Ala’a Ibrahim

For a long time, I had two blogs, Gurus Place, and this one, as I used to separate the technical from the other stuff, the problem was that, sometimes it was a little bit hard to differentiate between, technical, and non-technical posts.
So I moved Gurus Place here, and did the 301 redirect here

A Dream that can be made true, with everybody’s help

Also you can read more details in the pdf http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/DesigningtheFuture.pdf

The Venus Project

The IT Crowd is one of my favorite shows, it became like an addiction to me, I can never get enough of it.
This is episode 1 from the first season, you can watch it, it’s on google-video.

Now, it seams that the “Are you from the past?” thing, is faced a lot in the IT world, it’s like either we are from another planet, or we live in a world, where idiots are main population occupying it.
We speak in simple matters, like turn on your computer, but people find it hard to understand.

People refuse to think for a second of what the error message told them, or worse, they refuse to read the error message, but they have an amazing skill of attracting viruses, worms and Trojans. It’s really amazing.

And do you know what the problem is? a lot of these people work in the IT industry, and other people might know them as Computer Experts.

Now the issue is always, how to communicate with them, of course telling them that they are stupid, is rude. But guess what is also rude, telling them to try to learn, or use google, or read the G** D*** F***** Message.
And believe me, they would never learn.

So what do you think? Anybody has any ideas?

What I’m presenting here is an example for Unit tests making us change the design to make a better design for our application. Continue reading

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.
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This post just a reminder for me, as every time I need it, I look through the manual for options, to send a file through FTP using the command curl

I just keep forgetting it, hope it would help someone else

Well, yes, sometimes I don’t act in the best way I can, but sometimes I think people don’t know what does the term Professional means. Well, almost everyday I get a call from someone, who has a job for me, either a free lance or a position in some company (and I don’t know where the hell do they get my phone number, is it published somewhere I don’t know about), and I make it very clear that I’m not interested, and of course if I didn’t answer, they try again and again and again. Usually these phone calls ends with a request that if I know someone who is interested to let them know, and actually I do that. One of these guys, had a project, and I made it very clear that I’m not interested, but he kept bugging me trying to convince me, and of course he made that request, and actually I gave his contact to another 2 guys. He kept calling me asking about contacts and stuff, and for almost 2 weeks, I kept ignoring him, until today, he left me a message on my voicemail, telling me how much unprofessional I am for not returning his calls and ignoring him. Well I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong, but isn’t it your job to look for the people you want, aren’t you the one who is in need for them, not me, and do you think you “Mr. Professional” that it’s professional to let people who made it clear to that they are not interested, by wasting their time trying to make them do your job. I don’t know, but what does this sentence means, “I AM NOT INTERESTED”, cause if it means any other thing than it sounds, maybe I should change it, use another wording or something.

Well, at the end of a nice playing of 3 bands, the judges voted Salam to be the winner of the Jordanian Band competition, So I would just like to say congratulations to Salam, and his band.

if you want to listen to Salams wor, you’ll find some here http://www.facebook.com/pages/SALAM/7372706178

Shoo Hal Ayam will be playing live on Radio Al Balad 92.4 with Yousef Ghishan talking sarcastic sketches about poverty corruption,…, and the raise of prices.
you can also listen to the show on
www.ammannet.net

شوهالآيام سوف تقدم عرضا على راديو البلد٩٢.٤ مع يوسف غيشان، يتخلل العرض سكيتشات ساخرة عن غلاء الأسعار والفساد. يمكن الإستماع للعرض على الموقع الآتي

www.ammannet.net

if the site didn’t work with you, you can open the direct streaming url to your audio player (http://wma.str3am.com/ammannet)

Saturday 1st, March @ 20:00 (18:00 GMT).

Enjoy.