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Eglug logo with Shadda

Eglug logo with Shadda. Download SVG version from here

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Commercial Linux gaming revisited: Cold War demo, and other rants.

from happypenguin.org: Cold War follows the story of a freelance journalist who finds himself in the midst of an international conspiracy that aims to control the U.S.S.R. Twelve hours after arriving in Moscow for a routine story, he has been stripped of all possessions, beaten unconscious and thrown into the KGBs political prison. Using only recovered weapons and improvised gadgets, he must now evade or overcome elite Soviet forces and defeat the conspiracy before he is sent to a Siberian prison camp or killed.

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Installfests and where EGLUG is heading.

In last summer's installfest, we had an OK presence. Many people came and we made certain promises about our presence in el-sakia that we eventually couldn't keep.

Almost a year after that:

  • We no longer maintain physical presence in el sakkia, or anywhere else for that matter.
  • We're pushing forward with an installfest that is not even public.

While the 2nd is OK if we had many public events to make up for it, but that is not true. There are no plans for other public events later this year. However, i have some suggestions about the current situation.

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no company will ever plant a backdoor in it's proprietary software

from wikipedia

At one point, Lotus negotiated an agreement with the NSA that allowed export of a version that supported stronger keys with 64 bits, but 24 of the bits were encrypted with a special key and included in the message to provide a "workload reduction factor" for the NSA. The net effect of this was that users of Notes outside of the US had stronger protection against private sector industrial espionage, but no additional protection against spying by the US government. This implementation was not a secret - in fact it was widely announced - but with some justification many people do consider it to be a backdoor.

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Big meeting

Today we had an unusually full meeting at roastery zamalek. This weekly thursday event is usually social, but this time inevitably the converstions included eglug and some good came out of it.

It's nice to see the LUG coming slowly back into activity.

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Another example of how proprietary software can be bad for your health

No Fix for 'Critical' Hole in Windows 98, ME

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14857

The way I see it there are 3 possible reasons why Microsoft won't create a fix for these versions of Windows

1- They can't really fix it like they're saying. Now if you are a normal computer user this is something you can actually believe. But from a software developer's point of view this means only two things. Either Microsoft has a bunch of incompetent developers who can't find a way around this problem or they are lying because simply its a very rare situation where you can't fix a bug in a software

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اضحك من قلبك

لازم تقروا الكلام ده ياشباب, حقيقى حتفطسوا من الضحك على لينكس بتاع الإرهابيين والشيوعيين, و دسكتوب لينكس الأصفر, والسورس كود اللى هوة طريقة منقرضة لتوزيع البرامج وحاجات جميلة كتييييييييييييييير

أجمل حاجة أن ده جد مش هزار

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What to appear all of first? CCNA, RHCE or Sun Solaris?

which certification i should appear all of first because i have not enough money to appear all of them together. I hav plan to appear one first , if i get migration of promotion in job of that certificate. then i 'll b able to spend more on these certifications. I will do ol these certificates, but don't know which one has most market value. So i need support , if anyone here can suggest me then i

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Happy Birthday To Me

I've just turned 17 ...

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