Mohamed Atia

HELLO 2012, Farewell 2011 you have been EPIC

2011-12-31T21:32:00.000+02:00

We cannot clone, perforce; instead, we split
Coherence to protect it from that wrong
That would destroy our valued quantum bit
And make our computation take too long.

Correct a flip and phase – that will suffice.
If in our code another error’s bred,
We simply measure it, then God plays dice,
Collapsing it to X or Y or zed.

We start with noisy seven, nine, or five
And end with perfect one. To better spot
Those flaws we must avoid, we first must strive
To find which ones commute and which do not.

With group and eigenstate, we’ve learned to fix
Your quantum errors with our quantum tricks.

– ‘Quantum Error Correction Sonnet’, by Daniel Gottesman
I can't believe that as of tomorrow I will have no more Quantum Computation assignments :| *I hope so*...

I have been accustomed to celebrate new years with this comic

I remember last year's, it was the first time to stand khedma khargeya (the outer doorman ?) which was just perfect as with it I could sleep and stay all night reading 2 papers (CUDA, and SBSE) for the courses next day. The day after in the morning a passerby said "kol sana wenta tayeb" (with the awful look of *poor soldier*), and only then I remembered it was new year's eve.

Let us unite, evolve

2011-12-22T13:42:00.000+02:00

So Long, Lonesome (& Soundtrack of my life 4)

2011-12-22T10:40:00.001+02:00

since I'm here I wanted to mark the end of my military service which was a hell of a surreal year+ for me, starting with ~2 months in training facility and then a 12 months in my unit, passing through exams and the 25Jan revolutions then exams and studying new fields I have always wanted to study, this was the year from my interest point of view, but from the military POV it involved lots of queues, cleaning, kehdma (doorman), sitting in a very hot office, cleaning, eating, kehdma (doorman), queues, and sleeping this sums it up pretty much with some days of takdeer (getting punished) in between.

So The soundtrack of my life for this shit would be:

for every single day we had to sing this.
Listened to lots of Sigur Ros which was as epic as my life there, explosions in the sky, Beirut, classic Coldplay , Radiohead,
and many many indie

(will be adding titles as I remember what I used to listen to that year)

New SMS from Amr Atia

2011-12-22T10:01:00.001+02:00

Just woke up 9:30 AM in Cairo to find my bro Amr in Mansoura sending me this SMS

يا أخويا يا مظبطنى
ايه القاموس الجامد ده
ده فشيخ فشيخ يعنى
بس انت كده خلتنى
فاهم مش حافظ بتعمل فيا كده ليه
الواحد كان قاعد
يزاكر من الورق يحفظ و خلاص
ربنا يستر السنة ديه

You can't believe how hard I laughed and happy that I finally changed his mind, he is studying civil engineering. I also hopped to help him with his project to get something extraordinary done, but looks like that won't be true due to his freakn department regulations sticking only to a certain set of projects that they redo/redesign every year.

Thoughts on morals 1

2011-05-21T19:34:00.002+02:00

Why is it that bravery/courage is always related to breaking rules or being rude in here
Is it courage and strength to cut yourself from life restrains once and for all to live freely with nothing to worry

Village Boy 2: We're ashamed to live here. Our fathers are cowards.

O'Reilly: Don't you ever say that again about your fathers, because they are not cowards. You think I am brave because I carry a gun; well, your fathers are much braver because they carry responsibility, for you, your brothers, your sisters, and your mothers. And this responsibility is like a big rock that weighs a ton. It bends and it twists them until finally it buries them under the ground. And there's nobody says they have to do this. They do it because they love you, and because they want to. I have never had this kind of courage. Running a farm, working like a mule every day with no guarantee anything will ever come of it. This is bravery. That's why I never even started anything like that... that's why I never will.

Another example that hit my mind but I really really can't remember the source:
in a a sci-fi context: Is it courage that will make you sacrifice your soul protecting people from a virus that you carry, or bear with its burden to live away from people and despised every single day

The Soundtrack of my life (3)

2010-10-17T12:22:00.004+02:00

Since I haven't posted anything here for a very long time, I wanted to leave something before going to the military service in the next few days, so the least I could think of was a new "Soundtrack of my life" and maybe some updates.

and many other songs for the tumbled sea are very good mellow listen: melody ii, summer v

And have been rocking to the mars volta:

With Twilight As My Guide

Maroon 5's new album, and The world's end girlfriend new album (AWESOME):

My most deserved updates: Going to military service and studying for MSc in Engineering faculty, Ain Shams university.

Yotta24's graduation project (MGP) Abstract

2010-07-12T16:41:00.004+03:00

MGP (Modular GPS Platform) is a system that provides modular GPS services. The modularity will be from both hardware and software perspectives. Other applications will be able to make use of system’s services such as location detection, routing and other location-related services. Other devices will also be able to connect to MGP and make use of the functions provided by it via communications ports. MGP is based on Google Android OS and open source software, making it highly reliable, efficient and cost effective.

مشروعنا يتلخص فى نظام يهدف لتقديم خدمة التموضع العالمى بما يحقق مفهوم الوحدوية ، و يقصد به تقسيم الخدمة التى يقدمها الجهاز الى أجزاء برمجية و الكترونية أصغر و أكثر تخصصا بهدف الوصول بالجهاز لأعلى كفاءة متاحة فى التشغيل ، مع زيادة قدرة هذه الأجزاء البرمجية و الالكترونية على التخاطب مع أجزاء مغايرة من نفس النوع. يتم تحقيق مفهوم الوحدوية البرمجية عن طريق توفير واجهات برمجية للتطبيقات ، توفر خدمات معتمدة على نظام التموضع العالمى مثل تحديد المواقع ، تحديد أفضل المسارات الملاحية المتاحة. بينما يتم تحقيق الوحدوية الالكترونية لجعل الجهاز قابل للتكامل مع أجهزة أخرى –لتشكيل أنظمة أكبر – عن طريق توفير منافذ اتصال قياسية. يعتمد تطوير النظام بالكامل على البرمجيات مفتوحة المصدر مثل جافا كلغة برمجة ، جووجل أندرويد كنظام تشغيل ، مما يحقق الكفاءة و الفعالية بجانب اختزال النفقات لأدنى الدرجات.

ANN Oral Exam

2010-06-02T14:38:00.005+03:00

السلام عليك

أحب أقول إنى بكتب و أنا فى قمة الغضب

كان عليا إمتحان نيورال شفوى

و إستناداً لكلام تامر

قلت أسلم للدكتورة اللى عملته من يومين كمشروع الفريق فى المادة

المهم قلت لازم أخلص شوية حاجات و أضفت الخواص اللى كنت قلت عاوزها و الأداء مكنش بطال

و خرجت على الكلية علشان أمتحن و أسلم المشروع

لاقيت الدكتورة بتقولى كلام أحبطنى جداً:

-أنا عايزة البرنامج بالماتلاب
-أنا أستخدمت موديول زى اللى فى الماتلاب و الكود زيها
-خلاص أعمله ماتلاب
....
أنا عايزاكم تتعلموا ماتلاب
...
و أزاى تطبق ده على التحكم فى بروسيس

يعنى هو بتحكم فى بطاطس؟

ما هى بروسيس برده

المهم فى الكلية إننا نتعلم ماتلاب

ولا كأنى بزلت جهد في الزفت ده بقالى أسبوع

و بالمرة بقى صيانة الحاسب

اللى على حسب كلام الدكتور:

المادة اللى هتستركم لم تتخرجوا

على أساس أخرنا نشتغل فى شركات صيانة يعنى؟

المهم إن الموقف ده كله فكرنى بنفس اللى حصلى قبل كده

بس برده مسمعتش كلام ضيف و زيادة إنى فعلاً كنت خلصت اللى مفروض أعمله

..................

haaaaaaaah khalast

Arabic handwriting recognition Version -0.001

2010-05-31T01:11:00.012+03:00

This was written as an application for my introductory course to ANN so it may look so trivial.

السلام عليكم

ده تطبيق كنت عاوز أعمله على ال

Artificial Neural Networks

و قلت أعمل حاجه مفيدة و كده

فكنت فكرت فى برنامج للتعرف على الحروف العربى

و ده لإنه ممكن يساعدنى بعدين فى المشروع أو أطوره لأنظمة تشغيل أجهزة محمولة فى المستقبل إن شاء الله

المهم الألجوريثم بيطلع 12 خاصية من الكتابة

و ده لإنى مرضيتش أستخدم كل البيكسلز و أدخلها على الشبكة زى ما لاقيت فى ورق على النت

الفكرة اللى كانت فى دماغى و أنا ببرمج ال

Feature extractor

إنى أقسم الحرف لثلاثة قطع: فوق , وسط و سفلى و لكنهم غير متساوين

و معظم الخواص الللى إستخرجتها إعتمدت على التقسيمة ديه

زائد بعض الخواص الخاصة بالنقاط و أماكنهم

فأعتقد التفريق بين النقط مش صعب

و بدخل الخواص على شبكة

12 input neurons, 62 hidden neurons and 30 output neurons

و أستخدمت موديول لألجوريثم التدريب

و لكن أكتشفت دلوقتى و أنا بدرب الشبكة إنهم مش كفاية (ال12)0

و محتاج أزود خواص معينة

زى فيه خاصية أعتقد لو زودتها هتفرق بين كذا حرف عاملين مشكلة

زى إذا كان يوجد خط مغلق على نفسه زى دايرة

لإن الخواص اللى طلعتها بتواجد صعوبة فى التفريق بي "س" , "ص" و حاجة تزهق يعنى لإن المستخدم لحاجة زى كده

شايف إنه الفرق و اضح

:D المهم أنا عملت البوسط ده علشان أمنع نفسى إن أكمل فيه و أدى لنفسى إحساس إنى أنجزت و كفاية كده

ورايا مذاكرة و مشروع أكتب فيه كود أفيد

Download Source

[2-6-2010 updated with four new features, but needs a lot of training]

Dependencies: Python 2.6, ffnet 0.6, Numpy 1.4, scipy 0.7, networkx 0.99

those must be downloaded as thery are used in the code and won't work without them.

BTW I'm falling in deep love with python :D

EDIT: I would like to thank Ivan (7aga moneer :P) because he gave me a book about Arabic writing

مهزلة كابلات الإنترنت البحرية فى مصر و دكتور نايل الشافعى

2010-04-27T00:17:00.001+02:00

أنا لاقيت من الصعب إن فيديو زى ده يعدى مرور الكرام كده.

طول ما بتفرج و أنا مستغرب, هل فعلاً هم بيصعب عليهم فلوس الأجنبى و الضرايب اللى بتطلع علينا كل يوم عادى ؟

تخيلوا قد إيه ممكن مشاكل الأنترنت ممكن تتحل و كمان نحل لقب “محدودى الأنترنت” لو طبقنا كلام الدكتور المحترم ده.

و طبعاً غير كده توفير مصدر دخل كبير زى ما هو بيقول!

btw Thanks to @Emamof for sharing ;D

A simple “linearly” separable XOR neural network

2010-03-04T18:41:00.004+02:00

First of all, this is not a mathematical kind of trick, it’s a hacky one.

When programming the XOR neuron, I got an idea of using -say- a byte to store W1, W2 and output Y, and with values of 128 for each input. With using a Step function for the activation with a threshold = 1, it will predict the XOR truth table

case 2 and 3 will output 1 where 128 > 1. Last case will have the simple trick where the overflow will come handy and 128 + 128 = 0 (unsigned byte) and the neuron won’t be activated. That’s all!
It came to my mind when the Dr asked us in the lecture to try to make a linear NN for XOR and I already knew it wasn’t applicable, as case 2,3 threshold in one neuron should apply 4 anyway and so was the first example for nonlinearity and multi-layers , So I was like whatever at first but after a while I tried to find any solution.

Sasuke the badass

2010-02-15T11:48:00.003+02:00

Naruto choosing between between friendship or poetic Justice is what keeps going in my head for this arc, if Naruto was a movie or a series of few episodes I would have said naah this is pretty overused and simply most movies would prefer poetic justice and so the protagonist choose to go with justice over his friendship, but I think I have read a lot (the manga is a 480-chapter and counting) and this time the plot has many dimensions, and relationships are twisted, and I hope that Kishimoto comes up with a good end.

Oke the last arc was mainly about Naruto being a badass but this new one Sasuke is too, but with short stamina

And about Sasuke choosing the dark path, I would like to present :D :

The difference between Fuzzy Logic and Probability

2010-01-25T23:59:00.006+02:00

Suppose you have an Event 'V' and your degree of certainty 'P' for output Y, so in Probability, you say that I'm 'P' certain that V's output will be Y, BUT after V occurs, P isn't true for this instance of V as P is either 1 or 0, as you already know the output by now.
For example you have an exam tomorrow for subject X, and you say I'm pretty sure that the exam will be 60% easy, 30% very easy, and 10% hard, but after you take the exam you know now that the exam is hard, so the other probabilities are all 0 and Hard is 1.

