Computers.net: YouTube Stats Revealed, Total Viewing Time: 9,305 Years!:
The total time spent watching YouTube videos since it started last year is 9,305 years!
Wow! Humanity lost 9305 years of productivity in one year!!
ok, let’s youtube some more…. This video shows what is possible when you use touchscreen + XGL on linux.
I just added adsense ads to this blog, what’s funny is that most of the ads are related to the other osama, they are mostly about planes and buildings. How can I tell google adsense that my name is irrelevant to ads? it’s in the domain name and titles.
I don’t want to change the domain name and/or title so maybe i’ll have to live with this, and maybe after a few days google’s algorithm will see that this is unrelated to 911.
My cell phone was stolen last Friday. I had it disconnected and arranged to get a replacement. It had been set up with the excellent service from ShoZu to automatically upload all pictures taken with the phone to Flickr. So today, completely surprisingly, I find pictures on my Flickr account of the family of the person who took the phone.
This is the funny side of technology… what if you were ben, would you stop your phone service, or keep enjoying the pics?
A Gizmodo reader sent this screen shot in of task manager running on a server he built for work. It runs 4 processors, that have 2 cores each, with each of those cores hyperthreaded. So…That shows up in Windows as 16 procs.
I was talking on the phone when I noticed that the screen on my imate jamin was shattered, with liquid crystal oozing out when pressed…. I was crushed….
I had so many problems with this phone…
I just went out today and bought a Nokia N70, a 3G phone.
Most operating systems support the notion of time zones, this allows a computers that communicates with eachother from different countries to have a shared notion of time.
I like the way Linux deals with timezones, it allows me to choose Asia/Qatar, this is very different from Microsoft Windows.
In older versions of Windows my timezone (GMT+3) had two choices Moscow, Baghdad/Kuwait/Riyadh, since we were living in neither of those cities, It felt awkward to explain to a computer user why his timezone is not set to the correct City/Country.
Windows XP made it worse, they offer 3 choices, all they did is move Baghdad away from Kuwait/Riyadh after the Gulf War… But there are Many Countries in GMT+3.
I wonder how the Macintosh deals with this, and who knows what Microsoft will do in Vista, will they split Kuwait/Riyadh into different timezones….
Naming a company is one of the most difficult taks ever,
People in Qatar take the easy route, it’s mostly a cultural issue, the Arabic language is so descriptive, that having an abstract name is almost never a choice.
Most company names have the following structure “Country/Place/Nationality Company for Something and Something“, for example (these are out of my head, if this is your company name, consider it free advertising, or contact me to remove it):
Some try to escape the pattern, but most don’t… by the way… most their logos are the first letter enclosed in a circle.
Igor’s Naming Guide is one of the best guides to naming companies (and products/services), these company names break all the “rules”.
I just finished Installing Ubuntu on my Linux Box, this post and the unicode one were written in ubuntu.
What I like so far:
What I don’t like
Here’s an interview with ubuntu’s founder, marck Shuttleworth:
When you develop a mono-lingual application are you using unicode/utf8???
I find it really unneccessary (even though many people would disagree), to use Unicode in an Arabic-only application or web app, I really recommend using the standard encoding of arabic text (about 99% of the worldwide arabic electronic text is encoded in windows-1256). I really would have preferred to use iso8859-6 but nobody uses it.
I only see utf8/unicode as an option if you need to mix many languages in the same string or database column.
Here’s the comparison for arabic text:
| Feature | UTF-8 | Win-1256 |
|---|---|---|
| Size of a character | VariableMostly 2 bytes, except for numbers, english text, spaces, and special characters (i.e. normal ascii text) that use 1 byte | 1 byte |
| Finding a character by byte counting/shifting | impossible | easy |
| Number of Languages in the same string or database column | infinite | 2 (Arabic and English) |
| Handling Strings | special | normal |