Too Cool for Internet Explorer


Swobodin's Profile | Swobodin's Blog | Back to Fedora Tunisia

Archive for January, 2006

Another Freedom concept

Monday, January 30th, 2006

In human freedom in the philosophical sense I am definitely a disbeliever. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauer’s saying, that “a man can do as he will, but not will as he will,” has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a […]

Solzhenitsyn at the grocer

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Once I went to the gocer and he gave me the spice into a paper, written in French.
Curiously, I opened the paper and found out it’s a page of the book “Cancer Ward”, whose the author is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
For the information, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn is a Russian novelist born in 1918, a war decorated […]

Mediterráneo

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Quizá porque mi niñez
sigue jugando en tu playa,
y escondido tras las cañas
duerme mi primer amor,
llevo tu luz y tu olor
por donde quiera que vaya,
y amontonado en tu arena
guardo amor, juegos y penas.
 
Yo,
que en la piel tengo el sabor
amargo del llanto eterno,
que han vertido en ti cien pueblos
de Algeciras a Estambul,
para que pintes de azul
sus […]

HOWTO Encourage Women in Linux

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Intertesting How To written by a woman, Val Henson.
I have read the document carefully and I try to follow the instructions; however, I could convince no woman or girl of my friends to totally switch to GNU/Linux.
You may tell me that even men often feel discouraged, but I keeptrying
Did anyone do an exploit?

Art of breaking

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Abba Eban, one of Israel’s founding fathers (…) described the exchange he had with the Soviet ambassador to Israel just after the Six-Day War. The ambassador said that because of the serious policy differences between them, the USSR had decided to break ties with Israel. Eban replied that, on the contrary, those differences should […]

Getting rid of spam comments

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Porn, viagra, casino, and some words I don’t understand… I got more than 70 within a week! Fortunately, the WordPress keywords filter removed most of them, but it’s not enough, since the database size strangely increased. I am using a new method: denying spam robots with .htaccess file.
According to the WordPress site, you should […]

Destroying the Sicilian Dragon!

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

Here’s a nice match I played at the Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) with an unknown player. Opening: Sicilian Defence, Dragon variant.
[Event “ICS Unrated Chess Match”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2006.01.23″]
[Round “?”]
[White “Swobodin”]
[Black “GuestJQVB”]
[TimeControl “180+15″]
[Result “1-0″]
 
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Be3 g6 7. f3 Bg7 8. […]

De l’art de tolérer

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Des dieux que nous servons, connais la différence :
Les tiens t’ont commandé le meurtre et la vengence.
Et le mien, quand ton bras vient de m’assassiner
M’ordonne de te plaindre, et de te pardonner.
Voltaire

Cool Gnome Screenshot

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

TuNiSiaNo sent me some screenshot of his Fedora box, PPC architecture and Gnome environment. I liked the one above. Under the Firefox Logo it’s written:
Join the millions of people worldwide around the new crusade

The Guardian: 12 million workers have reading age of children

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

 
Up to 16 million adults - nearly half the workforce - are holding down jobs despite having the reading and writing skills expected of children leaving primary school, a new report reveals today.
(…)
The report highlights poor quality of provision and teaching as a major reason for lack of progress. “The quality of provision for […]

Requiem for my dawn

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Download PDF version
رثاء فجري

يا أيها الغاب المنمق بالأشعة والورود
يا أيها النور النقي وأيها الفجر البعيد
أين اختفيت وما الذي أقصاك عن هذا الوجود
آه لقد كانت حياتي فيك حالمة تميد
بين الخمائل والجداول والترنم والنشيد
تصغي لنجواك الجميلة وهي أغنية الخلود
وتعيش في كون من الغفلات فتان سعيد
آه لقد غنى الصباح فدمدم الليل العتيد
وتألق النجم الوضيء فأعتم الغيم الركود
ومضى […]

George Bernard Shaw’s quotes

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he cannot be believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
 
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between.
 
I don’t believe in morality, I’m a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
 
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your […]

Hrlyburly

Saturday, January 21st, 2006

Hollywood is not as fair and as clean as it can seem to be! Corruption, hypocrisy, drugs, money and unfaithfulness are well described in Hurlyburly.
There’s no really an interesting story, only the dialog is meaningful… The movie is about some friends who are movers and shakers, confessing and acting, focuses on their lives, […]

Совет

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Поверь: когда слепней и комаров
Вокруг тебя летает рой журнальный,
Не рассуждай, не трать учтивых слов,
Не возражай на писк и шум нахальный:
Ни логикой, ни вкусом, милый друг,
Никак нельзя смирить их род упрямый.
Сердиться грех - но замахнись и вдруг
Прихлопни их проворной эпиграмой.
Александр Пушкин
 
Translation (Thanks Aygul!)
 
Believe: when flies and mosquitoes
around you fly in crowd everyday,
dont think, dont waste […]

Une question olympique

Friday, January 20th, 2006

- Pourquoi les Tunisiens n’ont-ils pas obtenu de médailles dans les jeux olympiques d’Athènes 2004 ?
- Parce que ceux qui savent courir, nager ou sauter sont déjà en Italie !


Top Tunisie Blogs