In fuzzy logic the membership P of Y to a certain Set is a fact and stays as it is after the event is executed so if the subject is 0.8 easy and the exam had been hard the subject will still have the membership of 0.8 to easy.

So probability has no meaning after the event occurs, but membership is like a fact/knowledge it will still be true after the event.

Another Saying :

The difference between probability and fuzzy logic is clear when we consider the underlying concept that each attempts to model. Probability is concerned with the undecidability in the outcome of clearly defined and randomly occurring events, while fuzzy logic is concerned with the ambiguity or undecidability inherent in the description of the event itself. Fuzziness is often expressed as ambiguity rather than imprecision or uncertainty and remains a characteristic of perception as well as concept.

About SSD and NAND Flash

2009-12-17T04:39:00.006+02:00

I think this would the most comprehensive topic I have written, talking about SSDs and its arch so describing NAND memory and floating gate transistors.

On CSED
On Hackerz
About to SSD and NAND Flash

How Pi (π) should have been taught

2009-12-16T06:11:00.001+02:00

لو سألتك يعنى أيه باى ؟
الثابت اللى كلنا عارفينوا
كل اللى سألته بيقول : ال 3.14
أقوله بييجى أزاى يعنى, حسبوه أزاى ؟
22/7 !!!
ده اللى كنت فاكره لحد وقت قريب
و أتصدمت و أنا بقرأ كتاب و إذ فجاة لاقيه قام معرف الباى !!
مش هتصدق
:D
الباى هى قيمة (المحيط / القطر) بتاع أى دائرة و ده عرفوه إنه ثابت
فعلياً قعدت يوم أو أثنين مصدوم
و من الطرق البدائية لحسابه
إنهم يجيبوا دايره كبيرة يقيسوا محبطها و يقسموه على القطر

من ويكيبديا : دائرة قطرها 1

المهم من كده إنه طول قول مثلاً 13 سنه و مفكرتش أقلب المعادلة المشهورة المحيط = 2 باى أر
و أفكر فيها إنها العكس

أرجوا إن الموضوع ميكونش تافه
لإنه خلانى أفكر فى ثوابت كتير
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_%28mathematical_constant%29

تعديل :
إعتراضى فى الموضوع ده باين من أسمه
إنه بيتدرس فى المدارس على إنه مجرد ثابت
أول ما ييجى يعرف الطالب
تلاقيه قام كاتب المعادلة
و قال له الباى بتساوى 3.14

What's computer science session

2009-12-16T02:12:00.003+02:00

This was an introductory session I gave in CAT about us day intended for new undergrads to understand what is CS about and its fields,
the presentation slides : http://tinyurl.com/whatscsslides
and if you attended please rate :

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CATReloaded About Us Day

2009-12-11T01:40:00.006+02:00

السلام عليكم ,

تتشرف أسرة

CAT

بدعوة سيادتكم لحضور إحدى مؤتمراتها

About us

وذلك يوم الثلاثاء القادم 15 ديسمبر 2009

قاعة د/ رشاد البدراوى كلية الهندسة – جامعة المنصورة

ويهتم فى المقام الاول عن التعريف بلاسرة ونشاطتها وماذا تقدمه من خدمات وانشطة واسهاماتها فى مجال تكنولوجيا المعلومات فى جامعة المنصورة وخارجها .

كما ان اليوم ليس خاص بلتعريف عن الاسرة فقط ولكن يتضمن بعض الندوات التقنية العلمية الخفيفة توافق المبتدئين و غير المبتدئين

وذلك يوم الثلاثاء القادم من الساعة العاشرة فى قاعة ا.د/ رشاد البدراوى فى كلية الهندسة جامعة المنصورة .

لمن لديه سؤال او استفسار او شىء عن كيفية الاشتراك او الاستفادة من الاسرة ارجو منهم الحضور واعدهم بلرد على جميع الاسئلة .

جدول اليوم

Facebook Event

Regex headache

2009-12-06T00:45:00.004+02:00

Defining a Language using Regex simulates how headache works for me, it's about thinking in a non ending loop that has no meaning and sometimes thinking in a very trivial pointless things

filter ::= ’(’ filter-comp ’)’
filter-comp ::= and | or | not | operation
and ::= ’&’ filter-list
or ::= ’|’ filter-list
not ::= ’!’ filter
filter-list ::= filter | filter filter-list
operation ::= simple | present | substring
simple ::= attr filter-type value
filter-type ::= equal | approx | greater-eq | less-eq
equal ::= ’=’
.......

So I can easily say the equation of my headache: filter-list ::= filter | filter filter-list
3aaa, it's very annoying :@

Get to know more about RAM

2009-11-30T16:15:00.005+02:00

ده كان موضوع فى كاتزين 2
راجعته و رفعته
تبع حمله لرفع المواضيع اللى كتبتها للمجلة
و اللى منهم متنشرش
اللى جاى احسن إن شاء الله
أحسن جداًاًاً

Topic on Scribd (view and download)

Topic on CSED

Topic on H4ck3rz Network

Blood

2009-11-25T16:39:00.002+02:00

NOT FUNNNNNY

Another kid video

We're all in this together - MadV is back!

2009-11-05T19:33:00.004+02:00

And finally MadV made a new video like the previous ones
I heard he had some work in a good tv network or something and I hoped he will be back, and here he is with a new touching video

Distributed Computation and Distributed systems

2009-10-15T04:53:00.003+02:00

ده ريبورت الدكتور هشام كان طلبه عن الأستخدمات اليومية للشبكات , فأنا جاتلى فكرة إنى أكتب عن حاجة جديدة بدل الهبل و أهو بالمرة أعمل بيها بوست جديد, و أديه للدكتور.

الكلام مش عميق أو تكنيكال أوى مجرد تعريفات لأنى أصلاً مدرستش الجزء ده لسه, مجرد قرأت شوية, فأرجو أنه يكون مفيد للبعض

~~أه الموضوع مقرتوش لسه و أنا كنت بكتب من غير مشوف بكتب أيه أصلاً, و مش هعرف أقراءه حالياً لأنى ورايا حجات تانية~~

Distributed Computation and Systems

The Ecstasy of Cinema

2009-10-14T21:16:00.002+02:00

Lots of pearls

Code Readability VS Error centralization

2009-10-11T22:16:00.001+02:00

I found this a good thing to write about and didn’t want to postpone otherwise I might forget.

A very common rule in computer science or Software engineering to be specific is to make the code you write more readable than hacky, even if it would cause a slight performance loss, as readability relatively important than this maybe-tiny performance loss, even in the easiest example it’s preferred to write an if else instead of using the one-line Ternary operator. This is also for people who love to minimize their code >><< that it will look so obfuscated.

Yesterday I was completing an engine I’m writing since this last summer vacation and I had to review a very old code, I remember I was very very lazy while writing it, I just wanted to finish this boring and very repetitive part, so the biggest function was like 190 lines of say 9 ifs, so I wanted to change some variable that controls the logic throughout the whole function and hell started, I had to re-understand every bit of each line to know what to edit, and that’s all in the sake of code readability so that I could divide the function into 8 ifs and formulate the code as the process in real life goes so the reader wouldn’t face problems imagining what the code does.

What made it a real hell that there was whole other 5 functions that had the same logic error :( , so I cursed code readability, i needed to make my errors more centralized so that they can be easily contained and corrected, the next day (the one that’s now) I spent it getting use of what I know about digital design and made something close to a truth table gave each action 2 bits … and reduced the code to 40 lines with two for loops and only one place to edit the flow afterwards.

//About my domain, 3MaTeS wanted to change the company that’s registering my domain, and so told me to wait a month till it expires and be free to register from anywhere else, after a month (28-9) I found that the original company I wanted to replace had already registered my domain for itself for another year so If wanted to have my domain back I have to renew it only from them only :s, seems that I don’t have another way around.

Basic science research is going down, DOWN

2009-08-30T23:40:00.004+02:00

This morning I happened to read the wikipedia page about Bell Labs, where I was surprised by the amount of research and inventions done by the scientists in it, I only need to say that they invented the first transistor !!!!, they invented electronics :D ! also the C programming language and UNIX was a work done in there.

But at the end of the page a bad news struck me, as of the last year (Aug 2008) they stopped any research in “Basic Science”, you know physics chemistry and things like these, and moved to more marketable areas, I felt disappointed :s. The basic science research is supposed to be the solver of every problem facing the advance in technologies, as when certain bottleneck faces a tech these sciences would be the first to solve the problem, like when Bell labs invented transistors they solved the problem of the huge sizes of computers due to using tubes. Nowadays we have a similar problem we need something better than these transistors, we devices much smaller than electronic devices.

What surprised me more that lately tonight I found Slashdot posting a topic talking about similar fears, and mentioned : “While IBM, Microsoft, and HP collectively spend $17B a year on R&D, only 3%-5% of that is for basic science.”

I see the markets over saturated and most of the technologies reached their high end with no substantial change in them (we still have mechanical HDDs, please make bigger SSDs :D).

Yeah most of them look at Nanotechnology as the salvation of most of industry problems, I think we will have to wait a lot to see this change they allege.

Coldplay Strawberry Swing music video

2009-07-20T17:23:00.002+03:00

Coldplay again makes a new music video, and I’m speechless it’s great, funny and new. I thought “Life in technicolor II” was the best, but I gotta say this one is outstanding as I always liked Strawberry swing as the happiest song in the album

Watch the video here exclusively :

Or download :

HQ with no ads

I lol-ed when the cape got cut :D, damn them evil squirrels.

Imageshack got hacked

2009-07-11T05:44:00.006+03:00

yeah the title says it all
despite the fact that most of my site's images are hosted by it
but I'm not really sad after I read this :

Click to enlarge

The OST of my life [2]

2009-06-07T15:42:00.003+03:00

Priscilla Ahn always gets me, can’t get bored of her. Her debut album is great and songs I like are : Dream, Red cape and I don’t think so.

And over listening to post-rock, that I think I don’t listen to rock a lot anymore, bands like Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Explosions in the sky, This will kill you, World’s end girl friend, 65daysofstatic, Yndi helda and The album leaf are wonderful, lol I can’t even find a post-rock band that suck I like them all, may be I should link some :

Sigur Rós: Í Gær- Minn Heima

Minn Heima - Hjartao Hamast

Mogwai - Glasgow Mega-snake

Explosions In The Sky - Birth and Death of the Day

65daysofstatic - Retreat! Retreat!

World's end girlfriend - singing under the rainbow

And to the just released album from Eels : Le hombre lobo it’s very good nothing less than their previous albums, but I don like the new Black eyed pees album :s and I want to have sometime to listen to Eminem’s new album.

This is very overrated

2009-05-29T15:37:00.001+03:00

كده الموضوع أوفررررررررررر جداً

ليه خبر زى ده يجى فى الجرايد و كماااان أول صفحة ده أحنا سمعتنا هتبقى هباب

أنا مش عارف أزاكر من اللى بيحصل ربنا يستر فى الداتابيز

أنا مش شمتان

2009-05-29T11:49:00.002+03:00

هففففففف, ناس كتير زعلانة على موضوع التحقيق و أن الموضوع كتر زيادة عن اللزوم و ناس بتنتقضنى على إن مؤيد, و ان الحكاية متستهلش و كده مش هنعدى من المادة و السنة الجاية الدكتور هيستقصدنا. طيب أنا عاوز أعرف الموضوع هيستاهل أمتى ؟ كل دفعة تتخرج تقول الحمد لله خلصنا و طز فى الكلية و أحنا مستنيين كده و ملناش دعوة باللى يحصل و بنطلع نتصدم برة و نلاقى اللى بناخده ولا حاجة و يمكن يكون ولا حاجة لكليات جوه مصر كمان !!, أنا على سبيل المثال السنة اللى فاتت قدمت على تدريب فى القاهرة و محدش عبرنى !!

