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Microsoft Surface Pro: one fatal flaw
Honestly I love to hate Microsoft but sometimes they come up with good stuff. And when you take Windows 8 aside the Surface Pro is an amazing piece of hardware. The Surface Pro which is not available in Egypt as of the time of writing this blog post manages to put a full ultrabook class…
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Adding Soy to your burger can save your life
When I was young I was indoctrinated is a concept that cheap bad burgers had “soya” added to them, and grew up thinking that 100% beef was the way to go. Now having passed 40 years, things change. Cholesterol and fat in burgers and other meats are one of the main causes of the yearly heart disease related deaths.…
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Reflections:What do I look like?
How would I look like if I saw myself for the first time? How do I look like if I see myself with your eyes and what would I think of my self if I had your mind? Am I the person I think I am? Would I be my friend if I had the…
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One liner Linux command to extract URLs from text files
I find my self needing to extract URLs from text files quite a lot and this is the easiest one liner linux command line magic that I got to extract urls from text files. cat filename | grep http | grep -shoP ‘http.*?[” >]’ > outfilename The first grep helps reduce cpu load. The second…
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Can the real PC ( Personal Computer ) please stand up.
When PCs where first introduced they where expensive and rather bulky and most of all hard to use. With time prices went down, software became easier and the PCs shrank. Now the definition of what a PC is has changed so radically that we need to rethink what is the PC. A PC does computing…
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شعرم
داري خيبتك يا شاطر تقول مخاصم و انت مش آدر هي المقطعه تحلي الا و الآنتخابات دخله فك كيسك و كلف علي حزبك اصرف سيبك من البخل ده غيرك صرف اد كده فلوس و سجن و صحه تمنين سنه مش حبه اوم ربنا يهديك ورينا شطرتك في الصناديق ايهاب هيكل
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Office for windows RT: Is it really office.
Windows RT is Microsoft’s stab at gaining market share from Apple’s Ipad but as with Microsoft always they miss a chance. The real power of Microsoft is with office, and once again they screw it up. See a tablet that can run a full version of office could rule all other tablets. And Microsoft say…
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Choosing the perfect Ultrabook
Now some perspective here, a normal computer user will be happy with mostly any ultrabook. Their performance is good and they are very very light. A normal user should look for the following weight, sturdiness, and speed. The variation in weight between ultrabooks is huge, see there is a big difference between a 1.1 KG…
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Biased Humans.
Everybody is biased, that is life. Some people will sacrifice truth, decency, faith and honor to further their biases. Some people will share before they read, some will read but not verify. Some will verify before sharing but their verification is biased. Some will write in a news paper column, some will reply to posts,…
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Getting Tp-Link MR3020 to work with Etisalat USB modem e173 in Egypt
The TP-Link is a very handy and small portable wireless N router/Access point that can be used to add wireless to your existing network or act as a router when a USB 3G/4G stick is attached to it. Alas making it work with Etisalat current USB stick which is the e173 from Huwawie is not…
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