Anas Ismail Khan

Despite its name, FC college has nothing to do with “football clubs.” _It simply stands for _Forman Christian.

PakFacebook is a social network, that was launched as an alternative _right after Facebook was banned for the first time in Pakistan, that did kinda resemble the real facebook, in both i.e. the _visuals, _and the _functionality. 

After coming across a link on Facebook, that led me to phpfox, which is a complete social networking solution, I realize that Pakfacebook is _highly _or should I say _totally _based on phpFox, or the latter on the former, cause there’s no saying who owns which. But I’ve seen enough to tell that it’s the same thing.

I’ve got this _‘hobby’ _of collecting Operating Systems’ images; _mind _only stable or lost ones.

A screenshot, of the folder where I store them distros.

The news-feed, a constantly updating, “feed” _of _stories _from pages or people you’ve subscribed to, or those who are part of your friend list.
The Mobile App had this _notifier _feature that would inform you of any recent activity, new stories, that have to be displayed on the _news-feed.

The  “New Stories”  notifier from ‘Facebook for Android’

Now Facebook brings the same feature to its Web version, _though things work a _li’l _differently here, yet I assure you, it _does work, infact, better. _So, this new feature is nicely integrated into the new “bar” introduced along with the graph search, and whenever there’s some _recent activity (that’s too noble to be displayed in the ticker _and thus is included in the news feed), It’ll display a small _counter _next to the _Home _button/link on the top-left part of the _bar.

The notifier from the ‘web version’ of Facebook. See the 2? yeah thats the ‘counter.’

The Nokia Lumia 1020, that’s said to be available on AT&T by the 26th of July, makes even the best of DSLR’s look inferior, it’s own rear-camera being  41MP with a max resolution of 7712 x 5360. Lenses: Zeiss, Flash is Xenon for still-captures, while there’s an LED one for Videos, their quality being 1080p, 30fps.

So well, let’s move to the rest of the specifications; Starting with Display. Screen-size is 4.5″, 15:9 aspect ratio, AMOLED Gorrilla Glass. _Processor’s a 1.5GHz Dual-core snapdragon; _slight disappointment _for those expecting a quad-core. RAM 2GB, and Storage capacity 32GB, and front-camera is 1.2MP; another _dissappointment.  __

Well, quite a charm, _and i’d love to get my hands on one. Who cares if it aint quad-core eh? It’s 41MP, and well, 2GB of RAM aint bad either. + its _not-being-a-quad-core _makes it comparatively _more-affordable, seeing as the same model with a quad-core wont exactly go cheap. 

Cygwin is to Windows, what Wine is to Linux..

Another known issue, no biggie. What happens is that when the person tries to mount a windows partition on Ubuntu, they get this huge error saying that “the metadata kept in Windows cache refused to mount…” “the partition is in an unsafe state”  “not permitted” e.t.c.

Well, dont panic, the solution is present in the last few lines of the ‘error message,’ _only, not everyone realizes that, and often, it just doesnt work, _(that goes for Windows 8 users.)

The reason behind it being the fact that your ‘Windows’ might be in an hibernating state, a proper shut-down ought to do the trick, but windows 8 users might continue to get this error even after a shut-down. This is due to the fact that Windows 8 comes with a fast startup  feature that really does speed up, by _not shutting down _completely. So you might be clicking on the shutdown button, but what really happens is that the _Windows _goes into a hibernating state.

So, here’s what you gotta do. Login to Windows ,  and either disable the fast startup and shut-down properly, or you can do a normal restart, seeing as the _Fast Startup _doesnt apply to restarts.

To disable the fast startup feature, press start, to go to the start screen, and search(settings) for “Power Options.” _Click on _“Change settings that are currently unavailable” (administrator access required) _and under _Shutdown settings, ‘un-check’ _the ‘Turn on fast startup’ _button.

Thats it. Save changes and Shut-down.. or restart.

Ubuntu’s Unity interface greatly resembles that of MacOSX, and that includes T__he Global menu, AKA The Mac Menu, _which shows the _Application menu(File, View, Edit, e.t.c.)  in the top bar. 
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Macbuntu, an Ubuntu to MacOSX Transformation pack, _which i was so tempted to try, didnt work too well for me, and thus I uninstalled it. Yet, it left the scars; in this case, by permanently messing up the _global menu. 

This is how i fixed it. (terminal):

sudo apt-get install appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt indicator-appmenu

A known problem that I myself experienced, when I logged into Facebook, after rebooting to complete the installation of WINE. A tool that aims at enabling windows programs to run on other platforms.

So, what actually happens is that WINE installs a number of Microsoft Fonts, and well,  I guess, one of them happens to be on Facebook’s alternative fonts, (the default one being Lucida Grande, which is NOT included in the package installed by WINE).

The problem can be fixed by simply uninstalling the package ‘msttcorefonts.’ You can do this either via the ‘Ubuntu Software Center’, or the terminal.

To do this via the terminal, use:

sudo apt-get remove msttcorefonts

If you visit a site sporting GTA Mods, you’d see hundreds of Car mods, Player models, e.t.c. most of them containing naught but new models and textures. The question is “How to install them?” Do we have to erase the existing models, in order to replace them with the new ones? Yes!

So, to do this, the simplest and most user friendly way is to use  the IMG tool. So, once you’ve downloaded it(no install required), simply open the file gta3.img using the executable you just downloaded. The file can be found in the ‘Models’ folder.

Now, for example, if you are replacing the car “Banshee” with a mod you just downloaded, search for “Banshee.dff”, and “Banshee.txd”. Delete both, and if you dont feel good about it, you may backup; simply extract the files and store them somewhere.

Once deleted, just import the newer “Banshee.dff, and Banshee.txd.” That’s it. You’re done!

Note: Not every mod requires changes to be made in the ‘gta3.img’ file. Until VC, this was a.. well, STANDARD. But in SA, some player mods, e.g. Clothes e.t.c. might require opening “Player.img” But the procedure remains the same.