قولت لبابا يسألى ليه ؟ ردوا عليه أصله من المنصورة , المهم

مفيش حد مبيغلطش , بس فيه مناصب متقدرش تمسكها غير لما تكون مدييها حقها و قادر عليها , مناصب يتعلق بها حياة ناس أخرى, مش لما طيار يسبب غلطة فى رحلة و يموت الناس اللى معاه هنقول إنه أنسان و بيغلط

و مش معنى أن أحمد زويل دكتور واخد نوبل أنه يبقى بيشرح أحسن واحد

المُعلم لازم طول حياته يزاكر و يكون أذكى واحد قاعد فى المحاضرة و عارف أزاى يدرس و يتعمل مع الطلبة

أنا عاوز بس لما يبقى فيه مادة علينا يبقى بستفاد منها و منهجها محطوط صح و متراجع علشان و أنا بزاكرها مبقاش خايف إن اللى بزاكره ده فيه حاجة غلط و ده حال معظم اللى بناخده

و يمكن المادة الوحيدة الجديد اللى أخدناها بضمير الفيريلوج بس الكتاب كان فيه غلطات طيب ميهمش , الألجوريثمث و الداتا ستركشر أنا أتحدى لو كان الدكتور قال سيرة ال بيج أوه و ده مثال على كورس منهم :

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/software/AlgAnim/ds_ToC.html

أكاد أقسم أن أحنا مخدناش تلت الكلام ده , يقولك أصل أحنا لسه ضغيريين على الكلام ده , أما هنكبر أمتى ؟؟

الكمبيوتر أركتكتشر : أخدناها حلو والله هييييه و قلت أزاكرها من مرجع لأنى حبتها مووووت , لقتنا مخدناش منه غير 3 شاباتر من النص من 13 شابتر!! قولت يمكن الكتاب مستفيض و مكمل أدفنسد و لما كنت وصلت فيه لشبتر 9 قلت لأمير أبن عمى اللى فيى جي يو سي أنا زاكرت لحد 9 فى الكمبيوتر أرك على أساس إنى عملت أعجاز لاقيته أصلاً و اخد ال 13 فى المنهج السنة اللى فاتت يعن ده طلع منهج كورس واحد, بالظيبطططط زى الكنترول المفروض منهج سنه و أحنا بقالنا 3 سنين بناخده

مش لازم اللى معاه الدال يدرس و مش لازم يبقى برفكت بس لما نقول أنه أحنا مش بناخد ألجوريثمث صح يقولنا لأ و لازم نبقى غلطانين أى نعم الدكتور ممكن يكون بيعملنا كأولاده حتى بعد كده كان عاوز يطلعنا رحلة للقرية الذكية معاه , بس أحنا فى جامعة و المفروض نتخرج نشتغل و مستقبلنا متعلق باللى بناخده فى الكلية , مش حكاية 5-4 سنيين و نتخرج

أنا كتبت كده علشان أبين أنى مش شمتان و عارف أنه عادى الدكتور هيدينا السنة الجاية إن شاء الله بس دلوقتى أقدر أنتظر بعض التغيير فى المعاملة و لكن الكل متوقع طبعاً التحول للأسوء , و ده هنعرفه من النتيجة طبعاً

صحيح فيه “حاجة “ حلوة حصلتلى مرة , أنى فى محاضرة دكتور هشام مرة كنت وصلت يادوب و ملقيتش غير أنى أقف ورا , و فجأة قبل ما المحاضرة تخلص ب 10 دقائق الدكتور طردنى أنا و واحد تانى و أنا أصلاً طول المحاضرة متكلمتش و برفع أيدى لمل يسال !! بعد مخلص سألته ليه يقولى علشان مش واقف عدل , ماشى أنا كنت زعلان سعتها جداً بس الأهم أن الأسبوع اللى بعديه الدكتور أعتذر فى وسط المحاضرة و قالى أنا أسف المفروض مكنتش أطردك أنا أتصدمت مكنتش عارف أقول أيه !! قولت شكراً مكنتش أتخيل أنها تحصل و من ساعتها و أنا بحترمه .

و ياريت تشوفوا الدكتور ده و هو بيشرح: لانه السبب فى بعض التعقيد اللى أنا فييه كان أحمد سليمان قلنا عليه و مكنتش أصدق أنه فيه كده

شكلى هعمل بوسط و أمرى لله مع أنى حاسس أنى هعيد السنة لو حد منهم قرأ الموضوع و لو حد شايف أنى غلطان يا ريت ينتقدنى و ياريتتتتتتتتتتتتتتتتتت حد يقولى إن الموضوع ده مش مناسب أنه يتحط و إنى لازم أمسحه

BTW This was some good mind discharge :D.

We had an exam, A graphics one and it was HILARIOUS

2009-05-29T02:57:00.003+03:00

I sat to take the exam’s paper and looked through the images we are supposed to draw using JAVA and it wasn’t very bad I saw the same problems we had in mid term exam in there, and I said what the hick a plane AGAIN !!!! the plane for us is like 8 queens for an AI course, we have it as an example in every course I remember : VB .net C#, OOP + Databases, Data Structures, AND Graphics with Java :D.

But then I started to read the questions as always, and THEN at a question a hidden one the number 4, only one line and the one that made me dance and laugh :

I left about half an hour for it , this what I wanted to draw :

She’s lovely, isn’t she :P ?

I didn’t want to make this post REALLY it’s already said before, but I read this news on masrawy :

التحقيق مع أساتذة بكلية الهندسة بشأن سؤال للطلاب عن برنامج يحاكى الراقصة

and since then ……………………… hysterically :D, and we are having the best and funniest messenger group chat ever…………………… XD

AND we excelled really :D in this ex. :

http://www.freewebs.com/4upload2/General.html Copyrights reserved for Mohamed Daif

and a more interactive one :D : http://projects.abdulradi.com/Belly Dancer/ Copyrights for Tamer the radiant one.

I wanted to make mine :D , but I would after the exams isA .

and yeah btw the fifth question suxxxxxxxxxxxxx, I had to write 12 X 2 lines in the exam to only change colors :’( , I HATED this part.

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain , Wanna live in a fair world

2009-05-09T01:21:00.006+03:00

There is a type of movies which make you wish you would reach its end fast and you may even start skipping parts (I once watched a 1:35 h movie in 45 mins, it was so boring that I won’t say its name :D), and movies that you would be sorry when you sense it’s reaching the end, the other one is when it’s too wonderful that if it’s already finished you want to watch again and may be again, this was Amelie a beautiful movie, Amelie Amelie Amelie <3, this is my second French movie , I can’t find a movie to match it with, may be El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth) would be somehow similar, but Amelie is waaaaay better for me.

I wish I could spoil it :D but I would be like doing a crime for anyone didn’t have the chance to watch it already, let me say mainly it’s about a girl who didn’t have a good childhood and grew up with socializing problems, one day she had the chance to change someone’s life, and discovered that she can change the world around here and how simple is that, so by very simple acts she could bring some justice and love to people needing, but always ignoring her needs as she wanted it to be completely an act for better world she wanted to live in, an ideal one. The acting was brilliant and there is one scene I can’t get out of my head which is the one when Burdoto (or whatever his name is) found his childhood belongings …

The soundtracks are superb done by Yann Tiersen, very calming: most of the time uplifting and sometimes sad, listen to this one :

and the other one was a surprise for me,as for a long time I wanted to know the soundtrack of the Egyptian Food Bank ad I loved it very much but searching didn’t help me, then i found it playing in the movie:

Creativity ... Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

2009-05-02T19:26:00.002+03:00

begad video ye32d :D
thanks banna

A very critical programming sheet, yalla ner2os

2009-05-01T14:50:00.012+03:00

و مرة أخرى نعود لأخر نكت قسمنا

فى أخر محاضرة للبرمجة,

Graphics with Java

الدكتور كان بيشرح فى أمثلته العظيمة و الحيوية

و فجأة مش عارف أيه اللى جاب فى دماغه أنه يشرح مثال الرقاصة بتاع السنة اللى فاتت

و كان “زمان” عبارة عن صور بتتعرض ورا بعضها بسرعة , بس خلناها راقصة باليه

لكن المرة ديه بالرسم اللى هو خط خط

فبيشرح:

الوسط بيبقى مثلاً مربع و توعد تحركه لوحده

و ال … أحم …

Chest

يبقى

Ellipse

و قعد يشرح بقى فى الباقى زى اليد بطريقة غريبة , و كأن ده عادى

أزاى تحرك و كل متزود الكنرولر بتاع كل حركة وبحيث أن كل حركة لوحداها يبقى أحسن

و طبعاً اللبس و الألوان كل واحد و حسب قدرته

و أهم حاجة طبعاً فى الموضوع الخبرة و المعرفة , أيوه طبعاً يا دوك

و الدكتور كان بيشرح بمزاج فعلاً و أو ل مرة أشوفه فرحان كده بجد D:

و أحنا كنا هلكانين من الضحك و هو بيشرح

مممم أيه الهبل ده

و غير كده الدكتور طريقته فى كلامه معانا عدت معاه خالص

“ بتضحكى ليه يا بيضه لو عاوزه ترقصى تعالى أرقصى بره”

مش هعلق طبعاً

أه صحيح البرنامج ده مطلوب المحاضرة الجاية و عليه خمس درجات

Update: http://www.freewebs.com/4upload2/General.html , isn't she gorgeous :P

Copyrights reserved for Mohamed Daif

The first time to notice the Arabic with English inline problem in blogger .

أنا غير مسئول تماماً عن ما نشر فى موقع اليوم السابع لأنه قد يبدو لوهلة كتحريف وضيع مما هو مكتوب هنا , و هذا لأن هدف من حرف الكلام بهذه الطريقة البشعه تشويه صورة الدكتور لهدف ما و ليس ما يحصل فعلياً

Windows 7 RC availability

2009-04-29T21:38:00.001+03:00

So finally a Release candidate for win7, I love this windows :D, it has been doing great with me although I’m using the 7000 beta. The RC will be available for MSDN subscribers 30 April, tomorrow, and for public in 5 May isA, if you’re hasty the RC can be already downloaded from torrents, but I prefer a version with my serial this time.

The very good news I read that there will be a new feature for running a virtualized version of WinXP (backward compatibility with a new point of view), so you can run WinXP programs seamlessly under Win7 with other programs, just like other virtualization software, and this Winxp version will be legal but available as an update.

Click to enlarge, Pic from :Win Super Site

Some people in MS is coming up finally with good ideas, I wish the team working on VS helps the one on Windows :P.

Programming LCD custom characters

2009-04-26T23:46:00.006+03:00

Before I start, I wanted to make a LCD supports Arabic characters, but :s , first : the max number of stored chars in LCD is 8 :(, ooh ok I can store them in PIC then load each one if needed (as if you have that lots of memory luxury in the PIC :D ), secondly : each damn cell have spacing between each other, so ججج won’t be connected :@ , it will be like : جـ جـ ج, so stopped looking for making it for now, and I found the last resort for using custom characters in LCD is when printing a not supported character in LCD , I think like º (the degree, can be used for math OR temperature(le dr. shereef aho :D ) )and $ .

So how to steps :

You need to initialize you LCD first.

Next you want to move the address register of the LCD to the CGRAM(that will hold the 8 custom characters data), so you will change : RS = 0, R/W = 0 as a start to tell the LCD that you will use Data input (D0-7) as an Instruction. the CGRAM starts from 64 , so to store your (0) char you set D(0-7) = 64, and the next char = last char’s address + 8.

Each character consists of : 8 rows and 5 columns of pixels, you set each row of the 8 sequentially alone for each char, ex. : for a row to light its second pixel (from the right) set it as (010 = 2), there is a pretty script that generates each row’s code from the char you draw, and have the drawing thingy explained better:

          1:           2: PORTA.1 = 1 'E = 1         3: PORTA.2 = 0 'RS = 0         4: PORTA.3 = 0 'R/W = 0         5: PORTB = 64  'move AC to 64, 0 character         6: Delay_ms(5)          7: PORTA.1 = 0 'E = 0         8: Delay_ms(1)         9:          10: PORTA.1 = 1 'E = 1        11: PORTA.2 = 1 'RS = 1        12: PORTA.3 = 0 'R/W = 0        13: PORTB = 14  '01110 , pixel off > 3 pixels on > pixel off        14: Delay_ms(5)        15: PORTA.1 = 0        16: Delay_ms(1)        17:          18: PORTA.1 = 1        19: PORTA.2 = 1        20: PORTA.3 = 0        21: PORTB = 2        22: Delay_ms(5)        23: PORTA.1 = 0        24: Delay_ms(1)        25:          26: PORTA.1 = 1        27: PORTA.2 = 1        28: PORTA.3 = 0        29: PORTB = 12        30: Delay_ms(5)        31: PORTA.1 = 0        32: Delay_ms(1)        33:          34: PORTA.1 = 1        35: PORTA.2 = 1        36: PORTA.3 = 0        37: PORTB = 16        38: Delay_ms(5)        39: PORTA.1 = 0        40: Delay_ms(1)        41:          42: PORTA.1 = 1        43: PORTA.2 = 1        44: PORTA.3 = 0        45: PORTB = 20        46: Delay_ms(5)        47: PORTA.1 = 0        48: Delay_ms(1)        49:          50: PORTA.1 = 1        51: PORTA.2 = 1        52: PORTA.3 = 0        53: PORTB = 17        54: Delay_ms(5)        55: PORTA.1 = 0        56: Delay_ms(1)        57:          58: PORTA.1 = 1        59: PORTA.2 = 1        60: PORTA.3 = 0        61: PORTB = 14        62: Delay_ms(5)        63: PORTA.1 = 0        64: Delay_ms(1)        65:          66: PORTA.1 = 1        67: PORTA.2 = 1        68: PORTA.3 = 0        69: PORTB = 0        70: Delay_ms(5)        71: PORTA.1 = 0        72: Delay_ms(1)    

Jump BACK to the last data address (last character you printed on the screen) to resume printing, so if you start by defining your custom chars and then start printing, you can jump to 128 address (Start of DDRAM), but if you already printed then jumped to CGRAM you need to return to the same address AC was in before going to CGRAM, so you can keep track of the number of chars printed so that you can later return, OR you can read the AC just before jumping to CGRAM storing it and use it to return later the later solution I have spent about an hour trying it, but I couldn’t do it in simulation mode :s, I tried every thing but D(0-7) never outputs AC.

