Wesam Alalem's Blog

If you ask me how many websites you visit that have Java applets, I tell you no one. They are few, few enough to make opening a page with Java applet a time consuming task! Yes, today I ran into one that uses Java applet for essential service, and I really need it.

After installing Kubuntu 11.10, uTorrent server won’t start. Whenever I start it I get this error: ./utserver: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory with a lot of Googling, I solved it by installing libssl0.9.8 package: sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8 Hope it will save someone’s time

Sharing two folders between two computer is something that expected to work out of the box, but it seems that the new releases of Kubuntu needs extra work to add this functionality, I was surprised about how we still need command line to tackle this simple task, even after all this great Graphical User Interface [...]

In May 2010 I purchased Toshiba NB 305 Netbook, it comes with Windows 7 starter edition. Well, it was working just fine, light and speedy, until I decided to protect my Windows with AntiVirus and Firewall application, you know, Windows’ eternal companions! That’s where it started to be slow, slow enough to make me frustrated. [...]

I was designing a logo for my Arabic website, I checked the fonts and I couldn’t find good font, I searched around and I found that I can search repositories for fonts like this: #sudo apt-cache search ttf | grep “Arabic” and I got: ttf-arabeyes – Arabeyes GPL TrueType Arabic fonts ttf-kacst – KACST free [...]

That was really impressive, to be able to synchronize my contacts between my Laptop and my mobile phone. With Nokia PCSuite software image still flying around on my head, I thought that I won’t find something fill the gap for Linux! but actually there was. I didn’t read too much about it; I just followed [...]

I found this application while I was searching for graphics application for Linux, I used this back in Windows; it was cool, but it wasn’t free. I read in the website that the original company made the source code available, that’s where the gurus stepped in and ported it to Linux. I think it will [...]

I was trying to open a mobile emulator, which was in fact a JAVA applet, and I found that JAVA plugin wasn’t installed. Following the link from Firefox add-ons website I was redirected to Sun website to downlaod JAVA runtime files. It was about 19 MB file, after downloading and running it, I couldn’t see [...]

That was really amazing, Gimpshop is a wonderful alternative to Adobe Photoshop. Based on GIMP, the developer renamed and reorganized GIMP’s tools, options, windows, and menus to closely resemble Adobe Photoshop’s menu structure and naming conventions. Many of the menu options and even whole menus were recreated to faithfully reproduce a Photoshop-like experience. After running the GIMPshop [...]