Year: 2007

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My girlfriend wants to work in Dubai !

I don’t know what got into her, but it’s seems almost like her life long dream to work overseas, especially in Dubai.

She often mentions that how exciting it is if she were to work over there, with a fat salary, a new and foreign environment, and a chance to visit the word’s largest shopping mall, the Dubai Mall! And I know first hand that she loves to spend her time shopping!

However she did give up some thought on where she would live if she’s going to work in Dubai. I was concern about that too. So I did some check up on properties in Dubai, to see what kind of apartment or place that I could get her. I prefer to get her something that is nice, located in a safe neighborhood, and easily reachable.

After hours of searching the internet, I finally came across Dubai Marina properties, a website that lets you find real estate properties in Dubai. It is easy to use, and it has a lot of property to choose from.

Personally, I’ve browsed few apartments that suited my budget using the system, and I find it very interesting. I haven’t told her yet about this website and I guess you’re the one who are first to know about Dubai Marina properties.

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The $100 Laptop, OLPC is available for public to buy

Latest news from BBC that I read, It seems OLPC (one-laptop per child) XO laptop will be available to the general public to purchase after 2008.

olpc.jpg

This was confirmed by the chairman of OLPC group (Nicholas Negroponte) that they have considered commercial schemes to distribute XO Laptops around the world. It isn’t clear yet how much does an OLPC cost to the general public, but they are considering a “buy 2 get 1” scheme, perhaps as a source of donating or funding the project.

Personally, I’m eager to test one of the machine out myself, I envy ditesh and jayakumar because they had the chance to try out the machine in person. :p

[tags]olpc, linux, laptop, fedora, $100 laptop[/tags]

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Stopping Annoying Image Spams

I hate receiving email spams, who doesn’t right? The volume of email spams that I receive hasn’t decrease over the years.

The emails that I receive range from the from the usually annoying sex enhancing drug, sex toys, to a variant of nigerian scam email which ask you for your help to deposit some amount of money.

Most of these emails are stoppable by the keyword filters and bayessian-based spam blocker which scans the frequency of words inside the spammers email. The filter will try to find the keywords commonly associated with scam and spam emails and able to put the spammers email directly into the trash without it ever reaching your inbox.

However, a new breed of spam emails emerged recenty, these emails dono not use text to relay their messages, but instead uses images which can easily bypass keyword-based spam filters which is common in email clients.

However, BorderWare’s has come out with a solution, “Intercept Image Analysis”, which takes the spam fighting methods further by inspecting over 30 attributes about each image, to adapt, learn and defeat new image spam campaigns.

Intercept Image analysis is specifically designed stop image spam , and is compatible with any email clients that you use. Try it now, and send those email spams to >/dev/null

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Listen to free OGG stream Internet Radio on Ubuntu Linux

Sometime, in the middle of the night, I like to listen to music while working on the computer, hacking codes or plain writing blogs on my Linux desktop.

Because of my Linux desktop default installation ‘discourage’ me from listening to MP3 streams, so I’ve to find alternative Internet radio that uses the free OGG Vorbis streams.

So far I found that Xiph Streams directory is the best internet radio directory that can be found on the internet. It feature collection stations dedicated for certain genre of songs, such as blues, hard rock, dance, alternative rock, jazz and few others.

The streams is playable on Totem Player, XMMS, Rhythmbox, and almost all music player available for the GNU Linux operating systems.

FYI, I’m currently listening to a radio station which plays oldies songs. :)

[tags]linux,gnu/linux,ubuntu,radio,streaming,mp3,ogg,vorbis[/tags]

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No more Fedora Core, It’s only Fedora 7

According to the announcement I read from Fedora devel lmailing list recently, Fedora project will not release Fedora Core and Extras anymore.

There will be no more distinction between the two repositories as both are will be combined and maintained by the community.

Fedora 7, the first release under this new move will have 28 new features to be added. Fedora 7 is schedule to be release on 26 April 2007

[tags] linux,fedora,fedora core, open source,opensource,distro,rpm,yum[/tags]

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The Matrix Linux Console animation

One of my irc chat friend, surface has created a cool ncurses application which displays Matrix-style feed (as seen from The Matrix movie triology).

the matrix feed console

The application comes with C++ source code licensed under the GNU General Public License 2, and it requires libstdc++ and ncurses (most linux distribution already have this installed).

Please read matrix 0.1a announcement from surface’s website for more information about the program.

Source code : matrix.cc

[tags]ncurses,curses,linux,console,gpl,matrix, the matrix,screensave[/tags]