Archive for October, 2005
Monday, October 31st, 2005
Here are some interesting Vim macros you can put on your ~/.vimrc :
To make get an insensitive and “smart” search:
set ignorecase
set smartcase
C file template will be generated when you press F7 button:
map <F7> i#include <stdio.h><CR>int main(int argc, char *argv[])<CR>{<CR><CR>return 0;<CR>}<ESC>
Perl heder, when you press F8:
map <F8> i#!/usr/bin/perl -w<CR><Left><Del>use strict;<CR>use warnings;<CR>use POSIX<ESC;>
Python header, press […]
Posted in General, Perl, C, UNIX, Vim | No Comments »
Monday, October 31st, 2005
Yesterday, I went to the movie theater Le Mondial in Tunis to see the Raouf Ben Yaghlane’s one man show Nâabar walla ma nâabarshi (Shall I express or not).
I don’t generally talk about my daily activities, but the play was such amazing! It deals with Freedom of Speech, some of taboos (yes, just some) […]
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Theatre, Tunisia | 1 Comment »
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
Notre patrimoine menacé et condamné à la destruction et à l’oubli, en faveur de la “civilisation”. N’est ce pas de la barbarie ?
http://www.lapresse.tn/index.php?opt=15&categ=3&news=15821
Posted in General, French, Actualities, History, Culture, Arts, Architecture | No Comments »
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
Africa is a thing that could be bought by Microsoft.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/windows/0,39020396,39231004,00.htm
Posted in General, Free Software, Actualities, Culture | 1 Comment »
Saturday, October 29th, 2005
Más que la canción canatada por Pata Negra, me gusta mucho el poema escrito por el grande Federico García Lorca, poeta de la Libertad asesinado por el oscurantismo y el fascismo.
Lorca describe el sufrimiento y el dolor a través de los 3 rios de Granada: Guadalquivír, Dauro y Genil.
El río Guadalquivir
va entre naranjos y […]
Posted in Music, Spanish, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry | No Comments »
Friday, October 28th, 2005
Not using Windoze does not prevent me from using some non Free Softwares sometimes, as long as they are good, useful, and GNU/Linux compatible.
Skype is one of the those programs, for it’s reliable, secure and has many features, besides, it doesn’t use some strange ports, only 80 and 443. However, I could not run […]
Posted in GNU/Linux, Shell, Network, Web Server | No Comments »
Friday, October 28th, 2005
Mirabile Visu!!! When I saw the picture below for the first time, I have been admiring it for more than 15 minutes!
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Thursday, October 27th, 2005
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Posted in Firefox, OpenSource Softwares, Fun | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am looking for a honest man.
Diogenes the Cynic
The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call
this their point of view.
Albert Einstein
You see things; and you say “Why?”
But I dream things that never were; and I […]
Posted in Fun, Philosophy, Quotes | No Comments »
Monday, October 24th, 2005
As I have mentioned in a previous post, Bob Dylan’s song “Hurricane” perfectly describes the implication of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter in a crime where he has nothing to do, exactly like in the movie, which is, unfortunately, what really happened!
The song, very ironic, claims Rubin Carter’s innocence, but also denounces corruption and people who […]
Posted in Music | 2 Comments »
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
I have released a quick Perl script to parse an Apache log file and insert data into a SQLite database.
Click here to download the script.
Posted in Programming, Perl, Web Server, Apache, SQLite | No Comments »
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
ماذا عساي أقول في الذين يجلسون إلى مائدة الوجود ولا يضعون عليها رغيفا من خبز جهادهم؟ ماذا أقول في الذين يحصدون من حيث لا يزرعون. لاأستطيع أن أقول كلمة في هؤلاء، أكثر أو أقل مما أقول في النباتات والحشرات التي تستمد من عصير النبات و دماء الحيوان
جبران خليل جبران
Posted in Arabic, Literature, Philosophy, Quotes | No Comments »
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
The best Denzel Washington’s movie is incontestably “The Hurricane“.
The movie is about the true story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, an African-American boxer who spent the half of his life in prison, due to injustice and racism, committed by a corrupt sargeant, Della Pesca Paterson.
The movie well describes the sufference of Rubin Carter, and how […]
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Friday, October 21st, 2005
Encontré una página con varias palindromas; interesante es la combinación de las palabras para conseguir algo así:
La ruta nos aportó otro paso natural
Salta Lenin el atlas
damas, oid a Dios, amad
Ana lleva nenes al abad, al reconocerla, dábala Senén avellana
somos laicos, Adán, nada social somos
Haga click aquí para conseguir más
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Thursday, October 20th, 2005
Sometimes, you can find a very interesting web page, but the display is bad, especially for shining and incompatible colors, or very small fonts, …
EditCSS can fix this, but only for you: after installing the Firefox extension, right click anywhere in the page, and tick “Edit CSS” option; it will open a side bar with […]
Posted in Firefox, OpenSource Softwares, Firefox Extensions, W3C, CSS | No Comments »