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Booked my tickets (Summer 2009) :-)

Submitted by msameer on Sat, 16/05/2009 - 9:04pm

To Cairo and beyond (-:

Too bad I'll transit for one hour in Charles De Gaulle again. I'd rather be prepared to lose my bags :-)

And did I say from 10.07.09 to 09.08.09 ?


Bye fglrx...

Submitted by msameer on Thu, 09/04/2009 - 9:59pm

Thanks to all the hard work by the fglrx packaging team, DRI, MESA, Xorg, Radeon,... etc people!

I've been using fglrx with my laptop since I've had it:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400

And to the people behind the Debian packaging..
* xserver-xorg-video-radeon from testing.
* libdrm-intel1 and libdrm2 from unstable
* libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx from experimental

vader:~# apt-get --purge remove fglrx-driver fglrx-kernel-src fglrx-kernel-2.6.26-1-686 fglrx-sourceReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done

The following packages will be REMOVED:
   fglrx-driver* (9-2-2)
   fglrx-kernel-2.6.26-1-686* (9-2-2+2.6.26-13)
   fglrx-kernel-src* (9-2-2)
   fglrx-source* (9-2-2)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
After this operation, 38.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

I probably lost the ability to suspend and resume but I don't usually do it with that laptop.

Now let's hope my lapop at work will be adapted easily too :)

UPDATE: Seems you lose OpenGL 2.0 if you use the free driver. If you are doing OpenGL stuff like me then you are in trouble ;-|


Oh shit! On tax!

Submitted by msameer on Tue, 13/01/2009 - 11:38pm

Oh shit!

I have a bill from the tax office since May 2008.

It was due last December and I never knew I had to pay anything.

Now I have to pay it plus the interest rate!

It's not much but ... :-(


Quick summary

Submitted by msameer on Sat, 27/12/2008 - 11:31pm

Long time since I posted anything here. I just have nothing to say. Nothing is happening in general and all days are almost the same!

* Went to Egypt on vacation and came back.

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him-arabic has been uploaded to maemo extras

Submitted by msameer on Thu, 02/10/2008 - 3:20pm

Yup, thanks to Matan Ziv-Av who did a few improvements and fixes and uploaded him-arabic to maemo extras.

The good part is the addition of the Hebrew keymap (And a few other things).


I hate reCAPTCHA

Submitted by msameer on Tue, 19/08/2008 - 4:30pm

Really, I f****** hate reCAPTCHA. I decided to input "foo" instead of the hard to read word (Which is the scanned part probably).


Have you ever forgotten to have breakfast ?

Submitted by msameer on Wed, 13/08/2008 - 9:21pm

This is an example of a clueless and non-informative blog entry. Please feel free to skip it.

Years ago when we were young at school, teachers used to ask as:
* Did you forget to eat ?


Booked my flight to Cairo...

Submitted by msameer on Tue, 01/07/2008 - 11:01pm

03.10.08:
Helsinki (08:00) to Vienna (09:40)
Vienna (10:35) to Cairo (14:10)

02.11.08:
Cairo (10:50) to Vienna (13:40)
Vienna (19:40) to Helsinki (23:20)

Yes, 6 hours of transit...

And blame Ezabi for convincing me to fly EgyptAir from Cairo to Vienna!


تعقيب علي بنت مصرية حول الثانوية العامة

Submitted by msameer on Thu, 26/06/2008 - 2:38pm

قرات عند بنت مصرية.

احب ان ادلي بدلوي في الموضوع لاني قد مررت بهذه المرحلة

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My first experience with the Finnish police officers

Submitted by msameer on Wed, 25/06/2008 - 10:42am

Sitting down ignoring anything but the phone call and by accident raised my head

Me (After noticing the sign from the guy): Give me a second, there're police officers here
Phone: OK
Police officer: Do you speak English ?
Me (a bit frightened to the police guy): Yes, but can I end this call please ?
Police: Yes but quickly
Me: I have to go now, seems there's something important. Will call you later
Police (After ending the call): Do you have an ID ?
Me: Yes (And showed him my Finnish ID)
Police: Where do you live ?
Me: In that street, I can show you.
Police: We don't go there, just tell us
Me: In this street, number 12. The 2nd door.
Police: People have been complaining that you are speaking in a loud voice at night when it's late.
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