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Hi Fellows,

6th February 2000 was my first day at wor as far as I remember, although I was employed as of 1st January 2000 and got my salary before even going to work because the office was under repairs, and they got the drift that I was appearing in “interviews” at other companies. Anyways according to my calculations I have completed 10 years at work.

First job at Global Information Systems for Voice Mail and Paging systems was landed through a phone call after my final exams, ended on 15th October 2000 when they decided to wind up operations in Karachi.

Second job at Matrix Systems (SoftPak Financial Systems) started the next day i.e. on 16th November 2000 through the only interview I appeared in till then mentioned above, had a hobby of mobile development on the side so finally quit in Feb 2005.

Third job was the second worst time of my career with 3 resignations in 11 months I was given a three months leave and landed at my first consultancy end of Jan 2006 later on this proved to be my longest employment stint. The leave at the mobile development organization only ended in a farce from their end.

But I was the next day at my own company providing consltancy with the same client Rockville Technologies, it slowly changed to permanent employment selling off my company and then moving to the main office in Islamabad still here and things are looking great.

I mentioned my second worst time, but not the WORST, lets better not talk about that but the thing is that no employer / company can hurt anybody, solet them try and just keep doing your work, you won’t need interviews and a few references will do

In short 10 years with 4 jobs with two covering eight years, and one company sold, its not been bad at all and a lot more is waiting for me in the future. Whatever you do just make some kind of webpage and maintain an online resume, you’ll never sit at home.

 Here is a simple solution to keep alive a wateen connection if you are using a WIFI router, which are getting common with the rise of WIFI capable cell phones and devices.

Most wifi routers can be easily flashed to run this opensource linux operating system dd-wrt www.dd-wrt.com which transforms your cheap wifi router into a high end networking equipment. I used a dlink dir-300 worth around Pak Rs. 3500/-

Simply locate cron configuration under administration and configure as shown, now you can connect from any wireless device to find your internet always working as it is supposed to be. Without having a PC to run a software to keep the connection alive. =)

The text in the box is:

*/5 * * * * root wget -q -O /dev/null http://10.16.6.16/status > /tmp/wget1.log
*/20 * * * * root wget -q -O /dev/null http://www.google.com.pk > /tmp/wget2.log

As mentioned earlier, I started using this keyboard as shown in the picture, but soon I found it interferes with every application running in the background meaning its driver would not run with CarPack, Nokia Messaging for push email, etc.

In short it was not a choice for me, but it was quite an investment and finding a better item is not possible here.

So I went ahead and wrote my own driver which ended up much simpler than I thought and has more features, plus I can modify it according to my needs.

If you have a similar keyboard and have a devCert or can install unsigned apps on your device, just go ahead an download the archive.

I recently had the opportunity to try out the evdo broadband service. I was not expecting wonders and hence am not disappointed. Also as it was just a free trial I did not pay anything. Anyways I used it side by side with wateen and the verdict is crawling slow. Your mileage may vary but this being center of the capital and all other services fly here.

For all Wateen WiMAX users out there in Pakistan, this small desktop utility will keep you logged in without having to relogin or to find out that your connection was down while you were trying to do something and gave up on it. It is very simple and just uses the web interface to log in and check uploaded and downloaded bytes which are shown on the screen, the green / red square is a status check to see if the connection is up or not. You have to define preferences for username, password, always autologin, and refresh time in seconds. Tested on Windows XP, Ubuntu 7.10, MacOS Tiger.
I also have a J2ME version to be used on WIFI enabled cell phones / PDAs but currently no preference changes are implemented so can not make it available for download, if I get more than 10 comments here asking for it, I’ll take out some time to implement it.

Download the desktop version here:

Screenshot for eye candy (click on image for full version):

Short on ideas got this one from a kids show. Evidence of blending wrong colors is obvious but that means I learnt something
- Taken at 9:20 PM on March 03, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

Well its a different feeling when you paint for any other reason than getting a grade. Oil pastels is the medium of choice here. Just recieved my shipment from amazon.com with the books I think will help me in getting acceptable results for this hobby.
- Taken at 12:12 AM on February 29, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu