ramez.hanna's blog

in my personal website i wrote a post advocating opensource, please read it and comment on it all help is needed to refine it and make better

http://informatiq.org/index.php/section/newsmanager/template/biz/news/b16b9214b3

the target audience of this post are not developers as much as it is for managers to make the understand the benefits of an opensource solution

i have a pc AMDXP 2000+ (1.67Ghz) with 256Mb of ram two HDDs one for linux and one for windows, the windows HDD is faster than the one for linux (hdparm -t for windows HDD:20.4 while for linux HDD:1.6)
i have a recorded musical of 1:45 hrs in wav format of 1.2 Gb nad i used audacity and lame to cut it into tracks and encode it to mp3

• on windows it took around 5 mins to load the wav file

during my 3 years with linux i haven't been able to completely dump MS out of my head . . .
why? because i can run macromedia dreamweaver and flash on windows.
i mailed macromedia i tried other alternatives but at the end i couldn't find a real replacement, so i finally tried wine and i tried some windows apps and had luck with some but still Dream weaver no untill i found winetools it solved the problem i can use macromedia dreamweaver and flash on linux i even could run IE6(who needs that ? but why not!)

this morning i woke up earlier than usual and took my cup of fresh coffee in the balcony at elrehab the cloudy skies and the cool breeze the trees and the empty streets mmmmm what a feeling it's something out of this country . anyway i just arived at the office and got this link in my email so i wanted to share it http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/ondemand/us/advertising/advert_linux.shtml it's nice.
I hope everybody else can have such a good start for the day

i just caught a terrible virus that got in bed for 2 days with 39 degrees that doesn't drop
god i hate to be sick

i created a reservation module (finally) for drupal that works like a poll but i would record who is chose what option so that we can count who is coming to events and who isn't
still needs a little tweaking but should be ready by noon today yippiiieee :D

yesterday i tried to hack the poll module to create a reservation module to be used with meetings and all events that need reservation but it was a failure :(

finally had the time to setup drupal on my laptop i just tackled to the basic features and setup i tried PHPNUKE before but drupal is cooler i should be now trying to help with EGLUG challenges wish me luck good luck

last night i did a recompile of the 2.6 kernel shiped with fedora core 2 on my i686 micron laptop