The Patri0t’s Palace

What is taking Paypal so long to introduce their services for Pakistan? Online Banking has started already here and there have been laws too regarding Internet and what not. We do need Paypal’s payment services since it’s reliable and affordable too. Everyone can easily use the said service.

Sending money to someone abroad or someone abroad sending money to Pakistan is always pain. I remember ordering a USB kit from a shop in China, I had no other choice but a TT and that was costly. I had to pay a fee equal to the amount I was sending… Other options for sending money to Pakistan are through Western Union and Money Gram. Never tried International Money order. UBL also offers sending money to Pakistan from abroad, they have very little presence in other countries though. There are other Private Companies working too, like Maliks Exchange but it was no use for me and yeah the “DESI” style of sending money is always there. You pay someone in Dubai, that someone calls his brother back home and gives the said amount to the person for whom it is meant.

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I have received e-mail from Asus, officially and not through usual Support method. Thanks to Gary [from Anandtech] for that! and ofcourse Thanks to Asus… It seems to have solved the problem with performance lag when copying files from or to the devices connected with JMicron, even when you use default driver of Windows XP, the usual “Standard Dual Channel IDE Controller” but I am not satisfied about the BOOT time . . .

It seems as though the when installing the Jmicron controller the default could be DMA/PIO which it must be detected as Ultra DMA 5 in order for these controllers to speed up (with the device/drives attached).

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AMD was on high side of things until release of Intel Core 2 DUO Processors. They had done very well in sales and everything in most of the countries EXCEPT Pakistan. I feel like AMD did nothing to get hold of the market in Pakistan because last time I inquired, it was I think June last year, there was only ONE Reseller for AMD in a city near ours and no one offered AMD in our city. People over here do want to get computers but most of them want to save money too, that is where AMD could have won over Intel in the past…

I have noticed that after release of Intel’s Core 2 DUO Processors and aggressive price cuts by both AMD and Intel, AMD finally woke up and wants to get hold of things over in Pakistan. Intel has dominated Pakistan’s computer market since years, they can’t be beaten any soon. Plus resellers/dealers will have a hard time selling AMD to their customers because everyone seem to have “Intel is the best” on their mind. It is very true, they look for “Genuine Intel” everywhere! So much that they don’t consider Intel’s Celeron processors “Genuine Intel”!!! Both are of course made by Intel and are not fakes, but try telling that to someone here.

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Sorry folks but for not replying to your comments, esp. on P5B Deluxe issue was away. Back now so will answer all insha’Allah. Meanwhile, I am finding it very hard… Palestinians KILLING each other. Someone who say slept in the year 2000 and used to hear Palestinians getting killed by Israelis, say he slept in 2000 and wakes up today, while hearing TRUCE broken, he would be like the hell with Israel but as soon as he hears it’s Hamas and Fatah fighting with each other and killing one another, he most probably would commit suicide.

With due respects, I am not a fan of Fatah, they are what you can call the “traitors” but what the hell. HAMAS? Why? I do know Fatah and Western countries are not being just with you but for heaven’s sake don’t kill each other over a damn Government control! Just have patience, do peaceful protests and the people of Palestine and the muslim world will be with you but if you start acting like this, sorry to say but you (and Fatah) are mocking Palestinian Freedom movement and muslims and not to mention saving Israel some precious “ENERGY”.

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