OK, you are right that there was one case I did not know of. However, it is mainly spying, and not direct terrorism. This Ryan guy did not plan to blow up something in the USA.
But, you just proved my point: The link you provided says that are more than a 1,000 people arrested and charged. The number may be smaller, since some may overlap, but it is nice to inflate the numbers so they are more impressive for the governemnt.
Ashcroft claims that those are terrorism related, but these are 'arrests' and 'charges', very different from convictions. Even convictions are for immigration or fraud and not terrorism.
As for Bin Laden, his goal is not what you stated. His main goal is for the US to stop meddling in the Middle East, so he and the rulers there can duke it out themselves, and establish an Islamic state there. If the US does not do this, then yes, he wants to destroy it. He never said he wants to convert it. This kind of misconception is troubling. Know your enemy first.
The body count you mentioned is a red herring. Bin Laden can claim that 7,000+ in Afghanistan and 10,000+ (or 100,000) in Iraq make the numbers in his favor and justifies to some him killing more Americans in the future.
I am not saying that Bin Laden should be ignored, or he is no threat. Far from it. But making up fake cases of terrorism and arrests in the USA is not the way to stop him. In fact, it helps him. He acheived one objective of many, which is to sow fear and get overreaction and overspending by the USA.
This is too late in the discussion, but I just saw it a little while ago and Ashcroft strikes a nerve. So here goes.
Ashcroft reminds me of Ministers of Interiors in Third World dictatorships. He is a tool for the dictator and the regime, and not there for his main job, that is protect the people.
His argument that he did achieve his objectives in protecting America from crime and terror is much like the guy who sprayed pepper on his front lawn, to ward off elephants. When his neighbor told him there are no elephants here, he says : "See! It works!"
Not a single case in the past 3 years was prosecuted successfully as a terrorism case, with conviction. All of the high profile arrests where Aschroft made press conferences with huge pomp, touting them as major victories in the war on terrorism, are just for show. For example, the Lakawanna Six (Buffalo, NY) Yemeni-Americans all pleaded to lesser charges and were convicted. The case of the African American bunch in Oregon is similar. The same goes for the Holy Land Foundation in Texas, and other Muslim charity cases. Most cases that Ashcroft said to be terrorism end up getting convictions for immigration irregularities or ID fraud (SSN, Driver License, Food Stamps,...etc.). No terrorism at all, except the constant drumming up of fear in the masses, and no one remembers what happened to the poor souls who got caught and made examples of.
Of course, the Patriot Act, Secret Evidence, and the eroding civil liberties that goes with it, is exactly what is wrong, since terrorists have achieved an objective with these things.
There are other incidents that show his short comings as well, such as making a big deal of a statue with the bare breast, his fundamentalist view, him attacking Islam while in office, and more.
Someone should really make up a web site about Ashcroft Watch or something, lest people forget all this.
Well, his letter of resignation says "I believe that my energies and talents should be directed toward other challenging horizons." What does that mean? Is a Supreme Court Justice position waiting for him (despite the poster above who said that it has to be someone with judge qualifications)?
This is not to disparage Thunderbird or anything. Thunderbird is one of two mail user agents (MUA) I use regularly, the other being plain old mutt when I am connected to the home server using ssh.
The issue with Thunderbird is not functionality, but rather bloat. It takes up a lot of memory and is slow. Compared to for example, FireFox, on the same machine.
You say a 500 MHz machine. That is probably a P3, and hence would not have SATA. You did not say SCSI either. If you are trying to connect 8 drives to a standard PC you will run out of IDE ports. Most PCs come with only 2 ports, i.e. maximum of 4 drives.
But think about it for a bit: this fast C compiler turns the tables, and redefines what we know (paradigm shift anyone?). No longer will C be seen as a compiled language. One can think of it as a scripting language. A construct like this works with tcc:
I got it back in 1984. Learned BASIC on it, and played Jumping Jack and Blue Thunder. Soon realized it is limited without a random storage device. The microdrive (actually an endless tape device) was way too expensive at the time.
Even if it is 10 MP. If you have 5 MP and a crap lens with small aperture, little or no zoom, made of plastic, one or 2 elements, your pictures will still be crap.
A phone does not lend itself to a good 3X lens because of the bulkiness, complexity and cost of such a setup.
