IT & computers

I got Debian almost a month ago from Yaman. I've been tryting to insall it since then, I spent almost one hour every week, hehe!

The problem was updating the kernel, it really killed me. Then I found this page Debian Kernel 2.6 How To which also Isam recommended it. I managed to get it up and running at last. Now all I need to do when I have sometime is to configure the Video card & Audio.

I hope I'll have more time in the coming days so that I could get used to Debian. I have not fully migrated to Linux. Simply because Dreamweaver doesn't run on Linux natively. But Macromedia are planning to port it sometime soon .

As I have been recently working with more clients from the US, it's becoming harder to communicate. I decided to do a trick to get myself a US phone number.

As I have been recently involved in delevering sophisticated communication solutions utalizing Voice Over IP, I managed to do the following in order to get the service.

I got a server to be placed in the states, and installed some FXO cards.

Connected that server to a PBX that "listens" to my fixed line US number

Whenever somebody calls me, I get the server to transfer the call using SIP protocol to my computer at home

Simple isn't it whenever somebody rings the phone in the states, I can answer them in Jordan. And they probably think I live in DC.

Now what I'm looking for is a hardware "IP/SIP Phone" And a really long range normal cordless phone. I got some Telephony cards at home, So basicly I can route that incoming call to that long range phone. I'd have a roaming US number!

Good news is that this service will be offered very soon to customers in the middle east by IPFloat. Contact me if you need more info

While I was browsing Egypt LUG, I came across the first arabic Linux ad. You can check it out yourself.

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I came across Sage a couple of days ago. It really made a big difference on how I browse the Internet.


Sage is a Firefox plugin. Check the installation page. I wrote earlier about RSS news feed reader. But this one, is much more advanced and really nicer.

When I like a website I add it to the bookmarks, When I really like it, I add it to the list of news feeds I read everyday. Then you end up with a big list of sites that you want to read from. Here's how Sage helps.

First, there's a Search for feed button, when clicked; it'll automatically discover what feeds are available on the site.


Second, you don't need to go over the feeds clicking everyone discovring if they added a new article( blog, news..etc). You click on "Check Feeds" And it'll mark those feeds that have been updated with a red star!.

As Browse Happy suggests, The first rule to browse the Internet happily is to get rid of Internet Explorer. Because IE can make your browsing experience unsafe. Next thing to do, switch to a better(safe) browser. You can also read stories of people who dumped IE to a better broswer.

I would like to know what you are using? You can leave a comment

Isam Bayazidi created Jordan Planet. A Planet is a group of bloggers having thier blogs posted all together. What happens is that planet reads 'RSS' feeds of all those bloggers and puts them in a single page. Planet is open source and freely downloadable, written in Pyhton.

Jordan Planet so far has 5 bloggers. We'd love to have more quality blogs on our small planet . We're also looking for a logo.

I think this is the next big thing after wiki in building communities!