Month: December 2015 (Page 5 of 7)

اليوم العالمي للغة العربية

في مثل هذا اليوم من كل عام يحتفل العالم باليوم العالمي للغة العربية، هذا اليوم هو ذكرى دخول اللغة العربية ضمن اللغات الرسمية ولغات العمل بالأمم المتحدة، واخترت هذا اليوم بالذات للحديث عن أمر يضايقني بشدة حول اللغة العربية.

 هذا اليوم نتذكر فيه وبحسرة ضياع لغتنا الجميلة، ضاعت لأننا لم نهتم بها ولم نصنها كما يجب..

كمية الأخطاء المهولة التي يرتكبها أهل بلدي بحق اللغة كتابة ونطقًا، فيرفعون المنصوب ويجرون المرفوع، أما الكتابة فحدث ولا حرج، لا تخلو من أخطاء رهيبة يندى لها الجبين وتطأطأ لها الرؤوس.

من خلال الشبكات الاجتماعية بدا لي مقدار الخطأ وحجم المصيبة التي أبتلينا بها !

ولم تسلم من هذه الأخطاء لا الجهات العامة الممثلة للحكومة ولا الأعمال الخاصة، فضلا عن المواطنين بمختلف شرائحهم إلا من رحم الله!

الكثيرون ممن يدعون الثقافة والأدب لا يجيدون الكتابة بالعربية، وتشوه نصوصهم أخطاء نحوية وإملائية فاحشة، لا يقع فيها إلا جاهل باللغة متجاهل لقدرها، بل تجد بعضه يسخر من اللغة ويستهزئ بالناطقين بها، معوضًا نقصه وقصوره بهذه السخرية التي لا تزيد اللغة إلا قدرًا ولا تحط إلا من قدره هو.

وتجدهم السباقين في تعلم اللغات الأجنبية والرطن بها متناسين أصلهم وجوهرهم وهويتهم.

من المقالات التي اطلعت عليها مؤخرا تدوينة انتحار الإملاء، تشكو فيها الكاتبة سوء الحال!

أيضا من الصفحات التي لفت نظري إليها بعض الأصدقاء هي صفحة “بهائم اللغة” على الفيسبوك، رغم اعتراضي على التسمية بطبيعة الحال، إلا أن بعض المنشورات (إن كانت حقيقية) تعذر صاحب الصفحة في اختيار اللفظ!! (تم غلق الصفحة!).

من خلال هذه التدوينة، أعلن أنني سأقوم بشئ تجاه اللغة العربية قبل نهاية هذه السنة بمشيئة الله تعالى، أعلم أنه ليس بالشيئ الكثير، لكني أمل أن يحذو حذوي كثيرون لنترقى بلغتنا إلى مصاف اللغات الحية التي يرعاها أبناؤها.

لن تعلو العربية إلا بسواعد وعزيمة أبنائها، بإخلاصهم لها والتفافهم حولها وتمسكهم كل التمسك بها.

CodeLobsterPHP Edition 5.8 is out, supports Arabic!

CodeLobsterPHP Edition continues it’s active development cycle by launching version 5.8 which brings many improvements to the  IDE, most notably an improvement long anticipated by Arab developers, Arabic support.

In my review of CodeLobsterPHP IDE I listed not supporting Arabic as a con of this software, now I can proudly say that it supports Arabic, and I was asked by the company to test for Arabic support, here are the results:

 

 

Arabic language working on the code pane

 

Arabic language working on the preview pane

 

Arabic language working on the inspector pane

For a complete list of features and bug fixes on version 5.8 click here.

Many Arab developers like this IDE and they are interested in purchasing a license, the only thing stopping them is that CodeLobsterPHP Edition doesn’t support Arabic. Starting of version 5.8 that’s a thing of the past!

I listed in my review of CodeLobsterPHP Edition that it has a friendly and responsive community, check the request I posted asking for Arabic language support, they are as good as I said they were!

So here you have it!  It supports Arabic now!
As an Arab developer, is having Arabic support in the tools a problem? How do you feel when Arabic is supported on such an amazing IDE? Would you try it? It has a free version you know 😉
Let me here what you have to say, and expect an Arabic post about CodeLobsterPHP Edition soon!

 

Windows 8.1 losing free space [FIXED]

After installing Windows 8.1 and doing all the updates. I was getting ready to create an image (in case anything happens) so I did the usual steps of cleaning and optimizing. Shortly after creating the image I noticed 12 GB of free space occupied!
Where did my free space go?

I had just finished cleaning it! Didn’t install a thing! Where did the space go?


I decided to use a handy tool called foldersize to determine where the largest folders were, and I wasn’t surprised when Windows was the biggest.
I went in and there was a folder called WinSxS which had 16 GB of size! That’s your culprit right there!

So what is WinSxS? And how does it work?

As it turns out Windows uses this folder to save backups and images alongside backup files (citation needed). There was no need to worry, as there is a monthly cleaning task scheduled that should take care of it.

But what if I want to clean it now?

Doing a disk clean (even enabling system files won’t get you those extra files you are looking for) you need to use the command line.

Run cmd as an administrator and type in:

Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore
To see how much space you have, only then you can get to clean by typing:

Dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /StartComponentCleanup 

Finally type in: 

Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
Important notes:

  • These commands will take some time working, up to an hour, so take your time with the cleanup!
  • This might not work right away. I had to do it a couple of times with a restart. Then it cleaned it.

 

Warning: NEVER EVER TRY TO DELETE FILES MANUALLY. IT COULD RUIN YOUR COMPUTER AND MAKE IT UNUSABLE..

Any other space hogs?

Another place to look is the page file, if you want to set the size manually (or disable it all together) then that’s a good start!
Last thing to check is the hibernate file (which can go anywhere from 4-7 GB) and is completely useless if you don’t use the hibernation option. Check this tutorial to disable it.
We looked at three ways to taking back space that Windows occupied. I hope you find it useful!

Finally

How much did Windows take, was it more than 12 GB, share the space and let see who has the most loss!
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Wifi not connecting on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2 [FIXED]

After that partial upgrade and the annoying Docky issue finally fixed, I thought I was safe, but another annoying issue appeared,  and this time hitting closer to home!

One of the issues that occurred after the partial upgrade is that the wifi breaks after putting the computer to sleep. Bluetooth worked fine but the wifi won’t connect!
After a failed connection this message would appear:

Connection Activation Failed

(4) did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply time out expired
or the network connection was broken.

I tried fixing the issue, switching of the Wi-Fi did not work.

Looking on-line I found that the most suitable solution was to download Wicd. A graphical network manager that asked for the network’s name and password. And started the connection process until I had connection!

So there you have it! Install Wcid to fix the Wi-Fi breaking issue on Ubuntu 14.04.

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