The only good news here is that the price of 5 MP CCDs is dropping to the extent that they made their way to phones.
Peter Forsskål was a Swedish scientist, who was part of the scientific expedition funded by Frederick V of Denmark. The expedition visited Arabia and the Red Sea in the 18th century, Forsskål did a very meticulous and systematic taxonomy of the sea life in that part of the world, including many fish species previously unknown to science.
Forsskål followed a very easy and consistent system, he used the common name in Arabic of the fish as the species name. For example:
The Greasy or Spotted Grouper Epinephelus tauvina is known as taweena in Arabic (being a Swede, the V was a W).
Forsskål died in Yemen in 1763, as well as others who accompanied the expedition, Carsten Niebuhr being the only survivor .
His work was published posthoumously by Neibuhr in 1775, a full 12 years after Forskaal's death.
Many of the fish in the Red Sea today still have Forsskål on their taxonomy name. Reminds me of that guy every time I look them up in a book, or on Fishbase.
I know that it does increase complexity, and therefore hinders future maintainability.
From the comments Linus made, he seems to be concerned about complexity (and he is right in this regard), and performance. This approach eliminates the risk on performance or any other impact that *running* this code would cause.
At home, I use Open Office on all the PCs for me, my wife and both kids.
It does the job and is compatible with MS Office stuff so far. It does not have the security holes that MS Office suffers from, and it is free. They are a mix of Mandrake/KDE and Windows 2000 at present. I would have had to pay a lot for 4 seats of MS Office otherwise.
My only gripe is the bloat. I have to close most other apps in order for it to work well on my P2-300 laptop.
There are several things I need to know before saying yes or no, such as:
Desktop or Server
The poster does not say whether he means desktop or server. On the server, I don't think Mac OS X has an edge, since Linux or *BSD can do everything Apple does today. On the desktop, it is a different story though. Apple's interface is great of course.
How much will it cost? I have six computers at home. Four of those are used as a desktop machine. If they charge 100$ or 150$, this would be too much for me when you multiply it by four.
Resource requirements? How much RAM will it require, and how much CPU power? Most of my machines are Pentium II. Two have 384 MB, one has 768, and one has only 128 (laptop). How will it run on those?
Hardware support? Will all my hardware work with it? Most of the configuration was done automatically by Mandrake, but I have had to configure some things manually, such as sound cards. Will they all be supported?
Anyway, I will certainly take a look and see. It is worthwile to at least evaluate it.
Of course you can. No one can stop you form being both if you really want to.
However, a leader is admired, respected, looked up to AND followed. A leader uses influence and concensus building. People will not only listen to him, but they will seek his advice.
An empire is feared, loathed, and hated. It imposes its will on others by force. It thinks that it only knows what is right for others and the whole world. It is not listened to. Some people actively seek its destruction, but most will just gladly watch for the day of the downfall.
The only advantage I see for the SoC mentioned in the article, is the price point. At 3$ (albeit in quantities of 10,000), it is appealing for some applications. It is technologically handicapped though, because of the tight memory.
The ones I linked to above are much more feature complete.
There are already a bunch of those in the market, and has been so for a few years. For example the ZFx86 is available, and some manufacturers do base SBCs and PC/104s on it, such as Tri-M's MZ104+.
And of course, it runs Linux! The full 32-bit version, and not the memory management-less ucLinux thing.
The new part is that this will be launched tomorrow. Thanks for that.
However, it has been in beta for about a year or so. I definitely saw it several months ago.
Nice service anyways.
Teradata is using in DSS/Datawarehousing
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The nucleus of the IT infrastructure Dillman presides over is a single, centralized, 423-terabyte Teradata system that churns data from 1,387 discount stores, 1,615 Supercenters, 542 Sam's Clubs, and 75 Neighborhood Markets in the United States, plus 1,520 more stores worldwide. "That's key to how we can leverage what we do into the future," says Dan Phillips.
This may give the impression that this is the centralized mainframe system for Walmart.
Actually, Teradata is used for Walmart's Datawarehouse, which is one of the most efficient uses of datawarehouses around. It does not process online transactions, it only does decision support type of work, with massive amounts of data.
Others like Oracle and DB2 sure do beat it for online transaction processing (OLTP), but for Decision Support work on very large databases, Teradata is king. This is the major source of confusion when Teradata is mentioned, and the comparison is not apples to apples.
