Zahid Shahid

My UPS battery had already stopped wokring properly, On monday morning when I had electricity outage(quite common in Karachi) i hurried to shutdown my pc.. while it was shutting down windows, the battery gone dead! After 3 hours when i finally got the electricity back, turned on my PC and while windows was loading I saw some heavy spark in power extension and current supply stopped!

After replacing wires i finally managed to turn my PC on, but it didn’t let me load the windows, instead it started to reboot after showing windows XP logo. I tried everything, booted from XP CD, repaired it, but nothing worked! I then Bought External SATA-to-USB Kit and attached the hard Drive to my laptop and noticed that im no more able to access C: Attached backup drive and it wasn’t working either, at first it showed up as empty but after trying several times i finally could access a month old backup!. Came back to my desktop, Booted with Acronis True Image Bootable CD and I was able to see all files in C: …. Took a deep breath and felt a bit relaxed! Then I created Acronis True Image Backup file from my old Backup HDD for all windows and system files in C:, transferred it to Flash Drive, Restored to my Desktop HDD, Rebooted, and it worked after running some strange scanning processes and fixing some Disk I/O errors for half an hour.

After all this I at least slept well at around 2:00 AM, Next day early in the morning I got a new battery, attached it and UPS stopped working.. I just can’t explain how i felt! after contacting Systek they sent a repair guy today in the morning who repaired the UPS and its finally working perfectly!! Everything is UP now!

Recently with the launch of LinkDotNet and their competitive pricing (256kbps @ Rs.1200, 512kbps @ Rs.1800, 1mbps @ Rs.3900), Maxcom reduced their rates as well (but, 1mbps @ Rs.3600).

I had almost made my mind for MaxCom but PTCL gave another shock! (512kbps @ Rs.1200, 1mbps @ Rs.2000, 2mbps @ Rs.5000) with no Bandwidth limit, and 30% discount for Students. On the other hand, LinkDotNet could not resist and reduced their rates as well to compete PTCL , offering 2mbps @ Rs.3900

It is expected that PTCL would come up with new tarrif in next few days while I just noticed the increased speed on my 384kbps Worldcall Broadband, for which I’m paying Rs.1800 per month, it looks like they have upgraded it to 512kbps but its not officially confirmed yet!

After 7 months of crappy service I have finally canceled my PTCL Broadband subscription Feeling relaxed now!!

After a long time of shooting with Point & Shoot, I finally decided to move to SLR to have more control over photos i capture… After a lot of research I finally ended up with Nikon D40 (with 18-55mm lens) as my first dSLR

Also bought SB-400 external flash, a tripod, UV Filter and carrying case with it

Happy New Year everyone!!

2007 changed the lives of many people. It was a difficult year for the whole nation  Lots of things happened during the year which we could not even imagine!

I hope, 2008 will be beneficial for us and pray that this year bring lots of happiness in everyone’s life. Aameen

Arrived August 19, 2007. 10:30 in the Morning

Had a great time and enjoyed alot! I got some problem with my Canon Powershot A85 CCD a week before my departure, and had to buy Canon SD850 IS / IXUS 950. Loved the camera.. took 1560 Pics, totaling 4.8 GB… will upload the pics very soon

Though, i planned to go Gilgit but i didn’t Gilgit was just one-day/two-night stay because of land sliding and airline tickets were not available!
then Where did I go? heres the list

Aug 10: Karachi
Aug 10: Islamabad
Aug 11: Skardu (by Air, tried twice but couldnt get seat on gilgit flight)
Aug 11: – Upper Kachora
Aug 11: – Shangrilla
Aug 12: – Sadpara Lake/Dam
Aug 12: – Deosai
Aug 12: – Shosar Lake (had to move back because of bad weather, had snow fall there, couldn’t see Nanga Parbat )
Aug 13: – Shigar
Aug 13: – Menthoka (did i spell it right?)
Aug 13: – Khaplu
Aug 14: Hunza (drove through Gilgit)
Aug 15: – Karimabad
Aug 15: – Borith Lake
Aug 15: – Passu Glacier
Aug 15: – Duikar (whole karimabad was visible from there, also Rakaposhi, Diran and Golden Peak {Glaciers} were viewable)
Aug 15: Gilgit
Aug 16: – Naltar
Aug 17: Islamabad
Aug 18: Lahore
Aug 19: Karachi

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Upper Kachora, Skardu, Baltistan (Northern Area of Pakistan)

Finally, I’m leaving for Islamabad in 22 hours.. i:e 7:00 in the morning tomorrow. From there we will hopefully be going to Gilgit side. This is for the first time I’m going there.. and I hope it will gonna be a great tour! Due to shortage of time i can’t write much.. so.. Bye wish me good luck!

For more than a month period i got busy in shifting home… that not only caused me project delays, i was even not able to read and reply to emails. Now finally i’m 90% set here, just got the internet conection, but my pc is still at old place which i will hopefully move tomorrow…

First step would be cleaning my mailbox, second would be avonix which is my life.. hehe.. and I hope everything will be back to normal in a week time

While transferring my old backup, I came across this poem.. written by a friend in 2005.

The sun is setting
my heart is sinking
where are you?
I’ve no clue..
Tears stream down my cheaks
and laugh at my sorrowful eyes
they’ve also abondned me
without even saying Goodbye..!
I think of you..
as i walk down memory lane
why did u leave me alone?
what have u gained?
why did you promise me to always be there?
now i’m waiting for you..
But can’t find you anywhere!
I’m going to die
‘Coz you’ve caused me so much pain
I can’t bare it anymore
‘Coz it’s driving me insane
You said you loved me ..
was that true?
now you’re love is dying
….It’s dying only for you!
Oh, please come back
My heart cries out for you
I’ll always be yours
‘Coz I love you!

It looks like someone hacked geo.tv news have been replace by some bad words,

according to an email forwarded to me, it happened today morning at around 8:30 to 9:00, and I am still seeing those pages!

here are the screenshots: