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The Story of XBill

Jad — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:10:44 +0000

Hilarious game that is available in universe/games, I found about it while reading the Ubuntu Certified Professional manual, actually first I thought by xbill package they are referring to personal billing management package that runs under X but hey! it’s a fantastic game that managed to draw my attention from studying into playing and making HIGH scores.

Yet again, the fate of the world rests in your hands! An evil computer hacker, known only by his handle Bill, has created the ultimate c omputer viruts. A virus so powerful that it has the power to transmute an ordinary computer into a toaster oven. (oooh!) Bill has cloned himself into a billion-jillion micro-Bills. Their sole purpose is to deliver the nefarious virus, which has been cleverly diguised as a popular operating system.

As System Administrator/Extreminator, your job is to keep Bill from succeeding at his task

This game is fun and reminds me of Ubuntu Bug #1, argh!! (or shall I say xargs ? ) back to the manual…

Tags: nefarious virus, popular operating system, fate of the world, personal billing, hilarious game, computer hacker, toaster , ven, , evil computer, jillion , billing management, computer, management package, high scores, sole purpose, system administrator, universe, job, games

Ogio Metro VS Ogio Messenger Ubuntu Bags

Jad — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:10:33 +0000

I’m hunting for a new laptop bag and to be honest my current bag is ok but I want something associated with Ubuntu.

Canonical Shop has two nice bags but I’m still not sure which one to go with

Both seems to be good and I’m not sure which one to pick, I wonder if anyone have any of them and can give feedback about the quality and feel.

On the other side of the news, Why Canonical Shop is so expensive ? is it because it’s a UK based? if so how about shifting into to Canada.

Tags: laptop, bag, ubuntu, canonical, shop, store, purchase, merchandise

Web Standards: Some links for light reading

Jad — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:59:07 +0000

Every Saturday I will posting some links from Web Standards Planet for two reasons, the first is sharing good links and to waken up my Web Standards passion.

More interesting reads on Web Standards related topics can be found on Web Standards Planet

Tags: jeffrey zeldman, accessibility features, web accessibility, html reference, umn edu, personal site, web standards, accessibility, usability

Life is never ending installation festivals & Confrences

Jad — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:50:58 +0000

Allow me to repeat myself here, Life is never ending installation festivals & conferences at least when it’s about your freedom Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team will be at the Open Source Day Organized by Jordan University of Science and Technology.

This event we will be packed with our new member Advocate Omar Eltaweel who will be giving a 60 minutes presentation about Legalizing your IT infrastructure and Of course Mr Khamis Seksek who will be speaking about Linux as an investment.

No speaker slot for the poor me this time but I will be handling the Installation festival, hopefully we will be able to distribute more than 200 CD although the estimate number of visitors goes beyond 5,000, we are still hunting for a sponsor if you think you can sponsor us please leave a comment as we are in big need for more CDs

Tags: Ubuntu, Jordan, LoCo Team, Jordan University, Science and Technology, Installation festival, speakers, conference, legalizing IT infrastructure, advocate, investment

Ubuntu Jordan LoCo: FLOSS Introduction - Princess Sumaya University of Technology

Jad — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:12:26 +0000

Amman, April 9th-10th 2008 -Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team.
As part of Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team continuous efforts to spread awareness about GNU/Linux in the Kingdom, the team organized a public event at Pricess Sumaya University for Technology in Cooperation with The King Hussein School for Information Technology. Mr. Jad Madi & Khamis SekSik gave a two hours lecture Introducing FLOSS in the Jordanian way, as well as a brief background of FLOSS history.

In addition, the lecture included Mr.Seksik explaining some reasons to use FLOSS Jordan, as well as comparing selling service VS selling software, and comparing backward compatibility issues between FLOSS and other software.

Other issues discussed by like the ethical reasons to use FLOSS. The argument is that using proprietary software without paying for it equal theft and as such is unethical. In many ways, we highlighted title=”Ubuntu Jordan LoCo Team- March 2008 event”>again, choosing the right software is a very important decision because it affects time, effort, and money invested in this software.

Tags: continuous efforts, gnu linux, king hussein, amman, ubuntu loco, information technology , cooperation, jordan, linux