CIA: Operation Ajax

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Labels: Computer, Persian history

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  Steve! we still love you...

Labels: Art, Computer, General

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  Blogger in Persian language

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I read the most interesting news about Blogger today, and it made me very very happy to see that Persian language is added to the list of Blogger languages.

It's a long time since the last time I wrote a post here. I follow the news almost everyday via the BBC Persian website, and send the interesting news that I find to the email address of this weblog: fakhredinblog@gmail.com . I hope I will have a time to write about those topics here, instead of just keeping them in an archive.

Anyway, I read today in BBC-Persian that "Blogger has added Persian Language to its services." I logged-in into Blogger immediately to see it by my own eyes! It is wonderful! It is so professional that they named the language "Persian," and even nicer that they call the local name of the language "پارسی [pronounce: parsi]" and not "فارسی [pronounce: farsi]". This is great! I'm not kidding! Everybody understand the connection between "Persian" and "[parsi]" very easily, but not the connection between "Persian" and "[farsi]." That's why many people use the name "Farsi" in English language instead. If we use the local name of the language as "[parsi]" a big deal of the problem is automatically solved.

This is also true about the name of Persian Gulf. If we call the country "Persia," nobody would doubt that the name of the gulf in the south of the country is Persian Gulf. However, if we use the name "Iran" (which is the name of the country in Persian language), there are of course people who like to give Persian Gulf another name. By the way, I should not forget to write a post later that it would be very naive to think that the conflict about the name of Persian Gulf is happily ended. This is not the case at all! The effort of the Arabic countries in this regard is not reduced, but is very well increased. We will loos this game very soon if we do not confront it systematically.

I should add this about Persian language in Blogger that BBC-Persian said according to the Time Magazine that "Persian language is the 28th most common spoken language in the world, but in weblogs stands very closely to French, which is the second most used language."

Labels: Computer, General, Persian language

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  Snap Shots, quick preview of the links

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You may have noticed that I recently added a section to the right column of the page titled "Snap Shots, quick preview of the links." If this option is on, it will show a small white icon beside each link, and if you move your mouse over it, it will show you a preview of that page.

I think it is a very useful programme, but I noticed that in some computers (or in some particular browsers) it may slow down the speed or freeze the programme for a while. Therefore, I added this option in the page for the readers to turn it on and off as they wish. If your computer does not slow down by this programme, give it a try.

Labels: Computer, General

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  Google Earth 4.2: Google Sky!

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You know about Google Earth, don't you? It is an wonderful work from Google by which you can observe satellite images from every corner of the earth. Yesterday a new version of Google Earth is released; version 4.2. Amazing thing about this version is that you can observe not only the "Earth" but also the "Sky!" With this new option you sit behind your computer and look at the hundred millions of stars.

I installed the program on my MacBookPro just a few minutes ago, and took this photo of Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, NGC 224). I also took a look at the planets, but suddenly the computer hanged! This is very unusual for a Mac computer. Anyhow, happily it works fine now.

Labels: Astronomy, Computer

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  Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs

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Before I start the section Fakhredin Blog Webrambles (you can now find it at the right side of the page), I used to save interesting links that I found without categorizing them. Today, in the middle of hundreds of those unsorted link archive, I saw this one from BBC: "Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs." Bill Gates is the chief of Microsoft, and Steve Jobs is the chief of Apple and Pixar film animation studio. The interesting thing is that they have the same age! They are both 51 years old!

I became interested in the discussion about Mac versus PC, when I started using Apple a few month ago. If you ask me I say that a Mac is much much better than a PC. Not only the design of all Mac computers and accessories is beautiful, they also work much more smoothly.

Here is what BBC said about Bill and Steve:

Steve Jobs
Born in 1955
Chief executive of Apple and Pixar film animation studio
Wealth estimated at $2bn

1. Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in the area now known as Silicon Valley.
2. Adopted in his infancy, as an adult he traced his biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.
3. He ran his first business from a garage with his friend Steve Wozniak.
4. He built his business on delivering a user-friendly personal computer for ordinary people.
5. He named the Apple Corporation after his favourite fruit.
6. Forced out of Apple in the mid 80s, he was brought back a decade later to salvage its fortunes.
7. Apple became the largest Internet music business earlier this year, selling 10 million tunes in four months.
8. He built up the Pixar computer animation studio which has made films including Finding Nemo, A Bug's Life and the Toy Story films
9. The philosophy of one of the characters in "A Bug's Life" mirrors Jobs' own motivation to "make a difference".
10. 10. He is a vegetarian, as is his wife Laurene whom he married in 1991.

Bill Gates
Born in 1955
Chief Software Architect at Microsoft
Wealth estimated at $40bn

1. Bill Gates had sold his first programme by the age of 17. His school paid him $4,200 for a programme on time-tabling.
2. He dropped out of Harvard to concentrate on his business.
3. Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 and served as Chief Executive Officer until 2000.
4. The secret of Microsoft's wealth was to license its software so that earnings rose in proportion to the number of users.
5. He is currently working on the next generation of Microsoft software for Internet platform and services.
6. He has donated many billions of dollars to charity through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
7. A spoof Internet report that he had been shot dead knocked $3bn off the Korean stock market.
8. His fortune was recently put at $40bn down from $100bn during the dot.com boom.
9. Around 90% of the world's computers run on Microsoft's Windows software leading to complaints of anti-competitive tactics.
10. E-mails from bill@microsoft.com sent to thousands of people this summer were fakes and carried a computer virus.

Labels: Computer

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