   1: PORTA.1 = 1 'E = 1         2: PORTA.2 = 0 'RS AND R/W = 0         3: PORTA.3 = 0         4: PORTB = 128 'return to DataRAM start postion = 128         5: Delay_ms(5)         6: PORTA.1 = 0         7: Delay_ms(1)    

Live you regular life and print characters as you want, if needed to print a custom one , just set D(0-7) to N , where N is the number of the cust char in CGRAM :

   1: PORTA.1 = 1 'E = 1         2: PORTA.2 = 1 ' RS = 1 , R/W = 0         3: PORTA.3 = 0         4: PORTB = 0   'Print custom char 0         5: Delay_ms(5)         6: PORTA.1 = 0         7: Delay_ms(1)         8:
         9:          10:          11: PORTA.1 = 1        12: PORTA.2 = 1        13: PORTA.3 = 0        14: PORTB = 1   'Print custom char 1, and so on to 8        15: Delay_ms(5)        16: PORTA.1 = 0        17: Delay_ms(1)    

As for the return thing if you already have been printing before moving to CGRAM, then if you returned to 128 again and print it will overwrite the already printed chars.

Win Susan Win. Susan Boyle - Britains Got Talent.

2009-04-22T00:25:00.003+02:00

Can't help but to watch it again

Naruto Shippuden Movie 3: Inheritors of the Will of Fire, Edit : download Shippudden 2 Bonds

2009-04-15T05:43:00.011+02:00

and

A newer longer trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LDHxfKZMpw

aha, the next movie announced
nothing special I see, a huge beast ...... :s

but whatever, Naruto Shippuuden Bonds is coming out on DVDs 22nd this month (April) , so will be watching it around 25-29 or something isA.

Celebrate the 10th anniversary: http://www.naruto10th.com , shame it's in Japanese :(

Download : Naruto Shippuden movie 2 : bonds

The torrent for Dattebayo : http://www.dattebayo.com/t/

OR Watch online

28-7-09 Edit : a visitor gladly supplied me with some good spoilers for the 3rd movie Click here if you want to read.You can also watct those for spoilers (clips took form the movie) : clip 1, 2 3

Ribbons, I love this visualization

2009-04-15T01:22:00.002+02:00

elegant, eye relieving and soft.

just alt+enter and enjoy :)

to get it : Download , it’s a collection of many other visualizations,select Ribbons > Dense, Ribbons or Mystify .

Coldplay to make recording sessions in Zero Gravity, in high Air

2009-04-05T17:11:00.003+02:00

Form Coldplay official website:

Good morning. It's been announced today that Coldplay are to boldly go where no musicians have gone before, by recording in zero gravity. Later this year, the band will board a modified Boeing 727 aircraft, which can provide zero gravity for periods of 20-25 seconds at a time. Wearing self-designed outfits based on early Russian cosmonaut suits, they will be joined by producer/collaborator Brian Eno, who will use custom-made "heavy" microphones to record the sessions on a 1969 analogue cassette player.
"We've been searching for the right environment to record the perfect snare drum sound for many years now," Chris Martin told Coldplay.com, "and I've just got a gut feeling that zero gravity is the place to do that, y'know?"
Anchorman

haha, that’s why Coldplay is so cool :D, I would like these records “songs … New album ? ;) ”just for that.

Source : Coldplay.com

Initializing your LCD for PIC

2009-04-05T03:48:00.005+02:00

I have been the last few hours debugging a PIC Basic instructions so that I can output for a LCD without using compiler’s functions, so went through many websites and was the worst code searching experience ever, these things aren’t well documented like other high level known languages, so I will try to explain my code here a little bit.

I connected the LCD’s Data/Instruction 8 bits with port B in my PIC 16F84A, and it E to RA1, RS to RA2, and R/w to RA3. The basic algs for outputting to the LCD pins :

1-set RS and R/W to to 0, to make the LCD use the value on the Data pins (from B) as an instruction like clear, home and so on.

2-RS = 0, R/W = 1, to Read the most significant bit D7 which is the busy flag that indicates that the LCD is currently processing a command and busy if high(D7 == 1).

3-RS = 1, R/W = 0, what you will mostly need, write the current value on data pins(as ASCII) to the LCD RAM so it will be printed on the Screen.

4-RS = 1, R/W = 1, Read from the LCD RAM.

the tricky thing now is the usage of E in each command you want to out to the data pins because acts as a switch for the LCD that it won’t act upon any request if E is low (even if you set Rs. R/W …), so if you want to write on the LCD you say do : RS –> 1, R/W –>0, D = “H”, that’s alright but first you need to set E –> 1 high, and then the previous commend , wait a delay say 1 ms, the set E –> 0 again, that’s because when writing to the LCD it doesn’t take the your value until the high to low edge for E, but if you’re reading you can read after a very short while from you setting E high.

For commands you can use : visit the LCD’s instructions page here

now we will have to do some sequence of operation to start using your LCD :

1-Set you function set (parallel bit number, lines num, characters font), you can find the code for it in the commands page linked above , for me I used : 0x38 and as follows :

PORTA.1 = 1
PORTA.2 = 0
PORTA.3 = 0
PORTB = 0x38
Delay_ms(5)
PORTA.1 = 0
Delay_ms(1)

note the delay after E (at port RA1)= 1, and then E = 0. then another delay so that the LCD can process the operation, and I’m being lazy here and set them all to delay 1ms but the data sheet said some of the instructions take 49us.

2- Instruction Set Display On/Off control (1 D C B) , see the instructions page too.

PORTA.1 = 1
PORTA.2 = 0
PORTA.3 = 0
PORTB = 0xf ‘001000
Delay_ms(5)
PORTA.1 = 0
Delay_ms(1)

3 –Entry mode instruction (see different types here) : I used the one with value 6 .

PORTA.1 = 1
PORTA.2 = 0
PORTA.3 = 0
PORTB = 6
Delay_ms(5)
PORTA.1 = 0
Delay_ms(1)

4-Finally :Clear it (first instruction) :

PORTA.1 = 1
PORTA.2 = 0
PORTA.3 = 0
PORTB = 1
Delay_ms(5)
PORTA.1 = 0
Delay_ms(2)
'Initialize ends

after that I can write whatever I want, so I made my Hello World! :

PORTA.1 = 1
PORTA.2 = 1
PORTA.3 = 0
PORTB = "H"
Delay_ms(5)
PORTA.1 = 0
Delay_ms(1)

PORTA.1 = 1
PORTA.2 = 1
PORTA.3 = 0
PORTB = "e"
Delay_ms(5)
PORTA.1 = 0
Delay_ms(1)

and so on for each character……

The whole code :

        1: program LCD_Test       2:   main:       3:    PORTA = 0       4:    TRISA = 0       5:    PORTB = 0       6:    TRISB = 0       7:         8:         9:    PORTA.1 = 1      10:    PORTA.2 = 0      11:    PORTA.3 = 0      12:    PORTB = 0x38      13:    Delay_ms(5)      14:    PORTA.1 = 0      15:    Delay_ms(1)      16:        17:    PORTA.1 = 1      18:    PORTA.2 = 0      19:    PORTA.3 = 0      20:    PORTB = 0xf      21:    Delay_ms(5)      22:    PORTA.1 = 0      23:    Delay_ms(1)      24:        25:        26:        27:    PORTA.1 = 1      28:    PORTA.2 = 0      29:    PORTA.3 = 0      30:    PORTB = 6      31:    Delay_ms(5)      32:    PORTA.1 = 0      33:    Delay_ms(1)      34:        35:        36:    PORTA.1 = 1      37:    PORTA.2 = 0      38:    PORTA.3 = 0      39:    PORTB = 1      40:    Delay_ms(5)      41:    PORTA.1 = 0      42:    Delay_ms(2)      43:    'Initialize ends      44:        45:    PORTA.1 = 1      46:    PORTA.2 = 1      47:    PORTA.3 = 0      48:    PORTB = "H"      49:    Delay_ms(5)      50:    PORTA.1 = 0      51:    Delay_ms(1)      52:        53:    PORTA.1 = 1      54:    PORTA.2 = 1      55:    PORTA.3 = 0      56:    PORTB = "e"      57:    Delay_ms(5)      58:    PORTA.1 = 0      59:    Delay_ms(1)      60:          61:    PORTA.1 = 1      62:    PORTA.2 = 1      63:    PORTA.3 = 0      64:    PORTB = "l"      65:    Delay_ms(5)      66:    PORTA.1 = 0      67:    Delay_ms(1)      68:          69:    PORTA.1 = 1      70:    PORTA.2 = 1      71:    PORTA.3 = 0      72:    PORTB = "l"      73:    Delay_ms(5)      74:    PORTA.1 = 0      75:    Delay_ms(1)      76:          77:    PORTA.1 = 1      78:    PORTA.2 = 1      79:    PORTA.3 = 0      80:    PORTB = "o"      81:    Delay_ms(5)      82:    PORTA.1 = 0      83:    Delay_ms(1)=      84:          85:    PORTA.1 = 1      86:    PORTA.2 = 1      87:    PORTA.3 = 0      88:    PORTB = " "      89:    Delay_ms(5)      90:    PORTA.1 = 0      91:    Delay_ms(1)      92:          93:    PORTA.1 = 1      94:    PORTA.2 = 1      95:    PORTA.3 = 0      96:    PORTB = "w"      97:    Delay_ms(5)      98:    PORTA.1 = 0      99:    Delay_ms(1)     100:         101:    PORTA.1 = 1     102:    PORTA.2 = 1     103:    PORTA.3 = 0     104:    PORTB = "o"     105:    Delay_ms(5)     106:    PORTA.1 = 0     107:    Delay_ms(1)     108:         109:    PORTA.1 = 1     110:    PORTA.2 = 1     111:    PORTA.3 = 0     112:    PORTB = "r"     113:    Delay_ms(5)     114:    PORTA.1 = 0     115:    Delay_ms(1)     116:         117:    PORTA.1 = 1     118:    PORTA.2 = 1     119:    PORTA.3 = 0     120:    PORTB = "l"     121:    Delay_ms(5)     122:    PORTA.1 = 0     123:    Delay_ms(1)     124:         125:    PORTA.1 =      126:    PORTA.2 = 1     127:    PORTA.3 = 0     128:    PORTB = "d"     129:    Delay_ms(5)     130:    PORTA.1 = 0     131:    Delay_ms(1)     132:       133:    PORTA.1 = 1     134:    PORTA.2 = 1     135:    PORTA.3 = 0     136:    PORTB = "!"     137:    Delay_ms(5)     138:    PORTA.1 = 0     139:    Delay_ms(1)     140: end.  

Screen shoot :

Side note : Debugging is so funny at this level, you revise theories(Data sheet) and re code try again, search, then I just try to move things around until they work :D, as I found in many pages mentioning another 3 instruction before the ones here that I didn’t find a use for them , see here : Initialization.

DrawSquare

2009-03-30T23:50:00.002+02:00

A trivial post :D :

     void DrawSquare(Graphics gfx, int x, int y, int l)            {                for (int i = 0; i <= 1; i++)                {                    for (int j = 0; j <= 1; j++)                    {                        gfx.DrawLine(new Pen(Color.Black), new Point(x + i * l, y + i * l), new Point(x + j * l, y + (1 - j) * l));                    }                }            }  

specially for DR. Ali :P ,

he wanted a one drawLine call to draw a square, Osama supposed to show it to him.

WordCamp Egypt 2009 , Impression

2009-03-30T01:49:00.002+02:00

I’m really happy that such a great event was handled this good, really good work. The day started with a keynote from Jane Wills one of the Automatic team which develops WordPress and she talked about how the team works not so tied together and only depending on online monthly meetings and showed here obsession with open source development after she finished many people asked here many questions (mo3zamha as2ela malhash lazma el sara7a) the this session with followed with a not bad good introductory for any beginner talking about Apache , MySQL and PHP the basic dev. tools you would use for every day web development, then how to install WordPress, the next session was a about top 10 WordPress plug-ins and a break for an hour or so.

The next session given by Ibraheem was really awesome (AWESOME gedan ya3ny :D ), Bingo gave a session on how to make your first WordPress plug-in that would send email for subscribed members every new topic posted on the blog, he had to use the “oven” theory :D , but afterwards he realized that it was a connection problem and the plug-in was working alright, the last session given by Sayed Fat-hy was the funniest of them all, it was about how to make your own theme for WordPress and “Saba7 el search engines” :D.

