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What is - Gmount-ISO

Why burn a disk when you could mount it? and who wants to remember such command to mount an ISO image [coolcode]mount -o loop -t iso9660 file.iso /mnt/test[/coolcode] not to mention the long list of mount parameters. Well, I do want to remember such command but I don't mind having an easy cool tool to mount ISO images. Gnome ISO Mounter (Gmount-ISO) is a tool that ease for Desktop users the CD Image files (ISO) mounting/unmounting . Gnome ISO Mounter (Gmount-ISO) package is available under Ubuntu 7.10 repository [coolcode] Package: gmountiso State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 0.4-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/utils Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers Uncompressed Size: 168k Depends: python, python-central (>= 0.5.8), python-glade2, python-gtk2 Suggests: nautilus Description: This is Gmountiso, a PyGTK GUI to mount your cd images Gmount-iso is a small tool written using PyGTK and Glade. It allows you to easily mount your cd images. This is a f

Ubuntu Gutsy - Skype Microphone

Linux is awesome, everything is editable, everything is always under user control; however sometimes it takes sometime to figure out how to tweak certain application or fix something. I just installed Ubuntu Gusty on my laptop and there are two major problems, the first was solved and I'm sharing the fix in this post which was related to Skype sound, specifically the capture, my second problem is with my internal card read which for some reason it wasn't recognized, will update you later with the fix hopefully How to fix Skype sound Run gnome-volume-control go to Edit -> Preferences and then tick the free tracks Edit /etc/esound/esd.conf and make sure it look like this one [esd] auto_spawn=1 spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 1 spawn_wait_ms=100 # default options are used in spawned and non-spawned mode default_options= Restart the advance sound system ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart In my case, with my HDA Intel card my probl

Ubuntu Gutsy - Skype Microphone

Linux is awesome, everything is editable, everything is always under user control; however sometimes it takes sometime to figure out how to tweak certain application or fix something. I just installed Ubuntu Gusty on my laptop and there are two major problems, the first was solved and I'm sharing the fix in this post which was related to Skype sound, specifically the capture, my second problem is with my internal card read which for some reason it wasn't recognized, will update you later with the fix *hopefully* How to fix Skype sound Run gnome-volume-control go to Edit -> Preferences and then tick the free tracks Edit /etc/esound/esd.conf and make sure it look like this one [esd] auto_spawn=1 spawn_options=-terminate -nobeeps -as 1 spawn_wait_ms=100 # default options are used in spawned and non-spawned mode default_options= Restart the advance sound system ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart In my case, with my HDA Intel card my pro

Amman Linux Installation Festival

Under the High Patronage of Mighty Penguin, Jordan Linux Users Group is pleased to invited you to Amman Linux Installation Festival 29th December 2007. Time : 9:00 a.m - 9:00 p.m. on Saturday December 29th 2007. Place : Azzahra' Hall - Jordan Engineers Association (Mojamma3 Elnaqabat) in Shemisani. Amman, Jordan. What : Live installation of various Linux flavors. Bring your PC or laptop and get professional help in installing the latest and greatest GNU/Linux OS. Who : Volunteers from Jolug members. Duration : All day. Free entry tickets Free Linux DVDs & CDs Free Linux Installation Free presentation Free soft drink. Way to confirm Send email to festival [at] Jolug [dot] org Jolug.org event FaceBook event BE THERE [tags] amman jordan, duration, gnu linux, jea, laptop, linux, linux flavors, linux os, linux users group, patronage, penguin, volunteers, linux users group, linux flavors, amman jordan, gnu linux, linux os, engineers association, patronage, penguin, duration,

Amman Linux Installation Festival

Under the High Patronage of Mighty Penguin, Jordan Linux Users Group is pleased to invited you to Amman Linux Installation Festival 29th December 2007. Time : 9:00 a.m - 9:00 p.m. on Saturday December 29th 2007. Place : Azzahra' Hall - Jordan Engineers Association (Mojamma3 Elnaqabat) in Shemisani. Amman, Jordan. What : Live installation of various Linux flavors. Bring your PC or laptop and get professional help in installing the latest and greatest GNU/Linux OS. Who : Volunteers from Jolug members. Duration : All day. Free entry tickets Free Linux DVDs & CDs Free Linux Installation Free presentation Free soft drink. Way to confirm Send email to festival [at] Jolug [dot] org Jolug.org event FaceBook event BE THERE [tags] linux users group, linux flavors, amman jordan, gnu linux, linux os, engineers association, patronage, penguin, duration, volunteers, laptop, linux [/tags]

