With Ubuntu [A Fresh Install]

No, the old install didn’t crash !!!

i just was very anxious about the new Ubuntu release (Karmic Koala), so i installed the RC version

and as u know i hate to install a fresh install of any OS until the currently running one crashes, hangs and cries to let it die

Manipulating Visio “Shape Data” using VBA

recently i needed to write a macro that processes an MS  Visio 2007 page and and does some actions based on the contents of a custom defined stencil shapes, where this contents are saved as a Shape Data field in the shape

Troubleshooting in ACM-ICPC Contest

i’ve participated in many contests as organizer, specifically in the technical stuff which is mainly two portions

• The IDE which is mainly “eclipse“
• The contest communication tool which can’t be except “pc2″

and in the last contest i’ve participated in it’s technical preparations i faced a number of troubles

lets take them one by one

1.Teams don’t connect to the Server which is a Linux Machine

• Solution : before you open the server edit the “pc2server” file and edit this line
• java -Djava.security.policy=policy.ini $PC2CN $*
• to be
• java -Djava.rmi.server.hostname=”10.106.0.35″ -Djava.security.policy=policy.ini $PC2CN $*
• of course change the ip according to your server ip

and make this edit in all the executables you will run {team, board, judge…..}

psssst.. Somebody’s watchin’

well

i’m gonna start with an apologize to google

i thought they had a stupid bug in thier chrome

but some how they were not the stupid … neither were I

i’m gonna show you what happened every time i use chrome to navigate to any website

A JAVA Function !!! [Problem NOT of the week]

As my two friend Alaa & Foaud are writing [Problem of the week] 

i am also writing Problem NOT of the week

bcoz i wont write a problem weekly in addition to i dont know the solution of my problems almost…

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during my internship time i spent in Mentor Graphics Cairo i needed to implement a function

and when i started coding i found that it was impossible to do it that way

may be there is a way that function can be implemented but i dont know how due to my small experience with JAVA

Here is the problem definition:

Programming Language used : of course u know its JAVA what r u looking at