Hello folks. How you all been doing.. I know no ones gonna answer that in the comments but anyhow.. This last week end didn’t go so well for me, for a couple of reasons. Some of them are what I will not write about here, but the rest.. oh well, read on.

I was already have some diaherrea problems, and since I m on night shifts for my job , I cam home in the morning on Friday, my office is  like an hour and a half away from my home, so when I was home, I had to ruch to the toilet, picture this a dark toilet and no electricity, so obviously I had to lit the candle (bad idea), which was super small already (being the lazy ass I didn’t get a bigger one :P), so any how I did what I had to do in the toilet, spent like 15-20 minutes, and then came out, there still was no electricity and I wasn’t sleepy and I had to go for Friday prayers too, so I just popped up my ipod and watched movies, like 10 minutes later, I could smell plastic burning.. Holy F***, I ran upstairs and open the toilet door only to find black smoke, yes the tanka nd comode had been gone, not really the comode but the seating the tissues, and the rest of the stuff near the sitting place Yes ! Oh crap, what a way to start the week end. I had to put it out and stuff, I was all black and my room and the whole of upstairs was a mess in no time.. Took me a while to put out the fire and restroe oxygen :S

Anyhow, after that, the Friday prayers and sleep. Next day I had to head for Asim’s place for some stuff, and boy I almost had a fight with his bro’s friend, on some work issues, mofo wants work, and won’t pay, thats the crappy part, I did the work and got paid super less. Never am I going to work for him any more. Yes I ended a business relationship, a rather bitter one. He doesn’t really get the design business, and no barely anything about the design industry of the use of a creative mind.

And I still had diaherrea throughout the week end. crap crap crap. Monday was better.

Found this image to be awesome.

[Image from : Pink sheep / Twitter nonsense]

Tags: burn, crap, crash, destroyed, diaherrea, shit, toilet, week end

A day or two back, my friend H-N was at my place for some work reasons, and guess what, he got Najam’s external HDD with him, which had his files, a dozen and more bunch of viruses..

My antivirus (avast), instantly recoginized these viruses, and stopped most of them, some were too quick and planted them in my OS drive, which is absolutely a primary drive to run the operating system of the computer..

2 days later and my computer was still infected, I actually was occupied with work that’s not related to computers so this dis-infection of the computer was delayed. DAMN !

Any how, this particular night, I had enough of this virus pop ups from my AntiVirus scanner, and I decided to get rid of it, with a little help from the internet (my little form of research), I discovered it was a Rootkit virus, which generally are a bit hard to remove. Any how I guess most of it or a 100% of it are gone now, since all the dsoftwares I used to disinfect my computer say that there’s no more virus in my 320 GB HDD..

I m going to list all the softwares and methods below so anyone who gets something as nasty can get some help from here.

My Antivirus is Avast Home Edition 4.8, and prompted that I had some infected file in <System Root>\system32\drivers folder which was called klif.sys, I moved it to the antivirus chest, in other words quarantined it, and then deleted it from the chest, means making it ineffective and deleting it, obviously even deleting this would not help, since it had spread a bit. So I also ran a boot time scan of my computer, after I had run a thorough scan.

My next step was to run a complete spyware scan of my HDD, which revealed I had 2 registry values added or modified, I used Spybot Search & Destroy and TrendMicro Hijack this, for this purpose.

I also had to look up manually if any autorun files had been added, and there’s no surprze they had been done so on all my fixed Hard drives and also my ipod which was connected.. These files would pop up each time even after I had removed them.. so what I did was to run a live version of Ubuntu which I had just downloaded and remove all the autorun files from there.. for those who’re wondering, ubuntu is a free linux distribution, recommended for any home/pro user.

I then booted again in to Windows XP, and reran the antivirus and antispyware and used Sophos Rootkit Remover, this also found something, and cleaned it for me.

I ran an antivirus again and found out that my computer was now been clean, but somehow, I couldn’t still view the hidden files, no matter how many times I enables/disabled it from the folder options, so I searched a bit and found that a registry value could’ve been added/modified, and as I checked indeed, it had been modified, so yes, I modified it again, and you can find the solution to it here. It’s a bit of a registry work, so proceed with caution.

So now I have my computer back, anyone who has been bothered by my “non-presence” this was the reason, I m sorry.

I m hoping everyoen says safe from Viruses, please if you still haven’t got an antiviurs, do so and keep your files safe, and donot connect drives unless they’ve been checked for viruses, getting the viruses off your system is a big hassle, trust me.

Oh and if this helps any one, do tell me.

