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by Muhammad Saad
Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:30 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Installing Linux / FreeBSD on Dual Core Processor
Replies: 21
Views: 29314

lambda wrote:what makes you think we know what happens?
Sorry uncle! I don't want to mess with you. Please forgive me. :P
:lol:
by Muhammad Saad
Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:21 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Installing Linux / FreeBSD on Dual Core Processor
Replies: 21
Views: 29314

x2oxen wrote:install and see urself.
I don't want to die. :P
Can't you just tell me what happens?
by Muhammad Saad
Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:15 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Installing Linux / FreeBSD on Dual Core Processor
Replies: 21
Views: 29314

What happens if I use SMP kernel on an ordinary processor? :?
by Muhammad Saad
Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: What if we combine Nafees and Liberation fonts to write Urdu
Replies: 11
Views: 27528

I just got another idea. If I remove all the English alphabets from Nafees Web Naskh, then most font rendering engines will automatically display the missing characters using the system's default font. In such case, we can use Nafees Web Naskh for Urdu but Sans-Serif (or whatever the system's defaul...
by Muhammad Saad
Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:49 pm
Forum: Installation
Topic: Installing Linux / FreeBSD on Dual Core Processor
Replies: 21
Views: 29314

I have never had a multi-core processor myself but I do remember reading somewhere that its architecture is 64 bit. And for Intel-based 64 bit processors the right kernel is perhaps x86_64. Am I right?
by Muhammad Saad
Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:28 pm
Forum: Administration
Topic: Script for detecting and mounting partitions automatically
Replies: 19
Views: 26109

Re:

LinuxFreaK wrote:Yes, but i am not giving you any guarantee because "rm -rf" will be harmful :)
:lol:
by Muhammad Saad
Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:25 pm
Forum: General
Topic: What if we combine Nafees and Liberation fonts to write Urdu
Replies: 11
Views: 27528

Here are two more fonts that I found on the same site while looking around: http://www.khaledhosny.org/filebrowser/Thabit http://www.khaledhosny.org/filebrowser/Mothanna I also found an archive containing numerous other fonts on the site: http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/pub/ae_fonts.tar.bz2 It will...
by Muhammad Saad
Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: What if we combine Nafees and Liberation fonts to write Urdu
Replies: 11
Views: 27528

I have found the original download location for Simplified Naskh. Here is the link:

http://www.khaledhosny.org/filebrowser/SimplifiedNaskh

But it seems like the latest version has some rendering problems. :?
by Muhammad Saad
Sat Jan 31, 2009 7:50 pm
Forum: General
Topic: hmm.
Replies: 6
Views: 11571

Here is a link to an already available port of phpBB which has that javascript-based pad already integrated:
http://www.urduweb.org/mehfil/downloads ... file&id=65

You might find out something new and useful by looking at its code.
by Muhammad Saad
Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: What if we combine Nafees and Liberation fonts to write Urdu
Replies: 11
Views: 27528

Sorry for being late. I have uploaded the best Urdu fonts in my collection here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?a00m2qnyyy2
by Muhammad Saad
Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: hmm.
Replies: 6
Views: 11571

There is also a javascript freely available called Urdu open pad. That is already being used on lots of Urdu blogs and forums. So how about using it here?

Here is the link:
http://www.urduweb.org/mehfil/downloads ... =file&id=1
by Muhammad Saad
Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:31 pm
Forum: Administration
Topic: Script for detecting and mounting partitions automatically
Replies: 19
Views: 26109

Re:

Dear Muhammad Saad, Salam, Although there are no chances of mounting a partition twice, but if you have any idea, please share it here. Also I wonder what will happen if one partition is mounted on more than one mount points. If you mount a partition which is already mount, e.g. /home and you have ...
by Muhammad Saad
Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: hmm.
Replies: 6
Views: 11571

lambda wrote:if you look in the faq section, you'll see that i've already linked to paktranslations.

my page does something different -- it lets you put the js code in any page (including on linuxpakistan), and the user can type in roman and the end result will be in urdu.
That's a great idea. :)
by Muhammad Saad
Sat Jan 24, 2009 3:47 pm
Forum: Administration
Topic: Script for detecting and mounting partitions automatically
Replies: 19
Views: 26109

Re:

Dear Muhammad Saad, Salam, I think there will be no issue but i do not know how you will going to mount them. As for mounting these partition you need to write another script. Also it will mount current partitions which were already mounted at booting. Best Regards. Waalaikum-us-Salam. Although the...
by Muhammad Saad
Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:13 pm
Forum: Administration
Topic: Script for detecting and mounting partitions automatically
Replies: 19
Views: 26109

I have changed this script a little so that /etc/fstab remains untouched. Here it is: # Get all other partitions sfdisk -d | grep "^/dev/" | sed "s|\(.*\):.*Id=\(..\).*|\1 \2|" | \ while read dev id; do # Ignore if id is "Extended" or "LVM", these are not usab...