Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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Questions from the Quetta quake
 Anniversaries of calamities make us revisit the ways and means in which we may avoid mistakes made in the past. We should learn from history, though this doesn’t....
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Byteback
 Question: A week ago, I increased my processor speed from 600MHz to 800MHZ. But the Windows still shows it as 600MHZ. Even the Bios shows the same speed...
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Wanted — a hazard mitigation plan
 May 31 reminds us of the earthquake that destroyed the entire civil lines in Quetta, killing between 30,000 and 50,000 people in just 30 seconds at about 3am....
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Still not ready for the big one
 New research on earthquakes presented recently to mark the 100th anniversary of San Francisco’s great quake paints a disquieting picture of California’s....
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Standards fall victim to greed
MOST AMERICANS don’t associate Japan with shoddy craftsmanship or slipshod engineering. On the contrary, most of us admire the Japanese for making...
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Paradise lost
 “Islamabad is not the same — too much traffic, too much smoke, too much noise. Our little heaven has become just another big city stripped of the tranquillity it was once...
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Driving a car in Rawal Lake
Being an ecologist it was astonishing as well as scary for me to drive a car in Rawal Lake. Never had I imagined that a day would dawn when the lake...
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Scripting languages
 As developers or system administrators, we all have common tasks that must be replicated. A few examples are: creating a new feature test, populating...
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Webwatch
 This website pays a very unique tribute to those who have made phenomenal contributions to the field of engineering. Instead of long speeches and dull webpages...
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For certification of standards
A number of independent software vendors in Pakistan are ISO-certified. If you are planning to get this certification for your company, or continuing with the existing one....
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Conditioning of the mind
 The human mind plays an extremely important role in our perception of things. A pessimistic mindset will result in a gloomy picture of whatever we see, whereas an optimistic....
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Hope for those without hope
 The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that about 10 million new cases of cancer are detected annually the world over. This includes 4.7 million cases in developed...
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Concern over new life forms
Scientists tinkering with the machinery of life need strict policing to prevent dangerous new organisms from being created and escaping from laboratories, a coalition of environmental....
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WHO compiling data on pollution
Sindh Chief Minister’s Adviser on Environment, Noman Saigal, said recently that the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other international bodies had started compiling....
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Cool gadgets
 THE LOGITECH HARMONY 520 advanced universal remote automatically selects the appropriate inputs and volume controls and changes your television settings if necessary...
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Learning from a distance
 Learning not only requires money, but also time, effort and a constant inner desire to explore new things. Going to college encompasses all of the above factors....
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