Zein’s place on the net

I was just reading slashdot and I found this comment. I found it so funny I thought to share it
MCSE (Minesweeper Consultants, Solitaire Experts).

I am writing this post from SC07 in Reno NV, USA. I am presenting a poster titled The Sony PlayStation 3 and the NVIDIA 8800 GPU: Performance and Programmability Evaluation for Machine Learning. Big title, huh?
I am really happy to be here. This is my first conference and so far I am impressed. Yesterday I [...]

Email has always been a problem for me. Using web interfaces is a pain. Even the new JavaScript, single-page apps nowadays are bloated and slow. You can’t compare them to evolution, thunderbird or even outlook Most Email Service Providers (ESPs) do provide POP3, but POP3 doesn’t support folders and is not a good [...]

كل عام و أنتم بخير

Happy Eid

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

It is that time of the year again let’s hope we do better this year.
Ramadan Kareem, everybody.

Last week one of hard disks in our cluster failed. all of a sudden it was not detectable by the BIOS and it emits loud clicking noises. It had 3 Xen guests running on it and as they were work in progress I stupidly did not back them up! One of the guests was the [...]

Ahhh, at last I have moved out of Fenner Hall. No more wiping yellow splotches off the toilet seats for me. No more camping outside the laundry room just to get a chance at using the washing machine. I am my own man now

Sometimes I accidentally add a misspelled word to the dictionary in Firefox. While trying to undo this, I found that the only way to do it is manually as per this post.

OK folks, the sunray uses ESD and I have mplayer and vlc working. I have not yet discovered how to get the mic working.
I know the mic is working because this works but I have to kill esd first.

cat $AUDIODEV > /tmp/file #(speak into the mic and press ctrl-c when you finish)
cat /tmp/file > $AUDIODEV