Touchscreen desktop ASUS Eee on November

Touchscreen ASUS EEE is due on Novebmer, it has very sleek design.

Behind the screen sit all the usual Small, Cheap Computer components: 1.6GHz Atom CPU, Intel 945GSE integrated chipset and 1GB of 667MHz DDR memory. This model comes with a 160GB 3Gb/s SATA hard drive on which Windows XP is pre-installed!!!!!!.

The Eee has on-board 802.11n Wi-FI and Gigabit Ethernet. there are six USB ports - two on the side, four at the back - audio socketry and a multi-format memory card reader. Despite the touchscreen, the Eee comes with a mouse. A keyboard is bundled too.

it is for around £400 , WOW you can place your order now h3r3

OLPC Afghanistan starting! volunteers needed

Hope that this may reduce the number of terrorists being raised.

One of OLPC's partners in Afghanistan, PAIWASTOON, is looking for in-country volunteers to help with university outreach and software/tool development.

They especially need two software developers to help build their team.

OLPC in Afghanistan have over 10,000 XOs to work with in the coming months, and PAIWASTOON can offer basic travel and living stipends. Below is the original call for assistance from Svetla, one of their program organizers, and a leaflet they have made.

You can contact her directly (svetla >at< paiwastoon.com.af ) for more information, or follow up on the grassroots mailing list. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested!

HTC Introduces World's first WiMax mobile phone

Picture of the HTC handset, said to be called the HTC T829, have leaked out and, unless some good-quality Photoshop trickery’s involved, a series of pictures online show the device connected to a wireless network at 13.8Mb/s. This is a wireless speed that far surpasses the connection capabilities of HSDPA 3G, which top out at no more than 7.2Mb/s.

Various icons on the mysterious HTC device also appear to show it connected to a network called Yota, Russia’s 802.16 WiMax network that – as of early October – covered central Moscow.

Another picture shows how the phone’s WiMax connection can be switched on and off at will.

In addition to WiMax connectivity, the T8290 is also rumoured to be able to connect over 802.11g Wi-Fi networks. Although it would be disappointing if the device couldn’t connect over 802.11n.

The phone’s said to have a 3.8in, 800 x 480 display and sport Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity too.

Please don't mix this HTX with Nokia N80 WiMax capable series , as the Nokia N770/800/810 are Personal Internet Communicator and not Mobile phone (in other words, they dont have GSM module)






Reference Link is h3r3

Finally I have FaceBook Account and I welcome all of you to add me

I can not believe it , Finally I have a FaceBook account, Although that I don't like it for 101 reasons, but here I'm on Facebook.

I welcome all of you to add me, so we can know/see each other.
My mail there is as my name samer azmy separated by a dot on the gmail , or u just can search for Samer Azmy and write me that u r my blog reader and I would love to confirm our friendship

See you all there

Asus admits Eee Box mini PC shipped with virus

Asus has admitted that some of the its Eee Box desktop mini PCs have shipped with a virus.
But while the company has only admitted the infection was present in machines shipped to Japan, Register Hardware can confirm that other territories may be affected too.

According to an email sent out by Asus, PC Advisor reports, the Eee Box's 80GB hard drive has the recycled.exe virus files hidden in the drive's D: partition. When the drive is opened, the virus activates and attempts to infect the C: drive and an removable drives connected to the system.

According to Symantec, the malware is likely to be the W32/Usbalex worm, which creates an autorun.inf file to trigger recycled.exe from D:.

Fortunately, the infection was spotted and removed by Microsoft's most recent malware removal tool update.

Coincidence? That seems likely, given the different virus and the fact that the disk image used to prepare the Japanese Eee Boxes will almost certainly be different from the one used to image English-language product.

But at this stage it remains unclear whether the infection we found was present from the start, or accidentally added by a previous reviewer

Reference Link is h3r3

Orange Egypt Introduces EEEPC with GSM Modem in Egypt

Orange Egypt (Commerical Name Mobinil) has introduced Asus EEEPC with GSM Modem in Egypt.

The Deal Details:
a) Package (1)
ASUS EEEPC C701
Windows XP
3G USB Modem
for the Cost of 1399 L.E.

b) Package (2)
ASUS H900
Windows XP
3G USB Modem
for the Cost of 1899 L.E.

Abu Dhabi government Invests $8.4 billion in AMD

Abu Dhabi will pay $700 million for a stake in a new company that will own two plants in Germany and build a factory in New York, newswire Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

The new company, which will assume $1.2 billion of AMD's debt, will receive as much as $6 billion from Abu Dhabi to expand plants and get $1.4 billion in operating capital.

Abu Dhabi will also pay $314 million to double its stake in AMD to 19%, AMD said today in an e-mailed statement.

The cash infusion is a lifeline for AMD, which is forecast to report a third straight annual loss this year and is falling behind on investments needed to keep up.

Open Source Innovation Reward

The Knight News Challenge www.newschallenge.org, which is a US-based foundation giving away $5 million a year for grants in digital, open-source innovation. With the slogan “You Invent It. We Fund It!” the contest is open to community-minded innovators worldwide, from open source designers to journalists to citizens and students of any age. Deadline is on 1 Nov. 2008

Applications must follow three simple rules:

1. Use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base.
2. Serve the public interest.
3. Benefit one or more specific geographic communities.

