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Releasing stuff

Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:16:30 +0000

I just put the mplayer patch online.

This is the first, in a lot of stuff I'll put online.

Just so no one thinks I am hiding my stuff.

Fifa 2004 under TUX

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:55:55 +0000

yes guys that is true for the 1st time i know or c fifa 2004 works fine under linux .. linuxawy and me was out at one of my friends ( islam ) that work in net cafe ( but no connection right now ) and he has one box have linux mandrake 10 official as a toy for him to c what is that system ( he is adoring m$ ;( ) but i found that fifa2004 works fine at him just in the 1st some logos gose in white like the logo of the teams ( in the chosing only ) 3`er keda the game is perfect.. and i saw doom3 too works soo fine sure all conuter strike works. checken invaders . and painkiller neighbors from hell 1 and 2

We're still alive!

Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:06:03 +0000

while activity here, eglug.org, #eglug and #phaeronix was really low the past week, I assure you we are all still alive and well.
On a side note, here's an update on the stuff in the upcoming version of the LiveCD:
-Updates most notably OOO 1.1.3 and jre1.5
-Hardware detection script: error fixing, and huge speed improvement ( no more compiles ).
-UI : no more xfce dependency, only ROX and gkrellm. This spared some memory.
-less stuff extracted to RAM on startup.
-Better way of ejecting the liveCD on shutdown. ( could still be improved though ).
-As a result of the last two the LiveCD can now boot with just 64Mb of RAM available and still have 24Mb free after the desktop is up. ( confirmed in qemu ).

got my internet connection back!

Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:58:18 +0000

yeeeeeeha got new cables, got a good deal with the closest internet cafe to me and here i am :). well this means that i'll get to work on alot of things (damn when u think of it, it was nice when i had no internet connection at home). well torrents watch your back here i come

Prepare for building LFS

Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:31:32 +0000

My First Preparation Process:

Create the partition which will host the LFS system is prepared
Create a file system on it ( journaling file systems for it's increasingly popular )
Using an existing swap partition
Downloading the appropriate packages
Compiling temporary tools
Compiling and Installing all the packages one by one (Wish For Non-Errors Occurs)
Setting up the boot scripts
Installing the kernel
Extend the system in the way I like

Best Regards

I used to be indecisive ... but now I'm no so sure

Gates talking about Open Source. huh!!!

Mon, 4 Oct 2004 19:12:22 +0000

Guys, this is hillarious, the so called Bill Gates is talking about open source, and guess what he mentioned some models as "a fantastic thing" when talking about BSD and he says "we tend to favour such distribution license" (maybe because he was talking in the UC Berkley campus), but still he doesn't like GPL stating that "it should be used very narrowly" because it can't be commercial and "tax" generating as he says, for the full video checkout this link http://zdnet.com.com/1606-2-5392970.html , sadly it's in windows media or real format.

Blogs get the media attention

Mon, 4 Oct 2004 18:52:54 +0000

as i was just reading the newspaper called "ALHAYAT الحياة" realsed on Monday 4/10/2004 which is arabic newspaper published in London .. in the internet page there was a title get my intention
"بلوغرز": صحافة بديلة بيد كُتّاب سِيَر من شبيبة الانترنت
the title was strange on the first look i can't undersatnd what they mean but after i read few lines , i got it the article was talking about about the Blogs and the new system for young people for express them sleves and say what they want ... i like the article realy and i hope u will like it also Read the article

0.77 final released.

Fri, 1 Oct 2004 10:55:15 +0000

okay I hope this is final.

I have tried to update the included software, and fix as many bugs as i can find.

I hope it works for you. I am too tired to talk. I will try to fix up my website at phaeronix.net soon.

Meanwhile:

http://www.elkasrelaini.com/linux/phaeronix-0-77.iso http://www.elkasrelaini.com/linux/phaeronix-0-77.md5sum

which contains : 24286fcba582db81466ffb03d69f945c phaeronix-0-77.iso

I will upload it elsewhere soon.

