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I am from Pakistan (I am a Pushtun from the northern province) and I tinker with programming somewhat. I was mostly familiar with the windows world but soon I outgrew it and now I am exasperated with it as so much is kept hidden. In addition, to be productive, you need to obtain a bazillion tools that don't come with the OS.
So, I began exploring the *nix side of things and I found out that I was free
. Now I am tinkering with it, my first experience was with fedora but it was too hard on my poor old P-III (though it runs Windows XP blazingly fast). Now I am off to debian and I have put xfce which makes things a little better but still my 256MB pc133 SDRam starts grunting and panting, as soon as I open up any thing like firefox and gnucash side by side.In programming, I like python a lot but I have also played with c/c++ and c#. My other interests are books, fictions, science fictions, self-improvement etc. In SF, I recently read Snow Crash(I read it online... I am ashamed but I cannot afford to buy it and even if I could, I wouldn't have been able to lay my hands on it here) and Hyperion (I found it cheap in an old books shop). I have desperately searched for the next one, "The Fall of Hyperion" but I couldn't find it anywhere(as always). I have made friends with an Australian here, he is a tourist and a fellow SF fan and he has promised to send it to me.
Recently, I have had a lucid dream which has sparked my interest in the dream world. Other than that, I like to ride a bike, train with weights (sometimes) and spend time outdoors (when possible).
That's about it for now. Here's a few lines from a poem that has inspired me a lot:
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." Robert Frost
Ali
