Archive for November, 2008

Mobilink Infinity – Wireless Broadband Service in Karachi

I have been using Mobilink Infinity wireless broadband service for almost three months now. I signed up or their pre-launch offer with upfront cost of Rs. 6000 for CPE and Rs. 2000 for security deposit. Installation charges were waived as part of the promotion.  The monthly charges were supposed to be Rs. 1,199 for 1Mbps bandwidth [...]

Wordcall EVDO Experience

I have been using Worldcall’s EVDO Broadband Internet service for over a month now. I have mixed views about it. First, some details about the service. I signed up for their 512k package which cost Rs.1800 per month with a one time fee of Rs. 4500 for the modem. The sales person showed up the same [...]

Largess – Average Food with a Below Average Service

Today, I went to Largess, located in North Nazimabad, for lunch after about five years. The place have not changed much. My last experience her was good. This time I was a bit disappointed. First, the waiter brought one menu for three of us, second, there were no napkins, third, several of mutton items were [...]

Copper Kettle Experience

The steak I had at Copper Kettle this Monday was the best I have had in Karachi. I ordered my Americano Steak raw and got it raw. In most restaurants here, raw, medium and well-done means well done. I was pleasantly surprised when I got a generous portion of raw, juicy and tender steak. Garlic [...]

How to Remotely Get Members of Local Administrators Group

There are a several programs and scripts to get the members of local administrators group on a Windowx XP or Win2K Pro computers. Recently I wrote a batch file based on the command
psexec -n 5 \\<computer_name> net localgroup administrators
‘psexec’ is a  command line utility that allows you to run processes on remote computers. The utility [...]