UPDATE:

okay bitorrent is working now thanks to Uniball. You can find it on here:

http://www.elkasrelaini.com/linux/phaeronix-0-77.iso.torrent

Broke My Hand :(

Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:08:41 +0000

Yesterday I was playing with a friend of mine and I broke my hand ... LOL ... That was a hard game ... Actually 2 of my bones went over each other in a strange way ... I rushed to the nearest pharmacy and in a certain way he could grab the bones away from each other ... This really hurted .. hehe ... Today I felt some pain so I went to the hospital and made some stupid X-Ray and The Dr. said that it is broken and it has to be casted ... and now I'm a 1 hand typer and I dont know what will I do in my tests and studies ... This is da right hand .. he3 he3

EGLUG social gethering in Alex

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:43:38 +0000

last saturday while on my vacation I went with MohammedSammeer and Manal to Alex where we had a big EGLUG social gathering.

we met all of EGLUG Alex members except for OneOfOne who found out he was alergic to clean air and sunlight (the whole EGLUG alex population consists of DarknessWolf, LinuxAwy and Sherbo).

we had great fun at downtown alex which is not realy downtown alex, then at downtown alex wich is proper downtown alex, we found out alexandrian geeks don't know anything about their city and had to consult google in order to locate kadora, a net cafe, a coffee shop or even the sea (yes they did not know where the sea was).

even more packages tested

Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:30:59 +0000

after wasting a couple of days exploring the great Mandrake educational software I'm finaly back on track (don't try 3d filemanagers its a farce).

agrep - cool a fuzzy grep, a forgiving grep, grep that looks for aproximate matches, what more can you ask for,
clamav in case you don't know about it already, this is the best Free anti virus, you use it to scan files going to windows machines of course ;-)
binstat tool to give you statistics about your system binary files, very useful for stripping down a distro, tells you how many unused libraries you have, how many unstripped binaries, how many duplicate binaries and man pages etc.

more packages tested

Sat, 11 Sep 2004 02:27:41 +0000

Day 3 of the great RPM race most of the day wasted on trying to get OpenGroupWare to work

TeXmacs - scientific wordprocessor, kinda like a more powerful, more complex LyX, with great integration with tools like gnuplot, octave, yacas etc.
mlview - gtk based xml editor, not bad but nothing beats emacs-psgml mode, conglomerate has a more sane UI, but is way to underfeatured at the moment.
vigor - what can I say I may even move to vi because of that.
asp - french eschool package, covering official school cariculum, test, grading etc, very simple but very effective.

Yet Another Package Crunching Day

Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:39:07 +0000

day two of whole lotta software tests.

ouch lots of stuff doesn't work or just plain crashes, is this the FOSS quality we're proud off?? maybe these are packaging problems (some of this stuff did not change for years).

anyways here goes

cssed - thats a CSS editor, no problems here but it doesn't realy add much, its just a spec aware editor, it can help you by converting the spec to dialogs, menus and forms, but it isn't realy smart, it does't parse your doc or the html it references it doesn't add anything that isn't easily available in emacs.
DDD - data centric debugger, this is by far the best and most inovative debugging frontend ever, focus is on data, in addition to typical debugger features it draws data structures, plots variables over time, plots arrays and matrices and traces pointers all over the memory space, and best of all it works for C, C++, BASH, Perl and PHP (when will they add python).

Testing loads of software

Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:47:32 +0000

Building a community media center and a media library in Abu Al Nomros is turning out to be a very interesting job.

I need to find decent FOSS apps for all sorts of use cases, to be ready for the future I decided to spend a few days going through all the packages available to Mandrake.

I'm testing using cooker since it has more packages, and maybe I'll get to post a bug report or two.

Anyways, I'll keep track of the packages I find promising here, and maybe later I'll review some of them

kaspaliste - kde bibliography tool, powerful, loads of features, bibtext integration, interface is as good as a webbased thing though, see no point in KDE if it won't add a more friendly UI.

At last 0.77

Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:08:35 +0000

After excruciating effort I managed to roll out 0.77 before the start of this academic year.

http://www.eglug.org/node/view/513

This year I will be really busy as I intend to get higher grades, so I won't be that active in development. Don't get me wrong I won't vanish. I will still answer questions and collect bug reports and work on them when I can.. but I don't think there will be big changes.
I was discussing this with Youssef Assad , Uniball and DjKing and we decided someone could take over maintaining the project with my help. Anyone with reasonable skill and willing to spend time can be of help. After all, a team is much better than one person. DjKing accepted the responsibility but I failed to give him the ISO before he left to Kuwait (shame on me).