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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: , ,

09 February 2006

The Evening of Ashura

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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.

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06 February 2006

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: , ,

Geeks and Chicks

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05 February 2006

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: , ,

04 February 2006

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 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: , ,

03 February 2006

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: , ,

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: , ,

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.
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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: , ,