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  • Hacking the Xbox [Book+Xbox] – to play or to hack that is the question

    Hacking the Xbox [Book+Xbox] – to play or to hack that is the question

    As I was completing the first few pages of the book “hacking the Xbox”, Nasir Jumani was teasing me with his texts about how good the games are and that I am to bring my own controller if I want to play. After getting the soft copy of the book Hacking the Xbox for free,…

  • Busy doing Science, no Engineering

    Busy doing Science, no Engineering

    Copied from (and edited a little) Penultimate Author, Abstruce Goose *being busy these days, but feel-like living a free day and at night, just before falling asleep all the sorrows and pending work comes haunting… but I ain’t not scared of any ghosts… :) BTW, wrote a paper regarding an AVR based board with USB…

  • Brazil of 1950 and Pakistan 2013 – Close Enough

    Brazil of 1950 and Pakistan 2013 – Close Enough

    I am reading “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character” [Google Books] a book/collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Richard Feynman – found the book at the same market from where I found the Newness Electrical Engineering book. I bought the book as I have heard quite a few lectures of Mr. Feynman on youtube and…

  • Newnes – Practical Electrical Engineering – Antique Book

    Newnes – Practical Electrical Engineering – Antique Book

    Found a book in Sunday Bazaar, seemed interesting at the moment so bought it, for Rs. 20 (Approx. 0.2USD). Am not an Electrical Engineer nor a student of it [see update below] but some of the charts and datasheets still seem quite relevant so maybe they will be useful for someone, for now I am…

  • the FEAR of Software

    the FEAR of Software

    Over the course of years I have used Windows as the primary OS and have moved from Win95 to Win8 now, crossing all the steps along the way, including Win ME, 2000 and Vista. Along my so-called journey of evolution of Windows OS I have never hesitated to use the newer version of a software…