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Unboxing my new N900

Submitted by msameer on Thu, 15/10/2009 - 2:55pm

This should replace C-3PO (My N95) or should I find another name for it ? ;-)

And this picture has been taken with an N900!

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Corporates are evil.

Submitted by msameer on Sat, 29/08/2009 - 11:33am

After the N900 has been announced. I was saying this to a friend of mine:

[Me] so
[Me] remember our discussion about a Linux powered phone ? ;)
[Me] sorry I convinced you that Linux on phones is a no while I knew we were doing it :)


Engagement

Submitted by msameer on Sun, 16/08/2009 - 1:02pm

Erm, Never thought this would happen to me. It happened 9 days ago!


No KLM, I'm not paying money to torture myself again.

Submitted by msameer on Thu, 16/07/2009 - 2:30pm

This is a copy of what I've sent to KLM customer care after my disastrous flight from Amsterdam to Cairo:

Hi,

My flight was KL0553

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Sim Clone 4

Submitted by msameer on Fri, 19/06/2009 - 11:53pm
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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).