Tags: avast, computer, crap, f*ck, hassan, hijack this, kill, klif.sys, linux, M, najam, PC, rootkit, shit, sophos, spybot search and destroy, thanks, ubuntu, virus, windows

Hey there ‘online aur offline dostoon’, wassup ? how’s life ?

For me, right now it’s like something thats lying dead still in the junk yard waiting to be bought by someone and used in something kick ass… Yes seriously !

I mean work is good, yes, but the things I m working on, aren’t really much of my interest, and we end up doing things we donot have to, and as a best practice, should not do, but then only a few number of sane beings care for the best practice, isn’t ?

On the goodie side, I did complete a big part of the teabreak website, should be doing a little more this week end..hopefully

Oh and how can I forget, have you ever been caught up between a laila majnoo (well, sort of) story ? oh well, boys and gals, I m.. and fortunately it’s not my relationship, it’s some one else’s thingy and I have been bought into this for no reason at all.. I mean like I didn’t even know the folks, and then I just got introduced, out of no where.. WOW.. so much for internet azaadi

Any how, me and the office folks went out to see Iron man last thursday, and boy it was fun, fun fun.. no kidding.. real fun..

It’s a real chakdey phatte movie

Tags: bc, crap, hell, iron man, nice, nice ok, shit, sucker, whatever, woah, work, yeah yeah

When you work in a company, no matter what department, you’re actually being paid for thinking, and finding solutions, because that’s what companies do, find solutions to what others can not.

Anyways, so the thing is, I work for a company that takes work super seriously though we keep the freedom and the spirit alive inside, and so the story is, I’ve been working quite a little extra, infact everyone from our department is like a workoholic right now, being a workoholic is normal for people in the design teams btw.

So the thing is I’ve been in the office for very long hours recently, so any of you folks, who I love and I’ve been away from you guys/gals, please know, I m caught up with work, I m not ignoring you.. I love you guys/gals.. ok for guys, not the wrong way, like Asim imtiaz would say, ‘in a pure brotherly fashion’.

Talking of Asim, I m also working with him and Zair on a new project, Tea Break, it’s gonna be a fun project, and more over it’s some kind of a thing, that the Pakistani IT industry more or less needs.

We have Asim, Ammar, Zair and me on this project, take a look at it here.

Oh and btw, I m hating my neighbours and PTCL, for my dead phone line ;(

Much Love.

Tags: abd, amamar, asim, awesome, balance, crap, gals, guys, I love you folks, life, love, office, shit, updates, work, workoholic, Zair

It’s around 1 am already, and yet I sit here on my chair near my desk at work ! Not that I hate it, but it’s too late, and I m bored. I m pretty much bored coz I’ve done with my today’s work, and most of my energy has been drained like filthy water down the toilet drain..

None the less, here I sit, and write this blog post, whether I like it or not, I sit, and I wait, for duda ! Duda is the other guy, more importantly a friend I’ve made at Creative Chaos, I’ve mentioned him before, Muzammil, I wait for him, while he sits and manages the domain names, it’s one of those times when these network people are stuck in their maintenance tasks.. Yes it’s one of the longer procedures, if you’re going to be managing a big company.

And as I sit, I think of the new adventure that I’ve joined recently, Teabreak, yes it’s one of the good things in the Pak’s IT industry. And as I think of it, reminds me, Asim Imtiaz, has left Creative Chaos, to fly for England to continue higher studies, determined I must say, strong and focused I should add. He’s one of those people, who loves solving problems.

Farewell my friend, forget not, you’re due for a party !

Never the less..the day had ended, and so has this post !

Bless you all.

Tags: asim, blurp, chaos, crap, creative, imtiaz, muzzi, speak, stuck, UA, work

Recently the web was a buzz with the news of Microsoft’s giant 46.6 million US dollars bid for Yahoo. HAHA, that would mean they would own flickr.. haha, these people invented MS-Paint, what do you think would have happened ? Besides, what would they name it? MS-Flickr ? Bull shit !

So Yahoo actually rejected the offer, an unsolicited open ‘get rich quick’ kind of offer, but in all my honest opinion, they did good.

Microsoft’s attempt was to compete Google Inc. but in doing so, I m pretty sure they would’ve done much damage to the already damaged Yahoo, Yahoo is now considering Google.. WOW !

Any how, what I read now is even ironic, Yahoo’s shareholders are suing yahoo for not being sold haha !

Geek life track is a random WOW !

Tags: blah, crap, flickr, Google, microsoft, ms-paint, news, random, shit, yahoo

I hate how all these creepy/crappy face book application invitations pop in my fb account, I just hate it, but never mind, that’s not what I had to say.

