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Dear Microsoft : It's over. Our relationship just hasn't been working for a while, and now, this is it. I'm leaving you for another Operating system. I know this isn't a good time--you're down with yet another virus. I do hope you feel better soon--really, I do--but I, too, have to move on with my life. Fact is, in the entire time I've known you, you seem to always have a virus or an occasional worm. You should really see a doctor. That said, I just can't continue with this relationship any longer. I know you say you'll fix things, that next time it'll go better--but that's what you said the last time--and the time before that. Each time I believed you. Well, not any longer. You cheater! The truth is there's nothing more you can say to make things better. I know about your secret marriage to patent. You say you two are not seeing each other anymore, but I just don't believe it. You say you can live without patent, and I've heard that

Linux has become quite 'mature' as an end-user operating system, so I find these stories about being 'weaned' off Windows to be ridiculous.

Linux has become quite 'mature' as an end-user operating system, so I find these stories about being 'weaned' off Windows to be ridiculous.

There was a partnership made this week that is probably scaring the pants off of Bill Gates and the people behind Internet Explorer - Google is shacking up with Mozilla to form Googzilla! Well, not exactly, but close enough. Just as Mozilla makes Internet news of securing almost 6% of the web browser market with FireFox - which has been downloaded an estimated 19 million times, Google starts offering positions, free lunch, and in-house dental benefits to the top Mozilla developers Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher. Start with a Goodger, a Fisher, the Internet?s most talked about browser, and Google - what else can you add to the mix which may send tails spinning in the browser market? How about the fact that Google owns the domain GBrowser.com. There has been much fanfare in the Mozilla fan camps about the possibility of Google using Mozilla browser technology to produce a GBrowser - the Google Browser. Over the past 6 months, the news and speculation has escalated to the point where even G

There was a partnership made this week that is probably scaring the pants off of Bill Gates and the people behind Internet Explorer - Google is shacking up with Mozilla to form Googzilla! Well, not exactly, but close enough. Just as Mozilla makes Internet news of securing almost 6% of the web browser market with FireFox - which has been downloaded an estimated 19 million times, Google starts offering positions, free lunch, and in-house dental benefits to the top Mozilla developers Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher. Start with a Goodger, a Fisher, the Internet?s most talked about browser, and Google - what else can you add to the mix which may send tails spinning in the browser market? How about the fact that Google owns the domain GBrowser.com. There has been much fanfare in the Mozilla fan camps about the possibility of Google using Mozilla browser technology to produce a GBrowser - the Google Browser. Over the past 6 months, the news and speculation has escalated to the point where even G

Proceeds of this match will be donated to tsunami victims -SUJ Amman (SUJ)- Jordan's national football team were held to a 0-0 draw vs. Norway in the friendly match that took place at Amman International Stadium this evening and of which proceeds will be donated to tsunami victims ?SUJ

Proceeds of this match will be donated to tsunami victims -SUJ Amman (SUJ)- Jordan's national football team were held to a 0-0 draw vs. Norway in the friendly match that took place at Amman International Stadium this evening and of which proceeds will be donated to tsunami victims ?SUJ

kernel : The kernel is the core or nucleus of an operating system. Basically, it provides a way for software and other parts of the operating system to communicate with a computer's hardware. GNU : Part of Richard M. Stallman's Free Software Foundation , it was founded in 1984 with the goal of creating a totally "free" operating system in which the source code was available to all who were interested. This was both a technical and political aim. The first Linux kernel (see above) was complied by the GNU C programming language complier, gcc. Many of the first programs to be bound into the fledgling Linux operating system were from the GNU project. For this reason, Stallman insists that the operating system be called "GNU/Linux". The distribution Debian GNU/Linux follows this convention, for example, but most do not. Public use and custom has evolved as such so that most simply call it Linux. Distribution : An operating system based around Linux Torvalds'

