Kazaa Under Arrest

The Federal Court of Australia found that Kazaa violated Australian copyright law by authorising users to infringe music companies' copyright in recordings. The court ordered that the P2P (Peer to Peer) firm must install filters to prevent future violations. The problem is that many Music Creators are fighting the P2P File Sharing programs (Kazaa, eDonkey, eMules, Shareaza, BitTorrent, iMesh, Morpheous, BearShare, etc.) in order to prevent the distribution of copyrighted music freely. You may also notice that many years ago there were many websites for downloading music (MP3s), but it seems that the music industry plaintiffs won their fight against these websites. Google also faced a similar problem at their Project Google Print, where publisher disagrees on scanning books and presenting them online to the public. It's really scary to imagine that someday you may be put to jail for copying an MP3 file or a Movie to one of your friends.

Words of Wisdom

Some nice quotes from Zein Wali's home page, http://www.eng.cu.edu.eg/users/zeinwali/wisdom.htm

I Am The Master Of My Fate

Invictus It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. By William Ernest Henley

Know Who Links To You

So, you wanna know who is having a link on his site to your blog !? Go to Google.com or Yahoo.com and search for this:

link:gr33ndata.blogspot.com

Don't forget to replace "gr33ndara.blogspot.com" by your actual blog URL.

Does Google Like You !?

Many Webmaster and bloggers are worried about their hompages and blogs popularity in the search engines like MSN, Yahoo, Google, etc. One way to increase your site popularity is to have many links pointing to it, which may increase the possibility of the web crawlers to come across your site and the more they come across it the more popular it is. This can be done by making your friends link to your site, or by adding it to some web-ring or whatever. Also one trick some people do, is by adding some phrases in their site even if they are irrelevant to the site contents such as (Microsoft, Windows, Sex, United States, War, Love, Free, Crack, Hack, Movies, etc.) which they expect many people will use in their search queries; this s sometimes known as search-engine-spam.

Link To Us

Do you like this Blog and want to add a link to it on your Site/Blog ?? Gr33n-Data Banner:

< a href= "http://gr33ndata.blogspot.com/" > < img src= "http://www.geocities.com/gr33ndata/blogfilez/banner_gr33ndata.jpg" > < /a >

Kelmeteen Banner:

< a href= "http://kelmeteen.blogspot.com/" > < img src= "http://www.geocities.com/gr33ndata/blogfilez/banner_kelmeteen.jpg" > < /a >

Spammers Are Here

Yesterday after adding a new post here, I found 9 comments on it added in no time ... Oh, what's so important about it to receive such number of comments that quickly. But after seeing those comments I founds that they are all Spam. So spammers have found their way to bloggers too, by adding silly comments just to advertise some useless products (such as Viagra, slimming pills, some human organs enlargement, voyages to Hawaii, etc), or to give their sites more popularity in the search engines. One nice thing I have found and I am using now is called Word Verification. In the Blog settings, the Comments section you can enable an option called Word Verification that may help in fighting the muttafaka spammers.

Alexandria Corniche

Alexandria is the chief seaport in Egypt, and the country's second largest city. It is Located on the Mediterranean Sea coast.

In Their Eyes

Some foreigners have a really funny idea about Egypt. They think that we ride camels and live in tents, and that we have no buildings nor streets. It's similar to what we think about Indian people riding elephants or Nigerian people living on the trees which is so untrue. Any way I decided to add every now and then some pictures I take with my Nokia 7650 mobile phone camera to different places in Egypt hoping that this may change how the others see our beloved Egypt.

Gameat El Dowal Street, December 2003

EGLUG - GNU/Linux InstallFest

The 2nd GNU/Linux InstallFest will be held in the CultureWheel - River hall on Saturday the 10th of September 2005 at 9:00 AM.