MommaBean's cookies party

Can't say much as we were forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement (WHERE IS THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS BLOGGERS!!) However, I can give some highlights We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots Cookies was great We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots Mazen's creation were bit creative We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots I ate all of my creation We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots Manal's creation were the cutest We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots I proved Wael's theory of being Visually blid with my weird looking cookies (and that's why I ate them all) We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots Thank you MommaBean & Kinzi for the invitation, we enjoyed every Hal's automatic shot nano-second of the party. Read others hightlight MommaBean highlights One more time of Happy Christmas & Merry Eid. [tags] cookies party, non disclosure agreement, freedom of the press [/tags]

MommaBean's cookies party

Can't say much as we were forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement (WHERE IS THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS BLOGGERS!!) However, I can give some highlights We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots Cookies was great We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots Mazen's creation were bit creative We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots I ate all of my creation We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots Manal's creation were the cutest We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots I proved Wael's theory of being Visually blid with my weird looking cookies (and that's why I ate them all) We Enjoyed Hal's automatic shots Thank you MommaBean & Kinzi for the invitation, we enjoyed every Hal's automatic shot nano-second of the party. Read others hightlight MommaBean highlights One more time of Happy Christmas & Merry Eid. [tags] cookies party, non disclosure agreement, freedom of the press [/tags]

Cheese = Jebnaaaa

Better larger [tags] group, photograph, Canon, S3[/tags]

Cheese = Jebnaaaa

Better larger [tags] group, photograph, Canon, S3[/tags]

Over half a million years

That's the amount of minutes people spent over the phone chatting in 2006 and that's only for International calls. more [tags] voice over internet protocol, telecoms firms, making international calls, voice over internet, half a million, traditional networks, voice traffic, million years, slowdown, 1 billion [/tags]

Over half a million years

That's the amount of minutes people spent over the phone chatting in 2006 and that's only for International calls. more [tags] voice over internet protocol, telecoms firms, making international calls, voice over internet, half a million, traditional networks, voice traffic, million years, slowdown, 1 billion [/tags]

Happy Christmas and Merry Eid

On the other side of news, read Kinzi's Galler Opening & Blogger Meet up , and yes I'm a sight for sore eyes. (Thanks 7ajeh Kinzi) [tags] Eid, adha, Christmas, Galler, Chocolate, opening [/tags]

Happy Christmas and Merry Eid

On the other side of news, read Kinzi's Galler Opening & Blogger Meet up , and yes I'm a sight for sore eyes. (Thanks 7ajeh Kinzi) [tags] Eid, adha, Christmas, Galler, Chocolate, opening [/tags]

Have terrorist bombs made people respect Islam more?

Economist.com - The persuasive powers of reformed jihadists are being used to “re-educate” terrorists. MEETING Nasir Abas at one of Indonesia's trendiest hotels, it is hard to imagine that this polite man in casual Western clothes was once a leader of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the region's most dangerous terrorist group. Now his job is to persuade his former comrades to give up the idea of perpetrating violence against the West in the name of Islam. As he explains in his mild-mannered way, he uses two lines of argument. One is theological: he points out the verses in the Koran that forbid aggressive warfare, and which insist that the lives of non-combatants, especially women and children, must be protected. The other line is more strategic: to convince his listeners that not all Westerners are anti-Muslim, he stresses the fact that many Americans opposed the war in Iraq. And he challenges them: have terrorist bombs made people respect Islam more? Some prisoners angrily reject his

Have terrorist bombs made people respect Islam more?

Economist.com - The persuasive powers of reformed jihadists are being used to “re-educate” terrorists. MEETING Nasir Abas at one of Indonesia's trendiest hotels, it is hard to imagine that this polite man in casual Western clothes was once a leader of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the region's most dangerous terrorist group. Now his job is to persuade his former comrades to give up the idea of perpetrating violence against the West in the name of Islam. As he explains in his mild-mannered way, he uses two lines of argument. One is theological: he points out the verses in the Koran that forbid aggressive warfare, and which insist that the lives of non-combatants, especially women and children, must be protected. The other line is more strategic: to convince his listeners that not all Westerners are anti-Muslim, he stresses the fact that many Americans opposed the war in Iraq. And he challenges them: have terrorist bombs made people respect Islam more? Some prisoners angrily reject his

Thumbs up - City mall & Carrefour security

Most of Jordanians are aware of the rudeness, randomness and the low level that Mecca mall security have, they would let a teenager get it but not a decent 35 years old man (whom wife is waiting for him inside) and many other stories ending up with the unreasonably big fight they made three months ago. On the other side, Carrefour & City mall security are just awesome people, maybe because they have to deal with different class of people, at least teenagers wouldn't be interested in Virgins or the quite coffee shops at the mall nor they are responsible for family shopping but seriously their security folks are amazing. Why City mall & Carrefour security are so amazing? They always tend to smile They are polite especially those who scan your car looking for cookies. They have a uniform; you can tell if this person is a security and has the right to stop you or not unlike Mecca mall gangsters They seems to be well trained, they know what they're doing and they know how to