I have a medium to large sized home network of 6 computers. Most of them are Mandrake Linux 10.0 only. One is dual boot (W2K and Mandrake Linux) and one is W2K only.
I use Netgear router and set it up to block everything form outside, except the ports I need (www, ftp, ssh). It also does not respond to pings.
On Windows, I use only Open Source or Free software. FireFox for browsing, Thunderbird for email, OpenOffice, Grisoft AVG for antivirus, and Adaware. I also use Yahoo and MSN messengers (not using GAIM until it has voice support).
On Linux, no antivirus is needed. The kids use other software including Open Office, Konqueror, Python and GAIM, and games.
Basically, if you are on Windows, and have a hardware firewall, use a decent antivirus program, use decent applications (i.e. non-Microsoft), and run Adaware every so often, then you will be safe. If you use Linux, you are generally safe too, provided you have a separate hardware firewall, and keep stuff up to date.
Never put RMS & Alan Cox & Linus in the very same car/plane or even building (just for sure;-))). If you are paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Conspiracy theories aside, indeed it is standard procedure for corporations to follow similar rules. For example, no more than 3 managers at a certain level on the same plane, car,...etc. The concern here is the continuity of the company.
I don't know about open source software. Part of me says do the same as companies, the other part says open software should be free from these limitations, and should continue by someone else picking the baton and running with it.
Hello Youssef
I forwarded this link to Alaa yesterday after the story got accepted.
we've been contacted by the biggest public library in Cairo to assist in migrating the systems there to FOSS (any suggestions?
There has been some discussions on library computers using Linux on Ask Slashdot. Cannot find it now, but if you dig hard you may find it. However, computer use in libraries in North America may be different than back in Egypt. The questions focused on computers used for library visitors to browse the net, send email, and even play games,...etc. I think what you are looking for is the internal system of the library keeping track of books.
You may want to submit a new Ask Slashdot with specific questions. Say it is from EGLUG, and what exactly is required. I am sure some with experience will answer you.
3. IF you know someone at IBM (not in Egypt), please have them contact us. IBM Egypt does not get it and are actively hampering our efforts. I can provide a full writeup if someone needs it. If IBM Egypt could wrap their minds around EGLUG being an asset and not some sort of usurper, they could be a big boost.
I know someone in IBM Canada, and asked him to dig up some contacts for Linux within IBM. However, don't be too hopeful, the way corporations work is that they will delegate a question received from Country A to staff at Country B (or headquarters) back to the staff at Country A! So you will be back to square one. Perhaps you need to rebuild the bridges, find some local contacts that can get you past the obstacle person(s) you are facing.
5. Good with graphics? We need artwork for phaeronix, an LFS-based distro we want to get behind and disseminate to appeal to nationalistic streaks (I'm a marketer at heart). Contact me if you can help out with this.
6. Developer? Please help with phaeronix. Contact me:)
I have to question this. Why not a pan-Arab distro (I think there are one or two projects in the past that tried this). This makes the effort more worthwile, and the market bigger. You can then take that and slap some Pyramid logo, and ta3meyah punch line, and call it Egyptix or something.
kbahey, thanks for keeping an eye on us and helping with exposure. Hope to see you in EGLUG sometime.
No problem. I have not been to Egypt in years, and even so, I avoid the hustle and bustle, and heat, of Cairo. But you interviewed my brother about using FOSS in small business. I gave Alaa the lead.
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OK, you are right that there was one case I did not know of. However, it is mainly spying, and not direct terrorism. This Ryan guy did not plan to blow up something in the USA.
But, you just proved my point: The link you provided says that are more than a 1,000 people arrested and charged. The number may be smaller, since some may overlap, but it is nice to inflate the numbers so they are more impressive for the governemnt.
Ashcroft claims that those are terrorism related, but these are 'arrests' and 'charges', very different from convictions. Even convictions are for immigration or fraud and not terrorism.
As for Bin Laden, his goal is not what you stated. His main goal is for the US to stop meddling in the Middle East, so he and the rulers there can duke it out themselves, and establish an Islamic state there. If the US does not do this, then yes, he wants to destroy it. He never said he wants to convert it. This kind of misconception is troubling. Know your enemy first.
