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Dawn News on twitter posting junk!

Asim Zeeshan — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:11:54 +0000

Someone handling the @Dawn_News on twitter has made a big boo boo. Please see the following (click to enlarge)

These two tweets were made with random characters in it. I guess someone in @Dawn_News owe an explanation!

Skype on Android

Asim Zeeshan — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:00:57 +0000

Well, this seems like the coolest thing, getting Skype on Android.Bbut I can’t download Skype on Android like most folks out there.

This is what I get

“The requested item could not be found”. Lets see if Skype people can let me know whats wrong.

MSN Pakistan shows Runtime Error

Asim Zeeshan — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:45:25 +0000

If you have recently visited MSN Pakistan, than you must have already seen the Runtime Error on the homepage, still unfixed after more then a week. Click the thumbnail below for a full preview

Foursquare is down, again!

Asim Zeeshan — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:32:03 +0000

Foursquare is down, again!, originally uploaded by asim.zeeshan.

PHP Depreciated errors on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Asim Zeeshan — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:01:51 +0000

If you have installed LAMP (Apache, MySQL and PHP on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) then running this on SSH

php -v

would be giving you certain PHP Depreciated warning like these

root@sea:~# php -v
PHP Deprecated:  Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/idn.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0
PHP Deprecated:  Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/imagick.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0
PHP Deprecated:  Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/imap.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0
PHP Deprecated:  Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/mcrypt.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0
PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Apr  9 2010 08:23:39)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies

Its a noted bug with Ubuntu and changes may be pushed soon but to fix this just edit each of these files and replace comments starting with ‘#‘ to ‘;‘.

Webmin’s Software Package Update emails are not working

Asim Zeeshan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:00:47 +0000

I have wrote yesterday about Webmin 1.5 features. I especially liked the one that will send me a notification when there is any update available to any of the components installed on my Linux box.

To my disappointment, I never got any Software Package Updates module‘s email notification, instead I got this in my mailbox

Undefined subroutine &main::list_all_current called at /usr/libexec/webmin/package-updates/update.pl line 12.

I have no clue what this means or how do I fix it. Any one who can help me with this?

Update: A fix is available for this bug

Facebook displaying same advertisement twice

Asim Zeeshan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:24:01 +0000

Facebook showing the same advertisement twice in the left-hand section (as seen in the image below). Someone’s getting ripped off.

WordPress’s ‘upgrade automatically’ has issues

Asim Zeeshan — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:00:48 +0000

Many of you might be aware of this for months, like me, about the issues with WordPress‘s upgrade automatically feature. It fails sometimes and then it starts working perfect sometimes, its an annoying little bit*h.

I tried googling to no success and I still do not know whats going on. Does anyone else face the same issue? what is the fix, if any? HELP!

Twitter’s Invalid search results again!

Asim Zeeshan — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:16:04 +0000

I blogged about Twitter’s invalid search results in an early post titled Twitter Search gone mad!. Today I noticed the same thing again when I logged in to HashPakistan‘s control panel. There are lots of invalid tweets. e.g. look at the one below

view this tweet @twitter

And there are more such tweets that came as a result of my query “#Lahore” on twitter search e.g. here and here.

Windows Live – More Ways to Connect? or annoy?

Asim Zeeshan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:01:41 +0000

Windows Live now supports importing and sending alerts to your FaceBook and LinkedIn buddies and contacts

I feel they have tried to get in the social networking business by creating this. It is not too attractive has BUGs, especially related to security because its for everyone (no opt-outs) and other contacts can see and connect to your contacts (if you dont have the proper privacy options enabled which are turned off by default). It sucks!!