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An outage: Lessons learned

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

I was going through the series of articles on TechRepublic , I found this article which will be helpful for us in our current working environment too and we can adapt those some of tips which is giving in the article to prepare ourselves……………..

Westminster College does not currently have a backup generator protecting its data […]



The Cell Tolls for Thee

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Misc

i WAS GOING THROUGH THIS ARTICLE ON MSN AND WHICH I FOUND INTERESTED TO SHARE WITH ALL OF YOU .
“The truth about the cell-phone–cancer link and what it means for you and your kids
By Julie A. Evans, Best Life”

When Vini Khurana, PhD, an Australian (and Mayo Clinic–trained) neurosurgeon, announced that the link between cell-phone use […]



MS vs. open source: Are Both of them SECURE

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Misc

I already know that you’re going to hate what I have to say. You’ll no doubt send me strongly worded e-mails and post critical comments which is fine by me . Everyone has its view point and I respect it.When you read about the security problems of some open-source applications and operating systems, some of […]



Challenges in IT Industry of Pakistan

By Ausaf Ahmad • Aug 3rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

Pakistan and its Industry… hmmmmm… Pakistan being the sixth populated nation but on the education wise we are really far behind from the other countries of our region. As I was going through the article on the Internet I get to know that Pakistan has lagged dangerously behind other regional countries in
exploiting Information Technology as […]