The body count you mentioned is a red herring. Bin Laden can claim that 7,000+ in Afghanistan and 10,000+ (or 100,000) in Iraq make the numbers in his favor and justifies to some him killing more Americans in the future.
I am not saying that Bin Laden should be ignored, or he is no threat. Far from it. But making up fake cases of terrorism and arrests in the USA is not the way to stop him. In fact, it helps him. He acheived one objective of many, which is to sow fear and get overreaction and overspending by the USA.
This is too late in the discussion, but I just saw it a little while ago and Ashcroft strikes a nerve. So here goes.
Ashcroft reminds me of Ministers of Interiors in Third World dictatorships. He is a tool for the dictator and the regime, and not there for his main job, that is protect the people.
His argument that he did achieve his objectives in protecting America from crime and terror is much like the guy who sprayed pepper on his front lawn, to ward off elephants. When his neighbor told him there are no elephants here, he says : "See! It works!"
Not a single case in the past 3 years was prosecuted successfully as a terrorism case, with conviction. All of the high profile arrests where Aschroft made press conferences with huge pomp, touting them as major victories in the war on terrorism, are just for show. For example, the Lakawanna Six (Buffalo, NY) Yemeni-Americans all pleaded to lesser charges and were convicted. The case of the African American bunch in Oregon is similar. The same goes for the Holy Land Foundation in Texas, and other Muslim charity cases. Most cases that Ashcroft said to be terrorism end up getting convictions for immigration irregularities or ID fraud (SSN, Driver License, Food Stamps, ...etc.). No terrorism at all, except the constant drumming up of fear in the masses, and no one remembers what happened to the poor souls who got caught and made examples of.
Of course, the Patriot Act, Secret Evidence, and the eroding civil liberties that goes with it, is exactly what is wrong, since terrorists have achieved an objective with these things.
There are other incidents that show his short comings as well, such as making a big deal of a statue with the bare breast, his fundamentalist view, him attacking Islam while in office, and more.
Someone should really make up a web site about Ashcroft Watch or something, lest people forget all this.
Well, his letter of resignation says "I believe that my energies and talents should be directed toward other challenging horizons." What does that mean? Is a Supreme Court Justice position waiting for him (despite the poster above who said that it has to be someone with judge qualifications)?
This is not to disparage Thunderbird or anything. Thunderbird is one of two mail user agents (MUA) I use regularly, the other being plain old mutt when I am connected to the home server using ssh.
The issue with Thunderbird is not functionality, but rather bloat. It takes up a lot of memory and is slow. Compared to for example, FireFox, on the same machine.
You said 8 drives? Maybe I am missing something.
You say a 500 MHz machine. That is probably a P3, and hence would not have SATA. You did not say SCSI either. If you are trying to connect 8 drives to a standard PC you will run out of IDE ports. Most PCs come with only 2 ports, i.e. maximum of 4 drives.
So, how are you going to connect them?
If you are using Drupal as a CMS, then HTMLArea is available as an add-on module. You can also check the demo.
While Drupal is not a Wiki per se, it shows the potential for HTMLArea. I use it on my web sites, and it is a real time saver.
Drupal has some wiki add on modules, but I have not tried any of those recently.
You are generally right.
But think about it for a bit: this fast C compiler turns the tables, and redefines what we know (paradigm shift anyone?). No longer will C be seen as a compiled language. One can think of it as a scripting language. A construct like this works with tcc:
Something that was unthinkable under GCC.
As someone else posted, this can mean the proliferation of self contained bundles that are platform independant.
The potential is enormous. Not the boot part, but the compiler and what it can be twisted into doing.
I think the main thing here is the TCC compiler, which is 100K or so, and very fast.
This TCCBOOT is something to showcase the speed of the TCC compiler.
I loaned it to a friend, who busted it I think.
Even if it is 10 MP. If you have 5 MP and a crap lens with small aperture, little or no zoom, made of plastic, one or 2 elements, your pictures will still be crap.
A phone does not lend itself to a good 3X lens because of the bulkiness, complexity and cost of such a setup.
The only good news here is that the price of 5 MP CCDs is dropping to the extent that they made their way to phones.
Peter Forsskål was a Swedish scientist, who was part of the scientific expedition funded by Frederick V of Denmark. The expedition visited Arabia and the Red Sea in the 18th century, Forsskål did a very meticulous and systematic taxonomy of the sea life in that part of the world, including many fish species previously unknown to science.
