my dual monitor at work

Hi all,
This is my dual monitor at work, my laptop is Amilo (Fujitsu-Siemens), running Debian Etch. The setup is made using nvidia-settings.

Chrome's sad tab

This is what Google's Chrome display when a tab goes bad! I really loved it so much (click on image to enlarge).

Note: This is my work pc, it is running windows -which i don't like- so I installed a Mac Theme.

Good Bye IOL..

Dear IOL* members,

It has been nearly 4 years now in IOL in different positions and departments. I believe it is time for me now to move, I should have done this at least a year ago, but I didn't in three different occasions because of many factors, most importantly 20at's** benefit. These years meant a lot to me, I learned many things really, but I believe I have now reached a saturation point, where my stay will not be of acceptable benefits for both IOL and me, in fact it even may do nothing but hold me still instead of going forward. Thus I decided a while ago considering opportunities that come along.

  Today at nearly 4:00 pm i received an offer, that I accepted, from a software company named "Citex Software" to work there as a software engineer. The offer satisfies many needs at this phase of my career basically and my life as well. On top of them is the need of new and fresh career blood, working with a young team that understands each other and can really think of things differently and effectively, a place where I can learn a lot of new things and a better financial level. All these factors exist in this opportunity along with others, so I am accepting the offer. I should start there right after The Eid, that means 2 weeks and a half from now.

  Despite the fact that there were some issues inside the company that could be dealt with better, I really find it hard to take such a decision and will always remember IOL was like home to me. It is the nature of things anyway; people leave their homes when they are grown up and choose their own way. Thank you all for everything, and yes I think this is a Goodbye. Hope you all the best from all my heart.

Best wishes ever,
Mosab Ahmad.

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* IOL = islamonline.net, and media international company
** 20at = 20at.com, may main project i am was working on, i built it from scratch.

How big is the internet?!

I was also wondering about this, till Google Gave me the answer!

Check this post posted at the official Google blog by Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj, Software Engineers, Web Search Infrastructure Team.

from now on walk in the internet carefully.

[[ wikimania 2008 ]]

Just arrived home at Cairo from Alexandria after three days in wikimania 2008,

The event was great at all levels, and i have a lot to tell, but right now i just need some sleep.

see you when i wake up*.

for now i will leave you with a photo i took with jimmy wales



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* citation needed!

debian and ubuntu dual boot

i finally decided to put another system besides my beloved debian,
yesterday i installed a dual boot (debian-ubuntu) system on my fujitsu siemens laptop.

Grandpa and Grandson i call both distros :)

long live GNU.

code - caffeine relationship!

We have to admit!

"Programmers are tools to convert caffeine into CODE!"*


while(caffeine) {
    developer::Code(caffeine);
    caffeine -- ;
}

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* a quote i found somwhere in the internet..

youtube scalibility issues..

a video by a member of the youtube team -now part of Google- about some of the scalability challenges they faced,
enjoy..

i bought "me" a present!

in the last period i was very very overloaded..
my load in work reached 800% and after trying to get it down it became 600% according to our project managers calculations!!

i didn't have time to take care of me, and i suddenly found nothing is worth leaving me alone! i suddenly discovered that i forgot to live.

today i bought me a gift.

i bought me the "mos3abof.com" domain

and within a month i will make me an online "geeky garage"..

What famous leader am i ?

i went into an e-test about "What Famous Leader Are you? "and the result came up with this famous photo and this sentence :

"You are the leader pot smokers emulate. You are Che Guevara. You have your own revolutionary arty style. Dying tragically on a mountain appeals to you."

written on the image.

and you, What Famous Leader Are You?