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: Sudoku, Ahram, Gr33n Data

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: PDF, Softwares, Gr33n Data

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: Africa, Football, Gr33n Data

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: Africa, Football, Gr33n Data

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.

Peugeot 307cc

Tags: Peugeot, Automobiles, Gr33n Data

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: Networking, Lucent, Gr33n Data

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: Security, Networks, Gr33n Data

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: Islam, Lebanon, Gr33n Data

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?

Tags: Danish, Trianon, Gr33n Data

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: Blogs, ECommerce, Gr33n Data

The Evening of Ashura

The Evening of Ashura, by Mahmoud Farshchian

This is one of the most famous paintings representing the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (PBUH) at Karbalaa in the 10th of Muharram 61 AH (approx. 20 October 680 AD). The ladies with the now masterless horse - Zuljana - weeping after the martyrdom of the Imam.
The painting is called "The evening of Ashura" and is drawn by the Iranian artist Mahmoud Farshchian.

Tags: Religion, Islam, Ashura, Gr33nData

Triple Play @ Cairo ICT

"In telecommunications, the Triple Play service is a marketing term in the United States for the provisioning of the three services; high-speed Internet, television (Video on Demand or regular broadcasts) and telephone service over a single broadband connection. Triple Play focuses on a combined business model rather than on solving technical issues or a common standard", Wikipedia You can see many companies demoing this technology at Cairo ICT this year like Alcatel, and Salec (Salec are also having demo on controlling your home phone from your PC or TV set). Also TE-Data had a nice demo last year on the same technology. Tags: Networks, Communications, Gr33n Data

Geeks and Chicks

Tags: Nerds, Girls, Gr33n Data

ICT Setup ... Ufffffffff !!

Uffffffff, a very long and tiring day setting out companys booth up, as well as preparing for the demo's for the Cairo ICT 2006. Tags: ICT, Telecomm, Gr33n Data

Google Video Upload Program

Google has a nice tool to upload your own videos there, so that anyonecan see them

We're accepting digital video files of any length and size. Simply sign up for an account and upload your videos using our Video Uploader (please be sure you own the rights to the works you upload), and, pending our approval process and the launch of this new service, we'll include your video in Google Video, where users will be able to search, preview, purchase and play it

URL: https://upload.video.google.com/ Tags: Google, Video, Gr33n Data

Google Pack

Google Pack is a free collection of essential software from Google and other companies. The software in the Google Pack helps you browse the web faster, remove spyware and viruses, organize your photos, and more. The pack includes Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, Google Pack Screensaver, Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar, Ad-Aware SE Personal, Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition, and Adobe Reader 7. URL: http://pack.google.com/ Tags: X, X, Gr33n Data

Orkut

It seems that the social networks are one of the hypes of these days. A social network is an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends. One of the well known social networks is hi5. And of course, Google has decided to enter that field by Orkut, which is named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. But Orkut is somehow different than hi5, sms.ac, Friendster, Yahoo! 360º, as you have to be invited in order to join it. May be it is still a beta version, so they decided to limit the number of people to join it like what they have done with Gmail. So I have to wait for an invitation in order to join and try it. Finally, I want to know what attracts those companies like Google and Yahoo to such think, is it only the Ads, or do they collect data about people behavior online as well. Orkut: https://www.orkut.com/ Tags: Internet, Social, Gr33n Data

Egypt to the ACN Semifinals

CAIRO, Egypt -- Hossam Hassan scored one goal and Ahmed Hassan added two more to help Egypt beat Congo 4-1 and put the hosts in the semifinals of the African Cup of Nations. Spectators and players observed a minute's silence for the victims of Friday's ferry disaster in the Red Sea. Source: CNN.com Tags: Football, Egypt, Gr33n Data

Boycott.dk FAQ

1- Why did we decide to boycott the Danish product, when it is just one newspaper that have published those cartoons ?

Actually we decided to boycott the Danish products in order to send a message that "we are not just a group of people living in Lalaland, that you can make fun of or insult their religious symbols whenever you want"

2- Do we think this will really have a effect on the Danish people, as there is no much Danish products here to boycott?

I am not sure of it, but I really hope so

3- Do we hate the Danish people?

Sure, we do not hate them. Actually we do not know them even and Denmark for me is just Peter Schmeichel, and some Lurpak butter.

Tags: Politics, People, Gr33n Data

Egyptian Passenger Ship Sank in The Red Sea

An Egyptian passenger ship carrying about 1,300 people sank in the Red Sea overnight during bad weather, and rescue ships arriving at the scene Friday pulled dozens of bodies from the water, an official said. Thirty survivors were rescued, some in lifeboats. The 35-year-old ship, Al-Salaam Boccaccio 98, went down 40 miles off the Egyptian port of Hurghada, the head of the Egyptian Maritime Authority, Mahfouz Taha Marzouk, told The Associated Press. Source: http://news.yahoo.com Tags: Egypt, Sailing, Gr33n Data

Solaris Top

The "top" program on Linux provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel, and their CPU, memory usage. On Solaris machines there is an equivalent command called "prstat". Tags: Solaris, Unix, Gr33n Data

Net-Force Challenges

Here yu are some nice geek challanges to solve, URL: http://www.net-force.nl/challenges/ Tags: Security, Steganography, Gr33n Data

YPOPs!

