by Mohsin Sumar | Jun 2, 2010 | Words of Wisdom
I came up with my first original quote in one of my email correspondences today, and I would like to share it with you. “You do not get great handwriting if you do not start scribbling” – By Mohsin Sumar
by Mohsin Sumar | May 30, 2010 | Extreme Web Technologies
Earlier this month, on the 21st May 2010 – Extreme Web Technologies sponsored a local football club called Veterani Sports Club in Gezaulole, Kigamboni, Dar es Salaam. We sponsored new jerseys, shirts, shorts, socks, goalkeepers gloves, referee uniforms,...
by Mohsin Sumar | Mar 15, 2010 | General
It’s been a while since I blogged last, and even longer since I cleaned and free up some disk space on my laptop. While moving and deleting data last week, I used disk cleanup utility. I cleared couple of GBs using this utility, including Hibernation File...
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 27, 2009 | Apache, PHP, Security, Tips & Tricks
If you’ve stumbled across this post, then you’ve recently become a victim of the most famous way of uploading a malicious script to a website – PHP file uploads. Many websites and web applications that are developed using PHP & MySQL allow users...
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 24, 2009 | SSH, Tips & Tricks
Using the following command in SSH, you will be able to extract files from your tar file. tar -xf file.tar
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 22, 2009 | SSH, Tips & Tricks
Use the following command if you want to create a tar and compress a file (or folder). tar -czf /path/to/save/file.tar folder_or_file_name The options used in the above command are outlined below for your understanding. -c = create -z = compress a file -f = use the...
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 16, 2009 | Words of Wisdom
“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.” – Albert Einstein
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 14, 2009 | SSH
If your SSH ls command output is really long, and cannot be viewed on screen – you can use the following command to part of it with a more command to continue down the list. ls [options here] | more Example:- ls -l | more
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 8, 2009 | General
I was born around this time around 22 years ago. Thank you to everybody for your thoughtful birthday wishes via phone call, text message, email and facebook!
by Mohsin Sumar | Oct 4, 2009 | Words of Wisdom
“Success is not how far you get, but the distance you travel from where you started.” Today, I came across this well said proverb while watching one of my favorite TV shows, Numb3rs – the 6th season. I often come across such words of wisdom from many...
