the disgruntled Linux surgeon

I wanted to try out the new skype beta, still not native 64bit, but with promise of improved audio call quality and stability. On debian experimental I had a problem that it crashed right after trying to make a call or setup the audio device. I found this bug :

https://developer.skype.com/jira/browse/SCL-510

Recently I have converted my root and home partitions to the ext4 filesystem! I notice that system is a little snappier but that could just be a placebo effect. However the big win is fsck time. It takes much less time to fsck partitions.

This is almost like science fiction. Playing with my GPS and geolocation after a pointer to WURFL from alaa I found that there is a new specification for geolocation in HTML5, and it is implemented in firefox 3.5 ...

TRY IT OUT

Nice recursive title eh ?

well I just reported http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542124 using reportbug and I have to say it is very easy and simple , so much that it has encouraged me to put bug reporting on my list of daily activities.

I am glad I helped someone who took the time to release something for Linux :

http://www.frictionalgames.com/site/node/92

It's a mighty fine game.

Too bad I couldn't buy the linux version of "World of Goo" because there was no way to pay in egypt.

http://2dboy.com/

On a side note : This should cheer up anyone, just don't spend too much work time on it :P
http://notalwaysright.com

Egypt's web developers ignorance of browsers other than IE never ceases to amaze me.

The e-payment system for landline telephone bills works only on internet explorer. I was able to bypass the problem by excluding the non standard line from the javascript and running the rest in firebug.

Similar problems can be seen in the thanaweya amma results site.

I have moved my site to my new VPS with linode. Expect some news soon :)

I'd like to thank my dear friend Msameer for hosting my site for free the past few years and being patient with me everytime I forgot my passwrd.

Hello everyone,

Been a long time. Tons of things happened in my life and looking back at my choices, I can say I am more or less happy with the choices I made. Now I am a father of a 3 month old baby boy, my little Omar.

Finally ! My patch to hamster applet got accepted. Don't believe me ? Looky here : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558912

Now I am really motivated to work on doing more in hamster-applet.

Hello everyone!