http://www.aliov.org/ 2010-09-05T08:16:30+02:00 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki 2010-01-07T23:26:09+02:00 2010-01-07T23:26:09+02:00 2010-01-07T23:26:09+02:00 http://www.aliov.org/doku.php?id=blog:dokuwiki_cms&rev=1262903169

Getting frustrated from having unorganized HTML pages, separated blog and gallery services that forms this site, i decided that it is the time to have a simple content management system (CMS), i wanted a wiki based CMS, something simple, with no database or probably just sqlite files, with mathematics markup support, simple blog and picture gallery.

2010-01-04T22:56:26+02:00 2010-01-04T22:56:26+02:00 2010-01-04T22:56:26+02:00 http://www.aliov.org/doku.php?id=blog:net_wm_window_opacity_locked_hint&rev=1262642186

Almost all modern window managers have compositing capabilities, this is nice, but in the other hand it is very annoying for softwares like image viewers or media players... The _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY_LOCKED hint tells the window manager that the opacity is locked on a specific window, so the window manager would use this hint to keep the window opaque, unfortunately this hint is not standardized yet, but the Xfce's window manager supports it, so here is how to set this hint on a top level widg…

2010-01-04T13:53:01+02:00 2010-01-04T13:53:01+02:00 2010-01-04T13:53:01+02:00 http://www.aliov.org/doku.php?id=blog:packard_bell_imax_mini_windows_refund&rev=1262609581

I finally got rid of my old P3 800 MHz desktop PC, which this website was running on, i replaced it with a packard bell imax mini. This computer is equipped with 1.6 Intel Atom processor, 2048 MB ram, 160 GB HDD, Ethernet, Atheros wifi, NVIDIA Ion+HDMI VGA output, very small and completely silent, low power consumption, simply it is a very good choice as a desktop or a small filesystem server.

2010-01-11T11:55:39+02:00 2010-01-11T11:55:39+02:00 2010-01-11T11:55:39+02:00 http://www.aliov.org/doku.php?id=blog:parole&rev=1263207339

Again i will blog about my favorite baby, Parole, few days after its first stable release, brainstorming ideas on Xubuntu started to ask for Parole as a default media player, many people already blogged about Parole, these things make me feel extreamely happy, yes my baby is growing in the right direction =).

2010-01-08T22:55:33+02:00 2010-01-08T22:55:33+02:00 2010-01-08T22:55:33+02:00 http://www.aliov.org/doku.php?id=blog:parole_0.2_is_out&rev=1262987733

I'm very happy to announce that the first stable version of Parole is out today Download Here--- Ali Abdallah 2010/01/05 10:30 I'm very happy with what i got with this first release, the project started to find its way, shortly after this release i wanna implement easy to use DVB-T support for Parole, and improve the browser plug-in to have some nice features like those present in flash plug-in.

2010-02-02T12:12:24+02:00 2010-02-02T12:12:24+02:00 2010-02-02T12:12:24+02:00 http://www.aliov.org/doku.php?id=blog:xfce_power_manager_devicekit-power_and_upower_release&rev=1265109144

Today --- 2010/02/02 11:55 The first HAL free beta version of Xfce Power Manager is out, the new version uses DeviceKit Power to get information about power devices, and also it uses DeviceKit Disks to spin down the hard disks when running on battery power.

2010-08-21T22:40:40+02:00 2010-08-21T22:40:40+02:00 2010-08-21T22:40:40+02:00 http://www.aliov.org/doku.php?id=blog:xfpm-1.0.0&rev=1282423240

Xfce Power manager version 1.0.0 have been released, this version is based completely on upower, means that batteries information are read from upower daemon, upower is also used for hibernate/suspend operations, polkit is an optional requirement for the new version, since it helps the power manager to figure out if the user is authorized to do some actions, if you are not able to use suspend/hibernate and you are sure that your laptop can do suspend/hibernate, then you need to check your polkit…