In an article in Newsday, an ME correspodant named Mohamad Bazzi claims that Hizbullah `hacked` into Israeli radio communications during the July War to track Israeli movement throughout the battlefield.
Although the Israeli’s are using a U.S.-designed communication system called the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System that is believed to be highly-secured, Keep reading »
I’m writing this post to announce the release of Vote961, a new website that invites all the lebanese people to vote for the person they think should be the next lebanese president. It has also a very nice news page that lets user read the latest news from various sources through an easy to use interface. check it out!
Well, it seems that my expectations are confirmed, I have been too optimistic about the upcoming DSL service in Lebanon due this March. DSL won’t be this service we’ve been dreaming of. Lebanon’s international cable does not have the capacity to offer DSL on a large scale, causing the ministry to charge data providers an artificially high price for access to the cable and state-owned telephone lines DSL uses. Keep reading »
Hisham (aka CodeWarrior) has posted an interesting article on why lebanese internet sucks. Throughout the article he talks about the evolution of services offered by the major internet service providers, from the basic dial-up to the so-called ADSL service due this March and why they suck.
From the Article:
The Lebanese population has been conditioned to live with bad services all their lives that the faintest shine of somehting good satisfies them. The biggest problem is that the average Lebanese is too lazy to complain. If people were to all complain and demand something better then we might get somewhere
I think i have been too much optimistic about the upcoming DSL service, now that I remember how we felt about cable offers while we had dial-up. There will always be this “catch” that will make the services offered by the ISPs imperfect.
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It has been reported that the BlackWorm, an email worm which has infected 300,000+ systems worldwide, will overwrite user’s files on 3 February. It is urgent for all windows users to update their virus definitions and make sure their system is clean. Users get infected by opening attachements sent by spoofed email addresses claiming to offer obscene pictures and movies. The subject lines used in the emails include: Miss Lebanon 2006, The Best Videoclip Ever, Fw: S*X.mpg.
Note that the worm only infects Windows PCs
My $0.02 :
I was suddenly excited when I read “Miss Lebanon 2006″ and thought about the popularity of miss lebanon around the world. Or could it be a Lebanese virus writer?
