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The Stoning of Soraya M

Wednesday, 28 July 2010 18:40 Safdar Mirza

I had a chance to view a movie " The Stoning of Soraya M " that has been based on true story according to the movie. I am sharing it with you with feeling that you may like to watch it as well. It is available on Netflex instant play and maybe available on local video store.

It is quit eye opening and while many of us may have many different views about this movie, one thing we should all have in common is that how some folks takes religion as excuse and impose their own desires in name of religion. May Allah protect us from those who claim to bring peace in this world but bring FASAD (Mischief) in this world. Check out verse from Quran Al-Baqara:11

and if get a chance, watch this movie. " The Stoning of Soraya M "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stoning_of_Soraya_M.

Florida Hockey Practice Game

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 17:41 Safdar Mirza

Florida Hockey Practice Game, St. Petersburg, FLORIDA.

2010-07-FL-Hockey

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 28 July 2010 19:00 )

Orlando FL, Pakistan Restaurant

Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:28 Safdar Mirza

Had a chance to dine at Bismillah BBQ at Orlando, Florida. Great desi halal food. Love it !!! and highly recommended.

Bismillah BBQ Restaurant?

11220 South Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, FL? - (407) 251-9550?

GPG Encryption - unicode characters files

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 17:24 Safdar Mirza

Had an interesting challenge during the encryption process for one of my client.

Client was sending a few ASCII files that were encrypted by the process and was producing expected end result after decryption. Then some time later, client started sending files with Unicode character set and was not getting proper LF/CR after decrypting files.

After some troubleshooting, I found that our encryption process was using "-t" (textmode) and was causing unexpected results for files that had unicode character set such as for Chinese and Japanese characters.

The issue was resolved after removing "-t" from encryption syntax.

Following was default encryption process.

gpg --no-secmem-warning -r XXX1234 -e -a -t --yes -o 'outfile.pgp' 'infile.txt'

and finally it worked fine with following syntax.

gpg --no-secmem-warning -r XXX1234 -e -a --yes -o 'outfile.pgp' 'infile.txt'

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 21 July 2010 17:40 )