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Today a friend sent me an email saying:

EMERGENCY!!!

Ahsan Ali

Today the physics class was more interesting than usual. It got over before we knew it and we did not take a break either, not because there was a clown to entertain us but because we decided to sit on the floor for a change. The class went on like usual at first discussing some current issues, then learning something new, which this time was a projectile motion formula, then we proceeded to do questions. School as a whole was not bad at all today. The Language teacher not coming made the Monday good too. Maybe also because I spent a lot of time in Taimur

I have had Linux on my PC for almost three years now, but some characteristics make Windows a better choice, thats why I have to dual boot Linux with Windows.

The main problem with Linux is that it does not support Windows programs very well, although there are substitutes, many the games available can not be played on it and what if you want to use the latest official MSN Messenger, with all its cool(but resource consuming) features? It wont be able to run it.

The second thing is that most of the Linux distributions are not as user friendly and straight forward like windows, the pros call it more features, beginners call it confusion. Running a Windows installation removes all the non-Microsoft Operating Systems, whereas Linux asks what exactly you want to do. Plus partitioning the hard drive during installation also confuses the beginners. Apart from the installation all the Windows stuff is considered standard, so Linux file hierarchy would look alien, so would the user interface and users would have to search where a particular option is located. Plus installing new programs is mostly not as easy as downloading a single file from the Internet and pressing the ‘Next’ button again and again till the installation is complete.

Thankfully someone cleaned up the fridge and its been days since the water has been in the common room so yesterday some of us put water in the fridge and today we also drank some. Somebody removed the blinds so some of our fun is taken away. But some guys say they know of a secret stack of sticks in another such blind. If you havnt already, you should read my older post about the common room.

Here are the pictures of the throne i was talking about:

Three days back there was some problem with the techpakistan database, I first ran some database repair tools, but when they couldn

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