مرحبا بك عزيزي القارئ، إلى عدد جديد من أعداد حديث الأربعاء. لنستعرض معًا ما يجوب بفكري، ويدور بخاطري في هذا الأسبوع.
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مرحبًا بك عزيزي القارئ وكل العام وأنت بخير بمناسبة عيد اﻷضحى المبارك، أعاده الله علينا وعليكم بالخير واليمن والبركات. وزادكم من فضله. وأهلا بك إلى عدد جديد من حديث اﻷربعاء. هلم معي لمطالعة هذا العدد الجديد!
آثرت فصل هذه التدوينة، عن تهنئة عيد اﻷضحى، وذلك لكي تسجل كتدوينة منفصلة. وأيضًا لكي ينال هذا العدد حقه. فلدي الكثير مما أود روايته والكلام عنه.
The first post I wrote on this blog was on a Netbook, and one of the most popular posts at the time was about a Netbook, I’ve had one, I’ve loved it like a child of mine, and regretted selling it to this day (I still do honestly, I did so much on a computer that isn’t supposed to do much!).
You never know what you had until you lose it!
Every time I went to a computer store they caught my eye, and whenever someone brings me one of them to fix, I remember the sweet old days with my Netbook, it felt personal and it felt like something I loved to use and create things on.
Browsing through open sooq I came across a Netbook that was reasonably priced, it had a minor flaw (the monitor has dead pixels on one corner, as if the Netbook took a fall), and after a bit of negotiation with the seller, I managed to strike a decent deal.
Later that day, I swapped out the HDD on the Netbook to my laptop, and used the SSD on the Netbook to make it faster, and after installing Ubuntu 14.04, I was good to go!
I tried installing Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook remix, but that lasted for like an hour, nostalgia doesn’t do much, 10.10 is not supported anymore and I couldn’t download any software on it, what a shame!
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| The new Netbook that I got, and some cool stickers |
The typing experience is some of the best I’ve had, it’s bouncy and fast, a bit crammed together but that takes me back! And it makes my laptop feel like a monster! 5 inches make all the difference apparently!
Pros of the deal
Despite the obvious limitations, it would have cost a lot more to buy something off of Amazon and ship it to Libya (I’ll be posting about buying online / shipping soon enough in Arabic), due to the new increase in shipping prices, shipping a standard laptop would cost nearly twice as much as this Netbook! Let alone that I’ve managed to seal a deal on open sooq the day before, so it’s even cheaper in my book!
Hitting two birds with one stone
By swapping out the HDD, I have fixed the issue on my other laptop, and with buying a Netbook, I have a backup that I can take anywhere without fearing it would be lost or stolen, it’s just a device for typing stuff and getting things done,
Having two laptops
I remember posting back in the day in my “dual boot saga series”, that I hated having two laptops and I couldn’t choose between them, always favoring one over the other, this isn’t the case.
I wouldn’t sell my laptop for example and keep the Netbook as a main device, that’s silly and unrealistic, the Netbook has limited resources and can do so much, it’s just so good at what it does.
And it’s always nice to have a backup in case the laptop fails for example, or for work (it would be a lot lighter and easier on my back to carry around, also less stressful in the case of it getting lost).
What’s it like?
I don’t remember Netbooks being so small! This one is really tiny compared to the laptop I’ve been using the last six years!
Also, it’s hot, I mean really this model has no fan, it uses a heat sink of some sort to manage the heat, and it gets annoying with time (would be great in the winter tho!), I applied some thermal grease and it’s better now, also installing a light resource Linux distro helps.
It was nagging me for years, so I had to do something about it, and here I am back to using a Netbook after six years.
Trying something new
I installed FocusWriter on my Netbook for a minimalistic writing experience, it’s small and aesthetic, and exports files as ODT by default.
The big question?
Will this allow me to be more productive and write more stuff? Or will it be another failed experiment of mine? I do realize that experimenting is a big part of learning, but I hope I get this one right, for old time’s sake.
Do you have / had a Netbook? What do you think of them? Did this post inspire you to buy one of them little laptops?
Leave your thoughts in the comments section below, and I will see you soon.
P.S: This post was written on a Netbook,
P.S.S: A retrospective post was written a few months later, take a look at it!
In this post I’m collecting tech news from all over the web, too small for separate posts, but I guess that everyone is up for a treat with a digest like this!
The Samsung galaxy note 7 catching fire!
Samsung has called a worldwide recall of the smartphone on complaints of catching fire and exploding while charging. So if you got one I recommend you to check with the closest Samsung reseller.
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Samsung galaxy note 7
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And tests that involved Galaxy Edge 7 show that it catches fire and explodes as well.
It is so serious that the Australian airlines banned the use of Galaxy Note 7 because it’s a security concern, and the FFA warns the passengers not to use the phone on planes.
Apache Openoffice maybe put to rest!
The project may be put to rest due to lack of volunteers working on it, as most of them moved to to work on LibreOffice in 2011.
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| Apache OpenOffice logo |
Apache open office has been very slow in development and the last stable update was issued in October of 2015. Bug fixes weren’t issued and the developers fear a major denial of service attack, and Apache’s advice was to use Microsoft office or convert to LibreOffice!
This comes as a shock for many people, Apache open office has a big user base of over 100 million users, I’m sure many people will be upset over this. Personally I had a pleasant experience using Apache Openoffice, and conventing wasn’t the easiest call to make. I hope someone stands for Apache Openoffice and saves it from a horrible feat, and maybe change the Apache license and give it more code freedom!
Whatsapp users will be receiving advertising messages
WhatsApp will start sending advertising messages in the following months, as it shares its data with the parent company facebook, raising high security concerns, I personally advise moving to Telegram for a secure texting experience, I’ve blogged about this as soon as it happened, but it doesn’t hurt to inform the people of the potential security risk.
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| Whatsapp logo |
Those who share your data today will sell it tomorrow!
iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus are released
Apple has released the highly anticipated iPhone 7 recently, while the iPhone 7 still keeps the 4.7′ screen size that iPhone 6 had, the iPhone 7 plus will have a 5.5′ screen, an Apple first, and will be running on iOS 10.
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| iPhone 7 |
Apple has doubled the internal storage space on iPhone 7 and 7 plus, but no SD slot available in this model too, and no battery capacity information was released yet (as long as it doesn’t blow up, it’s fine by us!).
The latest iPhone is also water resistant, a delight to Apple fans worldwide in case thier phone falls into their overly priced mocha latte!
Google Fuchsia
Google has added a new project to github the leading open source code repository code named Fuchsia.
a little is known about this project as of now, but there are reasons to think that it’s the new operating system that Google is developing to ditch android and the Linux kernel altogether, and to install it on a wide range of devices and wearables.
Yahoo announces the biggest security breach so far
In the latest trend of major companies announcing security breaches, Yahoo said that a breach affected the data of 500 million users, making it the biggest security breach to be announced so far.
I hope you enjoyed this tech digest of news, please let me know what do you think of this bit? Should it become a regular post on my blog? I will add more news as needed to this digest.
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