I have started learning driving and last Saturday I had my first chance to actually drive! It was kinda scary at the very beginning, I was scared of pressing the accelerator thinking the car might just jump ahead and hit the by standers. But later I found that it was not the case. Unless you [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Having driving lessons
Posted in Personal on May 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Remote login using ssh
Posted in Linux, Technology, Unix, Work on May 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
ssh is a program used for logging into a remote machine and execute commands on that machine. For example right now I have logged into a remote machine and executed DVD burning command on that computer since it has a DVD writer. The simplest use of ssh is ssh hostname. This command connects to hostname [...]
Unix tips: Globbing and Aliases
Posted in Linux, Technology, Unix, Work on May 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Globbing: The process of expanding a wildcard to the list of matching file names is called globbing, and UNIX shells have a variety of globbing operators (so-called globs) to help you express what you’re looking for: The glob * (star) matches any character or sequence of characters, including an empty sequence. The glob ? (question [...]
Blood Diamond
Posted in Movie on May 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As a part of my continues struggle to sleep late at night, I have started watching movies at night. I start watching after dinner and keep watching till its 1 AM. Last night I finished watching Blood Diamond. Set in the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999, the film shows a country torn apart by [...]
We – the beasts!
Posted in Misc, Thoughts on May 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I was watching Blood Diamond last night. In the movie there are scenes where the rebel group kills civilians in a barbaric manner. They just point automatic machine guns to civilians and pull the trigger. Whoever that comes across dies. It was so sad to see specially because it is after all close to reality. [...]
Benefits of Wudhu
Posted in Islam, Religious on May 13, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I came across this Hadith today from a yahoo group I am subscribed to. It is about the benefits of Wudhu. I myself am a bit reluctant to perform the Wudhu and often pray Asr and Magrib prayers with one Wudhu. I see no reason why I should do that now. Abu Huraira reported: Allah’s [...]
Web sms
Posted in Misc, Personal on May 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Just a while ago the tittle of this blog was ‘Free International sms’. But its history now. You will discover the reason very soon. My wife uses web sms to send sms to me and others here in Bangladesh because its much cheaper. So far, we were using the web sms service of bol, an [...]
A week of ‘Nothing’!
Posted in Misc, Personal on May 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have not worked a bit in this week. First couple of days of the week went watching tour pictures that we had last week. The next few days went by doing – nothing! It started with a simple link passing, she passed me a youtube link to Shrek 3 trailer. Then, one thing led [...]