The day ended so fast , and took some pics :

note : Jane had a dinner consisting of “Koshry masry” in el 3omda :D , a place I didn’t even know about.

To download pictures of the event in Hi-Res :

Some Math came to my Mind, Integration

2009-03-29T20:25:00.001+02:00

Math is much better when used in practical problems, so it would be even waaaaay better when related to Programming. Since this made me start looking at formulas in different way, the one I asked about today is REALLY simple one, like ones I always was taught it will be only like this. You know Integration is typically a summation (Σ) but summation is for discrete values and Integration for continuous, so why always books I always had been studying from put the table for integrating equations why when integrating 1 dt it becomes t and t is 1/2 t^2 etc …. , this what came to my mind, what I see that they always missed this part about pointing out for the proof/reason, that for example the equation = 1 is a horizontal line from 1 and to get the area under it for certain t we multiply Height X Width = 1 X t, so the integration of 1 dt = t, and for equation y = x :

I want to find the area of the rectangle under the line, the horizontal side of it is x and the vertical is y which equals y so it’s area = 1/2 * x * y = 1/2 x^2 , and hence x dx = 1/2 x^2.

After this comes the curves, and it’s not that straightforward and is done with some approximation, for intuition look here : fundamental theorem of calculus.

I think I need to set with Osama more :D, to get some math intuitions from him.

Another thing that was pissing me is in Digital point about shifting always said : “Shift left can be used to multiply by 2, and shift right to divide by 2 ” , I can’t say how many times I had to memorize this part then forgot it, then I don’t remember the reason why or when, I got the intuition behind it and was so easy and I can never forget it now :

suppose you have a decimal 1000, so when you multiply by 10 it will be 10000 which is shifting left with zero, and if you divide by 10 it will be 100 which is shifting right with zero, in the binary case the 2 replaces 10 (the bases!) and that’s all, can you forget :D ?

EasyParallel : Control your parallel port, as presented in CSED’s session in Scope

2009-03-27T18:54:00.004+02:00

This is a small application I made for CSED’s session to be presented in CAT Scope 10, so you can control the output on your parallel port (the one for the printer) so that you can afterwards control many other electrical machines/objects, after working for few hours –3 to 4- in Emam's home (such a funny day :D ), I came up with a command line app, and added some useful functionality to it, like you don’t have to specify the whole value of the port to change only on pin’s value, that’s useful if you have many objects controlled by each pin.

I came to realize that I would finally use some of Digital Design fundamentals -in a high level language- to work in this app, like using AND(&) to set the pin off, OR (|) to set it on, and then XOR (^) to complement the value.

It’s a windows only app and the Dll used to interface with the parallel port is already provided.

Screenshot :

Download : Box.net

Note : Box.net is such an awesome file host, it has it all.

Behold the Great CAT scope, the 10th

2009-03-20T15:16:00.002+02:00

It’s becoming the event of each semester I wait for :D , but this time CAT is organizing so many events packed in very little period : CAT Scope, WordCamp, PixiDay, and CATazine issue 2, but the Scope this time is special, as it will be the first one to last for 4 days which is harder to manage and more expensive to pay for :s , I really hated College more (it’s becoming unbearable) when knew that the hall’s price went from 120LE to 400LE per day in such short period from the last October. what matters now that the next 4 days will be fun isA XD.

Schedule :

To register for this Scope, please visit : http://scope.catreloaded.net/

note : I had good laughs editing scope’s page , Kamasheto is funny coder lol :D

WordCamp Egypt Place and Date

2009-03-13T10:00:00.001+02:00

The date and time are announced finally :

Dear our Members,
We can now announce the event's place and date as we have booked the hall.
Place: Conferences' Hall, Al-Hawwar Club, Al-Mashaya Al-Sofleya, Al Mansurah, Al Dakahlia, Egypt
Date: Saturday, 28th of March, 2009
You can announce it now for all your friends and colleagues.
Thanks in Advance!
أعضائنا اﻷعزاء،
نستطيع اﻵن الإعلان عن مكان و زمان المؤتمر
المكان: قاعة المؤتمرات - نادي الحوار - المشاية السفلية - المنصورة - الدقهلية - مصر
الزمان: يوم السبت الموافق 28 من مارس 2009
تستطيع اﻵن الإعلان عن ذلك ﻷصدقائك و زملائك
شكراً..

Linux … It just started it all when he wanted to browse his files at home !

2009-03-10T00:39:00.001+02:00

Please read the following text, it’s really motivating for me :

Shortly after MINIX was released, a USENET newsgroup, comp.os.minix, was formed to discuss it. Within weeks, it had 40,000 subscribers, most of whom wanted to add vast numbers of new features to MINIX to make it bigger and better (well, at least bigger). Every day, several hundred of them offered suggestions, ideas, and frequently snippets of source code. The author of MINIX was able to successfully resist this onslaught for several years, in order to keep MINIX clean enough for students to understand and small enough that it could run on computers that students could afford. For people who thought little of MS-DOS, the existence of MINIX (with source code) as an alternative was even a reason to finally go out and buy a PC.

One of these people was a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds. Torvalds installed MINIX on his new PC and studied the source code carefully. Torvalds wanted to read USENET newsgroups (such as comp.os.minix) on his own PC rather than at his university, but some features he needed were lacking in MINIX, so he wrote a program to do that, but soon discovered he needed a different terminal driver, so he wrote that too. Then he wanted to download and save postings, so he wrote a disk driver, and then a file system. By Aug. 1991 he had produced a primitive kernel. On Aug. 25, 1991, he announced it on comp.os.minix. This announcement attracted other people to help him, and on March 13, 1994 Linux 1.0 was released. Thus was Linux born.

I’m still on windows for now btw :D, Don’t get me wrong.

First WordCamp Egypt

2009-03-07T13:54:00.001+02:00

Looks like Depiak is pulling off a new event, this time it’s a world wide event : WordCamp.

Announcement :

Dear our members,
As you have noticed, for so long we have been keeping silence and announcing almost nothing of our activities. But today you will be amazed of what have been keeping us busy till this message being sent.
Do you have passion to join the first WordCamp in Egypt, one of the most famous IT gatherings in the whole world? depiak has contacted Automattic, the company behind Wordpress and WordCamp Organizers, and we have been discussing if we can have our own Egyptian WordCamp, all organized by depiak.
What is WordCamp?
WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people.
Kindly, Maya Desai who is responsible for organizing such events, sent us their schwag, in the photo below, - these kind of stuff doesn't appear in Wordpress Shop - to help us organizing the event.

We are planning to have it within 2-3 weeks from now, might be in Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, but we are still not sure, we are looking for a bigger hall . We are also still looking for sponsors, so if you know a company that needs to sponsor a Multi-National event, please let us know to contact them with our sponsorship deals - which are not too expensive btw -.
If you are a developer, designer or even a company who is looking for any of those, I can assure you that this event is for you. Also if you want to collaborate with a session in the same event, please let us know, sessions should be exclusively Wordpress and till now we have almost 4 sessions, the schedule will be announced soon, so you should hurry up.
If you are a designer, and want to collaborate in the marketing campaign for a Multi-National event, this is your chance, it will be great putting something like this in your CV!
Directly contact me, or any of depiak managers, for any details or questions.
Thanks in Advance!

So you will just have to wait for the schedule isA soon.

Arabic announcement.

I have made some other topics in Arabic forums :

dvd4arab announcement1 , announcement2

Arabteam200 announcement.

Original announcement.

Ball Lightning, not aliens

2009-03-04T13:30:00.004+02:00

Wiki : Ball lightning may be an atmospheric electrical phenomenon, the physical nature of which is still controversial. The term refers to reports of luminous, usually spherical objects which vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter. It is sometimes associated with thunderstorms, but unlike lightning flashes, which last only a fraction of a second, ball lightning reportedly lasts many seconds.

They aren’t even still sure I see a “May be” ! , but the problem with me that I saw some shots like these in reported aliens videos :

Edit, This is a video of what I meant by aliens :

reminded me of “Close encounters of the third kind”

Sources :

Wikipedia : Ball Lightning

Ibrahim’s Blog : الرؤية الجديدة للأسلحة: كرات ضوئية قاتلة

The OST of my life [1]

2009-03-01T23:03:00.005+02:00

Interpol - Pioneer to the falls

The Smiths "How Soon Is Now?"

Generics in C# .net VS Java

2009-02-27T22:36:00.003+02:00

My first post under Java label :D.

Generics in C# :

When you use a generic Collection like List<> to create a list for different types as in :

        1: List<int> myIntList = new List<int>();       2: List<double> myDoubleList = new List<double>();       3: List<MyStruct> myStructList = new List<MyStruct>();       4: List<MyClass> myClassList = new List<MyClass>();
   5: List<MyClass2> myClass2List = new List<MyClass2>();  

the .net CLR in runtime will create four copies from the collection List, one for each Value type and only one for all reference types, that’s so when every time the CLR encounters a new value type X for the class that isn’t constructed before it creates another copy of the class that uses the X type , but when you create a new List of type int again, it will just use the constructed List class from before, but as for reference types it only uses the same class but each time it makes an instance it construct it to refer for the reference type you want (MyClass, MyClass2) as the references have the same size but in value types each one has it’s own size .

So using a generic collection specially with value types will improve your Application performance notably, as you won’t have to cast each time you have to read a value.

Generics in Java:

When I started programming with Java lately, I typed List<int> and oops there was an error !! , you can’t use a value type in generics, if I wanted I should use the encapsulating classes like Integer, Double and so on. So I read that in Java generics handling is done with the compiler itself and it does the old boxing and unboxing -that you had to do previously with ordinary generics- behind the scenes, so when when working with a List of integers you’re working with an array of objects while in C# you’re working with a real array of integers.

Naruto , enter the Saga

2009-02-23T20:25:00.005+02:00

It was like 2 months since I last read Naruto’s manga because Kishimoto made Kakashi die (or his is soul stolen as he says) so I was getting bored from how things are going and many characters getting killed, then the last week I continued reading and found a totally EPIC action, Naruto totally mastering the Saga mode and :

I know it would be a big spoiler but he can now totally use Rasen-shurikan even better than the first time with no fear from side effects, and goodbye Konoha and Shizune, enough with spoiling :D, but I find the manga now in one of it’s best arcs ever naruto advanced to totally another high level.

Comics for computer geeks

2009-02-23T19:43:00.002+02:00

Asslamo alekom

lately I was given a link by ihab that contained a comics released by Microsoft to advertise for SDL, and when I read it,I found it was absolutely amazing and was somehow amusing like if I was reading a real comics which it really was, I liked the first strip a lot :

I’m an avatar :D

to download the rest : http://www.microsoft.com/security/bakingsecurityin/strips.htm, and it’s not finished yet.

Hardware implemented Stacks

2009-02-14T12:00:00.004+02:00

While studying Computer architecture I passed by the idea of implementing stacks by hardware, I never thought it would come to constructing a datastructure in this very low level.

However it’s found to be very useful, so I liked to share it.Wiki link : Hardware stack, as you will see it uses the main memory for the stack storage and the Controller will have a Stack pointer register (SP) to point to the last pushed data, by incrementing and decrementing SP you can do your PUSH and POP operations.

An alternative solution is using a set of registers for storing stack’s data, so you connect the DR (the register that will hold the data wanted to be pushed) to all registers and the SP to a decoder to select the LD (load) for the wanted register to push the data to, and for POP, connect all registers output to MUX and the SP is also the selector for the wanted register.

The usage of hardware stacks can be in the Micro-programmed control as used in the sequencer to keep track of the instruction branching (just like method calls stack),

and I found that there is a certain computers use stacks instead of registers or accumulator (Stack organization), and its instruction set has NO address (Zero-address instructions) so to add :

PUSH A

PUSH B

ADD //adds the last two stack's data and the result is added to the stack too

David After Dentist

2009-02-07T16:40:00.002+02:00

funny
really funny

The 8 Queens problem solver

2009-01-29T02:50:00.008+02:00

Since the start of 3rd year's first term (ele lesa fayet dah) I wanted to make a generic search function, it can be as bad as it can in performance at the start but I really wanted it to be abstract, so I would give it the start state , the goal or a goal checking function and the states generators, then it can return solutions, and I can add some inputs for tweaking the functions searching: breadth first, depth first, may be the number of solutions wanted and so on.

I begun on it, but until now I only defined the function and some of it inputs :D, yeah this term was @#$!@#, so when Osama suggested working on a search algs for the well known 8 queens problem, I liked the idea as a start,then started working on it, the problem is to put 8 queens(wazeer) on a 8X8 board so they wouldn’t attack each other.

My state was the the solution’s path : array of points max point (7,7) as index starts from 0, and with it the current state of the board: a 8X8 Boolean multidimensional array, where each unsuitable blot is marked with false, so you can’t add a queen in the falsed plot because it’s attacked with other queens placed in previous states.

