Ants Attack

Today morning I was surprised to find my Laptop occupied by numbers of ants. The ants armys were hiding under the keyboard buttons, and as soon as I opened the Laptop they started their sudden attack. I tried to fight back and killed some, then used a blower to blow them up out of my territory. And thankfully I think I've annihilated them successfully. Finally, I think the antivirus companies are supposed to start making new products to help people protect their PCs from the various kinds of insects.

Thunderbid Should Handle Outlook Meeting Requests

One more feature I'd like to see in Thunderbird is to be able to handel Outlook Meeting Requests and add them to its Calendar extension. It has also to be able to send Meeting Requests in the Outlook format.

Thy Phylososphy of Turtles

If a turtle comes out of its shell, is she naked or homeless?

Egyptian Football League

Today the Egyptian Football league will start, and on this occasion I wish the best for Zamalek team in the new season. By the way, what I mean by football is that game played in the whole world and that the Brazil national team has won its world cup five time for now - a.k.a. soccer - and not that freak game played in USA only.

Please Stop Bugging Me

It has been a number of months while using Mozilla Thunderbird as my prefered EMail client. But there is one thing I hate about it which may in some stage makes me switch back to MS Outlook again. The problem is that we have SSL enabled on our Mail Server, but the certificate there has a domain name mismach as well as it has expired already. So every time I try getting an email or sending one - my client is configured to check for new mails every short while - I receive warnig from Thunderbird. I do really need some way to tell it "OK, I know that the domain name of my server does not match with the one in the certificate as well as that the server's certificate has expired already, but PLEASE STOP BUGGING ME WITH THAT AS I KNOW WHAT THE HECK I AM DOING!!"

Bye Bye Cisco

Earlier this month Michael Lynn and x-employee in ISS (Internet Security System) gave a speech in the Black Hat forum about some security breaches he has found in Cisco IOS that may get them to their knees. He also explained how this can lead to Arbitrary Code Execution in the Cisco products that may in some stage let hackers to make various exploits and worms that can infect the Cisco routers, switches, etc.

The problem here is not that the Cisco products are that vulnerable and insecure as Michael Lynn said, but it is how Cisco reacted to that speech and decided to sue him and the Black Hat organizers. It is really shameful that a company that has a significant share in security products market reacts that way instead of trying to fix their own security weakness or at least announce that they are going to fix them.

Getting On My Nervers

Sometimes some people are getting on my nerves. Sometimes the way they talk, sometimes the way they act, and some other times they just do without any reason.

Zamalek Ya Madrasah

Yesterday Zamalek sucessfully defeated the Tunisian Esperence Team in their home town 2-1. Actually Zamalek is the best team in Africa and deserves his famous slogan "Zamalek ya madrasa, le'eb we fan we handasa" (i.e. Zamalek is the school of wonderful play and fantastic football arts)

Foam Art

This is a master piece of a horse and a tree made using foam pieces. The picture was taken by the professional photographer MMM (Mostafa Multimedia). You can also notice the use of Foundry FES Switch in the background.

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