Today I'll give a 20 minutes short presentation on the State of Arabic FLOSS desktop in the conference
I prepared yesterday te presentation using openoffice impress and it gave me a hard time when it inserted a sound during slide transition.

So, Finally I was able to get my PCI wifi card running under Linux.
I've bought it weeks ago, Whatever I do the box keeps freezing when I bring up the interface.
ndiswrapper is freezing at random points, And finally when I was able to use the GPL'ed driver, I didn't get a connection.

I tried with 6 kernels or so.
I decided to get an old P2 or so and try and yes! IT WORKED.
The damn CNET CWP-854 worked under Linux with the rt2500 driver.
Now I'm enjoying wireless at home with my GNU/Linux semi-access point.

Free Open Source Software and Development Conference 13 – 15 March 2005

Invitation to attend the conference entitled Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) and Development (13-15 March 2005, daily from 6 p.m to 10 p.m, Shepard Hotel in Cairo), which is organized by Center for Knowledge Society with the cooperation of EGLUG (Egyptian GNU/Linux Users Group).

Open Invitation, for enquiries:
manal@mengos.net
info@eglug.org

Long time without posting anything.
I'm still alive and kicking!
But I spend like 10 hours at the office or so. I sleep at 4 am or so these days.
I don't reply to my emails as I used to, Sometimes it takes me 2 weeks to reply, This is SHIT!

This should've been posted a week ago or so, But it took me a week to have my brain up and running again!.

The flight has been announced, To the plane, I was searching for my seat, I was surprised tha someone is sitting there, I asked whether this is 45A, They told me no, It's on the other side "though the airhostess told me it's on the side I'm in" So I decided to go to the otherside and aee, It was 45H.

Great, I passed under the thing that used to beep while I'm in india but nothing happened here, Those Indian guys are very paranoid.
It's now 7 in the morning, My next flight'll be at 12:40
Those stupid Indian guys didn't know that the electric stairs never work unless you approach them as there is a sensor responsible for this ;-)

I didn't charge my laptop much as I was sitting in Mumbai airport and one of the people there was shocked when he knew that i'm flying to bahrain, I don't know why as there are 40 minutes left, Anyway I had to go to the plane.

I don't know why the people at the domestic airport must see your boarding after the plane land and you enter the airport!
I left the domestic airport and went to the international one. After searching for Gate 1 which was the last gate, I passed by some guy who tried to convenes me to spend the night in the hotel, And that he'll arrange the transportation for me and that it's free, I insisted on NO without giving him a clear answer

So here we are, The first thing noticed the ammount of police men beside the door of the plane, 2 or 3. It's either these guys are really paranoid or they suffer from something!
Anyway, No airhostess with sary till now. That's not a god sign.