The function starts by looping for each location in the board and as at the start all the plots are empty, so we can place a queen, so I make a state for each of them in each state the solution starts by this certain plot and the board is false by the locations this queen can attack, and then i take the first state (supposing(0,0)) and for this state I see the free (true) plots in this state’s board and make a state for each free place , the first one I think (1,2) add it to the solution queue (now(0,0) then (1,2) ) and the board will be false for each location each (0,0) and (1,2) can attack and the check again for this state for each free place and generate the states, until the number of solutions reaches 8,and if for each branch if solution not found it will backtrack , of course this is depth first as the problem will be solved faster.

Then I tried to integrate my code to Osama’s GUI, I firstly made the Find solution button finds a solution for an empty board, but found that it will always come up with one solution, but thanks to the abstraction I made in the function :D, I made it find a solution for any board that can start by already some places false and some queens placed, so I chose a random plot placed a queen and told the function to come up with a solution for the current state, so every time Find solution is needed it will be random and I don’t need to get all the solution and choose a random one, because it takes a hell of time to get all the solution!!, the next trick was to try to solve the board if the user has already placed some queens, so I made as before but not random, the board was falsed by the current user queens, and then I try to get a solution if I couldn't find 8 queens I try to find 7 , 6 , 5 … , btw I assume that the function isn’t for 8 queens only it can find more, but I didn’t try.

The function :

        1: private List<Point[]> QueensSolve(bool[,] boardToSolve, int numberOfQsToFind, int numberOfSolutionToFind)       2:        {       3:            //List of the found solutions       4:            List<Point[]> solutions = new List<Point[]>();       5:            Point[] currentSol = new Point[numberOfQs];       6:         7:         8:            bool[,] branch = (bool[,])boardToSolve.Clone();       9:            Stack<State> branchStates = new Stack<State>();      10:            //Pushing initial state      11:            branchStates.Push(new State { solution = new List<Point>(), stateBoard = branch });      12:            while (branchStates.Count != 0)      13:            {      14:                //poping the current state to check ( remember depth first)      15:                State aState = branchStates.Pop();      16:                bool foundTrue = false;      17:                //if the there is already 8 queens add the current solution to the list      18:                if (aState.solution.Count == numberOfQsToFind)      19:                {      20:                    solutions.Add(aState.solution.ToArray());      21:                    //if there is the wanted number of solutions the user needed break      22:                    if (solutions.Count == numberOfSolutionToFind)      23:                        break;      24:                }      25:                //find each free plot that you can place a queen in it and make a state for each plot      26:                for (int m = 0; m < numberOfQs; m++)      27:                {      28:                    for (int n = 0; n < numberOfQs; n++)      29:                    {      30:                        if (aState.stateBoard[m, n])      31:                        {      32:                            //create current found free plot's state : add the point to the solution list       33:                            //and the board after placing the queen      34:                            //then push the state      35:                            foundTrue = true;      36:                            //Forming the state      37:                            Point newNode = new Point(m, n);      38:                            bool[,] newBoard = (bool[,])aState.stateBoard.Clone();      39:                            newBoard = RemovePlots(newBoard, m, n);      40:                            List<Point> newSol = new List<Point>(aState.solution.ToArray());      41:                            newSol.Add(newNode);      42:                            State newState = new State();      43:                            newState.solution = newSol;      44:                            newState.stateBoard = newBoard;      45:                            branchStates.Push(newState);      46:                        }      47:                    }      48:                }      49:            }      50:        51:        52:            return solutions;      53:        54:        55:        }  

Sources :

The code – The Exe - .Net framework 3.5- CSED topic

Edit : Of course there is another solution, that you can place the 8 queens randomly on the board and then adjusting the place of each queen so they don't attack, I didn't think that this is pure search, but I would do it sometime.

Edit 2 : I originally worked on the algs with console : 8Queens_Console.rar , But i'm not sure if it has been updated while integrating to Osama's GUI, and it's without comments.

Coldplay - Life In Technicolor II

2009-01-22T00:29:00.004+02:00

haaahaaaaaaaaaaaa I LOVVVVVVVVVVVVE IT

love it love it love it

the best Coldplay music video so far :D

really , love the song love the video !!

A simple story to solve with AI !

2009-01-20T03:22:00.012+02:00

A girl saw a puppy in the window, and she wanted it.

that is it, well, what did the girl want?

probably say she wanted the puppy, but what if she wanted the window?

is it beacause puppies are more desirable than windows ?

that may be true , not always, but may be

but that means to understand a story as simple as this you will have to know the relative desirability for all objects involved in the event,

can she pick up the puppy ?

no there is a window in the way,

you need to know that windows you can see through them but they're actually a physical obstacles

then what to do if she wanted to pick the puppy ?

she could open the window; break it, or she could go through the door in the room to the puppy , then according to some restrictions you put, the action is selected.

a story that simple needs so much knowledge :D

I like Jeff Hawkins :D , he has a vision and looks for the very core of things.

a script is not actual intelligence, it's artificial behavior, it depends on the behavior the programmer see most humans would do.

Okhrog ya 7omaar

2009-01-10T01:03:00.004+02:00

القصة ديه عجبانى جداً

دخل حمار مزرعة رجل
وبدأ يأكل من زرعه الذي تعب في حرثه وبذره وسقيه؟
كيف يُـخرج الحمار؟؟ سؤال محير ؟؟؟
أسرع الرجل إلى البيت ,لاجاء بعدَّةِ الشغل
القضية لا تحتمل التأخير
أحضر عصا طويلة ومطرقة ومساميروقطعة كبيرة من الكرتون المقوى
كتب على الكرتون
يا حمار أخرج من مزرعتي
ثبت الكرتون بالعصا الطويلة
بالمطرقة والمسمار
ذهب إلى حيث الحمار يرعى في المزرعة
رفع اللوحة عالياً
وقف رافعًا اللوحة منذ الصباح الباكر
حتى غروب الشمس
ولكن الحمار لم يخرج
حار الرجل
'ربما لم يفهم الحمار ما كتبتُ على اللوحة'
رجع إلى البيت ونام
في الصباح التالي
صنع عددًا كبيرًا من اللوحات
ونادي أولاده وجيرانه
واستنفر أهل القرية
'يعنى عمل مؤتمر قمة'
صف الناس في طوابير
يحملون لوحات كثيرة
أخرج يا حمار من المزرعة
الموت للحمير
يا ويلك يا حمار من راعي الداروتحلقوا حول الحقل الذي فيه الحمار
وبدءوا يهتفون
اخرج يا حمار. اخرج أحسن لك
والحمار حمار
يأكل ولا يهتم بما يحدث حوله
غربت شمس اليوم الثاني
وقد تعب الناس من الصراخ والهتاف وبحت أصواتهم
فلما رأوا الحمار غير مبالٍ بهم رجعوا إلى بيوتهم
يفكرون في طريقة أخرى
في صباح اليوم الثالث
جلس الرجل في بيته يصنع شيئاً آخر
خطة جديدة لإخراج الحمار
فالزرع أوشك على النهاية
خرج الرجل باختراعه الجديد
نموذج مجسم لحمار
يشبه إلى حد بعيد الحمار الأصلي
ولما جاء إلى حيث الحمار يأكل في المزرعة
وأمام نظر الحمار
وحشود القرية المنادية بخروج الحمار
سكب البنزين على النموذج
وأحرقه
فكبّر الحشد
نظر الحمار إلى حيث النار
ثم رجع يأكل في المزرعة بلا مبالاة
يا له من حمار عنيد
لا يفهم
أرسلوا وفدًا ليتفاوض مع الحمار
قالوا له: صاحب المزرعة يريدك أن تخرج
وهو صاحب الحق
وعليك أن تخرج
الحمار ينظر إليهم
ثم يعود للأكل
لا يكترث بهم
بعد عدة محاولات
أرسل الرجل وسيطاً آخر
قال للحمار
صاحب المزرعة مستعد
للتنازل لك عن بعض من مساحته

الحمار يأكل ولا يرد

ثلثه

الحمار لا يرد

نصفه

الحمار لا يرد

طيب

حدد المساحة التي تريدها ولكن لا تتجاوزه

رفع الحمار رأسه

وقد شبع من الأكل

ومشى قليلاً إلى طرف الحقل

وهو ينظر إلى الجمع ويفكر

فرح الناس

لقد وافق الحمار أخيراً

أحضر صاحب المزرعة الأخشاب

وسيَّج المزرعة وقسمها نصفين

وترك للحمار النصف الذي هو واقف فيه

في صباح اليوم التالي

كانت المفاجأة لصاحب المزرعة

لقد ترك الحمار نصيبه

ودخل في نصيب صاحب المزرعة

وأخذ يأكل

رجع أخونا مرة أخرى إلى اللوحات

والمظاهرات

يبدو أنه لا فائدة

هذا الحمار لا يفهم

إنه ليس من حمير المنطقة

لقد جاء من قرية أخرى

بدأ الرجل يفكر في ترك المزرعة بكاملها للحمار

والذهاب إلى قرية أخرى لتأسيس مزرعة أخرى

وأمام دهشة جميع الحاضرين وفي مشهد من الحشد العظيم

حيث لم يبقَ أحد من القرية إلا وقد حضر

ليشارك في المحاولات اليائسة

لإخراج الحمار المحتل العنيد المتكبر المتسلط المؤذي

جاء غلام صغير

خرج من بين الصفوف

دخل إلى الحقل

تقدم إلى الحمار

وضرب الحمار بعصا صغيرة على قفاه

فإذا به يركض خارج الحقل ..

'يا الله' صاح الجميع ....

لقد فضحَنا هذا الصغير

وسيجعل منا أضحوكة القرى التي حولنا

فما كان منهم إلا أن قـَـتلوا الغلام وأعادوا الحمار إلى المزرعة

ثم أذاعوا أن الطفل شهيد !!

Sent to me by mail , from M. Onsy :)

Windows 7 Beta Download

2009-01-08T18:55:00.013+02:00

It's a bit of an old news now , but Windows 7 Beta 1 has been leaked for a while -on torrents-, what is confusing me is that many people -whether IT interested or not- are trying this beta and even the pre-Beta builds, and I read that many are using it as their main OS !

As for me I downloaded the first leaked build but when remembered my first trial for Vista beta "3 !" it was awful - at first I liked its look but then the performance and compatibility >> sucked :S - even now I don't like vista that much, so I deleted the Win7 build without trying it.

But after reading many reviews and comments gracing the first build and saying that it's the most stable beta for a windows ever !! , I suppose I "would" give it a try.

It's available for download on MSDN BUT for subscribers only for now, which excludes me of course :D, so my loved protocol Bittorrent comes always in use ,until it's released for public

Donwload Windows 7 Beta 1.

Edit : Public Beta will be released on CES opening (isA).

Edit 2 : Sorry for lating, the Beta from Microsoft from this Download Page

2009 ... Welcome

2009-01-01T01:17:00.003+02:00

كل سنة و أنتم طيبين
و إن شاء الله السنة ديه تبقى أحسن

happy new yearrrrr , lollll :D

make your new wish list for this year if you didn't ;)

CAT HISTORY ..

2008-12-30T20:08:00.002+02:00

EPIC video
first time to see it, I think we must play it in the next SCOPE, it's critical
CAT really changed people's life !!

Charlie bit my finger - again !

2008-12-25T15:57:00.002+02:00

Lovely :D

Nano Sensors

2008-12-12T15:32:00.001+02:00

Nano sensors, first applications for Nanotech which I found related to CE :) :

One way in which Joseph T. Hupp is trying to develop sensors is by using the properties of molecular recognition. He has made some rather complex and elegant molecules that he calls molecular metal squares, one of which is shown in the Figure . These squares are designed to recognize particular target molecules also called analytes ("analyte" literally means that which we wish to analyze). By designing the molecular squares with particular geometries and patterns of molecular electron density, Hupp and his group have been able to perform a Cinderella-like act—the analyte foot fits into the molecular square shoe and other molecules with different sizes and shapes do not. Once the molecular square recognizes and captures the analyte molecule, we must be able to recognize that the capture has in fact taken place, which is usually done by shining light onto the square. The combination of square plus analyte absorbs energy from the light in a different color range (frequency or wavelength) than the square without the analyte or the analyte alone. This means that if you monitor the sensor, it will change color in the presence of the analyte. These sensors are sensitive enough to detect fewer than 10 molecules of an analyte, so for high-precision tests you might not see the change with the naked eye, but it isn't hard to construct lab equipment that can see it. This allows the squares to be among the most sensitive sensors ever made.

Courtesy of the Hupp Group, Northwestern University.

Source : Intro to Nanotech eBook.

Windows Live, what’s new ? it’s going social !!

2008-12-11T03:41:00.006+02:00

Will I think this time Live has made it , and I’m using and wasting time on organizing my Pages in the Live services now. I have known Live services like Spaces and Search for a while , but it was a bad experiment

I didn’t like it at all !! , they didn’t add anything that would make me leave other services to it, specially Live Search, even the search results wasn’t like I'm used to with Google .

