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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 »

Hearing the voice of the italian captain on the air plane rented by Egypt Air announcing our arrival to Cairo made me feel totally relieved, at last I’m home. It was a long trip to Saudi Arabia, starting from Ramadan/September 17th till October 1st, but it was one of a kind trip. Allow me to tell you about it in a couple of days, but for now, I’ll leave you with the pictures on my Picasa

Welcome everybody to my new blog, I managed to find some time to update my hosting and create a new blog. I’ll try to regularly blog my activities, my projects, my thoughts and my daily stuff. I hope you’ll be interested in my blog as much as I’m interested in communicating with all of you there.

So, It’s me again, the same old Abd4llA, yet I’ve a new spirit now, I’ve a new motive and new plan to stay connected with all of you, please feel free to create an account here, and comment on all my posts.

I started with the About Abd4llA page , I didn’t finish it yet though, so please let me know what you think about my new Blog.