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Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day 2011: Thank you!
Its the first Community Appreciation Day in the history of mankind Ubuntu, and I just want to say to the Ubuntu community: THANK YOU! I usually don’t like singling out people, but I’d like to thank Jorge Castro in particular, … Continue reading
Eureka! Chuck!
That’s kinda an unfortunate place to be, isn’t it?
One year, many new things learnt
Its 3rd of May, 2010. Bilal is in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where its raining heavily, an unusual phenomenon. By the evening, flash floods strike parts of the city. Schools declared closed for the next day. I had a lot of … Continue reading
GNOME3 on Ubuntu using the PPA
First of all, a hearty congratulations to everyone involved in the GNOME project for having released GNOME3, a really awesome desktop environment. My previous post about GNOME3 was about my partial experience with it, and as pointed out by comments … Continue reading
Dynamic Quicklists in Unity
It has been quite some time since the Unity launcher API was opened; and though dynamic quicklists didn’t work until the release of Unity 3.6.4 (fix courtesy the awesome Michael Terry), many applications in Natty now have support for quicklists, … Continue reading
A neutral approach at GNOME Shell and a comparison with Unity
Today’s the 27th of March. Just 10 days to go for the release of the next version of the most popular X Desktop environment: GNOME 3. I decided to give its beta a try, and downloaded and installed the latest … Continue reading
New blog location
Just some quick news, I just moved my blog from my old website to this blog on wordpress.com, as I am going to soon close expatsinksa.com . Subscribers to my old blog (if there are any ) are requested to … Continue reading