So… I lately checked Live and found a profile page, oke I had some free time I can try it, then I was surprised with the way the service was made, it had great interoperability between different Live services so when I need to make a new album I had to make a new folder in the photos folder in the Live SkyDrive(Live’s online storage) and add photos to it. The profile status message is the Windows Live messenger status message , then it came to friends, I thought it would be very lame (I’m used to it ), but then I found it telling me you can add friends who are in your messenger contact list, Linked In friends, OR Facebook friends !! I liked this one, I don’t have to make a new Friends adding Quest ,

I personalized the page by adding favorites a theme and my infos …. etc

then you will find in the middle of your profile the Feeds, JUST like the Facebook’s feeds in the profile page ,and Web Activity panel to view feeds form other sites like my blog and sites like iLike, bundled with these the privacy options for each aspect (detail) of your profile to specify who can see them.

this is ma profile : http://cid-09e57a81a1b9f370.profile.live.com/

it has been 3 hours now , and I didn’t even try Office Live I think it will appeal to me too specially that I don’t have office on my Laptop.

Firefox 3 makes a website guess !!

2008-12-02T18:35:00.001+02:00

Just couldn’t hold to say it in a short note :

while I was searching for : the killers , band I thought I was browsing on Chrome so I typed the name in the address bar, but surprisingly I was opening Firefox , so when I typed : The killers , I found it opening :

http://www.thekillersmusic.com/ !!! I didn’t know about this ability , so I tried it several times, and it just works by searching for the keyword and opening the first result.

“Like charges repel, opposite charges attract !!”

2008-11-22T02:15:00.003+02:00

أنا هكتب بالعربى علشان فى التوبيك حته عيب فى حقى

فاكرين القاعدة بتاعت الأشارات المتشابهة بتتباعد عن بعض و المختلفة بتتجازب !!

أنا من أول ما قالوا لى على الحكمة ديه و هى كده , معرفش أزاى أو حتى ليه و مع أن السبب سهل أثباته

فمحدش وضحهولى قبل كده و قال لى علشان كذه كذه

معرفش أذا كنت أنت فعلاً عارف الأثبات ول لأ

ممكن يكون مدرس العلوم بتاعك كان جامد و قالك

بس أنا لحد أمبارح كنت على نياتى

و أنا بقرأ كتاب دخل فيه حتى فيزياء تمهيدى

لاقيته كاتب قانون كولوم و أشار أنه بيثبت كذه كذه

مجرد أنى بصيت تانى على القانون و بوجهة نظر أخرى عرفتر

القانون أهه :

q1 : is first particle charge

q2 : second particle charge

r : the distance between them

فلو الجسمين عليهم شحنة متشاية فا الناتج القوة موجب , بيأثروا على بعض بقوة تبعدهم لحد ما المسافة تكبر و القوة تبقى مهملة

و لو أشارات مختلفة فالقوة سالبة و عكسية و هتخليهم يتجازبوا و سرعتهم تزيد :

عمرى مفكرت فيها كده , زى متكون فقدت فى الترجمة من المراجع و حفظتها كده زى الحكمة

MAB phase one ends

2008-11-14T22:16:00.003+02:00

I have just committed my MAB (My Address Phonebook) code to Google code now,
--A screen shoot :

--The SVN :
http://code.google.com/p/h4ck3rz-mab/source/browse

--Code docu. :
http://code.google.com/p/h4ck3rz-mab/downloads/list

--Contributors :
Ahmed Soleiman : Analyzed the project and stated requirements.
Maher Seif : was the first one suggested working by MVC paradigm, provided it with tuts and we started working with it at once, helped in debugging and supervising.
Mohamed Atia : Managed the team and the project development, developed some classes, worked in Model layer(DAL, Model base class ..), developed the DataMap class (Entity)for modeling, and worked in the project functions.
Ahmed Madkour : formed the team and supervised the progress.
Mariam : the project designer( Logo, layout(CSS, html ...)
Reem : worked in the Model layer and coded few pages in the project.

if anyone wants to be added to the project members to add, edit or work in the code please contact me (PM or mail), to add him.
Anyone wants to have any info about any class or code also do contact me if you would like to.
Salam until any adds in the future.

My first post with Window Live Writer (WLW)

2008-10-22T19:10:00.004+02:00

I once installed it but didn't try to use it, so I opened it yesterday to try to get used to it, I firstly found it compatible with Blogger.com and found many MANY useful plug-ins :

I can add smiley plug-in , I love IT
Insert code snippets.
```
   1: string x = "I want to live.";
```

Insert Polariod pic :

Insert tags, SEO slug, SkyDrive attachment,
tags, facebook photos, translation, Acronyms, video, map, table and Silverlight streaming, these are all plug-ins you can get for WLW, I think I will enjoy it a lot .

EDIT: the WLW beta version supports blogger categories tags.

Coldplay - Prospekt's March (new album 2008)

2008-10-15T00:48:00.003+02:00

this album is due to release on 21-25 November 2008, and it contains some unfinished songs when Viva la Vida was released. the track list :

"Life in Technicolor II"
"Postcards from Far Away"
"Glass of Water"
"Rainy Day"
"Prospekt's March/Poppyfields"
"Lost+" (featuring Jay-Z)
"Lovers in Japan (Osaka Sun Mix)"
"Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground"

and there is an info I didn't know :D !! :

There are four different variations of "Lost!", each with a different punctuation mark in the title.

"Lost?" is a separate recording of the song featuring only singer Chris Martin and a piano. It was initially released as the B-side on the CD version of "Violet Hill", later as a bonus track on the Japanese and iTunes Store editions of Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends and finally on the "Lost!" digital EP.
"Lost–" is an instrumental track, identical to "Lost!" but without vocals.
"Lost@" is a live performance of the song on 22 July 2008 at the United Center, Chicago, US and forms the basis for the single's music video.
"Lost+" is a remix of the song featuring rapper Jay-Z that will be released in a few weeks

Sources : Coldplay.com -- Wikipedia.com

Google Directory

2008-10-04T01:04:00.003+02:00

It's first time to know that Google have a web directory , It's always great if you want something concerning certain category, and you don't know a specific name :).

About cloud computing

2008-10-02T17:19:00.008+02:00

Lots of talk about cloud computing , as it's becoming a buzzword , you can google it and you will get 14,000,000+ result as I see now. I find it very interesting may be :), specially if combined with the idea of online desktop, like Mesh's desktop

I can make Apps that work on my online desktop as a part of the cloud(internet), sync them with my PC's (offline files) app , I can use it where ever I go, or from any PC I use, I like this idea.

Cloud computing is Internet ('cloud') based development and use of computer technology ('computing'). The cloud is a metaphor for the Internet (based on how it is depicted in computer network diagrams) and is an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it conceals.It is a style of computing where IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service”, allowing users to access technology-enabled services from the Internet ("in the cloud") without knowledge of, expertise with, or control over the technology infrastructure that supports them. According to the IEEE Computer Society "It is a paradigm in which information is permanently stored in servers on the Internet and cached temporarily on clients that include desktops, entertainment centers, table computers, notebooks, wall computers, handhelds,

Wiki page : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

other pages :
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/07/15FE-cloud-computing-reality_1.html
http://www.internetnews.com/software/print.php/3775346
http://communication.howstuffworks.com/cloud-computing.htm/printable

Where I read more about MS's next cloud step :

Evidently, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Oracle aren't themselves completely immune. Ballmer, now in London for the Cloud Computing Expo, announced Microsoft has a new Windows platform in the works, Windows Cloud. The offering is designed to support cloud-based applications. IDG News Service, which carried the report, said more details of Windows Cloud would come out during Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference at the end of this month.

Update : MS' Cloud OS is now called : Starta

Windows 7 beta leaks

2008-09-25T01:00:00.006+02:00

Newer topic :Windows 7 Beta Download

I found many screen shots for windows 7 beta, it still looks like Vista for me, but the still got plenty of time to change in it, I found the milestone 1 over torrents easily but it still doesn't deserve the try.

Leaks :
1. Windows 7: The Real Thing
2. Windows 7: Follow Up
3. Minor update: the Windows 7 Storm
4. Windows 7: more screenshots and screencast
5. Windows 7: Calculator and Control Panel

Space elevator !

2008-09-24T23:59:00.005+02:00

haha !!? no it's true :D , yeah I have always seen it a fiction, and hard to happen. Like in Civilization IV(a game !) the most advanced world wonder is a space elevator :).
but as Japan is thinking to make it now it would not be a fiction, man, I really love japan :D.

Japanese scientists are attempting to build a lift that will take passengers 62,000 miles into space.

The lift's carriages, which will themselves require new feats of engineering, would move up and down 22,000 mile-long cables.

Those cables would need to be stronger and lighter than any material ever woven.

They would be anchored to the ground and disappear into the sky, eventually reaching a satellite docking station orbiting above the Earth.
Scientists hope that as well as carrying human passengers, the carriages could also haul huge, solar-powered generators that could power homes and businesses back on Earth. It could also remove barrels of nuclear waste, dumping them into space.

Source

CAT's Fetaar Gama3y

2008-09-23T12:30:00.003+02:00

Friday 19 Ramdan , was CAT’s Collaborative Iftar

Kanet gamda .. bad2eeet b 7abbet swar 3al Nile

w ba3deen Slide Show le kam sora men taree5 el CAT

w ba3deeen el AKL

شوربه لسان عصفور
سلطات متنوعه
ارز بالكارى
ربع فراخ رستو
شريحه لحم رستو فرن
3 كفته مشويه على الفحم
خضار سوتيه
بطاطس بوم فريت

we 7alena be Kanzaya , we a3dna natnaksh fe 7al el dawla :D

we shewayet klam keteer, ba3d keda a3dna nel3ab maragee7

we beta3a esmaha el bosaat ta2reban, then went to Mirage 3alshan el awlad kano 3awzeen yel3abo bowleng .

bas keda, kan yoom gamed besara7a ma3a en feeh nas maknsh 3agebha el yoom, bas ana 3agbny gedan

for the album : http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2007642&id=1012416805

Sergey Brin (Google Co-founder) Starts blogging

2008-09-22T02:15:00.001+02:00

Sergey Brin starts writing his own blog about his personal life, calling it TOO :

Welcome to my personal blog. While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number - two. It also means "in addition", as this blog reflects my life outside of work.

http://too.blogspot.com/

My blog is back

2008-09-18T17:25:00.005+02:00

Heeeeeeeeh, Finally after long time (a month I think), my blog is online again. I feel very happy as this I didn't find this place to write in what I'm thinking and new things I'm reading and doing.

while this month I knew this blog : http://www.himtox.com/blog, I found it very interesting :D, thanx ibraheem.

now the most anticipated upcoming events for me :

CAT's iftar gama3y , in friday 19-9-2008 (My brother's birthday, happy year for him isA),
New college year starting in Saturday 20-9,
Introduction to algs course, Saturday 20-9 also.

slaam for now , el fetaar arab

C# 3.0, What's new ? Session

2008-08-27T11:49:00.006+03:00

I made a session about some new features in C# 3.0 last Sunday (24-8-2008), and majorly talked about LINQ to objects and LINQ to SQL, despite the fact that the attendance was very small number (really small one :D ) , but I was happy when they said they understood mostly all the presentation, as this is my first time to give one, and as this was a new technology, it was hard for me to get all about it.

I began with the new famous keyword "var"and how compiler handles it, and then talked about Initializers , anonymous types ,remind them about collections , and talked about generics, then all what was next was about LINQ.

the slides and photos :

* the slides are very brief (as I mostly relied on VS 2008 and the whiteboard) , But they are well done :) .

