For those who don't know, meedan is a project that I have been watching since I first knew about it from the presentation made be Anas Tawileh in the first meeting in the arab techies.

عرب كرنش تطلق النسخة العربية . ألف مبروك ليهم وان شاء الله تنجح نجاح كبير.

بيان اطلاق النسخة العربية:

أعلنت المدونة المحترفة “عرب كرنش” عن إطلاق أول مدونة باللغة العربية تهتم بالريادة ومبنية على أسلوب “صحافة المواطن” و التي يتمكن فيها اي مواطن من ان يكون اعلاميا. و تركز المدونة اهتمامها على الريادة في عالم التكنولوجيا، و المشاريع التقنية العربية والعالمية الناشئة، والإعلام الاجتماعي وأجهزة الجوال.

عرب كرانش ArabCrunch بلوج يعتبر من المدونات الرائدة في متابعة شركات و أخبار التكنولوجيا في المنطقة العربية. صاحب الموقع كتر خيره إستقبل مني مقالة عن ال-cyberwar و نشرها عنده.. اقروها و قولولي رأيكم.

After I managed to run my X fine after my last problem with Xorg configurations, I had apt-getted compiz fusion. After it has run few times ok, It just stopped running, when i try to start it using compiz --replace I get the following error:

/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Error: Could not acquire compositing manager selection on screen 0 display ":0.0"
/usr/bin/compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

I had problems after I installed debian lenny on my laptop, After some digging in the system I found that debian lenny now includes Xorg 7.3 , there's something that made me really lost regarding it, that it simply doesn't use the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf .. actually i didn't find it on my system. So - as I'm used to - issued the configuring command

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and I was really surprised that the configurations was only for input devices (keyboard), and the generated xorg.conf was such a lame, contains only the following:

I've been promoted to be an admin in Egypt Gnu/Linux User Group as was discussed in this thread..

مع ان الندوة ديه اللى اداها محمد السيد، لكن برضه حانزلها فى البلوج بتاعى.. غلاسة بقى...

وعلشان ابو عيسى ما جاش المرة ديه، ما حدش صور.. ما فيش صور ولا فيديو :(

I always use thunderbird, normally I never use the web interface for gmail for lots of reasons, one of them is the privacy of my address book.

Anyway today i was using the web interface and I wondered how to get only the unread emails. I didn't find anything in gmail's interface that allows that..

After some looking around, I found the answer. Simply search your gmail with the following phrase:
in:inbox label:unread
and you got only unread email from your inbox there :)

The presentation file of the first session of the system programming course that's made by [http://eglug.org eglug] and sponsored by [http://www.espace.com.ege Space], can be downloaded here as a [http://www.linuxawy.org/files/sysprog/session_1.pdf PDF file]