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Tommarow ensha’ALLAH is the final episode for my short novel “Poison is the Perfect Potion” on aaonovels.wordpress.

I’m currently working on another short story that i hope to finish before fall. Once finished, I’m planning on Posting it on aaonovels.wordpress which will be consisted of 7 posts, i. e. a week. It’s entitled “Operation: Blackfish”

i emailed this to two guys i know and thought someone might be interested:
"Guys, this is a FREE golden opportunity to get into the world of game design. i know it's a general game design course (does not revolve around computer games) but it still provides a good foundation for game designers. I signed up (along with three other people). this is the link: http://gamedesignconcepts.wordpress.com/
the instructor seems experienced and this looks like a good chance. and since the course is free, there is nothing to loose (i think it's blog based). if you do regester, add me as a "friend" so we could be added to the same group (whatever that means).

ps: why does this message seem like spam?"

SIGTERMer

check out the new pokemon movies, series and games on this site…..click the following link:

www.serebii.net

BONE-CRUSHER

No Administration Rights Required to install/run the programs mentioned here. Enjoy

Two months have passed since i started working at an IT solutions company here in kuwait. it’s a “Microsoft Gold Certified Partner”, which is probably why it has windows running on every machine capable of running it (except for an old P2 which runs fedora). I have been using linux/gnome for a while now and i have to tell you, it’s rough. there are a lot of things that you miss like:

And to top it off, I’m not the admin! so vista is pretty much locked up. i can’t even install firefox, or so i thought.

The following is a list of some of the software that made working in a hostile locked-down windows environment a little more easer. (NO INSTALLATION OR ADMIN PRIVILEGES REQUIRED):

Portable Firefox

source:Firefox portable This app might be the reason why i’m still sane. this is good news to anyone who has an addiction to firefox (which probably includes 92.327% of real PC users out there*). just don’t forget to modify the proxy setting for firefox if you work behind a proxy. if you don’t know how, just follow these steps: 1: open IE 2: go to Tools->Internet Options 3: select the connections tab 4: click “LAN settings” 5: copy the address and port 6: open firefox 7: go to Tools->Options 8: click on advanced 9: select the network tab and click “settings” 10: fill the required fields and don’t forget to enable “Use this proxy server for all protocols”. and you’re set .

PuTTYPortable & winscp

source: winscp PuTTyPortable If you have an ssh server running you will appreciate these two. if you don’t, then you should! here is a detailed guide on how to do it. basically you can ssh into you’re box from work (even behind a firewall using a few tricks) and you can transfer files as well. just don’t forget the proxy.

Portable GIMP

source:GIMPPortable For those of you who haven’t worked with windows for a long time, MS-paint is retarded. it doesn’t even give you hex values. if you’re a web-developer, you need this if you want to avoid a headache.

These are the Tools/apps i needed so far to make my job more easier. but these aren’t the only ones i use, one of the notable applications i use is Blender which comes in an unzipable package and

In conclusion, this group of software is what i was able to find useful for a linux user working in a locked down windows installation, and i’m sure the are a lot of great apps that don’t require installation but haven’t been mentioned here. if you know any application that hasn’t been mentioned but should have, please help me out by letting me know

SIGTERMer

Hello everyone, it’s me, Yousef Mustafa, the aaobloggers member who was never active. With my first post on this blog, I invite you to my own blog! My blog, aaonovels, will specilize in posting certain novels i decide to share with the world. I will do so by posting parts of a story on a daily basis, or something like that.

This is the title of my first online novel, entitled “Poison is the Perfect Potion”. It revolves around a 13 year-old kid, a strange girl and other blizzards characters. Enjoy the plots and twists in this weird adventure on my own aaonovels.wordpress.com. The Picture below is the title of my latest work.

COPYRIGHTS © 2009 Kuwait Book

for all those whose interested in animes this link will give u the top best 334 animes…..from the the 1st (the best) to the last (the worst).

here is the link:

http://www.squidoo.com/top-anime-list

BONE-CRUSHER

I guess one of the benefits of working for a company that is very close to Microsoft is getting to know all their “solutions” first hand. One of these solutions is Windows Sharepoint Service. basically, it’s an application suite that allows people who are working on a project to work better with one another by organizing the way information is managed and accessed while providing methods to organize team work and increase team efficiency.

How did they do it? will it’s simple really, they just jam a blogging platform, a forum, subversion control, and a wiki into on system and provide exceptional integration with MS Office.. thats all.

Why should i give a *? will for starters, this can be the perfect solution for developing software. as you may have noticed, almost all major projects have a Sharepoint like system, one way or another. sourceforge, gnome live, and so on.

OK, now two problems remain: It’s proprietary and it costs money. I’ve searched the net and found an open source sharepoint clone released by Alfresco (google it) but it’s more oriented towards replacing microsoft’s sharepoint technology than providing a platform for POSIX servers. it even integrates with Office!

