Abd4llA's Blog

It’s about time I give this course. This is by far the most exciting course I’ve wanted to deliver. It’s about trying to alienate more people show them the other world, show them how the Linux world looks like from the insides. ISA This will be an experience to remember. This course will be delivered in cooperation with Nozom. There’s a discount for Nozom people.

Course Details: http://goo.gl/3c28b

Registration Form: http://goo.gl/ha98l

كات سكوب 11 – 2010 / 5 / 12

لو سمحت عاوز أبقى هاكر… ؟

كلنا عايزين نبقى مبرمجين جامدين, و كلنا عايزين نبقى جامدين, و أكيد بما إنك بتقرأ دلوقتى يبقى انت كمان كده. لكن هل أنت فعلاُ عارف ايه اللى انت محتاجه علشان تكون معدى؟ هو أيه تعريف جامد و معدى أصلاً ؟ مش أنا أول ما اخد كورس الجافا هبقى معدى؟ … ولا اي

Computers Engineering Festival محاضرتي في مؤتمر هندسة الحاسبات و النظم

كنت عاوز أوصل للناس فائدة أنك تكون مهندس كمبيوتر، مش بس مبرمج أو مهندس نظم. مع مثال لموضوع محتاج أنك تكون فاهم كويس نظام التشغيل و البرمجة.  جربت أيضا أن العرض يبقي بالعربي و الأنجليزي، و أعتقد الناس عجبها ده، و أحب أسمع رأيكم برضه

I wanted to do something dead simple, make my KDE4 task manager show only the current desktop windows. I found out it a bit tricky, I kept trying right clicking the task bar to get its settings, only to end with “Panel Settings” which is the whole plasma panel settings menu, until I figured out the easiest way to do it:

1- Click on the “Cashew” icon of the plasma panel  ( check the screenshot )

2- Right click on the task bar, BINGO, here u find out the task bar settings menu

3- Check the “Only show tasks from the current desktop” check box. Voila

Enjoy !

For so long I’ve been wanting to study Algorithms, since our beloved college doesn’t know “Algorithms” was even invented. And since the best source to really learn them is the legendary book “Introduction to Algorithms”, I decided to start this week.  It’s gonna be a tough ride, cause I tried before and it was really difficult to even Read the rest of this entry »

This is my presentation at the H4ck3rz Due conference, which was sponsored by “The Fedora Project” and “Egypt OpenSolaris Usergroup – EGOSUG” . it has been really a while since I participated in CAT, but it’s very good to be back.

I loved the conference, all the sessions were great, too bad I couldn’t Read the rest of this entry »

طول عمري و أنا باسمع عن الناس اللي “دماغوا ناشفة، زي الحديد” و عادي ما كونتش باشغل بالي، و طول عمري وأنا بأقابل النوعية دي من الناس ، اللي لازم يتكلم و انت تسمع ، و حقه انه يتضايق و انت تطبطب عليه و تاخد في نفسك ، و مش من حقك انك تضايق انت كمان ، و لازم تكبر دماغك و انت الكبير. لكن قريب حسيت اني عامل زي الماغنطيس للناس دي ، بالاقيهم حواليه في حياتي في كل مكان،في اصحابي و في عيلتي و في الشغل،  وبيبقوا ناس عزيزة عليا، و فيهم اللي بابقى عارف انه طيب من جوه جدا بس ده طبعه ، و لازم استحمله، لحد ما بقيت احس انه العيب فيا انا، اكيد انا الي لازم ابقى كدة كمان.. ما علينا ، مش حطول اكتر من كده ، سلام

Well, As clear as the topic name is, I wanna share with you what the state I’m in now, and also that state is as crystal clear as that wonderful, software driven topic “if the previous three words can ever come together like that, then I am Shakespeare”

Currently, I’m trying to become  Read the rest of this entry »

Last Ramadan an angel arrived to this life, a real angel. One which knows no harms, no evil. One which has a heavenly look and a heavenly feel. She’s my niece and the moment I saw her I fell in love with her. It’s the first time to feel that kind of love, weird kind, one which comes from a place I didn’t know that existed in my heart. That angel’s name is “Malak” , which is the Arabic word for Angel. Late this month another angel arrived, he’s Ahmed, my cousin’s son. I’ll leave you with the picture, I present to you:

Malak (right) and Ahmed (left)

I’ll tell you about a problem, and if you have the true solution ….Well, I guess you won’t have a true one anyway, cause I almost tried them all.

I’m as most of you a normal Egyptian citizen, one who has a lot of dreams, one who’s very ambitious, and hope that one day I’ll achieve them. I’m a computer engineer, and I WAS thinking I’m a good computer engineer.

So, I should have a plan, right ? so my plan was “join a good computer faculty and learn as much as you can”, and here comes the tragedy. Read the rest of this entry »