCL Karachi number (well actually a total of 781131 numbers only!). You don't have to enter an area code. Just enter a PTCL number.

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I'm probably going to started a mobile portal for paki people! Most probably at: http://nasim.org/mobile/ The initial tools I'll provide will be quick Ufone SMS and a Phone number to Address lookup facility, for Karachi. Moreover, I can package all these tools into a java application for mobile. The database would still live at my server which the java would access either through webservice or

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The day wasn't as cool as the 2nd day. BizTalk was pretty nice, memory management was okay and C# Generics was a push! The funniest thing happened in the last session when they announced that they'll be giving away X-Boxes and return tickets to *developers* as a gift or whatever through a raffle-draw. Firstly, we're developers! It would have been much nicer to have received a VS.NET 2003

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I have had this idea for quite a while now and finally I've implemented first phase of it. I hope this is not against the law or anything! ;) We all love the GPRS facility that Ufone provides and lucky for us its so inexpensive! 1MB costs only Rs. 15. Now, if you look at the SMS charges, my gosh, they are Rs. 2.5/SMS. I always wanted to create a WEB->SMS gateway for myself and now I've

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While the first day was extremely boring. I really liked the second day. Mr. Kemmou had lots of intereting mobile samples for us. The first session was so so as he only taught how to use ASP.NET to design WAP/WML pages. I was really interested in the mobile embedding technologies. So, there it was in the second session! A brief overview of the compact framework for mobile devices. 3MB for a

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First post...

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