One solution is to write my one tailored sharepoint system. that, or wait until someone else writes one. I’m probably going to write one myself (most likly using python since it’s very convenient for web applications) if i get the chance.

i’ll probably design it for technical projects rather then general purpose, it might include:

you might wonder why i intend to write the previous tools all over again appose to using will established tool already available. the answer is simple:

In conclusion, I hope I don’t need to write the thing. but if no other sutable choices exist, i’ll probably have to write it anyways. as usual, any feedback is appreciated

SIGTERMer

PS: I might also integrate OO.o if it provides the necessary functionality, and if i have enough time to read on the subject.

Today, I realized that i have been tricked into working for microsoft! REALLY!

BY Scott Beale / Laughing Squid

I have started to work for a software solutions company here in kuwait. I had a felling something was wrong but i continued anyway. before i started to work i made my boss aware that i’m a linux guy, i like linux.
he assured me that i wasn’t going near microsoft products or .net. he even offered to install linux on my work pc.
–hapy–
i worked for several weeks with python and linux. last week, i recived word that i’ll be developing software with .net even though the boss told me i wasn’t going anywhere near it.
–shock–
today, i was asked to read up on share point service 3.0 because next week we’ll start working on redoing the company’s site.
–WTF–

now i realize i’ve been terned into a microsoft zombie

Long lives Microsoft.. log lives the psycho-maniac of a company!

ps: I MEAN COME ON! SHARE POINT! F!

BONE_CRUSHER

The baby -rescued- cat

The night before the incident, I was entering my house at 8:30, before I entered i saw a shadow of a big cat on my head’s shadow. I got freaked out,  I looked behind and realized that there was a cat on the fence!! At that time I heard a cat screaming (other than the one on the fence) I said “They’ll go away”.

The next day when I got out going to school i heard the same scream, but neglected it. when I came back from school I realized that there was a cat stuck somewhere!! Bone-Crusher was with me, he went searching for the cat, but no clue! he said “When I go further I here the sound from behind, but when I step back I hear the sound coming from the place where I was before!!” I thought it was stuck between the bushes or something! -Out of nowhere- My young brother came out noticing what we’ve noticed, Suddenly he said “The cat, it is in the pipe I can see its face” I was like “what a load of …” *crouched and concentrated*  “WHAT!!!” , it was true it was inside the pipe.

This pipe

I was shocked! “How could a cat get in this pipe?” was the question in my mind, after a while we noticed that it was a baby and was abandoned by her mother (the one that scared me the other night). At that moment we tried to get it out, but no luck. A person suggested to take a vacuum cleaner and suck it(the problem was that the cat’s face was in front, so it WILL get hurt). We were out of ideas, until my father came and gave us an helpful idea, this is pipe’s one hole, and it has two; so… we took a hose and put it in the other hole and started the water.

The "map" of the pipe

The cat moved a bit, but the idea failed because the water was getting out (not moving the cat, getting out from hole No.2). I thought of an anxious idea. The idea was to take the hose and insert it all the way from Hole No.2 to the cat, and then push it with the hose. The cat started to scream again till it got out.

aaaand the AAO TEAM HAVE RESCUED A CAT

But once it got out, another problem started WHERE SHOULD IT GO? it doesn’t know anything, but the pipe, so it tried to get into the pipe again, I said “No you won’t” and blocked the hole putting my shoe, I told my BRAVE younge brother to take it/move it away a bit, so he took it (using his hands -I’d never do that!!! never did, never will-) and moved it. The cat went into our small garden hiding under the bushes being scared. We left her and got in our house, but it was still SCREAMING!! so we got out some milk, water, and some of our food (which was rice and shrimp -in other words emrabian-) and gave it to it, it didn’t want to eat, tried to feed her by -a little bit of- force, but still! WHAT A STUBBORN CAT! So we/I left it alone. And went to lunch.

After eating, I returned to it, and realized it ate/drank some. Good but, what now, we don’t want to keep it, so I talked to my father, and LOL, he said “we’ll keep it out there until it grows up a bit, and then we kick her out“!!

… To days have passed (today), when I came from school I was searching for it between the bushes but, I couldn’t find it. I got in the house and asked, but they all don’t know where did it go! :: Major Sad-face:: -I liked it a bit- I went in the house into my room. Then realized that the mother was in our balcony/very small-yard relaxing, then she looked at me…

Da Mother

And then she ran away jumping over the wall. The good thing is that the mother is still here and alive, but WHERE IS THE BABY!!! I hope she knows where her baby is, cause otherwise, her baby is going to get hit by a car -the best thing some Kuwaitis do while driving a car-.

And by this, I have finished the whole story of the” rescue” and the other stuff (what other stuff?).

Anxious Nut