Thumbs up - City mall & Carrefour security

Most of Jordanians are aware of the rudeness, randomness and the low level that Mecca mall security have, they would let a teenager get it but not a decent 35 years old man (whom wife is waiting for him inside) and many other stories ending up with the unreasonably big fight they made three months ago. On the other side, Carrefour & City mall security are just awesome people, maybe because they have to deal with different class of people, at least teenagers wouldn't be interested in Virgins or the quite coffee shops at the mall nor they are responsible for family shopping but seriously their security folks are amazing. Why City mall & Carrefour security are so amazing? They always tend to smile They are polite especially those who scan your car looking for cookies. They have a uniform; you can tell if this person is a security and has the right to stop you or not unlike Mecca mall gangsters They seems to be well trained, they know what they're doing and they know how to
Just came back from Umniah's office, their offer is promising and I can tell that I'm considering their Umax offer seriously. Their 2Mbs offer has a bandwidth cap of 10Giga and you can pop-up cap by 1GB, 3GB or 7GB the 7GB is around 14 JOD which is NOT a reasonable price but yet the best available, at least this option is available unlike most of land line based ADSL in Jordan. I went their specifically to see their WiMax modem and I can assure you that you might have seen it before in star wars or some documentary about UFO, the device is identical to almost all flying saucer that we have seen on TV documentary shows or movies. It's not annoyingly big as I though but yet it's not as small as the one that Zain has in Kuwait nor like the one that Qtel has; however, the Hijabi sales chick advised me not to buy the device as the new small, USB devices are coming soon (as in three months), as for Cos (Quality of Service) she was honest enough to say that you wont feel the d
Ok, No more ADSL for me using Tedata, Orange or any land-phone based Internet provider, I have 1Mbs account with Tedata and in the last 72 hours I had lots of speed drop especially on HTTP requests; I was able to download and hitchhike from server to another at 72Kbs but HTTP at 6.3 at max but my decision isn't because of this unexpected drop. I made the decision to move into naked ADSL for many reasons, starting from the fact that land-line Internet customer services, are either trained to give lies or they think all of their customers cannot tell the difference between a laptop and a microwave. I called Tedata three times complaining about the situation, the guy said go to my computer, right click on network icon ... I said wait, I don't have windows and I'm able to diagnose the problem and I can confirm that it's from your side NOT mine nor JTC. again, he said I guess you have a virus that eating up your network and again I had to explain that I'm running a viru

A free advertising that works

Your blogger business card, basically once you sign up you get a blogger business card, you drop it at other blogs and receive credit; you can also buy advertising on any blog on EntreCard network using credit you have earned by dropping your card or when someone drop his card on yours. Simply amazing idea and it works. [tags] advertising, entrecard, business, card, free [/tags]

A free advertising that works

Your blogger business card, basically once you sign up you get a blogger business card, you drop it at other blogs and receive credit; you can also buy advertising on any blog on EntreCard network using credit you have earned by dropping your card or when someone drop his card on yours. Simply amazing idea and it works. [tags] advertising, entrecard, business, card, free [/tags]

Ok, It's allowed to smoke

According to Amen FM radio, it's allowed to smoke in your private car but not in public cars such as taxies or bus. However, that's not because they want to allow us to smoke but it seems to be a flow in the new proposed law. HOAAAAAAAAARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY That sounds like Christmas gift to me :-) [tags] smoking, law, jordan, allow, radio, amen, FM[/tags]

Ok, It's allowed to smoke

According to Amen FM radio, it's allowed to smoke in your private car but not in public cars such as taxies or bus. However, that's not because they want to allow us to smoke but it seems to be a flow in the new proposed law. HOAAAAAAAAARYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY That sounds like Christmas gift to me :-) [tags] smoking, law, jordan, allow, radio, amen, FM[/tags]

Goodbye Cruel World

[tags] photography, jordan, aqaba, red, sea, red sea, diving, diver, scuba [/tags]

Goodbye Cruel World

[tags] photography, jordan, aqaba, red, sea, red sea, diving, diver, scuba [/tags]

STOP!

View Large On Black [tags] photography, girl, stop, sign, sky, mountain, Aqaba [/tags]

STOP!

View Large On Black [tags] photography, girl, stop, sign, sky, mountain, Aqaba [/tags]