Forsskål followed a very easy and consistent system, he used the common name in Arabic of the fish as the species name. For example:
Forsskål died in Yemen in 1763, as well as others who accompanied the expedition, Carsten Niebuhr being the only survivor .
His work was published posthoumously by Neibuhr in 1775, a full 12 years after Forskaal's death.
Many of the fish in the Red Sea today still have Forsskål on their taxonomy name. Reminds me of that guy every time I look them up in a book, or on Fishbase.
A few months back, I bought my daughter a Benq Joybee 110.
When we got the bulky box, and then opened it and this puny 2 inch thing came out, she said: "is that it?".
It has a built in Li-Ion battery, that can be charged via the USB connection.
This is a good idea, because I don't have to pay for batteries, the music player needs a PC anyway to copy MP3 files to it anyway.
Of course, the battery will die after a few years, and replacing it will be expensive, but for 99$Cdn after rebates, that is not a bad price.
Oh, and the Joybee is Linux compatible. It just appears like another drive. That was one of the criteria for buying it.
Instead of parsing English legales, why not make codes for things described?
For example:
001Y Free Personal Use allowed
002Y Resale allowed
002N Resale Not allowed
You get the idea ...
Then, this will just be like codes on QuickTax, or web site ratings: easy for a computer to understand and for users to select what they want.
Will the lawyers agree to this? Or will they want us to drown in the legalse on purpose?
I know that it does increase complexity, and therefore hinders future maintainability.
From the comments Linus made, he seems to be concerned about complexity (and he is right in this regard), and performance. This approach eliminates the risk on performance or any other impact that *running* this code would cause.
I understand where Linus is coming from, he does not want complexity and intrusiveness in the kernel. He has a point there.
However, can't this be a configuration parameter defaulting to no? (REAL TIME KERNEL [n])
This way, it does not interfere with normal kernel operations, unless someone does enable it and recompiles.
Or am I missing something?
At home, I use Open Office on all the PCs for me, my wife and both kids.
It does the job and is compatible with MS Office stuff so far. It does not have the security holes that MS Office suffers from, and it is free. They are a mix of Mandrake/KDE and Windows 2000 at present. I would have had to pay a lot for 4 seats of MS Office otherwise.
My only gripe is the bloat. I have to close most other apps in order for it to work well on my P2-300 laptop.
All in all, a good app though.
There are several things I need to know before saying yes or no, such as:
Anyway, I will certainly take a look and see. It is worthwile to at least evaluate it.
Of course you can. No one can stop you form being both if you really want to.
However, a leader is admired, respected, looked up to AND followed. A leader uses influence and concensus building. People will not only listen to him, but they will seek his advice.
An empire is feared, loathed, and hated. It imposes its will on others by force. It thinks that it only knows what is right for others and the whole world. It is not listened to. Some people actively seek its destruction, but most will just gladly watch for the day of the downfall.
Your choice! You decide in November.
I agree.
The only advantage I see for the SoC mentioned in the article, is the price point. At 3$ (albeit in quantities of 10,000), it is appealing for some applications. It is technologically handicapped though, because of the tight memory.
The ones I linked to above are much more feature complete.
There are already a bunch of those in the market, and has been so for a few years. For example the ZFx86 is available, and some manufacturers do base SBCs and PC/104s on it, such as Tri-M's MZ104+.
And of course, it runs Linux! The full 32-bit version, and not the memory management-less ucLinux thing.
Mod me down if you want, I don't care about Karma.
This news, along with last Monday's first private space flight, is exactly the side of America that the rest of the world likes to see.
America was admired and respected for a long time because of many things, standing up for freedom, innovation, opportunity.
In the post Sept 11 era, America is loathed and hated because of its foreign policy being hijacked by a few with agendas.
Will America in 2003/2004 be remembered for the Burt Rutans, and Ansaris, or for the Bushs, Cheneys and Rumsfleds?
Come on America, be a leader again, and not an empire.
The new part is that this will be launched tomorrow. Thanks for that.
However, it has been in beta for about a year or so. I definitely saw it several months ago.
Nice service anyways.
