Albaiti's Blog

“Huge Hole in Universe Contains… Absolutely Nothing” so what!

albaiti3000 — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:04:16 +0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A giant hole in the Universe is devoid of galaxies, stars and even lacks dark matter, astronomers said on Thursday.

Google Ready to Bid on 700 MHz

albaiti3000 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:06:21 +0000

Nate Anderson writes,

For the last few weeks, Google has been pondering its response to the FCC’s 700MHz auction rules. Would it bid on the spectrum or wouldn’t it? Last night, CEO Eric Schmidt appeared to indicate that the company was leaning toward a bid, a decision that is no doubt giving the incumbent telcos night sweats.

Windows Has Less Flaws than Linux or Mac?

albaiti3000 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:51:58 +0000

According to research Windows is less flawed than Linux or MacOS X.

Microsoft Trustworthy Computing group Security Strategy Director Jeff Jones has published a report that claims fewer serious security vulnerabilities have been found in Windows Vista in the six months after its release than all major enterprise Linux distributions and Apple’s MacOS X.

The full report containing numbers and charts is available in a PDF file.

Here is a link for a good article about the subject.

best wishes,
albaiti

Tubes, what next?

albaiti3000 — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:30:37 +0000

Tubes is the newest Web 2.0 product.

It’s a new way for sharing and synchronizing files through out a number of desktops and users simultaneously using what they call iTube.

Here is some of the description from there web site:

We didn’t stop after we made sharing anything impossibly easy. Impossibly, we made it even easier. Just drag & drop your stuff to a tube on your desktop and it is instantly assembled into your very own website, what we call a tubeSite. That’s right, now you can share anything with anyone on the web — every tubeSite gets its own URL. You can even provide guest URL access to any file inside any tube on your hard drive. And unlike mere websites, when you change anything — right on your desktop — your tubesite changes automatically. This also means your family, your students or your colleagues can edit your website.

And in case you are wondering about the name it comes from the pneumatic tube that banks use.

a Tube Account by Size
Free 1 GB
Premium 5 GB $5.95/month
Premium 10 GB $10.95/month
Premium 20 GB $20.95/month

best wishes,
albaiti

Dvorak Keyboard Layout

albaiti3000 — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:32:19 +0000

Today I learned something about a keyboard layout called Dvorak.

The thing is that I don’t know much about layouts.
Actually I didn’t know a thing about layouts or the fact that there could be different keyboard layouts for one language! Imagine my surprise!

so i went reading about it and I’ve founded that it’s a very good layout and with a little determination i could write my next post using it.

I recommend every one to go and read about it.
You will probably love it and you will end up increasing your speed to more than 50 wpm in no time.

here is a very good blog post about it
Jesse Crouch log: dvorak
you will find every thing you need to know about it in there, including some very very useful links check it out.

best wishes,
Albaiti

How to Start a Blog?

albaiti3000 — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:04:47 +0000

A lot of people including me is wondering of how to start a blog and what or how to write blog posts?.

After a little search i ended up with these great blogs :
1- Working Smart: How to Start a Blog
I founded this blog to be the most useful, it was written in a clear language and had very good advices starting from deciding the theme and choosing the right service for you, and ending with how to publicize your blog.

2- Simon World: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask about Blogging
Its got some great advice on blogging for anyone starting out….or continuing in blogging.

3- Phil Windley’s Technometria: How to Start a Blog
It’s also a great site with some great and original advices, specially the last 2 steps (11-12).

After reading those blogs I think that the most important advices of how to start a blog is:
1- choose a good service. if your are good at blogging then switch to fee-based services.
2- choose a theme and stick with it but occasionally deviate from it. (i am still with out a theme).
3- update regularly.
4- comment on others blogs and but a lot of links to others blogs in your posts.

i think those are the most important, if i am wrong please correct me.

best wishes,
albaiti

The best background color for reading e-books

albaiti3000 — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:55:10 +0000

The other day, while i was reading some PDF file about Rails, I get really annoyed by the white background.
So i decided to change it, the only problem is that i use “Acrobat Reader” and i couldn’t find where to change it even though i looked in the offline manual.
Thinking that it can’t be changed, I started looking for a pdf program that support changing it.
Now, the irony is that I found how to change it from a comment that says how easy it is to change bgColor in “Foxit Reader” and how will hidden it’s in “Acrobat Reader”.
Which is going to “Edit>>Preferences>>Accessibility” then check “replace document color” and wallah! you can change it at last.

Anyway, i have tried several colors and i have found that The best bgColor is “Gray 25%” (that what photoshop calls it!), in Acrobat Reader Words the lightest gray in the “Pick a color” box!.

so, what do you think!

My First Blog Post

albaiti3000 — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:19:11 +0000

Hay everyone,
This post is my first attempt into Blogging world, I hope it won’t be the last.
I have no experience at all when it comes to posting but hopefully it’s never to late to start.

I am a VB. Net programmer (well not professional but I may be some day).
I’ve also started programming web sites with RubyOnRails and I am loving it (specially after trying doing that with php!).

any comments or suggestions of how to become a good blogger (or just a blogger!)
are very welcomed.
actually any comments are very welcomed.

best wishes
albaiti