Mo’s Corner

I couldn't not post this, its too precious and cute. Perhaps it was in the 50's or 40's I also have no idea, I got this video earlier this morning from a colleague and I thought its really worth to upload. I've been thinking lately of my next blog entry and am planning to put more effort in the next one, its will be about something environmental this time. Yep, also his weekend will be long, just want to wish everyone a fun and relaxed weekend.

Stay tuned!

UPDATE: Here is a link to the video [youtube]

Scuba Tiger - Not my photo - HDR, originally uploaded by mo_mughrabi.

That really amazed me, there are bunch of photos of this exact location with tigers diving for their catch. Its all taken in Japan at a zoo or something, here is youtube link with more details of the story.

I just stumbled upon the new facebook interface, they have been doing a lot of work lately. It does look incredible and I guess its only limited for developers. The coolest part though, you can upload your photos, videos, notes and share links from one single page using a very smart Ajax tab [Click here to see the image full size].
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Creating HDR is not as hard as it sound but once you find the proper tool, image and with little practice it becomes a piece of cake. In the past few months I read bunch of tutorials on how to generate HDR photos and all of them were so useful and helpful to get me learning the techniques and pick up my own tools.

First you must pick the proper photo to work with, because from my point of view not every picture can look good HDRed. Second, you will need Adobe Photoshop and PhotoMatix Pro both tool available for windows and Mac based operating systems.
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This movie is exceptional, the day I saw it, I went straight to my to-do list and wrote "City of God, Must blog". American movies reached out to every country in the world, doing the same typical story, the same bad people. but, lately I thought maybe I need some change, maybe I need to see different point of views other than the coming from Hollywood & this is when the addiction starts!

City of God is one of the top movies produced in Brazil, the story is based on true event. About a reporter, lived in the middle of the worst street gangs & had to witness the development of young people turning into murderer & drug dealers. His neighbors, cousins and friends and some how he was not dragged into this lifestyle and he lived to tell the story.
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I wish that tomcat can be part of linux installation tools like yum in fedora. I've been struggling for the past 2 hours trying to install the tomcat properly and am not sure its the most proper but for development purposes I think it would be more than enough & since there are very few websites that talk you through the installation process step by step. so, its also a chance to share the experience

First of all, two things you must download before you start with anything
1. JDK (Java development kit) from sun website.
2. Then you will have to download the tomcat at apache website.

The second step, is to extract the JDK, either it is tar file or rpm files it will into a directory where ever you place it (we will assume this path /home/mo/jdk/).

Finally is to extract the tomcat files (if we assume that you extracted under /home/mo/tomcat/) then you must setup the java home directory

 
export JAVA_HOME='/home/mo/jdk/'
 

then you must setup the home directory for the tomcat as following

 
export CATALINA_HOME='/home/mo/tomcat/'
 

Now, you must do this step

 
cd $CATALINA_HOME/bin
    tar xvfz jsvc.tar.gz
    cd jsvc-src
    autoconf
    ./configure
    make
    cp jsvc ..
    cd ..
 

then open your browser and access your tomcat and see, by default it is set on port 8080. so, you must enter the URL as following

http://localhost:8080/