kernel : The kernel is the core or nucleus of an operating system. Basically, it provides a way for software and other parts of the operating system to communicate with a computer's hardware. GNU : Part of Richard M. Stallman's Free Software Foundation , it was founded in 1984 with the goal of creating a totally "free" operating system in which the source code was available to all who were interested. This was both a technical and political aim. The first Linux kernel (see above) was complied by the GNU C programming language complier, gcc. Many of the first programs to be bound into the fledgling Linux operating system were from the GNU project. For this reason, Stallman insists that the operating system be called "GNU/Linux". The distribution Debian GNU/Linux follows this convention, for example, but most do not. Public use and custom has evolved as such so that most simply call it Linux. Distribution : An operating system based around Linux Torvalds'

t just isn't fair that Windows users get all the viruses. I mean really, shouldn't Linux users be in on the fun as well? Well... thanks to the folks running the Wine project, Linux users can "catch the virus bug" too -- sort of. Linux just isn't user-friendly when it comes to viruses. You have to work to find and run them. It doesn't happen automatically as it does with Windows. The GNU/Linux folks really should improve this glaring discrepancy. While I have friends that collect viruses, I didn't need to bother them. I found plenty by looking through my staggering collection of bogofilter sorted mail. I apt-getted a copy of ClamAV , and after siccing it at my spam-and-other-things-I-don't-want-to-read collection, I yanked out a half-dozen unique, only Windows-compatible, viruses. That "only Windows-compatible" part was about to change. Klez Amazingly, Klez ran, but Wine kept on spewing out errors about "ntdll." After Googling to

t just isn't fair that Windows users get all the viruses. I mean really, shouldn't Linux users be in on the fun as well? Well... thanks to the folks running the Wine project, Linux users can "catch the virus bug" too -- sort of. Linux just isn't user-friendly when it comes to viruses. You have to work to find and run them. It doesn't happen automatically as it does with Windows. The GNU/Linux folks really should improve this glaring discrepancy. While I have friends that collect viruses, I didn't need to bother them. I found plenty by looking through my staggering collection of bogofilter sorted mail. I apt-getted a copy of ClamAV , and after siccing it at my spam-and-other-things-I-don't-want-to-read collection, I yanked out a half-dozen unique, only Windows-compatible, viruses. That "only Windows-compatible" part was about to change. Klez Amazingly, Klez ran, but Wine kept on spewing out errors about "ntdll." After Googling to

Google Inc. stepped into video search on Tuesday but with an initial focus on indexing the content of broadcast and satellite television. So far, Google Video does not include video from the Web or provide a way to play back shows. The company retrieves content by recording the broadcasts of television programs. "There's a lot of high-quality information on television and a lot of it is not on the Web today," said John Piscitello, product manager for Google Video. "Google's mission is to connect people with all the information out there, and searching TV is natural next step." Google began creating the index in December, and it has grown to about 2TB of data, Piscitello said. The index will continue to grow as more content sources are added. He declined to specify the total number of TV sources included in the beta. Along with networks, though, they include the San Francisco Bay Area affiliates of ABC and NBC as well as local station KRON, according to the G

Google Inc. stepped into video search on Tuesday but with an initial focus on indexing the content of broadcast and satellite television. So far, Google Video does not include video from the Web or provide a way to play back shows. The company retrieves content by recording the broadcasts of television programs. "There's a lot of high-quality information on television and a lot of it is not on the Web today," said John Piscitello, product manager for Google Video. "Google's mission is to connect people with all the information out there, and searching TV is natural next step." Google began creating the index in December, and it has grown to about 2TB of data, Piscitello said. The index will continue to grow as more content sources are added. He declined to specify the total number of TV sources included in the beta. Along with networks, though, they include the San Francisco Bay Area affiliates of ABC and NBC as well as local station KRON, according to the G

Why a penguin? things that cannot fly cannot crash.

Another boot speed test on P4 2.6, 256DDRAM 47.70sec

Another boot speed test on P4 2.6, 256DDRAM 47.70sec

After 5 hours struggling with my Speedtouch modem to get it into Always on mode, ( so you don't need to configure ppp0 anymore, just the Ethernet) got Ubuntu up and running on my main box. anyway, I cant see the light! nighty

After 5 hours struggling with my Speedtouch modem to get it into Always on mode, ( so you don't need to configure ppp0 anymore, just the Ethernet) got Ubuntu up and running on my main box. anyway, I cant see the light! nighty

First boot speed-test takes 74s on PIII/1G cpu/ 384SD ram. next test will be on P4 2.6G cpu & 256 ram....

First boot speed-test takes 74s on PIII/1G cpu/ 384SD ram. next test will be on P4 2.6G cpu & 256 ram....

After about a year of using Linux as the main desktop(its a Free desktop ), I found that I'm not using windows anymore, ah actually I use windows for Paltalk voice chat, Red-alert and Generalz games.. and now since I have passed the first installation of linux Ubuntu , I'm thinking to give it all of my HDD, but first I will have to find an alternative for Paltalk under linux... and by the way, I have choose Ubuntu as an easy flavor of debian , or a debian based distribution, because I always wanted to be debian user, but SHEESH its hard.. so next step might be to move to Debian. To be continued...

After about a year of using Linux as the main desktop(its a Free desktop ), I found that I'm not using windows anymore, ah actually I use windows for Paltalk voice chat, Red-alert and Generalz games.. and now since I have passed the first installation of linux Ubuntu , I'm thinking to give it all of my HDD, but first I will have to find an alternative for Paltalk under linux... and by the way, I have choose Ubuntu as an easy flavor of debian , or a debian based distribution, because I always wanted to be debian user, but SHEESH its hard.. so next step might be to move to Debian. To be continued...

Okay Ubuntu forums have it all, I have just changed my HDD mode to Normal instead of LBA (I don't know the difference.) and now I'm in Ubuntu base system configurations

Okay Ubuntu forums have it all, I have just changed my HDD mode to Normal instead of LBA (I don't know the difference.) and now I'm in Ubuntu base system configurations

Well well well I have just finished the installation of Ubuntu, it wasn't that hard, the only part was the Linux Partitioning anyway, on First boot I got GRUB loading, please wait... Error 18 Was it trying to load the system or to load the error :D Now in GRUB manual 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block address beyond the end of the BIOS translated area. This generally happens if your disk is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for (E)IDE disks on older machines or larger than 8GB in general). now I'm looking for a fixation ..

Well well well I have just finished the installation of Ubuntu, it wasn't that hard, the only part was the Linux Partitioning anyway, on First boot I got GRUB loading, please wait... Error 18 Was it trying to load the system or to load the error :D Now in GRUB manual 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block address beyond the end of the BIOS translated area. This generally happens if your disk is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for (E)IDE disks on older machines or larger than 8GB in general). now I'm looking for a fixation ..

greetings guys, I have ADSL through ppp0, How to set it to auto reconnect when disconnected.. Thanks in advance This script should do what you want. ============= reconnect_modem.sh ============= #!/bin/sh # # Script to check if modem is disconnected & try reconnecting # Graham Smith - 01/02/2004 # # set -x result=$(/usr/bin/cinternet -i dsl0 -s | /usr/bin/grep disconnect) #Checks the status of device dsl0 'disconnect' if [ -n "$result" ] then /usr/bin/cinternet -i dsl0 -A #Start the interface. sleep 10 else #The interface is up - Just exit exit 0 fi ================================== Just add the following line to your crontab, replacing with the path you installed the script in. It checks to see if the modem has been disc every 3 minutes. 4-59/3 * * * * /reconnect_modem.sh 2>&1 /dev/null -- Regards, Graham Smith Thank you Graham! & Thank you basem Narmoug

greetings guys, I have ADSL through ppp0, How to set it to auto reconnect when disconnected.. Thanks in advance This script should do what you want. ============= reconnect_modem.sh ============= #!/bin/sh # # Script to check if modem is disconnected & try reconnecting # Graham Smith - 01/02/2004 # # set -x result=$(/usr/bin/cinternet -i dsl0 -s | /usr/bin/grep disconnect) #Checks the status of device dsl0 'disconnect' if [ -n "$result" ] then /usr/bin/cinternet -i dsl0 -A #Start the interface. sleep 10 else #The interface is up - Just exit exit 0 fi ================================== Just add the following line to your crontab, replacing with the path you installed the script in. It checks to see if the modem has been disc every 3 minutes. 4-59/3 * * * * /reconnect_modem.sh 2>&1 /dev/null -- Regards, Graham Smith Thank you Graham! & Thank you basem Narmoug

Connection Status Received 1 Downloading 69373.5K of 133832.0K 2 Downloading 79904.6K of 133832.0K 3 Downloading 113800.0K of 133832.0K 4 Downloading 66054.8K of 133832.0K http://releases.ubuntu.com/warty/warty-release-install-i386.iso File Size = 535328K Total bytes received = 329132.9K (61.48%) Current speed = 38.34Kb/s, Average D/L speed = 47.11Kb/s Time remaining 1 hours 12 minutes 57 seconds Resume Supported

Connection Status Received 1 Downloading 69373.5K of 133832.0K 2 Downloading 79904.6K of 133832.0K 3 Downloading 113800.0K of 133832.0K 4 Downloading 66054.8K of 133832.0K http://releases.ubuntu.com/warty/warty-release-install-i386.iso File Size = 535328K Total bytes received = 329132.9K (61.48%) Current speed = 38.34Kb/s, Average D/L speed = 47.11Kb/s Time remaining 1 hours 12 minutes 57 seconds Resume Supported

Don't just pretend to listen. You might be surprised at how much you can learn.

It's one thing to look back fondly. But don't get mired in memories of the past.

It's one thing to look back fondly. But don't get mired in memories of the past.

What do you think of Jordanian ISP's ? after couple of calls and meetings requesting and checking their ADSL offers I found out they are all the same, same price, same offers, Wanadoo : conceited sales man, he wanted to say "We are wanadoo, no deals more than the printed offer, no way to discuss, read the offer, 3ajbak 3ajbak mu 3ajbak wafrt.." TeData: very nice sales lady, ready to listen and discuss anything, but some question marks remain for their unlimited bandwidth offer Batelco : they seems to have the best customer care in jordan, but got alert "Batelco is well known for port filtering" Now, How to choose the best 'available' isp in jordan? Wanadoo because they are backended by JTC Batelco because they have the best customer care TeData: new company, we still ma bene3raf khairhom men sharhom... please advise....

What do you think of Jordanian ISP's ? after couple of calls and meetings requesting and checking their ADSL offers I found out they are all the same, same price, same offers, Wanadoo : conceited sales man, he wanted to say "We are wanadoo, no deals more than the printed offer, no way to discuss, read the offer, 3ajbak 3ajbak mu 3ajbak wafrt.." TeData: very nice sales lady, ready to listen and discuss anything, but some question marks remain for their unlimited bandwidth offer Batelco : they seems to have the best customer care in jordan, but got alert "Batelco is well known for port filtering" Now, How to choose the best 'available' isp in jordan? Wanadoo because they are backended by JTC Batelco because they have the best customer care TeData: new company, we still ma bene3raf khairhom men sharhom... please advise....

Compounding a mistake with a lie will only make it worse. The truth is easier.

Compounding a mistake with a lie will only make it worse. The truth is easier.

php|architect magazine has just launched a new mailing list dedicated to PHP security. The mailing list, which is moderated to ensure an optimal signal-to-noise ratio, is a good place to keep abreast of new security developments, announcements of security products and to discuss proper techniques for deploying, maintaining and developing PHP and PHP applications. You can read all about it (and subscribe to it) at .

php|architect magazine has just launched a new mailing list dedicated to PHP security. The mailing list, which is moderated to ensure an optimal signal-to-noise ratio, is a good place to keep abreast of new security developments, announcements of security products and to discuss proper techniques for deploying, maintaining and developing PHP and PHP applications. You can read all about it (and subscribe to it) at .

if its not the first, then its the first I heard of... till now it seems to be alternative for planetplanet, arab made from scratch still not release, hope adel can give us a release soon Adel Netdur.info [tags]blogging, aggregator, rss[/tags]

if its not the first, then its the first I heard of... till now it seems to be alternative for planetplanet, arab made from scratch still not release, hope adel can give us a release soon Adel Netdur.info [tags]blogging, aggregator, rss[/tags]