Yahoo! Mail disabled free access to its POP3 service o­n 24th April, 2002. This application emulates a POP3 server and enables popular email clients like Outlook, Netscape, Eudora, Mozilla, etc., to download email from Yahoo! accounts. We do not go against the license agreements of Yahoo! Mail. This application is completely legitimate and well within the realms of legal software. It is available o­n the Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac platforms. URL: http://ypopsemail.com/ Tags: POP3, Yahoo, Gr33n Data

Goobuntu

Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software. A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as 'Goobuntu'. Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project called Goobuntu, but declined to supply further details, including what the project is for. It's possible that it's just one of the toys Googleplex engineers play with on Fridays, when they get time off from buffing the search engine code or filtering out entries about Tiananmen Square. It could be for wider deployments on the company's own desktops, as an alternative to Microsoft, but still for internal use only. But it's possible Google plans to distribute it to the general public, as a free alternative to Windows. Google has already demonstrated an interest in building a presence on the desktop. At CES Las Vegas this month, it announced the Google Pack, a collection of desktop software bundled together for easy downloading. The pack includes many apps which compete directly with the Windows bundle, such as Google Talk, Google Desktop, Mozilla Firefox, the Trillian instant messenger client, RealPlayer, and Picasa photo management. Going the whole hog and distributing a complete desktop software suite would merely be another step down the same path. However, entering the desktop software world would be a huge step. Making Goobuntu as easy to use as XP will require a lot more development. It's unlikely to be ready for showtime any time soon, and it's possible Google itself hasn't finalised where the project should go.Whatever Google's intentions, the input of Google engineers and developers, writing new features and fixing bugs, will be a huge boost to the Ubuntu project. Ubuntu, funded by the South African internet multimillionaire and occasional cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth, is already emerging as a leader in the desktop Linux world. It has built considerable momentum in the Linux community, and is starting to appear more widely. Shuttleworth is seeking to persuade white-box PC manufacturers to start shipping machines with Ubuntu preinstalled. It is top of the Distrowatch download chart, is installed on up to six million computers, and doubling every eight months, according to estimates from Shuttleworth's company, Canonical. It has spawned a number of different offshoots, including Xubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu (for schools). Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu Tags: Google, Linux, Gr33n Data

nUbuntu

The main goal of nUbuntu is to create a distribution which is derived from the Ubuntu distribution, and add packages related to security testing, and remove unneeded packages, such as Gnome, Openoffice.org, and Evolution. Some of the main security packages: * Aircrack * Airsnort * Bluesnarfer * DSniff * EtherApe * Ethereal * Ettercap * ExploitTree * FragRouter * Honeyd * IISEmulator * John the Ripper * Kismet * Metasploit * Nemesis * Nessus * Nikto * NMap * Samdump2 * SSLDump * VNCrack * Void11 URL: http://www.nubuntu.org/ Tags: Linux, Security, Gr33n Data

Spell with Flickr

Spell with Flickr is a small program that lets you type in whatever you want, then goes to flickr and grabs pictures for each an every letter! It also allows you to change the images that you see, so you can find better images for your word or phrase! URL: http://metaatem.net/words.php Tags: Art, Flicker, Gr33n Data

Germany'06 vs Egypt'06

It's really weird that 3 of the 5 African nations who have been qualified to the world cup that will be held in Germany this year were not able to go the second stage - quarter finals - of the African Nations Cup held here in Egypt. Frankly teams like Angola and Togo do not deserve to represent Africa in the world cup; However this is football, and we have to accept its surprises. Tags: Football, Africa, Gr33n Data

The Uncivilized Vikings

I like drawing, especially cartoons and anime. And I really think that a cartoonist can deliver a message with his brush, a 100 lines article can't deliver. But like any other writer he must know that there is a big difference between speaking freely, and being a real ass hole. The point is that you can say whatever you want, without insulting the others. And that's why "we were deeply shocked seeing a Danish newspaper (Jyllands Posten) offending almost 1 billion Muslims around the world by publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed - PBUH&HF - seen as a terrorist carrying bombs on his head!

Tags: Denmark, Ethics, Gr33n Data

Cisco VPN gear vulnerable to DoS attacks

Organizations running certain Cisco VPN gear may be susceptible to a remote denial-of-service attack that could knock out network connections for teleworkers or traveling employees accessing a corporate network over the Internet. A flaw in the Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator could cause the device to reload or drop user connections if an attacker sends a specially-crafted HTTP packet to the device, the vendor says. Source: NetworkWorld.com Tags: Cisco, Security, Gr33n Data

Build Root

Buildroot is a set of Makefiles and patches that makes it easy generate a cross-compilation toolchain and root filesystem for your target Linux system using the uClibc C library. Buildroot is useful mainly for people working with small or embedded systems. Embedded systems often use processors that are not the regular x86 processors everyone is used to using on their PC. It can be PowerPC processors, MIPS processors, ARM processors, etc. And to be extra safe, you do not need to be root to build or run buildroot. Link: http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ Tags: LinuX, Cross Compilation, Gr33n Data

DLink ADSL Modem Spex

D-Link DSL-xxxT is a family of MIPS 4KEc AR7 and Linux-based ADSL Routers designed for home or office use. The family includes DSL-300T, DSL-302T, DSL-500T, DSL-504T, and DSL-G604T. All DSL-xxxT devices use ADAM2 bootloader. D-Link DSL-xxxT firmware is based on the MontaVista Linux.

Linux version 2.4.17_mvl21-malta-mips_fp_le (jordan@Jordan_Linux) Compiled by gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release/MontaVista) 18 14:13:34 CST 2004

Resources: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=373 http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/DSL-xxxT http://www.cyberciti.biz/.../hacking-dlink-502t-router.html Tags: Linux, DLink, Gr33n Data