Mistakes in an ARY Digital’s show
Randomly caught spelling & grammar mistakes in a single TV show and in a short span of 5 minutes! Ironic is that it wasn’t a live program.
Indian hackers did again!
Today, India-based hackers hacked the official site of OGRA (Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority). Details are yet to come but what I know for now is that they did not only deface the website. They hacked and deleted all the data of the website. It’s surely a great loss for OGRA and the Pakistani government.
The group behind this hacking is HMG, who call themselves as “Guards of Hindustan”. They share the ideology of extremist Hindu organizations like Shiv Sena. This group HMG is very active in Orkut and they have hacked a number of Pakistani communities and after taking ownership, turned those communities into anti-Pakistan ones. I have “privilege” to interact with HMG members twice.
The first incident was that when I had one-to-one correspondence with a member of HMG in Orkut through exchange of scraps. He was a professional hacker and claimed that India has an edge over Pakistan when it comes to IT security and hacking. While giving reference from my article about the same subject, I gave references that it’s the other way. Anyway, that debate was inconclusive.
The second experience was that when HMG directly sent me an email and threatened to hack one of the sites I administer. Since the theme of the site is related to Pakistan-India peace, it goes against the ideology of HMG, who does not believe in friendship with Pakistan and instead favor attacking Pakistan and make it part of India. I took their threat very seriously and took extra measures to make the site secure.
It’s for sure that Pakistani hackers will retaliate now. Let’s see how much high profile that victim website will be.
Hang on!
I wrote the following long ago (to be precise, 7 years back) and now want to share through this site. The melody of encouragement and hope!
Hang on my friend!
For the dawn is yet to come.
You may fear the night,
But do not be in fright.
For you have to fight for the right.
Hang on my friend!
For the dawn is yet to come.
You may see darkness all around,
But do not be frightened.
For you have to win on every ground.
Hang on my friend!
For the dawn is yet to come.
You may feel you are all alone,
But do not be forlorn.
For you have to end this storm.
Cling onto hope, keep looking on,
For your destination and good days are yet to come.
Computers for Everyone
Recently, I was sorting some old books when I found a piece of newspaper dating back to 1997 and containing an interesting article. This article was published in The News and is about creators of Pakistan’s first multimedia interactive CD.
You can also download the full sized and high resolution picture (3723 x 2536 pixels resolution and 9.47 MB size) from Rapidshare.
The man in the center is Zaheer Kidvai. He has been a regular contributor to Spider magazine. The girl on right side is Jehan Ara, who is now president of PASHA. Both of them are one of the founders of IT industry in Pakistan and part of one of the first IT companies in Pakistan known as Enabling Technologies.
Note: The company Enabling Technologies discussed in this post was based in Karachi and it has no relation with an Islamabad-based company with the same name. The Islamabad’s Enabling Technologies was founded by Safi Qureshi and specialized in VOIP technologies whereas the Karachi’s Enabling Technologies dealt in multimedia)
Resurrection 2.0
Who says that resurrection can happen only once? It’s not true at least in the case of my blog. Three months back, I committed that I’ll be regularly writing here but who knew that one of the worst CMS will snatch away even the few hours of free time I get weekly! That CMS is known as Expression Engine and after experiencing it in one of the projects, I wish to bow to the developers & contributers of Joomla and Wordpress. The two most annoying things about Expression Engine are:
1. 90% of web searches on it leads to its official site only because very few people uses it. So, at the end of the day, the developer is dependent on its official documentation and the official forum only.
2. The worst thing is that you need to have a paid & commercial license to even post in the forum.
My apologies to those who sent me angry mails that I’m not updating the blog (I wonder if anyone really reads this blog).
