tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147447412023-06-20T13:17:04.220Zfrom DZ to CAUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1163602706759794172006-11-15T14:57:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:44.053Z

Using Eclipse with BEA Workshop to edit JSP pages.

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1139439125482258182006-02-08T22:31:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.984Z

About a month ago, I received one of those emails: one that is part of a chain and which you are supposed to forward to all the people you know... The email was in Arabic and it talked about some cartoons published in a Danish newspaper. I deleted the email, as I usually do. I was intrigued nevertheless, so I decided to do some research. I was surprised to find that not only the story was true

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1138445237619924602006-01-28T10:42:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.918Z

Which Nigerian spammer are You?

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1135807303978216582005-12-28T20:43:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.854Z

Try to sell your furniture when you are physically in another country! I had to sell, in October and November, the heaviest stuff I left in France. Most of it went smoothly. Except once. This time someone tried to lower the price of the oven in a way I didn't expect. Let's enumerate the steps (the initial price of the oven on eBay is 100 Euros via the "Buy Now" option and the auction starts at 90

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1131292650385847252005-11-06T15:43:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.787Z

Yeah, I know, a little bit late ;-)Ramadhane was rather easy. Although far away from family and friends, and without its particular atmosphere, it was probably the easiest one since I left Algeria. I think it is essentially due to the time spent in transportations. In Paris, while the Ramadhane atmosphere is far more present than here, I used to spend almost 4 hours/day in transportation. Here,

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1130452482850457722005-10-27T20:34:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.718Z

It has been quite some time now since the last post. A lot happened during the last two months or so. First, the last few days in Paris were literally a nightmare: many things had to be done on the 3 or 4 days before departure, things that could not be done earlier and got accumulated. This resulted in some sleepless nights that was added to the large amount of mixed stress and excitement that

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1126024821459042302005-09-06T16:35:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.651Z

I'm writing this from the university's library! We arrived here last Friday afternoon. Everything went well: good trip, almost no jatlag... We are in the process of finding an appartment and this is my first day at the university here. The town is very small yet very beautiful ;-)More to come later...

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1125227295986481752005-08-28T10:30:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.583Z

So, this is where I'm going to start an MSc in Electrical Engineering. It's a small town: about 150 000 inhabitants and ~150 km south of Montreal, so it's going to be a real change from Paris :-) It has been now a while since I was in search of an "empty" place, close to nature where you can live peacefully and have a better Quality of Life. Living in a great city is really stressing. You have

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1124277978071617072005-08-17T11:23:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.518Z

We're leaving in about 2 weeks... There is still a lot to do with paperwork, selling the rest of the furniture and buying some new stuff (suitcases ;-)). I am not surprised of not regretting to leave this city. I remember planning to leave it the very first year we arrived here. Six years later, I'm looking forward to leave it as soon as possible. I mean, if you are a tourist then Paris is really

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1123166033002113552005-08-04T14:11:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.436Z

I suppose this is what happens when the people are poor, have identity issues, the economy is on crutches and the main way to change the totalitarian political regime has been - for decades - military coups, "democratic" elections or not.The last one, which failed, happened in 2003. The probability law made it that among many attempts, at least one had to succeed anyway. Now waiting for the next

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1123148974104857002005-08-04T08:28:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.360Z

Okay, not the house (we don't own it ;-)) but merely the furniture. But I've been thinking about this for weeks. How to get rid, in a very limited time, of the furniture you've accumulated during six years, when you are about to leave for a faraway country? There is always the solution of paying a transporter to move everything for you directly there. However, I was not very enthusiast to pay at

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1123006899311125542005-08-02T17:47:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.294Z

I sold today the PC I had for almost 5 years :-( The computer of my first Linux install (a Mandrake 7.2?) and a lot more.A Gateway Pentium III 800 MHz, but highly efficient all the same. During that period, I replaced the HD (after a painful crash and data loss), the DVD player, the DVD writer (initially a CD writer), the monitor, the keyboard (twice ;-)) and the mouse. I installed a TV tuner

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1122913851022758062005-08-01T16:30:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.222Z

If you happen to have a Hotmail account like me (you shouldn't, really), you already know how hard it is, not to say impossible, to view and/or send emails if you want to bypass your favorite browser or... Outlook, and rather use your favorite mail client, under Linux preferably. In this case, you may find Hotwayd very handy. It is a daemon (actually two of them: hotwayd and hotsmtpd) that you

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1122908850521777342005-08-01T14:20:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.150Z

I've been using KMail for around 18 long months now, although not intensively, and I have encountered bugs, crashes and such on many occasions. Yesterday, while I was moving my data from my PC to my laptop (in order to sell the former), I asked myself why not give Thunderbird a try? This happened while I was trying to figure out where the KMail developers managed to move this time the local mail

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1122608733033247282005-07-29T03:45:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.084Z

Maybe it will happen after all :-) With the help of Mohammed Elzubeir, I managed to implement gettext in the PHP code. Here's a screenshot as a proof of concept (there's actually only one translated string which is written in Latin characters...). Next thing to do is to wrap all the displayed texts within a gettext() call, create .po files then translate them. It will also be necessary to take

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1122517602763919342005-07-28T01:36:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:43.016Z

So, those fanatic idiots have killed the two Algerian diplomats, Ali Belaroussi and Azzedine Belkadi. May they both rest in peace.Those fanatic idiots decided that they are the last genuine Muslims on Earth and that you can only be with them or against them. Being with them means believing in their political and religious crap. Being against them means having no right to live. I think it's about

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1122488392277049602005-07-27T17:40:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:42.953Z

I finished reading today the first book of the Dark Tower series. I read many books by Stephen King and he kept promoting this series, with references to it in a way or another... In the books I read, this was in Insomnia, Hearts in Atlantis, and in a (good) novel in Everything's Eventual. And if I remember well, it was in Desperation too. So, I imagine I just fell into the trap.The author says

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1122245842996000732005-07-24T22:55:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:42.881Z

I had Yoda in mind before starting the survey... I was probably biased ;-) "A venerated sage with vast power and knowledge, you gently guide forces around you while serving as a champion of the light."

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1122229439766358052005-07-24T17:26:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:42.813Z

I wrote two scripts in order to put some life into the Arabeyes website, mainly in order to create and update RSS feeds with the latest CVS commits and the latest mailing lists posts. Those two feeds can then be displayed on the front page to give it a more interactive shape (and as I'm posting this, I'm asking myself why not do the same with the Planet? The feed is already there and all ;-)). As

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1122123102682629492005-07-23T11:36:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:42.744Z

On the 29th of July, Arabeyes will be 4 years old :-) As usual, the celebration party will be the occasion to talk about the project and to try to refine our future's plans. However, unlike the 2 latest parties, this one will be shorter and less pompous. It's even utterly astonishing that there'll be a party at all! If not for the efforts of Nadim Shaikli who, as usual, cared enough to plan it.I

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14744741.post-1122108373362043382005-07-23T08:45:00.000Z2006-11-15T14:56:42.661Z

It has been a long time since I was first tempted to create my own blog, mostly because of Planet Arabeyes :-) I finally decided to start it when I came only today morning across the front page of Blogger. Yup, you have already guessed, I'm not a very regular blogs reader, though I like to hop from blog to blog occasionally. In spite of that, I read the posts on Planet Arabeyes almost at a daily

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0