What I really had to say is, our CTO might be thinking, how gay me, and H-N are….

There I was working like a good old boy, and trying to concentrate on the solution, and then comes H-N, trying to kiss me.. I mean f**k you… hello… dude, stop it !

I actually was trnig to back him off, so I can concentrate and leave the fun for later maybe, H-N wouldn’t listen, and suddenly, come’s a sorry, and H-N leaves the room.. I m in shock, why, I rarely hear him say sorry, and that’s a big RARELY !

I look around and the company’s CTO (Chief Technical officer) is right beside me.. (me: ahem..umm.. sorry !, him: no problem..) woosh !

Any how, we get around what he came to talk about, and everyone makes fun of me and H-N the whole day… As if the story ends here…

We’re teasing each other (me and the staff) how I wouldn’t find another guy to marry and then suddenly out of no where pops the CTO again.. oh damn ! we laugh at our selves, really really loudly, and so does the CTO though not loudly, he just smiles !

We get about the day, I do my solution thingy, and run home.. oh and I ate kulfi too

Aight, that’s a fast, and excited post. never mind !

Tags: awesome, crap, CTO, damn, done for, f**k, fun, h-n, kiss, office, rocking, screwed, shit, tafreeh, work

I know it’s been some time, since I last scribbled, and I thought, now is the time to let the few people who read this space know why I haven’t put some new text here…

I recently discovered a set back from one of our clients back at work (Creative Chaos), which was kind of de-motivating for our entire team.

I wasn’t really done with that, when out of nowhere comes this bad virus, actually I know where it came from, but..oh well..never mind !

I ended up refreshing my windows installation along with all the applications and settings, not to mention I had not backed up my iTunes library, so I had to also reset my iPod. Damn.

It’s also been ages since I met Asim, and even H-N’s gone for a vacation to Punjab.

I also had two bar B Ques lined up in one day, yesterday, couldn’t go to either one, one was cancelled cause someone died and most folks weren’t coming and then the other one was at Asim’s place, but since Asim hadn’t returned and I wasn’t sure about the bbq itself, I let it go.

Let’s just hope the year goes by peacefully and less eventful.

Tags: bad, bbq, clients, crap, damn, nice, not, unproductive, work

I was not really well a day before, and that’s one reason I did not go to the office, I had diarrhea.. some one some where should go..eww. !

Any how, since I was better yesterday, better as in, I was a little weak, but I wasn’t that bad, and as it so happened that H-N had a date, and guess what, I was taken along on his and his brother’s date !

I didn’t think much of it as a date, didn’t seem like one ! Looked more like a casual hangout with out much joys in it ! It was a kind of ok thingy, coz one of her friend’s was there too, and she had just gone through the pain of a broken engagement ! Oh well, I hope she’s better soon ! Never mind !

Then we headed to Sadar, Regal where we grabbed H-N’s not really fixed and working computer and bought it to H-N’s place grabbed some yummy dinner, I seriously loved that ‘Jhinga Chawal’ (english : Prawn Rice), that his mom cooked ! I m learn to make that now !

Any how, later we got his computer to my place,where we tried, 4 different hard drives, to make his PC work, did some crappy installations, and basically tried to make it work, I m hoping it keeps working, even though it’s not one of the machines I would recommend people to work with, but for a regular home use, it’s ok !

I know there’s not much geekness in this post, and really wans’t mean’t to be, I just wanted to make that image

Tags: Abdul Moiz, adobe, computer, crap, date, engagement, fun, girls, h-n, indulge, love, Park, smoke, Towers, windows, XP

Work, work and less play makes any sane person a bad boy…or girl !

Yeah I’ve been working late these days, and honestly it’s nice to work late, specially if you’re employed by CC. You can put on great music, have some cool things to eat, get drunk on soft drinks, or make coffee or tea, you have internet at your disposal, yes so it’s a great place to work !

Now, even though I enjoy that place, I feel I’ve been missing out the good things in my personal life, like say, my friend has been ill for quite some time, and I still haven’t found time to visit him, which makes him pretty mad I tell ya !

And even though Saturday is a holiday for us, me and H-N were working at the office ! My plans were ruined

On the other hand I’m so damn enjoying the the video, that’s linked below !

Also I was supposed to see my friend today (the one who’s ill) but something else came up from Asim, so I guess I’ll go see him some other day !

Prayers.

Tags: asim, cool, crap, damn, h-n, illness, life, me, Mohsin, rotten crap, video, wicked