Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Drought, long-lasting disaster
 WHAT can be the duration of the present drought in Pakistan? Nobody knows for sure but if historical records of climate and presence of pollen of the past few millennia...
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Old is not gold, it’s ‘gone’
 YOU get a pirated software CD for Rs35 no matter what the original cost of its genuine registered copy is, and that’s not it, if you happen to be in a...
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Webwatch
 LOGICAL tips is a site developed by designer Susan Daffron, this site addresses hardware and software issues in detail. After you have gone through this site, you won’t be called dummy or idiot at least when it comes to computer knowledge....
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I-Terms
PADSL: Acronym for “Private Access DSL”. PaDSL is a solution for creating secure private broadband VPNs (virtual private network). It is a cost-effective alternative to traditional frame relay, leased line...
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SAP: providing innovative software solutions
ENTERPRISE Resource Planning (ERP) software solution is a single software program that integrates all departments and functions across a company onto a single computer system that can serve various needs of...
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Delivering higher education through effective technology
 LIKE all other fields of human activities, information technologies are also pervading different aspects of education that has enhanced learning. Students have already integrated computers in learning, particularly in institutions for...
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Descent of DNA
 THE ability to reproduce and replicate is one the most fundamental properties of all living things. Organisms multiply by sexual or asexual reproduction, cells by cellular division and genetic material by...
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Preventing global warming: an unachievable goal?
 THERE are desirable goals — either of group or of national importance — that can be achieved and intractable problems that can be solved provided a consensus among members of...
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Efforts renewed to weed out spam
MICROSOFT has revised its proposal to weed out “spam” email to win over sceptical internet engineers who have been reluctant to adopt its technology....
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Brain prosthesis passes live tissue test
 THE world’s first brain prosthesis has passed the first stages of live testing....
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Competition spurs growth in telecom sector
THE deregulation of the country’s telecom industry is fast gaining momentum with dozens of more communication companies and millions of customers entering both the fixed-line and mobile telephone markets....
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Malaysian help for IT city sought
FOREIGN Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri has said that Pakistan and Malaysia could join hands in the information technology sector and added that Malaysian experts could help Pakistan in developing an...
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Live Windows is wonderful
 MANY of you have probably heard of live Linux distributions that boot and run right from CD-ROM without installing the operating system (OS) first on your hard disk. But would...
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Byteback
 Biogas I read the article on biogas fuel (Oct 16). When I was a student of the NWFP Engineering University back in 1981, Prof I. H. Shah showed us a biogas plant in working condition. It looked like the one described by the writer....
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ITeaser
THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure: 1. The major disadvantage of file management system is: a. Data redundancy b. Lack of data integrity....
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Cool gadgets
 NTT DOCOMO introduces a new mobile phone “Music Porter”, manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric, equipped with FM radio tuner and enables to play digital music contents recorded on the Memory Stick Duo card...
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