While the foundation is based here in the U.S., the contest is international, with past winners reaching all around the globe. And this year, we'd like to encourage more applicants from Asia before the rapidly-approaching application deadline of November 1st.

Details Are below :
Chinese. http://newschallenge.org/chinese
Korean, http://newschallenge.org/korean
Japanese, http://newschallenge.org/japanese
Spanish, http://newschallenge.org/spanish
Portuguese, http://newschallenge.org/portuguese
French, http://newschallenge.org/french
German, http://newschallenge.org/german
Russian, http://newschallenge.org/russian
Arabic, http://newschallenge.org/arabic

PC-BSD 7.0 Released

This release marks a milestone for PC-BSD, by moving to the latest FreeBSD 7-Stable and also incorporating the KDE 4.1.1 desktop. Users will immediately notice the improved visual interface that KDE 4.1.1 offers, as well as a large improvement in hardware support and speed from the update to FreeBSD 7-Stable. PC-BSD 7 also offers a large and growing library of self-contained PBI files available for installation, and improvments for other locales on our PBI Directory website. This release also offers new methods of installation, including a DVD, USB and Internet/network install.

PC-BSD 7.0 Screenshots are h3r3

Note: Here is an interview with the lead developer of PC-BSD.

FreeBsd HandBook is h3r3

Spread BSD Campaign link is h3r3

PC-BSD is a Unix-Like desktop-oriented Operating System based on FreeBSD. It aims to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and easy and ready-to-use immediately by providing KDE as the default, pre-installed graphical user interface. PC-BSD also provides official binary nVidia and Intel drivers for easy hardware acceleration and an optional 3D desktop interface through CompizFusion. PC-BSD also contains a unique package management system which allows users to graphically install pre-built software packages from a single downloaded executable file. In August 2006 it was voted the most beginner friendly operating system by OSWeekly.com.

Since October 10, 2006 PC-BSD has been supported by the enterprise-class hardware solution provider iXsystems. In November 2007, iXsystems entered into a distribution agreement with Fry's Electronics whereby Fry's Electronics stores nationwide carry boxed copies of PC-BSD version 1.4 (Da Vinci Edition).[2] In January 2008, iXsystems entered into a similar agreement with Micro Center.

PC-BSD's package management system takes a different approach to installing software than many other Unix-like operating systems. Instead of using the ports tree directly (although it is still optionally available), PC-BSD uses files with the .pbi filename extension which, when double-clicked, brings up an installation wizard program. An autobuild system tracks the FreeBSD ports collection and generates new PBI's daily. The generated PBI's are maintained at the PC-BSD software repository.

All software packages and dependencies are installed in their own self-contained directories in /Programs, decreasing confusion about where the binary programs reside and reducing the possibility of breaking a package if system libraries are upgraded or changed. The PC-BSD package manager also takes care of creating categorized links in the KDE menu and on the KDE desktop.

The PC-BSD project claims its style of package management, which is similar to that of major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, is simpler than that of other Unix-like systems.

VIA ARTiGO Pico-ITX Kit with Ubuntu

The VIA ARTiGO, a Pico-ITX build kit from VIA (for those who don't know Pico-ITX , please check this WikiPedia link) , makes the possibilities of low power, small form-factor computing. The Artigo comes with just about everything you need to build an energy efficient computer based on the VIA C7 processor except a 2.5-inch hard drive (IDE for this version) and a DDR2 533MHz SO-DIMM memory stick (up to 1GB, with a recommended density of 2Rx16).








shown here is also the back of the unit showing the rather simple and straightforward nature of the Artigo. Just a video, LAN, and screen connectivity appear here. I wish they had put 2 USB ports on the rear so the front of the Artigo wouldn’t be so cluttered with USB cables and that would allow for the keyboard and mouse to be connected via the rear for a nice clean desktop setup.

VIA does provide a circular cutout right near the power jack to install optional included cables that extend the functionality and versatility of the unit, included optional connecting hardware are:

* DVI Video Out Cable
* Serial port cable
* PS/2 KB/Mouse cable
* External PSU input cable (if you elect not to use the internal DC-DC PSU PCB)
* 2.5” IDE Ribbon Cable (I don’t much see the point in this since they already provide a PCB for linking the HDD to the mainboard inside the unit)

Inside the Artigo, there is a SATA port for adding an external SATA HDD but VIA doesn’t give you a way to cleanly set this up. You are left to find your own solution for adding the HDD and setting it up with the Artigo. I wish VIA set up an e-SATA port to simply plug into the mainboard SATA connector like they did with the USB and audio, that would certainly amplify the geek appeal of the box even more and provide an easy and clean way to add an external disk drive.

Though VIA’s website mentions that Windows XP is supported, I preferred to install Ubuntu Linux on the Artigo kit. In this article, I wanted to gauge how the Artigo performed as an energy efficient desktop computer for internet surfing, email, webcam-ing, and music. I must say on all tasks, I was pleasantly surprised the by the capabilities of such a lightweight processor as VIA’s C7. For the most part, general application performance was acceptable considering the hardware things were running on–the app launch speeds were certainly reasonable and did not make it unpleasant to use. As I write this article for publication, I have several windows open, I’m pulling in my favorite internet radio stream, and the machine seems to still perform with good response. At idle, the Linux OS only chews up about 170MB of the 1GB of ram, and generally uses 2% processor time. The following screenshot of the htop tool shows this below, except there was a 5% spike when the screen capture fired so that’s why we see 7%.