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ألعاب الإنجازات

in «Technology, Linux & Free/Open Source Software» by moftasa

واحدة من طرق التأقلم مع الاحساس بالانفصال عن المكان ال عشت فيه طول حياتي بسبب تسارع الانجازات والتطور الأسمنتي الأسفلتي والتوسع في حارات الطرق وتغلغل الكباري على حساب الحدائق والبلكونات هي محاولاتي في التغلب على الشعور بالعجز أمام كل ده بلعب نوع معين من ألعاب الفيديو بسميه ألعاب الإنجازات (الأسم الدارج هو ألعاب المحاكاة).

بولي بريدج

لقطة من اللعبة وتظهر كوبري غير ناجح وسيارة تسقط من عليه

أول لعبة في سلسلة ألعاب الإنجازات هي لعبة بناء الكباري وهي لعبة محاكاة وبازل في نفس الوقت وهدف اللعبة …

First Free/Open Source Software protest in Egypt

From Egypt Independent:

A group of technology activists gathered in front of the Cabinet on Sunday morning to protest a governmental deal with software giant Microsoft to buy licensed software for public agency worth almost US$4 million.
On 26 December, the official Facebook page of Prime Minister Hesham Qandil announced that one of the Cabinet's main achievements is that it sealed a deal with Microsoft to buy and maintain licensed software for the government …

التصنت على الإتصالات وحرية التواصل مقال لعمرو غربية

لم يهتم الاعلام المحلي (بالمقارنة بالاعلام الغربي) بموضوع برامج التصنت التي تباع للأنظمة الأمنية مثل أمن الدولة في مصر والمنطقة العربية، تستخدم تلك البرامج لمراقبة النشطاء عبر الانترنت. من أهم تلك البرامج هو برنامج فينفيشر من انتاج شركة جاما (انجليزية ولها فرع بألمانيا). كتب اليوم عمرو غربية في جريدة الشروق مقال هام عن هذا الموضوع وعن القيود الحالية في مجال الاتصالات. 

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The new Kindle

in «Technology, Linux & Free/Open Source Software» by moftasa

Kindle

LCD screens on your flat-screen TV, laptop or phone are direct descendants of the cathode-ray tube TV. Difficult for prolonged reading. Although recently I read around 400 pages of a textbook on my laptop, I had to, it was difficult and wasn't an enjoyable experience. The last time I enjoyed reading a book on an electronic device was using the Palm PDA. I think the Amazon Kindle is a direct descendant of the Palm PDA …

Exploring family relations from online obituaries using text mining and data visualisation tools

Using a copy of all the obituaries published online by the Ahram newspaper from January 2002 till April 2008 it is possible to use Linux command line tools (gawk, sed, bash) to find family relations between individuals in certain professions. An example given here explores the family links between a sample of 456 Egyptian state security officers.

This is a very brief description of the method.

  1. The first step is to convert the HTML files …

No more Internet pornography in Egypt

Blocking porn sites is not the main issue here, there are ways to circumvent censorship and if people want to watch porn, and they do, they will resurrect VHS.

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A chart fromGoogle Insightshowing the search for the term "sex" and "سكس", originating from Egypt and from 2004 till now. The annual dip in search, marked with the red R, coincides with the month of Ramadan.

This ruling is like legalizing the monitoring of …

Jaiku: No more international SMS

Jaiku announced yesterday that they will support SMS to the US only. Jaiku was down for more than 24 hours because they were converting the software to an open-source version called JaikuEngine.

They will also stop feed-fetching which was a nice feature that created a Facebook like mini-feed (or FriendFeed like) on the users' homepage to follow the activities of your friends on other sites.

In short, Jaiku now is going to be pretty useless …

Facebook scale is scary

There are 100 million people around the world using Facebook. This number is from the official Facebook blog. They don't mention the number of active users. But it is safe to say that they are a lot.

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I will describe an evil idea to control the decisions of a great number people that doesn't involve any intrusion on their privacy. They will be oblivious to this interference.

You probably know that Facebook, among other things …

How to listen to live streaming internet radio in your car

You can listen to live streaming internet radio if you have a mobile phone with a 3G connection. The phone should be able to run J2ME MIDP applications (most do). Download and install MFRadio. It is open source and free. MFRadio can only play Mp3 streams.

The second step is to be able to connect your phone to your car stereo. This is highly variable, so you will have to find this out on your …