The nucleus of the IT infrastructure Dillman presides over is a single, centralized, 423-terabyte Teradata system that churns data from 1,387 discount stores, 1,615 Supercenters, 542 Sam's Clubs, and 75 Neighborhood Markets in the United States, plus 1,520 more stores worldwide. "That's key to how we can leverage what we do into the future," says Dan Phillips.
This may give the impression that this is the centralized mainframe system for Walmart.
Actually, Teradata is used for Walmart's Datawarehouse, which is one of the most efficient uses of datawarehouses around. It does not process online transactions, it only does decision support type of work, with massive amounts of data.
Others like Oracle and DB2 sure do beat it for online transaction processing (OLTP), but for Decision Support work on very large databases, Teradata is king. This is the major source of confusion when Teradata is mentioned, and the comparison is not apples to apples.
Here is an an old comment by me with some details on Walmart's use of Teradata.
Here is another comment by someone else on Teradata.
Disclaimer: I still work for NCR, but not with their Teradata division.
I have a medium to large sized home network of 6 computers. Most of them are Mandrake Linux 10.0 only. One is dual boot (W2K and Mandrake Linux) and one is W2K only.
I use Netgear router and set it up to block everything form outside, except the ports I need (www, ftp, ssh). It also does not respond to pings.
On Windows, I use only Open Source or Free software. FireFox for browsing, Thunderbird for email, OpenOffice, Grisoft AVG for antivirus, and Adaware. I also use Yahoo and MSN messengers (not using GAIM until it has voice support).
On Linux, no antivirus is needed. The kids use other software including Open Office, Konqueror, Python and GAIM, and games.
Basically, if you are on Windows, and have a hardware firewall, use a decent antivirus program, use decent applications (i.e. non-Microsoft), and run Adaware every so often, then you will be safe. If you use Linux, you are generally safe too, provided you have a separate hardware firewall, and keep stuff up to date.
Never put RMS & Alan Cox & Linus in the very same car/plane or even building (just for sure ;-))). If you are paranoid it doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Conspiracy theories aside, indeed it is standard procedure for corporations to follow similar rules. For example, no more than 3 managers at a certain level on the same plane, car, ...etc. The concern here is the continuity of the company.
I don't know about open source software. Part of me says do the same as companies, the other part says open software should be free from these limitations, and should continue by someone else picking the baton and running with it.
Hello Youssef I forwarded this link to Alaa yesterday after the story got accepted.
we've been contacted by the biggest public library in Cairo to assist in migrating the systems there to FOSS (any suggestions?
There has been some discussions on library computers using Linux on Ask Slashdot. Cannot find it now, but if you dig hard you may find it. However, computer use in libraries in North America may be different than back in Egypt. The questions focused on computers used for library visitors to browse the net, send email, and even play games, ...etc. I think what you are looking for is the internal system of the library keeping track of books.
You may want to submit a new Ask Slashdot with specific questions. Say it is from EGLUG, and what exactly is required. I am sure some with experience will answer you.
3. IF you know someone at IBM (not in Egypt), please have them contact us. IBM Egypt does not get it and are actively hampering our efforts. I can provide a full writeup if someone needs it. If IBM Egypt could wrap their minds around EGLUG being an asset and not some sort of usurper, they could be a big boost.
I know someone in IBM Canada, and asked him to dig up some contacts for Linux within IBM. However, don't be too hopeful, the way corporations work is that they will delegate a question received from Country A to staff at Country B (or headquarters) back to the staff at Country A! So you will be back to square one. Perhaps you need to rebuild the bridges, find some local contacts that can get you past the obstacle person(s) you are facing.
5. Good with graphics? We need artwork for phaeronix, an LFS-based distro we want to get behind and disseminate to appeal to nationalistic streaks (I'm a marketer at heart). Contact me if you can help out with this. 6. Developer? Please help with phaeronix. Contact me :)
I have to question this. Why not a pan-Arab distro (I think there are one or two projects in the past that tried this). This makes the effort more worthwile, and the market bigger. You can then take that and slap some Pyramid logo, and ta3meyah punch line, and call it Egyptix or something.
kbahey, thanks for keeping an eye on us and helping with exposure. Hope to see you in EGLUG sometime.
No problem. I have not been to Egypt in years, and even so, I avoid the hustle and bustle, and heat, of Cairo. But you interviewed my brother about using FOSS in small business. I gave Alaa the lead.