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Sylpheed claws patch in the CVS.

from foolab.org on Wed, 01/02/2006 - 10:37

They accepted The patch.

لعيونك يا مصطفى.

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2 new patches, Arabic in sylpheed and sylpheed claws.

from foolab.org on Fri, 27/01/2006 - 21:01

Both are FLOSS mal clients with a very similar code base, In fact Sylpheed claws is a friendly fork from sylpheed.

Patch against sylpheed 2.2.0beta6, I emailed the author.
Patch against sylpheed-claws 1.9.100, In their bug tracking system.

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I'm no longer a fsf associate member!

from foolab.org on Mon, 23/01/2006 - 23:06

I'm not renewing my membership!

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Africa Source II Images.

from foolab.org on Sat, 21/01/2006 - 21:46

Enjoy the 261 images ;-)

I couldn't post all the images as they are +800 M.

I also had to resize them otherwise they'd have consumed a lot of space.

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No more phaeronix contributions for me.

from foolab.org on Thu, 19/01/2006 - 18:39

No more phaeronix contributions for me.

Please, I hate this ....... .

Note to self: Be prepared for a lot of depressing things and a lot of discussions the following days.

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AfricaSource 2, I'm back

from foolab.org on Wed, 18/01/2006 - 04:42

I'm back.
I did it again and pissed in the source of the nil for the last time on the last night.
Next day we had to empty the resort, The last bus left at about 12, Damn that long way.

Nuagara hotel was full, We had to spend the night in another one called Antonio sessions club or whatever. No, I won't be able to say goodbye to my friends :-(

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More minutes.

from foolab.org on Sun, 15/01/2006 - 13:22

Today was the closing circle, All was fine.

A lot of people are leaving now.

I can't post photos now as we have a very limited bandwidth.

Yesterday I DID IT AGAIN! I PISSEDIN THE SOURCE OF TH

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Cool Day!

from foolab.org on Fri, 13/01/2006 - 09:06

Yesterday was a day off, We went to an outing, We had four, I choose to go to the fishing village.
We walked for about an hour and a half in the forest. Come on! It's cool but I guess it's a fake forest. WE found a water pipe there ;-)

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fun++

from foolab.org on Wed, 11/01/2006 - 12:27

yesterday i attended a session about computers and disability.

arun is amazing. i met him in india at asiasource but i didn't know that he's teaching bnd people programming.
i've got my batteries charged by yesterday and i'm back to photos.

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mission accomplished !

from foolab.org on Tue, 10/01/2006 - 11:22

Some time between Sunday the 8th of january & monday the 9th of january. .I FULFILLED MY NEEDS BY PISSING IN THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. Talce carc. You've been warned!

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Africa source 2, 4th day.

from foolab.org on Mon, 09/01/2006 - 21:09

@nd day, It's raining. I had to take a bath with cold water because I felt dirty :-(
Damn the food here is delicious!
Tracks in the morning.

I'll give a session in the evening on how to compile a kernel.

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Africa source 2, 3rd day.

from foolab.org on Mon, 09/01/2006 - 21:07

The 1st day of Africa Source. It was raining in the morning, I slept with my clothes, It was a bit cold.

Awesome morning circle with awesome people.

I've been told by someone "It was sunny so I didn't really identify her" that I have the best smile!

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Africa source 2, 1st day.

from foolab.org on Sat, 07/01/2006 - 22:56

It all started in the airport.
After the check in and everything, We found that the flight will have a 1 hour delay.
Had the worst cappuccino and pizza ever.
Thomas cook didn't have dollars!! Only Euros.

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Africa source 2, 2nd day.

from foolab.org on Sat, 07/01/2006 - 22:56

It's been a hell of a day.
I was fighting to wake up since 6 am.
I managed to wake up at 7:55, Breakfast.
Eggs, Coffee, Bananas and Pineapples.
Now the bus should move at 8:20, This didn't happen because they discovered that we won't fit so they have to get more space.

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وداعا 2005

from foolab.org on Mon, 02/01/2006 - 15:12

ساصر على الكتابة بالعربية هذه المرة

عام 2005 لم يكن عاما عاديا بلنسبة لى
بل كان مشحونا بالاحداث و النجاح و الفشل و القلق و الحزن و ...

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Baghdad 0.0.3 is out

from foolab.org on Mon, 26/12/2005 - 22:28

Grab it while hot!
ChangeLog:
* Spelling correction using all the possible ways I know about
* Added pkg-config PC files

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links2 + arabic

from foolab.org on Mon, 26/12/2005 - 18:20

And another patch.

No shaping and don't ask me why. It's either the font ot fribidi2.

I

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Extracting values from your apache log.

from foolab.org on Sun, 25/12/2005 - 12:06

Don't try to understand this, It'll lead to brain cancer ;-)

Just use it to extract things from your apache web server access log.

perl -n -e '/(.[^ ]*) -(.[^-]*)- \[(\d*)\/(\w*)\/(\d*):(\d*):(\d*):(\d*) (.[^\]]*)\] "(\w*) (.[^ ]*) .[^"]*" (\d*) (.[^ ]*) "(.[^"]*)" "(.[^"]*)"/; print "$1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9 $10 $11 $12 $13 $14 $15 \n"' access.log

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From Arab Source to Africa Source.

from foolab.org on Sun, 18/12/2005 - 11:09

Arab source brainstorming meeting is over. I'm tired, My left eye is stillhurting.
I really need a vacation as I didn't spend an hour at home during the last2 days except to sleep.

Being busy didn't give me time for my personal feelings, I guess this might be good.

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Drupal authentication backend for dokuwiki.

from foolab.org on Tue, 13/12/2005 - 12:41
This authentication backend'll enable your DokuWiki to authenticate using the drupal database.
This code is pulled from my cvs which means that whenever I update it, It'll reflect the file displayed here ;-)
<?php
/**
* Drupal authentication backend
*
* Use drupal as an authentication backend.
*
* @license    GPL 2 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html)
* @author     Mohammed Sameer <msameer@foolab.org>
*/

// TODO: Currently, Each time we have to connct to the db twice, one to auth the
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katoob for windows 0.3.8+cvs20051212-win32-alpha

from foolab.org on Mon, 12/12/2005 - 11:03

katoob-0.3.8+cvs20051212-win32-alpha.

This should be able to open and save files with Arabic filena

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Katoob for windows needs your help.

from foolab.org on Fri, 09/12/2005 - 19:07

I've started the port a few months ago but it was inactive.

Last wednesday, Mostafa suggested that I port it to wndows.

So here's a deal, I've built a windows binary for the latest CVS.

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