Thursday, January 31, 2008

Testing intera mail provider


Yesterday a main internet cable providing Egypt with internet sevice passing the Mediterranean   sea has been cut and I don't know how ,why and why untill now after more than 36 hours we still can't browse Google

I can't communicate with the external world even by an email

So I talked to the customer support of my ADSL provider and he told me that internal sites in Egypt are working 100% like http://www.masrawy.com/new/ , http://masrawy.yallakora.com/, that is nice. But what about Google it is to me like air and water

Only 25% of the users can access the internet 'External to Egypt' with 1% of its normal speed

Anyway I remembered that I has a email account with link.net @ http://wmail.link.net/, I never found any use for this account until this moment.

So I'm composing this email from http://wmail.link.net/ now.

I discovered that it is very useful to have a email provider established in your local country that you can use for emergency use

But it is the time for testing its performance

I composed a message @ 9:30 CLT to my yahoo, gmail, hotmail, gawab, link accounts and I found that the "to link" message reached at the moment and I didn't get any failure notifications from the other destinations and when the internet will be back I will know when the other destinations go the message

So what if I want to blog now , I can do with the blogger mail account mmmzeg.-----@blogger.com.

So I'm sending the message now and I can't browse the blogger to see is it reached or not?. it's now 9:45 CLT, 7:45 GMT let's see when it will reach

Thursday, January 24, 2008

OpenGL support on Linux Ubuntu

Graphics on Linux is almost exclusively implemented using the X windows system so you need to install X development packag using this command

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xorg-dev

Also you need the Mesa libraries, which implements GL as a software rasterizer
So use these set of commands

For basic GL library
sudo apt-get install --reinstall mesa-common-dev

For Glu Library
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libglu1-mesa-dev

For Glut Library
sudo apt-get install --reinstall libglut3-dev

Finally you need to run any appliaction from NeHe site


Monday, January 21, 2008

NetBeans IDE for C/C++ development over Linux

The NetBeans IDE is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. You get all the tools you need to create professional desktop, enterprise, web and mobile applications, in Java, C/C++ and even Ruby. The IDE runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris; it is easy to install and use straight out of the box.

For C/C++ support click this


To me until the Hello World! application is it totally suitable (Cute GUI, BreakPointing, Good Watcher) and the rest is coming.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

This post was sent to blogger by Gmail

mmmzeg.anyname@blogger.com is an email address that I used it to submit any post to this blog

Blogger map the email title to the post title and the message body to post content

Many reasons make me use this facility now, some are in my mind now and others will be added later

1- GMail composer is lighter,simpler,stabler than blog poster
2- Make one message send to many blogs at the same time
3- Blog poster make the post creation date is the time where you start editing so although I publish a post today it may not be the first post in the blog home due to old draft date. So it is better to store the post in GMail as draft then send to publish
4- You can use this facility to automate the posting from other content eg; your homopage
I remember my friend S.H. aka "El-7aramy" in Arabic, aka "The Thief" in English
He used this service to publish our company content over WordPress blogger by making a web service and making a loop sending emails to many precreated blogs.
We as a company thought that this will allow search engines to crawl our content from bloggers and to be top ranked in the search results.
But the after 3xx loop iterations WordPress marked his IP as a spamer and they banned it :D

Some missed facilities in this method
1-The privew button
2-HTML layout
3-Embedding a video or flash object. "I don't know why till today we can't embed a video in an email message"

Some weakness
1- Any one know this email address can post at your blog even if he isn't an author of the blog "I tested it by sending a post from my yahoo account"

This weakness can be a strengthen from other point of view:
Suppose we made a public blog and in the hello world post we published its email address so that all the globe can post on this blog and in this case it will be the global blog

Really I thought in some idea near that:
Many times I got FWD: ---- emails I discard them due to unsuitable time but some people has the hobby to FWD them to trash our mail accounts
So what about making a FWD blog and publish its email address at its home so all people love FDWind post on it, and all people love FWDs check this blog and I think that this blog will gather a lot of Ads in this case

2- Tracing a blog author will be more harder as instead of tracing the request of a single page of posting, You need to trace all the mail providers send messages to the blog

That is all until now.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

xvidcap : Video Screen Recording on Linux(Ubuntu)

xvidcap is a screen capture enabling you to capture videos off your desktop on Linux(Ubuntu) for illustration or documentation purposes.

You can find similar post here for similar tool on Window O/S

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