How to survive a Geeky, workaholic, professional IT life ?

Submitted by Moophz on Thu, 04/19/2012 - 10:51

What good will it be if you gained the source code of the world and yet lost your very self? 

Loving your own work and being successful is a major source of high self esteem.
Geeks by definition, are so passionate about their work and tend to prioritize professional life over any other aspect of their lives.
You may have noticed that the majority of geeks suffer from weak communication skills. This can be noted through bad articulation or projection of speech, and when they most often tend to prefer the usage of text messages over phone conversations.

Thus, it is crucial that a balance should be made in order to maintain a high level of performance, live a longer happier life and achieve all your geeky goals and dreams.

Enough philosophizing, below are some of my experience based recommendations in order to healthily survive your geeky IT lifestyle, Organize your life, your time and maintain your connections:

The Phony Freedom

Submitted by Mi on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 12:55

Recently, the film Beirut Hotel was censored by the Lebanese General Security on the ground that it can trigger sectarian/political clashes; this is a chapter of the continuous official and “private” cultural terrorism taking place in country which is said to be a free island in the Arab sea of dictatorship and oppression. How can a film, or any work of art for that matter, cause clashes!? And let’s assume it does, is the film the actual problem or is it the lack of tolerance so common in our society? Aren’t there greater problems to address?

[Hacking For Dummies] Breaking into iPhone SMS Database

Submitted by Moophz on Wed, 01/25/2012 - 13:59

Hacking iPhone SMS. Is a part of iPhone hacking for dummies.
The smarter your mobile phone is, the more hackable it becomes.

Abstract

I am not reinventing the wheel, this tutorial is provided as Informative and I do not hold any responsibility for miss usage in your personal life by violating other people's privacies. The goal is to learn how to hack your OWN iPhone and extract the SMS database (as an example) in order to protect yourself and avoid being hacked by malicious intruders whenver you are connected to 3G or any other wireless connection.
As a brief, this document is about hacking and exploiting iPhone vulnerbilities in order to extract the iPhone user's SMS database. You do not need to be a Hacking Guru, many times you can rely on other people's stupidity and bad configurations in order to achieve your goals.

Nadine Mazloum - Citizens of the World Against Belo Monte

Submitted by Moophz on Wed, 01/18/2012 - 14:16

Lebanese independent video journalist, Nadine Mazloum has recently released an online environmental video petition entitled: "Citizens of the World Against Belo Monte". For those of you who do not know what or where Belo Monte is, here's some info. Belo Monte is a dam in the making along Brazils Xingu River located in the heart of the Amazon Rain Forest. This dam among completion will inundate an estimated 400 thousand hectares of forest, as well as deem over 40 thousand indigenous people homeless.

Sarcasm, The Unforgettable Message Between Quotations

Submitted by Moophz on Sun, 12/18/2011 - 12:19

-- Written by Aline Raoub.

Understanding this issue as an outsider of the sarcasm world might be all so abstract. Concluding the world of sarcasm is much wider than setting it as an unacceptable behavior for the human kind. Deeply thinking, sarcasm is not in human’s nature, but something learned and gained through time holding on to the experience if the person indeed is capable of hitting the spot and manipulating other people emotionally. 

Derision or disdain which is harshly used, often offensively and disapprovingly, destructs feelings and maybe sometimes, self-confidence by the distinctive quality of spoken words and revealed by vocal inflection. I find that fun. And what’s even funnier, the misunderstanding of it, for some cannot really acknowledge ironic words and might find it more as sincerity. Not to mention that being sarcastic is definitely not being disrespectful. The use of irony introduces an aspect of absurdity which may make the criticism seem more polite and less aggressive. Sarcasm can frequently be unnoticed in print form, oftentimes requiring the modulation or tone of voice to indicate the wisecrack.

The Dark Republic

Submitted by Mi on Sun, 12/11/2011 - 19:38
Electricity is one of the most discussed national predicaments in Lebanon; this field has been ailing since the start of the civil war in 1975 and it remains a pressing issue two decades after peace was achieved. Many power plans were submitted, many power plants were improved and it has been consuming substantial expenditures for what is approximately 22 years now. Yet, Lebanese citizens are still dreaming of a day where they gain, a human right like advanced countries, 24 hours of electricity daily.

Sperm Data Storage (SDS) - A new way to expand your storage space

Submitted by Moophz on Sat, 12/10/2011 - 14:53

Introduction to SDS: Sperm Data Storage

Written By Moophz Himself and Mohamad Chammas.

Did you know that a single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information?

Meaning that, during 3 seconds long ejaculation, more than 11,250 TERA bytes of information is transmitted / ejected.
11,250 Terabytes can be transmitted into approx. 11, 250, 00 Gigabytes or 11,250,000,000 Megabytes. In other words, it would take you 2853 years to download a 3 seconds long ejaculation on a 1 Mbps connection.

This is an astonishing number. Forget everything you know about fiber optics, you have a faster, more reliable and never ending information transmitter!

Friday I'm In Love!

Submitted by Mi on Sun, 12/04/2011 - 17:45
AWESOMENESS! Yes, what really defined awesomeness this weekend was the Underrated Crew party that was held on Friday, December 2nd. Its theme alluding to the song “Friday, I’m In Love” made it perfect for creating a friendly and homey atmosphere.

The Dilemma

Submitted by Mi on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 21:09

Politics is a word often met with disgust or distrust in Lebanon; it reminds the vast majority of the Lebanese population of the misery they live in. Most of the Lebanese are branded happy, friendly, open-minded, multilingual and educated, altogether with unsatisfied; Lebanon is the symbol of how the lack of national unity combined with a number of equivalently prominent sects can tear a country apart, rendering it a muddle of conflicts and corruption.

Youssef Nassar

Submitted by Moophz on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 14:12
Youssef Nassar is a Lebanese-Canadian artist born on November 15, 1990. He graduated from Louaize School, and then majored in Audiovisual at Notre Dame University in order to develop his interest in Photography, Videography, and Digital Arts. 
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