[tags]Ummah Films, Ramadan Reruns [/tags]
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Ubiquity for Firefox
Let's see what's the awesome FLOSS world is introducing to us, lets see Firefox Ubiquity.
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
[tags] web mail service,message composition,ubiquity,floss,email,san francisco restaurant,search engine,map[/tags]
You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You’d like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the message being composed. This familiar sequence is an awful lot of clicking, typing, searching, copying, and pasting in order to do a very simple task. And you haven’t even really sent a map or useful reviews—only links to them. Read more
Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
[tags] web mail service,message composition,ubiquity,floss,email,san francisco restaurant,search engine,map[/tags]
To Our Leaders: Free Us.
$427 million. That’s what the oil and coal industries spent during the first half of 2008 on lobbying and advertising. They’re protecting their interests – and hurting ours.
This ad is running on TV right now, but we need millions more to see it. The special interests will outspend us, but we can compete head-to-head with them when we find ways to share these messages for free.
We want 50,000 people to watch this ad in the next 72 hours. Will you help?
[tags]coal industries,special interests, tv ad[/tags]
My niece approached me asking me to help her reinstalling Windows XP, Autocad, 3D max, Photoshop & Microsoft Office, for her I work in computers and I should be able to help her but in fact I can't.
I cannot install illegal software so I asked her if she has the original CDs she said no but I can buy them if they are better, yet she didn't understand my point and she do not know how much would it cost to buy those apps; she's just a junior engineer student.
so I decided to help her finding a place to buy them (Yet she have no idea how much that would cost her) and we started with Norton Anti Virus and the price was $99 why we started with Antivirus ? because Microsoft Windows doesn't last long without it.
Then we googled for autocad online shopping option and it was there for $1200 and 3D max for $3,495, Adobe C3 was for $649, Microsoft Office 2007 student license was for $149.95 and we kept searching for Microsoft Windows XP License but we couldn't find anything on Microsoft.com website and the only solution was to buy Microsoft Windows Vista and use the downgrade rights later and first thing is first we had to check if her laptop is ready to run Vista, long story short her 500 JOD laptop cannot run Vista by any chance so now we have to add a new laptop to the cart and lets assume it's just 1000 JOD, now after comparing Windows Vista editions we thought that Home Premium is good and it's usage license cost $259.95
Now we have the following in our cart, I will convert mentioned JODs into USD to make it easier.
Now I can tell you that she's in shock that she have to pay that loads of money for software without receiving any on site support and most likely a new version will be released soon and she have to upgrade.
Now she have two options, Going legal or Going illegal.
If she decided to go legal I will charge her $1000 because she have money to buy that load of apps and my time isn't for free with people who have such money.
Going illegal means she have to go to some computer service around the university and install that load of apps and even more for around $15.
The other side of this story that the Kingdom would lose lots of money if they decided to be strict about it, we have at least 50,000 university student and lets assume that their average spending on software licensing would be only $1000 a year, that would mean $50,000,000, let me spell it Fifty Million US Dollar a year and our assumption was the minimum to get your computer legalized.
The other option would be making the use and the utilization of Free software a national strategy. which should be a win win situation, people will be using free software with very minimal cost (and they own things at the end of the day) and money will be recycled locally.
[tags]autocad 3d,reinstalling windows,3d max,niece,windows xp, photoshop, license, software, money, antivirus, norton[/tags]
I cannot install illegal software so I asked her if she has the original CDs she said no but I can buy them if they are better, yet she didn't understand my point and she do not know how much would it cost to buy those apps; she's just a junior engineer student.
so I decided to help her finding a place to buy them (Yet she have no idea how much that would cost her) and we started with Norton Anti Virus and the price was $99 why we started with Antivirus ? because Microsoft Windows doesn't last long without it.
Then we googled for autocad online shopping option and it was there for $1200 and 3D max for $3,495, Adobe C3 was for $649, Microsoft Office 2007 student license was for $149.95 and we kept searching for Microsoft Windows XP License but we couldn't find anything on Microsoft.com website and the only solution was to buy Microsoft Windows Vista and use the downgrade rights later and first thing is first we had to check if her laptop is ready to run Vista, long story short her 500 JOD laptop cannot run Vista by any chance so now we have to add a new laptop to the cart and lets assume it's just 1000 JOD, now after comparing Windows Vista editions we thought that Home Premium is good and it's usage license cost $259.95
Now we have the following in our cart, I will convert mentioned JODs into USD to make it easier.
New laptop that can run Vista - 1200
Norton Antivirus - 99
Autocad - 1200
3D Max - 3495
Adobe CS3 - 649
Microsoft Office 2007 student license - 149.95
Windows Vista Home Premium - 259.95
Total is 7,052.9 USD which is 5000 JOD.
Now I can tell you that she's in shock that she have to pay that loads of money for software without receiving any on site support and most likely a new version will be released soon and she have to upgrade.
Now she have two options, Going legal or Going illegal.
If she decided to go legal I will charge her $1000 because she have money to buy that load of apps and my time isn't for free with people who have such money.
Going illegal means she have to go to some computer service around the university and install that load of apps and even more for around $15.
The other side of this story that the Kingdom would lose lots of money if they decided to be strict about it, we have at least 50,000 university student and lets assume that their average spending on software licensing would be only $1000 a year, that would mean $50,000,000, let me spell it Fifty Million US Dollar a year and our assumption was the minimum to get your computer legalized.
The other option would be making the use and the utilization of Free software a national strategy. which should be a win win situation, people will be using free software with very minimal cost (and they own things at the end of the day) and money will be recycled locally.
[tags]autocad 3d,reinstalling windows,3d max,niece,windows xp, photoshop, license, software, money, antivirus, norton[/tags]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
وضع العالم العربي بعد طعن مهند
- طعن مهند و هو الان بين الحياه و الموت
- مصطفى أتاتورك يتحدث من قبره و يلوم الاتراك على التسيب في حمله التتريك و الذي ادى الى دبلجه المسلسلات التركيه للعربيه!
- اجتمع الشعراء العرب لتجهيز افضل ما لديهم لرثاء مهند ان لا سمح الله توفي
- ستخرج الجماهير العربيه من كل مكان يوم الجمعه لرثاء مهند
- اقسمت نور بان تبقى مرتديه لفستان العرس لمماتها حتى لو خمج عليها
طالبت عائله مهند الجماهير العربيه بعدم الخروج عن القوانين في بلادهم فيما يخص التجمع لاكثر من ثلاثه و لهذا دعت العائله الجماهير للخروج كوبلز مجوز يعني- اعلنت الدول العربيه و العاربه و المستعربه على الكره الارضيه و في المجره تنكيس الاعلام لمده ثلاث حلقات تقديرا لمهند
- قرر المجلس الاسلامي الكوكبي تاجيل تحري هلال شهر باب الحاره لمعرفتهم التامه بصدق مشاعر الامه تجاه مهند و معرفتهم بان عيون الامه محروقه على مغادرته
و اليكم ما قاله الشعراء في رثاء مهند
عاجل
ان العين لتدمع و ان القلب ليحزن و انا على فراقك يا مهند لمحزونون
[tags]تفاهات, العالم, العربي[/tags]
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Driving in Jordan in the eye of an expat
You got to read her post about driving in Jordan and if you had a similar experience you will feel excusing
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Explore news sites read by McCain, Obama and political journalists.
Now you can track the news that Obama and McCain are reading and sharing with you, both McCain and Obama presidential campaigns and leading political journalists are using Google Reader to keep up with their favorite new sites and blogs as well as share articles that interest them.
All of that is publicly available now at Power Readers in Politics
[tags] political journalists,presidential campaigns,share articles,google,obama,mccain,blogs[/tags]
All of that is publicly available now at Power Readers in Politics
[tags] political journalists,presidential campaigns,share articles,google,obama,mccain,blogs[/tags]
Monday, August 18, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Monday, August 4, 2008
Working from coffee places has many advantages especially if you do your work from home but sometimes it just sucks because you have to drive and in Amman it means you have to swear at about 10% 90% of drivers around you.
Today I decided to work from Donuts Factory because I like it, it's Jordanian brand which means I'm supporting local business instead of international chains, it's usually quite place and they have decent Internet connection but today things were different.
It seems some teens were running out of school and hanging there for their secret date and as Arab they geneticallyspeaks shouts and yell without noticing that I can blog their story.
Moral of the story to the point, BE AWARE OF BLOGGERS AROUND YOU!
Actually I'm aware of their relationship now and I can tell if it's going to work or not, I know some stuff about their families but I didn't like the girl when she stated thatmonster girl.
On the other side I just noticed that I haven't blog for a while and now I'm back to the habit, maybe I should thank the couples and buy them somecondoms coffee
[tags] decent internet connection,monster girl,international chains,world doctors,coffee places,secret ,ate,amman,donuts,yell,condoms,shouts,habit,couples,kiss,relationship[/tags]
Today I decided to work from Donuts Factory because I like it, it's Jordanian brand which means I'm supporting local business instead of international chains, it's usually quite place and they have decent Internet connection but today things were different.
It seems some teens were running out of school and hanging there for their secret date and as Arab they genetically
Moral of the story to the point, BE AWARE OF BLOGGERS AROUND YOU!
Actually I'm aware of their relationship now and I can tell if it's going to work or not, I know some stuff about their families but I didn't like the girl when she stated that
she hates her motheras for the guy, he's melting down for a kiss although world doctors wouldn't recommend kissing that
On the other side I just noticed that I haven't blog for a while and now I'm back to the habit, maybe I should thank the couples and buy them some
[tags] decent internet connection,monster girl,international chains,world doctors,coffee places,secret ,ate,amman,donuts,yell,condoms,shouts,habit,couples,kiss,relationship[/tags]
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