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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Dream Full of surprises

Peace be upon you

Today I have got a very nice dream, the dream has lots of the human feelings (Fear, happiness, ...) let us take it from the start

The dream started where I was in a place that has lots of torn down buildings, the strange thing that most of this buildings was new, and under construction, I was walking in this buildings ruins, I was jumping from place to place, I made lots of successful jumps but I faced one that I stopped and I couldn't have the courage to complete, the jump was between 2 buildings + down the buildings is the land wasn't even, there was lots stones and rocks, the only thing that hold me down and stop me from doing this was the responsibility, someone was with me and I couldn't take chances while some life in my hands, so I step back, if I was alone, I may did this jump because I was going to do it but when I remember the people that hanging on me I step back, after that I moved to other place.
this place was so white, it was a lab at Samsung facility, imagine who I met there, I met Steve Jobs, he was missing with his iPhone, he was at Samsung to follow up some issues related to a product with the guys at the lab, suddenly happen something that was very strange, it is earthquake it was so strong, the Samsung building has part of it under ground connected to tunnel, this tunnel drops to City downtown, some how we managed to run from the building while it was collapsing, it was me and Steve and there was lots of people running, I found some kind of Van Car it takes about 14 passenger, I was of this passenger, I was setting at the last chair at the middle that's how I saw everyone in the van, it was white van, also all people in that car was very smart this was obvious from there personal devices, lots of small electronic devices, I forgot to tell you that I was the only one that has searchlight, suddenly we stop at the end of the tunnel, it was like disaster all the town is torn down, all buildings was mostly collapsed, I saw some kids trying to move from collapsed building to the normal land, when I reached there, I saw small girl about 7 or 8 years old, I ask her to give me her hand to help her, she said no, I will do it my self, and she told me lots of physics low stuff, she was calculating how to jump with minimum damage effect, suddenly I saw small kid also about 7 years old, he was saying very wise words about teaching the other kids something that make them gain their confidence again, all look at this kid and laugh while I was the only one who smiles to him and go with him, suddenly I woke up, I wished to know the rest :D, but for this point I am very happy, I hope that anyone analysis this :)

Thanks for your time.

BR
Ahmed Essam



P.S: I have had this dream in 2008 :D, nice to remember such a dream.

Thursday, June 02, 2011

Me, Cairo Startup weekend and Balooshy.

Peace be upon you

How are you? I am really sorry for not writing as usual but I promise to write more :)

First, I wasn't ignoring my blog or something, I was very loaded doing many things, isA I will disclose soon about the past month and why I wasn't on the blog so often

In 28th April 2011, Cairo Startup weekend took place in AUC, I participated with a project called "Balooshy", I didn't win any cash but I won "GEP Entrepreneurship master class", for me it was much better.

Now, I quite my job to start new thing that I wish it will work, it is called "Smartizer", Balooshy is one product of our company.

Read the story in Business monthly June 2011 issue.



I really wish to be able to write more in the blog and I wish that I can give you all knowledge I have :)

BR
Ahmed Essam

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Getting twitter feed while Twitter is blocked

I don't know if u know what is going on in Egypt but there is lots of problems with the government and they blocked twitter.

anyways, I think I do know how to get over it, the matter is simple, try to get any of twitter's IPs' and then connect to it using the IP

The problem with it is, the browsers will use it The IP as a Host in the HTTP header, I have tried with many plugin to use something else but I always get "the redirect code" but when I did telnet on the IP and Wrote the http my self it did work :D "how do write HTTP :D"
anyways, I looked for a simple client and I tried something and it is 100% working



#define PORT 80

#define HOST "128.121.243.228"

#define DIRSIZE 8192000

#define HTTP_HEADER "GET /statuses/user_timeline/Neo_4583.json HTTP/1.1\nHost: twitter.com\n\n"


char* strToSend = HTTP_HEADER;

char hostname[100];

char dir[DIRSIZE];

int sd;

struct sockaddr_in pin;

struct hostent *hp;

strcpy(hostname,HOST);


if ((hp = gethostbyname(hostname)) == 0) {

exit(1);

}

memset(&pin, 0, sizeof(pin));

pin.sin_family = AF_INET;

pin.sin_addr.s_addr = ((struct in_addr *)(hp->h_addr))->s_addr;

pin.sin_port = htons(PORT);

if ((sd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) == -1) {

perror("socket");

exit(1);

}

if (connect(sd,(struct sockaddr *) &pin, sizeof(pin)) == -1) {

perror("connect");

exit(1);

}


if (send(sd, strToSend, strlen(strToSend), 0) == -1) {

exit(1);

}

if (recv(sd, dir, DIRSIZE, MSG_WAITALL) == -1) {

exit(1);

}else {

// The data is ready to be served

printf("%s\n", dir);

}

close(sd);



"Next step, modify the HTTP header in the browser so it works correctly with twitter"
Enjoy the code
Thanks for your time

BR
Ahmed Essam