ASP .net free hosting

2008-08-26T20:14:00.006+03:00

Since I have been lately learning ASP .NET,I've been searching a lot for free hosting for it, and it was a shame not to find any good one :S , I found for ASP and other sites weren't free or I couldn't register, finally I found one for free, and it's educational only , so files will be deleted after 90 days and it's only 10 MBs :( , but I can use it, as I only want to make use of my coding for a pet project and put it online to try it, so until now these limitation doesn't affect me very bad, until I find affordable host for .NET 3.5 :D.

the website : http://www.aspspider.com

Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

2008-08-16T15:06:00.001+03:00

Visual Studio Service Pack 1 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 are now available for download. A new feature for C# developers called squiggles provides better error messages while you are typing your code. There are several important LINQ performance enhancements, including one that could yield a 30% speed increase in some common scenarios. There are also thousands of other bug fixes.
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 delivers:
Improved WPF designers
SQL Server 2008 support
ADO.NET Entity Designer
Visual Basic and Visual C++ components and tools (including an MFC-based Office 2007 style ‘Ribbon’)
Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server (TFS) addresses customer feedback on version control usability and performance, email integration with work item tracking and full support for hosting on SQL Server 2008
Richer JavaScript support, enhanced AJAX and data tools, and Web site deployment improvements
The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 delivers:
Performance increases between 20-45% for WPF-based applications – without having to change any code
WCF improvements that give developers more control over the way they access data and services
Streamlined installation experience for client applications
Improvements in the area of data platform, such as the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and support for SQL Server 2008’s new features

Download

A download page is available here, or you can just follow these links:

VS 2008 Service Pack 1:

Executable: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122094 (Direct Link)
Iso: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=122095 (Direct Link)

VS 2008 Express Editions with Service Pack 1:

Executable: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123679
ISO: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123680

VS Team System 2008 Team Foundation SP 1:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=124829

.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1:

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=124150

Intel Core i7

2008-08-16T12:32:00.001+03:00

The Core i7 brand refers to an upcoming range of Intel's consumer 64-bit quad-core CPUs with the x86-64 instruction set, based on the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture. These chips will also feature simultaneous multithreading, which will allow the quad core chips to work on eight threads simultaneously. According to an Intel spokesperson, the Core i7 identifier applies to the initial family of processors, Bloomfield, due to be launched in Q4 2008.

between quad Q9450 and Core i7 (previously known as Nehalem )

Data Mappers

2008-08-10T14:50:00.009+03:00

a new addition to the MAB's MVC,
a class used to simulates business logic in managing data, a product in real life is not just a row of data in the DB table,
it has other considerations that must be taken , adding other data in other rows (anything like taxes , marketing .. )
so you make a class that simulates this logic, when adding new product it adds other data, so you don't have to remember to
add them every time.

I made a base class for data mappers :

   abstract class DataMap Implements ArrayAccess

{

protected $fields = array();

protected $key;

protected $tableModel;





//ArrayAccess Implemtation, will enable datamappers to be used as array : user1["firstName"]

//not like : user1->fields["firstName"] , which only means less typing :D

function offsetExists($offset) {

 return isset($this->fields[$offset]);

}



function offsetGet($offset)

{

 return $this->get($offset);

}



function offsetSet($offset, $value)

{



}



function offsetUnset($offset)

{



}

//End ArrayAccess Implemtation



//Mutators

function get($key)

{

 if (isset($this->fields[$key]) == false) {

         return null;

 }



 return $this->fields[$key];

}





//End Mutators





//Loads data from the db table

protected function __Load()

{





  $arr = $this->tableModel->Get($this->key);

  $this->fields = $arr[0];



}

//Updates changed data , so Adds if this is a new row (no key),

//deletes if fields are null, edits if else

protected function __Update()

{

if(isset($key))

{

  if(!isset($this->fields))

  {

     $this->tableModel->Remove($key);

  }

  else

  {

     $this->tableModel->Set($key,$fields);

  }

}

else

{

  if(CheckNotNull())

  {

     $this->tableModel->Add($fields);

  }

  else

  {

     throw new Exception('Unable to add data, there are some required fields messing.');

     }

}

}





//This is a special method, that checks if the columns in the DB that are

// "Not Null" is null or not

//NOT TESTED YET

protected function CheckNotNull()

{

$result = $registry->Query("DESCRIBE '{$this->tableModel->tableName}'");

foreach($this->fields as $column)

{

  if($column["Null"]=="NO" && !isset($this->fields[$column["Field"]]))

  {

     return false;

  }

}

}

}

    //loads class

__autoload("datamap");

class Contact extends DataMap

{

protected $registry;

   __autoloadModel("phonebook");

   $this->tableModel = new Phonebook($registry);

   if(check_not_empty($id))

   {

   $this->key = $id;

      $this->__Load();

   }

}







function AddToDB ()

{

   unsset($this->key);

   $this->__Update();

}



function DeleteContact()

{

   unsset($this.fields);

   $this->__Update();

   //Here can lay some bussiness logic that may make Data mappers very important , How ??

   //in Mab there will be sharing contacts and contacts grouping, so when deleting a contact you

   // must delete its sharing and grouping if found , you can add this code in here later ISA.

}



function GetFields()

{

   $this->__Load();

}





function UpdateDB()

{

   if (isset($key)||check_not_empty($fields))

      $this->Update();



}



}

Viva la vida Music Videos

2008-08-02T19:51:00.003+03:00

I watched the first version at first, but the second one is rather better
so here is the better first :

the second is good also :

More talk about Midori

2008-07-31T18:22:00.002+03:00

According to a report, Microsoft isn't just looking at the next version of Windows (no, not Mojave) for future OS possibilities, but is looking beyond the Windows architecture altogether with a project known as Midori. The new OS is still in the "incubation" phase (which puts it slightly closer to market than R&D projects), but Microsoft has admitted to its existence, and the Software Daily Times says at least one team in Redmond is actively working on the new architecture.

The basis for the platform centers around research related to Microsoft's Singularity project, and envisions a distributed environment where applications, documents, and connectivity are blurred in a cloud-computing phantasmagoria which can be run natively or hosted across multiple systems. The researchers are working to create a concurrent / parallel distribution of resources, as well as a method of handling applications across separate machines -- religiously-dubbed the Asynchronous Promise Architecture -- which will set the stage for a backwards-compatible operating system built from the ground up, with networks of varying size in mind. Says the SD Times, "The Midori documents foresee applications running across a multitude of topologies, ranging from client-server and multi-tier deployments to peer-to-peer at the edge, and in the cloud data center. Those topologies form a heterogeneous mesh where capabilities can exist at separate places." Like it technical? Hit the read link for an in-depth look at the possible shape of Microsoft's future.

from Engadget,
[Via Yahoo!]

CAT Centralized Management System

2008-07-31T18:07:00.002+03:00

this started at depiak :CAT Centralized Management System, I think it's great

we had a meeting , and it wasn't totally effective as most of the members didn't get the time announcement. What A7mad talked about was the abstract idea , these are some quotes from the IRC :

-the CAT Unified Identity System, that would be the official name
-the idea is to have a unified identity for cat members,they should have certain access privileges to cat online/offline resources using that identity
-to have a single identity per person, so if we saw "h4ck3r" nickname on any CAT system, we would be sure that it's me.
-after we implement that, that's called Single Sign-On, a centralized authentication system that authenticates the identity of the user and enable access to all cat websites/resources (if he has the privilege), even if those resources are running on different servers/domains
-we will write most of the system, but we still can research using standard stuff, check CAS (Centralized Authenticated Service) and SAML ( Security Assertion Markup Languag)
-so, we can start thinking about how would we make a single unified identity, and so we need a smart matching algorithm.
-Maher Seif , will document the Project on the new Hackers WIKI ISA.

http://www.cat-hackers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=3057&p=19861#p19861
I would like to work in a system like this isA

It’s Official – Live Mesh Now Open

2008-07-25T15:29:00.004+03:00

what !! , I just found it out late :(
but hey I'm trying it now, and I like the Vista interface, it's still empty to use right now, but i'll try to find if they had made some software to install on it.

Right now i'm gonna leave it , untill it have a big cloud of softwares :) .

http://www.mesh.com/

Google is making its own WIKI

2008-07-25T14:46:00.006+03:00

Google is making its own WIKI :

The Knol site has one goal: to help you share what you know.
The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, related information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information, with multiple cues that help you evaluate the quality and veracity of information.

Knols are indexed by the big search engines, of course. And well-written knols become popular the same as regular web pages. The Knol site allows anyone to write and manage knols through a browser on any computer.

http://knol.google.com

What is Islam?

2008-07-22T23:00:00.002+03:00

First vid about Islam , that I see it featured on YouTube :D

My life is miserable right now

2008-07-20T00:26:00.006+03:00

The good, but not very good news , is that I'm running Mandriva Linux now. Why ?
because shitty things happen in life , My 2 HDDs is now a history , both of them :''''''''((

a 480 ggs of data, some of them may have last for 3-4 years, all is lost :(
all of them , actually what is surprising me right now , that I didn't cry ^o) , mmm
I don't know why really , I usually go furious and mad when something happens to my PC, like when my Mo-Board gone down , but this time it was very big and crying wouldn't have made anything :D , i was shocked for a day and watched "el kanaah el 2oola " that sucks , but after that I "7amdat rabena" , and took
Linux live CD from Madkour , which I'm good at running it right now (Mandriva) , that's until I have a new HDD , I think it would be 500 at least .

I would post something about reviving these HDDs if I had success at doing it .

Slaaam

Olivia, Explorer.

2008-07-12T13:55:00.003+03:00

"The film was planned, written, composed, shot and edited in under two weeks and was made on a mere £7 budget.

We made our own steadycam from scratch for £5; the remaining £2 was spent on sweets and string (for the fishing rod.) We are only young-ish (19 and 20, retrospectively) so we're not exactly rich and it proves that you do not always need to spend a lot of money to make a film.
"

Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D World

2008-07-12T01:37:00.001+03:00

Google has launched a Windows-only, in-browser (you need to install a client first, though) 3D avatar world — Lively — that you can embed in websites and use to interact with other people. It's not as expansive as Second Life yet but expect things to get better.

Actually I tried it yesterday
it suck
borrrrrrrrrrring
but I hope they will add some games I can play with others in it

http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html

Coffee can temporarily sharpen your focus and memory

2008-07-10T14:23:00.002+03:00

Coffee

Good news for coffee lovers. About two years ago, researchers from the University Innsbruck in Austria found caffeinated coffee can temporarily sharpen your focus and memory. After giving volunteers the caffeine equivalent of about two cups of coffee, they observed that their brain activity was increased in two locations—one being the part responsible for memory. Results were observed using MRI technology. Without caffeine, there was no increase in brain activity.
Then, earlier this year, another study published in a leading Neurology journal, found the effects of coffee may be longer lasting — specifically in women. This four-year long study involving about 7000 participants... all participants went through thorough baseline evaluations – cognitive function was tested, along with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other vascular issues. Participants were re-evaluated at the two-year mark, and again at the four year mark.
At the end of the four year period, researchers found that women age 65 and older who drank more than three cups of coffee per day (or the caffeine equivalent in tea) had 33 percent less decline in memory over time than women who drank one cup or less of coffee or tea per day. The results held up even after researchers adjusted for other factors that could affect memory abilities, such as age, education, baseline cognitive function, depression, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, medications, and other chronic illnesses. This caffeine-memory association was not observed in men — the authors hypothesize that perhaps that’s because men and women metabolize caffeine differently.
So if memory problems are a major concern for you, and if you don’t have a medical condition that precludes caffeine, feel free to indulge in a cup or two in the morning to jump-start your brain.

All the time I thought Coffee is bad , and I got my self to have one cup as a max , Thanks to this article I will drink coffee as much as I can .

A Friends Movie At Last ?

2008-07-04T21:20:00.001+03:00

The highly anticipated film production of TV series Friends has finally been given the go-ahead, MailOnline has learned.

Cast members Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer will reprise their roles for a big-screen adaptation 'within the next 18 months', according to insiders.

Hell yeah , I'm addicted to friends
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Could Microsoft be workin on a new OS other than Windows ?

2008-07-04T18:42:00.001+03:00

YES ! :

" Project Description

The Singularity Research Development Kit (RDK) is based on the Microsoft Research Singularity Project. It includes source code, build tools, test suites, design notes, and other background materials. The Singularity RDK is for academic non-commercial use and is governed by this license.

About Singularity

Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of systems, languages, and tools. We are building a research operating system prototype (called Singularity), extending programming languages, and developing new techniques and tools for specifying and verifying program behavior.

Advances in languages, compilers, and tools open the possibility of significantly improving software. For example, Singularity uses type-safe languages and an abstract instruction set to enable what we call Software Isolated Processes (SIPs). SIPs provide the strong isolation guarantees of OS processes (isolated object space, separate GCs, separate runtimes) without the overhead of hardware-enforced protection domains. In the current Singularity prototype SIPs are extremely cheap; they run in ring 0 in the kernel’s address space. "

Link

Goodbye, XP. Hello, Midori ?? :

"
June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It’s also a good day (thanks to a recent New York Times opinion piece) to start looking ahead to what comes next — after Windows.

That answer could be Softie Eric Rudder’s mysterious “Midori” project.

First, the back story: As San Jose State Professor Randall Stross notes in his Times article, “Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air,” Windows has become big and unwieldy. That’s why Microsoft has been working for the past several years on reducing dependencies within Windows. And that’s what MinWin, the slimmed-down Windows core that Microsoft’s Core team has built (which supposedly won’t be at the heart of Windows 7) is all about.

Microsoft also has been investigating for the past several years what a non-Windows-based operating system might look like. That project, which recently hit the 1.0 milestone, is code-named “Singularity.”

"
Link
Link2

I would like to see this new OS

Doodle 4 Google Awards Ceremony

2008-07-04T00:54:00.002+03:00

See it

New Shippudden Movie 2 : Bonds new Trailer

2008-07-01T18:52:00.005+03:00

mmm , I think I saw a machine gun and flyin' men there , the Q. now , how Kishimoto will get Susake in action

Previous Post about Bonds :