Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, while waiting for an answer an #fedora for the question of where the custom spellcheck files for hunspell, the unified spellchecking engine for Fedora 9 and upwards, reside, I discovered that they are stored in .config/enchant, which isn’t very intuitive, but makes sense after discovering that enchant is related to the…
Year: 2008
Unmatched search folder in Evolution
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, I’ve (finally!) installed Fedora 10 on my laptop, but it’s not been without its bumps. I cannot blame this on Fedora 10 nor the anything else related to the release. But, in the end, I don’t have a DVD to install from, only the LiveCD (which I booted from my SD…
Arundhati Roy: Mumbai was not India’s 9/11
Arundhati Roy, in an article for the Guardian out of the United Kingdom, has written a deep, insightful, and thought-provoking article analyzing the circumstances and the context surrounding the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai. For a non-Indian like me, most of what she writes is very fresh & new, revealing currents in the Subcontinental social…
WordPress 2.7 released!
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, WordPress 2.7 has been released! Hit the link for all the releasy goodness. I’ve upgraded my personal blog, and I’ll take care of the rest in due time, in shaaʾ Allaah. Upgrading with SVN is always recommended. Happy blogging!
Fedora 10 released
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, Fedora 10 has been released! Torrents are available. I have all of my servers seeding now (including the newest one). Read up on the new features to find out what’s new. Well, what are you waiting for? Just go download it already! If you don’t want to use the torrent (although…
rTorrent let me down :(
For seeding the Fedora 10 release, I am using rTorrent on albaqarah & aalimraan (my two fastest servers), but I had to fall back to using the standard bittorrent client on alfaatihah because rTorrent isn’t available for its platform (RHEL3) – at least, not through yum nor up2date. rTorrent is great, in general, but it…
Blog almost certainly 100% compliant now
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, after loading up all blog-post pages (i.e., going to the bottom of each page and clicking for the next page), I’ve fixed all old posts that had HTML errors (according to the HTML Validator Firefox plugin). This actually is a relief for me because amongst the major reasons I enjoy using…
New server for Audio Islam
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, following a recommendation from a close friend, I decided to start leasing a server from 10TB.com for Audio Islam. As the name implies, they are big on bandwidth, which is exactly what Audio Islam needs. Needless to say, I’m thrilled at having a new beefy server to play with and to…
Blogging with BloGTK
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem So now I’m trying with BloGTK. Review points: Good Has a GUI for text alignment Supports category selection for post (but see below) Not so good Does not support WordPress natively Does not support multiple categories per post No HTML highlighting in posts No inline spell-checking So, between Drivel & BloGTK, Drivel…
Trying out drivel
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem I’m trying out Drivel, which is a blogging client that comes with Fedora. Due to the recent lack of updates to my blog while I’ve been abroad, I’ve realized that I need an easier way to get some of the quicker updates posted more easily. So, we’ll try out some of these…
Alexandria one month in
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, we’ve had some good times this past month here in Alexandria. The weather has been outstanding – the only other times I’ve been here I remember the weather being far warmer on the border of being uncomfortable. This time we’ve hardly had a day that didn’t feel cool and fresh, alhamdulillaah.
From the South China to the Mediterranean Sea
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, my wife & I arrived safely in Alexandria, Egypt this past Friday to the welcoming arms of my parents, whom I haven’t seen since I left the US back in June. If you’ll recall, I originally departed on this journey because I could not bring my wife to the US yet,…
Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, though I am woefully behind in catching-up on my Planet Fedora feed, I do sometimes uncover gems in these old posts. One such post includes a link to a TED talk by Ken Robinson, “Do schools kill creativity?“. I found the video to be both enlightening as well as entertaining, as he…
Close Encounters of the Blurred Kind
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem While riding (on a scooter) to a nearby masjid with one of my brothers-in-law, I felt something flew straight into my eye despite the fact that I was wearing my glasses at the time. I was unable to flush it out while on the bike, and I thought that, like most eye…
APOD: 2008 September 20 – A Darkened Sky
APOD: 2008 September 20 – A Darkened Sky. If this isn’t one of the most amazing pictures you’ve ever seen, I really would like to know what you’ve been looking at…
Freedom is for the people
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem michael.dehaan (his spelling, not mine!) posted something that you can take or leave (I don’t want to start a flame war on my own blog): michaeldehaan.net | Popularity Contests Are So Junior High School. But what is intriguing are the ideas that develop in the comments. Please take some time and read…
Naïve integer primality calculator in PHP
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, while reading about integers and, subsequently, prime numbers last night, I decided the time had come for me to write a primality calculator in PHP. The test I use in my implementation is about as a naïve as one can possible get, but it was fun, nonetheless. Interestingly enough, I discovered…
Kuala Terengganu beach & “island”
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, I was able to take some pictures on the beach near our home here in Kuala Terengganu (KT).
Audio Islam now running on lighttpd
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, I’ve been able to make some major- and sorely-needed-upgrades to Audio Islam. Interestingly enough, for the vast majority of people, these changes won’t really be that visible as they are all behind-the scenes.
Back home in Kuala Terengganu
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem Alhamdulillaah, I’ve returned “home” to Kuala Terengganu (KT), which is my wife’s hometown, and I’ve taken it to be my home-away-from home. It’s a beautiful place, especially because we actually live in a kampung, or village, not to far away from the main part of KT. Additionally, compared to Kuala Lumpur (KL),…