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LPI Candidates and Alumni:

In 2009, LPI will mark its 10th Anniversary as an organization serving Linux professionals. To recognize this milestone we will be undertaking a number of new initiatives–including as many of you already know the
launch of our LPIC-3 303 Security elective (February 1, 2009) and the new LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 exams (April 1, 2009).

We will also host a number of informative and educational webcasts. These webcasts will provide information on our certification program and even assist our candidates with exam preparation. On this initiative we will be working with BrightTalk (http://www.brighttalk.com) — a provider of online webcasting services.

We invite everyone to participate in our pilot summit on December 17, 2008. This pilot event will enable us to develop an audience profile which will assist BrightTalk to find sponsors for future such events in 2009. Please
register for these online presentations through our webpage at:

http://www.lpi.org/eng/about_lpi/upcoming_events/lpi_webcasts

We would also appreciate your feedback on these presentations, ideas for future webcasts, or even volunteers who might want to provide their own presentations!. Please contact us at info { a t } lpi [ d o t ] org should you have any questions in this regard.

Again we invite you all to attend our webcasts on December 17, 2008. Please register at:

http://www.lpi.org/eng/about_lpi/upcoming_events/lpi_webcasts

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and a prosperous and successful 2009!

Sincerely,
Scott Lamberton
Director of Communications
Linux Professional Institute

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Was sent by Abdelmonam Kouka of Ubuntu Muslim Edition to Ubuntu Arabic mailing list

Tags: Ubuntu, Muslim, Edition, Eid, postcard

1. I’m not sure why people queue to buy iPhone but not to buy Kindle and I’m not sure why Kindle cannot be sold or shipped to anyone outside U.S
2. Eagle eye is scary to be true
3. Berkeley classes podcasts are just amazing, are there any other university doing the same?
4. We are preparing for Ubuntu Week at Jordan University, special thanks to IEEE Jordan for the invitation
5. Ubuntu Podcast is getting better
6. There is no proven scientific way to run away from politics while in Middle East
7. Philosophy & Political books are the best
8. Finally we have 8MB ADSL in Jordan
9. Budgeting my budget to renew my ACM, PHP|Arch, PyMag and hoping for Economist subscription plus allocating $500 for books
10. I believe I’m back

Tags: jordan university, iphone, eagle eye, podcast, berkeley, philosophy, Ubuntu Week, IEEE, kindle, amazon, books, iphone

This is why I love Ubuntu and this is why I love the community behind it.

This is my first try with the logo and I think it’s the best I can give.

For more information check Consilience blog

Maybe later we can participate in world triathlon ?

Tags: Ubuntu, Cyclists, Group

After partially-converting to Ubuntu (I’m still dual booting) and fiddling with MS alternatives, one of the first things that got me frustrated was the lack of immediate native Arabic language support in the word processor or the spreadsheet applications under the OpenOffice.org suit. Granted, the latter recognizes Arabic characters and renders right-to-left documents and spreadsheets of existing files, but what about creating new ones?

Native support means that not only is the user able to type in Arabic, which is straight-forward, but also to be able to type from right-to-left for the characters alignments are in tune. (Example: try to type in the text editor of Gmail in Arabic, you will be able to type but if you place a full-stop or any other ASCII character, it will revert back to left-to-right and only the “arabic” portions of the entered text will be written from right-to-left).

If you take a look at the toolbar, you’ll find that part of the hidden icons that enables you to toggle from left-to-right and vice versa, but they’re disabled. Same goes to the spreadsheet application where under Format -> Sheet -> Right-to-Left which is also disabled. Along with the presentation utility.

What you need to do is from each application, you go to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages. From there make sure you enable CTL (Complex Text Language) by checking the box below, and then selecting one of the choices of Arabic in the middle section of the screen as shown in the screen capture.

Repeat action in each of the three applications.

Enjoy OpenOffice.org in Arabic…

Basem Aggad (http://dontcallmesheikh.blogspot.com)

Tags: arabic language support, spreadsheet applications, spreadsheet application, ascii character, hidden icons, arabic characters, gmail, basem, language settings, dual booting, text language, screen capture, word processor, alignments, spreadsheets, choices, blogspot, languages