Posted on February 29, 2008, 8:17 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Pakistan.
I heard the (semi-verified) rumor that PTCL is doubling its bandwidth from tomorrow (1st March 2008). They will be dropping the 256k package, and bringing all costs 1 step down, so the new rates are going to be 512kbps for 1200Rs. and 2Mbps for 5000 Rs.! That is a step closer to the rates that […]
Posted on February 18, 2008, 8:41 PM, by ReallyVirtual, under
Pakistan.
(Sorry about the waving flag, couldn't resist the temptation). With nothing better to do, I just visited the Election Commission of Pakistan Election Results website (yes, that's the sequel (no pun intended) to the ecp.gov.pk state-of-the-art live voter database website that I wrote about here , the one that can't find me, thereby making me […]
Posted on February 11, 2008, 11:19 AM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc,
Wordpress.
If you run your WordPress on a shared hosting server like hostmonster.com / bluehost.com (which have excellent service by the way), and have several memory-hungry php applications or WordPress plugins installed, you must have run into an "Allowed memory size exhausted" fatal error a few times. For me it happened yesterday while uploading a mere […]
Posted on February 9, 2008, 1:32 PM, by Sohaib Athar, under
Etc,
Pakistan.
I originally started this post to share this spanking brand spanking new report on Broadband penetration in Pakistan by our Ministry of Information Technology titled "Is Entire Pakistan Underserved?", and was just going to write something weakly funny about it like "Yes, you bet it is, you could have asked me instead of wasting money […]
Posted on January 31, 2008, 5:05 AM, by ReallyVirtual, under
Life,
Pakistan.
LESCO, teamed with my local ISP (who gives bandwidth on LAN, and therefore, dies with every one hour power failure) finally made me bite the bullet and move to the PTCL Triple Play Project aka Broadband Pakistan today. The PTCL techs just left after installing the connection (in 10 minutes) and the speed tests so […]