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Hackers have been Defacing US/Israel Sites

By Ausaf Ahmad • Jan 17th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Hackers have taken down two high-profile targets as they continue their ongoing Web attacks in support of Palestine, defacing Web sites run by the U.S. Army and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization .The attacks on Thursday took down the Web sites for the U.S. Army Military District of Washington and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, according [...]



Information Technology and Service Management - Part 1

By Ausaf Ahmad • Oct 5th, 2008 • Category: Misc

This is first of the series which I am discussing on IT AND SERVICE MANAGEMENTWhat is Service?“A service is a mean of delivering values to customers by facilitating outcomes that they want to achieve without the ownership of specific costs and risks”Now few things comes up in your mind by reading the above definition is [...]



Pakistan’s New President

By Ausaf Ahmad • Sep 9th, 2008 • Category: Politics

The world’s only nuclear-armed Islamic state has a new president. Asif Ali Zardari, 53, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, was chosen by Pakistan’s electoral college on Saturday to succeed Pervez Musharraf, who was forced to resign August 19.
Pakistan’s newly elected president Asif Ali Zardari spent more than a decade, on and off, in prison on [...]



Petro-Euro Vs Petro-Dollar - Good Eye opener

By Ausaf Ahmad • Sep 9th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Why the Dollar Bubble is about to Burst? IRAN HAS REALLY DONE IT…more deadlier than the nuclear.. The Voice (issue 264 -) ran an article beginning, ‘ Iran has really gone and done it now. No, they haven’t sent their first nuclear sub in to the Persian Gulf . They are about to launch [...]



Working in IT … Is it good or bad?

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: Misc, Worth A Second Look

Now don’t think that being an IT Professional myself I am giving suggestion to the upcoming IT professional that do think again to work in the field of IT … That not the case for all of you . As being working in the IT field from past 10 years I have realized that it’s [...]



WebTrend - StumbleUpon

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 15th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Stumble upon means to come across or to meet in general sense …. This idea has been brought into the World Wide Web first by four persons namely Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and Eric Boyd in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They first established the company on test basis before finalizing the product “Stumble Upon” [...]



What is the definition of Hero?

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 12th, 2008 • Category: Misc

According to the definition giving on yourdictionary.com, Hero is

Myth., Legend a man of great strength and courage, favored by the gods and in part descended from them, often regarded as a half-god and worshiped after his death
any person, esp. a man, admired for courage, nobility, [...]



Independence Day —– Are we really Independent ?

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 9th, 2008 • Category: Misc

As we all know Independence Day is near and Happy Independence Day to all of you in Advance. Yesterday I was going through the article “Putli Tamasha” of Mr. Farooq Qaiser on Jung (7-8-2008). Which was about Independence …………… the following questions comes to my mind after reading his article
Are we really independent …… ?
Do [...]



Pakistan and Green IT

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Few days back I attended the event which was organized by Al-Futtaim Technologies Pakistan (formerly known as Alcatel-Lucent Pakistan) about “Green IT” and recently I have come to know about IBM’s event “Paint Your IT Green” organized in Lahore and Islamabad few days back. As being the World’s Leading IT Innovator and Business Solutions Provider [...]



Beware of Fake Flash Player Downloads

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Misc

It is been confirmed that malicious hackers are now using the Fake Flash Players Downloads as Social Networking Decoy for malware . On the website of Abode , they have informed their users to validate installers before Downloading such type of softwares updates …….. Here is the whole warning thing which is issued on [...]