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The Power of Perception & IT

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

IT still has a perception problem. In some organizations, we continue to be seen as geeks that play with expensive toys. Sure, these toys power the business, but their necessity is often not indicated in a way that’s “business friendly.”Reality and perception are very different animals. Well-chosen words and a positive demeanor […]



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 […]



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 […]



Imperial Decree

By Ghazala Khan • Dec 12th, 2007 • Category: Politics

Pragma is basically an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land. The imperial decrees are what seem to drive the politics and affairs of this country, we so lovingly call Pakistan. For Pakistan, the funny thing is that it has multiple imperial sources apparently, but all those imperial sources converge […]



Mom’s Collection By Dan Tow (Part- I)

By Dan Tow • Jun 22nd, 2007 • Category: Interviews

This is a collection of the poems I, Dan Tow, wrote for my mother between my later teen years and Christmas, shortly before I turned 47. These were mostly given to Mom on her birthdays, for Christmas, and for Mother’s Days, and collected by her in an album she willed to me on her death […]