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Alhamdulillaah, Fedora 10 has been released! Torrents are available. I have all of my servers seeding now (including the newest one). Read up on the new features to find out what’s new.
Well, what are you waiting for? Just go download it already!
If you don’t want to use the torrent (although you should), then [...]
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Fedora 10 released
rTorrent let me down :(
For seeding the Fedora 10 release, I am using rTorrent on albaqarah & aalimraan (my two fastest servers), but I had to fall back to using the standard bittorrent client on alfaatihah because rTorrent isn’t available for its platform (RHEL3) – at least, not through yum nor up2date. rTorrent is great, in general, but it [...]
Blog almost certainly 100% compliant now
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Alhamdulillaah, after loading up all blog-post pages (i.e., going to the bottom of each page and clicking for the next page), I’ve fixed all old posts that had HTML errors (according to the HTML Validator Firefox plugin).
This actually is a relief for me because amongst the major reasons I enjoy using WordPress is [...]
New server for Audio Islam
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Alhamdulillaah, following a recommendation from a close friend, I decided to start leasing a server from 10TB.com for Audio Islam. As the name implies, they are big on bandwidth, which is exactly what Audio Islam needs. Needless to say, I’m thrilled at having a new beefy server to play with and to meet [...]
Blogging with BloGTK
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So now I’m trying with BloGTK.
Review points:
Good
Has a GUI for text alignment
Supports category selection for post (but see below)
Not so good
Does not support WordPress natively
Does not support multiple categories per post
No HTML highlighting in posts
No inline spell-checking
So, between Drivel & BloGTK, Drivel edges out to the first, but it is still far from [...]
Trying out drivel
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I’m trying out Drivel, which is a blogging client that comes with Fedora. Due to the recent lack of updates to my blog while I’ve been abroad, I’ve realized that I need an easier way to get some of the quicker updates posted more easily. So, we’ll try out some of [...]
Freedom is for the people
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michael.dehaan (his spelling, not mine!) posted something that you can take or leave (I don’t want to start a flame war on my own blog):
michaeldehaan.net | Popularity Contests Are So Junior High School.
But what is intriguing are the ideas that develop in the comments. Please take some time and read those first, and [...]
Naïve integer primality calculator in PHP
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Alhamdulillaah, while reading about integers and, subsequently, prime numbers last night, I decided the time had come for me to write a primality calculator in PHP. The test I use in my implementation is about as a naïve as one can possible get, but it was fun, nonetheless.
Interestingly enough, I discovered that there [...]
Kuala Terengganu beach & “island”
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Alhamdulillaah, I was able to take some pictures on the beach near our home here in Kuala Terengganu (KT).
Audio Islam now running on lighttpd
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Alhamdulillaah, I’ve been able to make some major- and sorely-needed-upgrades to Audio Islam. Interestingly enough, for the vast majority of people, these changes won’t really be that visible as they are all behind-the scenes.
Time Lapse Barrage
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Alhamdulillaah, I’ve been able to take an enormous amount of pictures during my stay here in Malaysia until now. And while the actual yield of shots with any value may be low, the sheer volume of photos means that I have plenty I would like to share.
The sheer amount of work to upload [...]
Nokia plans to buy Symbian, open OS
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Alhamdulillaah, I just caught the news that Nokia is planning to buy Symbian and subsequently plans to open-source Symbian OS last this year or at the beginning of this year. If this all plays out and is true, then this is a great boon to world as a high-quality mobile operating system will [...]
More time-lapse fun
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Okay, so I have an addiction. Here are some more time-lapse sequences I took this past weekend and Monday. I’m now dabbling with alternative frame rates and sizes, including, by “popular” request, HD resolution videos.
I’ve learned a few lessons from these sequences, and I’ll elaborate a bit more on each one.
ffmpeg from svn
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Alhamdulillaah, I have really been engrossed in using ffmpeg, one of the most amazing a/v command-line tools out there, for my various personal video projects. However, recently I was experiencing a recurring bug where I could not work with some specific codecs when either the input or the output file was on a [...]
Time-lapse photography with CHDK
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As I’ve already alluded to in a previous post, I’ve been using the CHDK firmware supplement with my Canon PowerShot A550, which on it’s own is an outstanding camera, alhamdulillaah. This firmware add-on, though, really takes the cake!
One of the features made possible by CHDK is the ability to run scripts which [...]
CHDK – Unleash the POWER in your PowerShot
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Alhamdulillaah, I’ve been playing around with CHDK, which is a free firmware add-on (note: it does not require flashing your camera’s firmware) that enables a multitude of features on your ordinary, run-of-the-mill Canon PowerShot digital camera. In short, it’s amazing. I haven’t had enough time to truly “unleash the POWER” yet, [...]
Fedora 9 seeding stats
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Alhamdulillaah, I’m about to head out from work, and I’m going to have to disconnect my torrent seeds that have been running all day – at least until I get home, in shaaʾ Allaah. Here are the graphical bandwidth charts showing the stats of the seeds from all day.
Fedora 9 is gold!
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Alhamdulillaah, Fedora 9 is officially released! At least, the official torrents are available. The main site doesn’t seem to be updated yet, but then again, it’s not 10 AM, either. I’m grabbing the x86_64 DVD build on one server and the i386 on the other, so I hope to be [...]
Fedora 9 – Why it’s so awesome
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Okay, I know that title is a pretty pretentious statement by itself, as much of Fedora 9’s awesomeness isn’t unique to it. So, I’ll grant that much of the coming awesomeness is related to Gnome 2.22, which is not limited to Fedora 9, nor is Pulseaudio, Upstart (props to the Ubuntuees for [...]
Syndication
Note to self: If I want my blog posts to show up in an aggregator, make sure to give the admin the right link first…
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