Emil Sedgh: booo

On Feburary 18th, Tehran Linux Users Group gathered in Cafe Prague (a nice cafe in Tehran) to celebrate KDE SC 4.4's release.

We had so little time to arrange everything and there were shortcomings, but it wasnt bad after all.

We gave a piece of [KDE] cake to everyone present at cafe, with a paper describing what FOSS is. Too bad we hadnt time to burn live discs so they can really try it immediately.

Also, at the end, we created a very little KDE domino. Not that we are good at it or something, it was just fun. It was our first time and it didnt collapse as beautiful as what we saw on TV. Maybe a bigger and better one next time ;)

I would thank Behnam, for helping me out with all stuff and Abbas, who was my partner on domino project ;)

Today was the 30'th anniversary of Iran hostage crisis.

The Islamic Republic, as usual, prepared a rally against the former building of U.S Embassy to tell Americans how much Iranians hate them. Thats just wrong.

Despite (several) official threats by the goverment in the past week, real people came to streets. They closed underground-trains so people couldnt reach the rally points. Internet was extremely slow so that we couldnt post the videos of the violence of goverment. Security forces hit us, throw us tear gas (this thing really sucks!) captured some people. Again, our television reported none of this.

The real people came to the streets to tell the world that we are in peace. Our goverment may burn your flag, may shout 'Down with America/Israel/Britain' but we, Iranian people, are in peace with you and I am personally sorry for what our ancestors did 30 years ago.

I am truly sorry for what our goverment has done in the past 30 years. Fighting with world, hating the world and thinking about (literal) world domination is what my goverment has done so far.

However, the events in the past four months made me feel so good. Why? Because I felt whole world cares about me. We have seen people around the world wearing green, throwing green stuff out of their windows or wearing green wrist-wraps. Cities around the world turned green at some times.

This means A LOT to me, personally. Not that it makes the damn extremists/dictators go away. Of course they are not leaving that easy. But it just made me feel that people care.

It seems that the khtml topic is up again.Here is my $0.02:
As a web developer, i use konqueror all the time.Its open at least 8 hours a day for me and i do a lot of javascript development on it.I debug my scripts, create advanced layouts and such.Of course I do have a Firefox as an alternative, but Im really happy with konqeuror.It hasnt as many extensions as firefox does, maybe Konqueror isnt even comparable to Firefox when it comes to features, but blaming khtml is not fair.

When people say khtml must be deprecated/killed/etc, they seem to forgot a few points:

For the KDE 4.0 release Eugene "it-s" Trounev and I created a release counter that was used in many blogs and websites.We missed the 4.1 release, but here is the KDE 4.2 Release Counter:

The 4.0 counter was an image but this one is created using some html + javascript help.To embedd it into your webpage paste the following code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://games.kde.org/counters/4.2/4.2.php"></script>
We can add as many slogans there and they will be shown in random order.So send me the words you think expresses the 4.2 feeling.
(This is my first post to planet KDE.Im Emil Sedgh with very limited contributions to KDE.I just maintain the games.kde.org website and create stuff like this counter.Im trying to be more involved though)
(Update: Since its javascript based its not getting published on planet.To see it you need to view my weblog directly)

I had no reason to write a weblog until today that I wrote a Tooltip creator and i wanted to publish it.
Its too small to have a homepage or something like that, so I thought best place for such thing is a weblog.

My Javascript skills are so limited.So probably you could find many 'WTF's in it.

Using it is rather easy:

T = new Tooltip( 'ActivatorId', 'TooltipId' );
T.Register();

Activator is the element that Tooltip will show up when its hovered.

this Tooltip is customizable and has many other options: