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11 February 2006

Sudoku @ Al Ahram Newspaper

Finally, Al Ahram newspaper has realized the Sudoku hype and has published a puzzle today. I've sent them an email earlier telling them to publish such puzzle as more people are fond of it everywhere, but they didn't even reply to it. Anyways, it's nice to see it there today. Tags: , ,

PDFCreator

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any program into a PDF-machine. It is released under the term of th GPL (GNU General Public License). Site: http://sector7g.wurzel6.de/pdfcreator/index_en.htm Tags: , ,

10 February 2006

Germany2006 will Miss Egypt

It's a big shame for the World Cup competition not to have the Egyptian football team instead of those weak teams like Togo and Angola. Tags: , ,

We Are The Champions

Congratulations to all the Egyptians for the African Cup of Nations championship. After beating Ivory Coast at the final, we are simply the Champions of Africa!! Hassan Shehata has put Egypt now on the top of the African football teams after its 5th AFC championship. And just as I said before, we are simply the Masters of Africa. Tags: , ,

Celebrating the Blog Post Number 307

This is my post number 307 and that's why I've decided to dedicate it to the good looking car Peugeot 307 ... for more info check this blog post. Tags: , ,

Lucent to Acquire Riverstone

Lucent Technologies agreed to acquire certain net assets of Riverstone Networks for $170 million in cash. The deal includes substantially all of Riverstone's business operations, not including its cash and convertible subordinated notes. Riverstone is a supplier of carrier-grade Ethernet routers for the telecommunications market. Source: http://www.convergedigest.com/ Tags: , ,

The new Juniper Secure Services Gateway (SSG) 500 Series

Sometimes having only one box to handle both routing and security is better than two, or at least that's the contention of Juniper Networks.
Juniper SSG-500 Series
Juniper Networks, which today - February 6th 2006 - is celebrating 10 years of existence, is adding a new member to its product family: an integrated secure services gateway appliance that combines enterprise-grade routing, WAN access, firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, antivirus and anti-spam into a single box. The new Juniper Secure Services Gateway (SSG) 500 Series appliances take aim at a market segment that could be worth as much as $4 billion according to Juniper. The new products are also squarely aimed at taking share from Cisco Systems. Chris Spain, senior director of product management at Juniper, explained that the SSG 500 series is not made of routers with security bolted on. "It's a security platform that very tightly integrates Juniper's networking, firewall, VPN and IPS and then technology from best-in-class partners for filtering antivirus and anti-spam," Spain said. Source:http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3583171 Tags: , ,

Mass anti-cartoon rally in Beirut

Hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslims in Lebanon have turned a religious ceremony into a protest over cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad. The leader of the Hezbollah militant group told the crowd demonstrations must continue until Europe passed laws banning insults to Muhammad. While the crowds in Beirut chanted "Labayka Ya Rasoul Allah" - At your service, oh Mohammad, at your service, oh Prophet of God. Tags: , ,

Is Trianon Danish ?

Trianon is a well known bakery and cafe here in Egypt, with the phrase "Danish Bakery" in their logo. But the question is, is Trianon really Danish, or it is just an Egyptian bakery making Danish food? As far as I know it is just Egyptian and boycotting it has nothing to do with Denmark ... right?

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Edgeio

The way Edgeio works is that bloggers would post items they want to sell right on their blogs, tagging them with the word "listing" (and eventually other descriptive tags). Then, Edgeio will pluck them as it constantly crawls millions of blogs looking for the "listing" tag and index them on Edgeio.com. Sources: BusinessWeek, Edigo Tags: , ,