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isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/?p=400</guid> <description><![CDATA[Just wrote a simple web page to help me solve sudoku, hope it&#8217;s useful to others. I&#8217;m using YUI3 in it. Double click on a number to select it, double click again to unselect, right click to remove the number.  try it. alaaibrahim/Sudoku-Helper @ GitHub.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/sudoku-helper/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Ternary Computers</title><link>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/ternary-computers/</link> <comments>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/ternary-computers/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:37:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ala'a Ibrahim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Free Software & Open Source]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Setun]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ternary]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tryte]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/?p=368</guid> <description><![CDATA[If you have been following me on twitter, you would notice that I came interested in this topic very recently. Well, it started as we were discussing performance, and Moore&#8217;s law. So according to this law, computers will get more performance in the same size, until something around year 2025 or something, when it would [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/ternary-computers/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mp3 to Ogg converter</title><link>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/mp3-to-ogg-converter/</link> <comments>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/mp3-to-ogg-converter/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:53:04 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ala'a Ibrahim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Free Software & Open Source]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Ruby]]></category> <category><![CDATA[id3]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mp3]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mplayer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ogg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[vorbis]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/?p=339</guid> <description><![CDATA[For some time, I needed to convert a big number of files from mp3 to ogg format, as I didn&#8217;t see any loss of quality with the ogg format, also it need less space. The problem was that I want to keep my id3 tags, rewriting them would be a pain in the a**. I [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/mp3-to-ogg-converter/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gentoo Cache Mirror using apache and php</title><link>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/gentoo-cache-mirror-using-apache-and-php/</link> <comments>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/gentoo-cache-mirror-using-apache-and-php/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:40:25 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ala'a Ibrahim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Free Software & Open Source]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[apache]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cache]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gentoo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[mirror]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/?p=45</guid> <description><![CDATA[When you have more than one gentoo machine, a good thing to do to manimize the bandwidth usage, is to run some local mirrors, so that you would get the file only once, for all the machines. For the portage tree, you can easily see an implementation for it on http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml. But the problem comes [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/gentoo-cache-mirror-using-apache-and-php/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PHP5 CAPTCHA</title><link>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/php5-captcha/</link> <comments>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/php5-captcha/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:19:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ala'a Ibrahim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Free Software & Open Source]]></category> <category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Releases]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CAPTCHA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[php5]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://guru.alaa-ibrahim.com/2008/02/16/php5-captcha/</guid> <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written a small CAPTCHA library, in an OO style, and I love to share it with you http://alaaibrahim.github.com/php5captcha/]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/php5-captcha/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>How Much Do You Love Firefox</title><link>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/how-much-do-you-love-firefox/</link> <comments>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/how-much-do-you-love-firefox/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:21:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ala'a Ibrahim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Free Software & Open Source]]></category> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://alaa-ibrahim.com/guru/?p=10</guid> <description><![CDATA[Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business &#8212; in short, everywhere! The non-profit company Software Freedom International provides [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/happy-software-freedom-day/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Open You Windows To Freedom (ReactOS)</title><link>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/open-you-windows-to-freedom-reactos/</link> <comments>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/open-you-windows-to-freedom-reactos/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:29:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ala'a Ibrahim</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Free Software & Open Source]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://alaa-ibrahim.com/guru/?p=13</guid> <description><![CDATA[While surfing the Internet last night, I reached some sites talking about a free (as in freedom) clone of MS Windows called ReactOS, ReactOS is an effort to create a Free Software replacement for Microsoft Windows(TM) that is compatible with existing hardware and software! A good review for the product can be found on The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://blog.alaa-ibrahim.com/open-you-windows-to-freedom-reactos/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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