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Linux tip: I found a very useful Linux program for creating PDF files from scanned documents. It's most useful feature is that it uses OCR software to create text from the images and adds it to the PDF file.

You will have to install the following

gscan2pdf
ocropus (OCR software this one overlays the text on the image, tesseract doesn't do this)

Use something called wkhtmltopdf, which converts web pages to pdfs using WebKit rendering engine, and Arc90's Readability, which is a javascript that cleans up pages from everything except the main content (like in a blog or a newspaper) and nice to print.

so it's true,
i am back,
after god knows how many years away from Linux, i'm back running and tweaking my most loved OS again, ...

I want to explain how I managed to set up a user home filesystem that has the following features:

After years of working as a system engineer, I have decided to open my own company. It's called Spirula Systems. The name comes from the sea shell Spirula, as it looks like debian swirl, it's a shell, and it lives in alexandria, where Spirula Systems is located.

This company is to provide systems support for GNU/Linux mainly, and use free/open source software whenever possible. It will support BSD and Unix systems too. The complete list of services can be found on Spirula's services page.

For those who don't know, meedan is a project that I have been watching since I first knew about it from the presentation made be Anas Tawileh in the first meeting in the arab techies.

Twitter can be very useful for Eglug. We have to use it more.

Take a look at this: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=eglug

guys,

today is the third day of Arab techies gathering, we will go to have dinner in asmak el dawaran in shobra, we'll be there about 8:00 pm isA. Please anyone interested to meet us show up there

Arab techies gathering's guys are going today to khan el khalily to have dinner and wonder around. please if anyone interested show up.