Removal

have you installed Ubuntu beside windows 7 ? and now you are not using it and want to remove it ? if this is your reason or any other, this is a simple step-by-step procedure to remove ubuntu and/or merge you current windows volume with the empty partition yield from removing Ubuntu...

I don't claim inventing this, because It is a combination from many how to do tutorials online that I found.

PLEASE PRINT THIS BEFORE STARTING, since you are going to restart the PC.

1- First you need to have the "Windows 7 repair disc", if you don't have it, you can easily creat one by the following:

a- insert an empty CD

b- Go to the Start Menu --> All Programs --> maintenance --> Create a System Repair Disc

c- Click Create

2- In this Step we are going to remove the Ubuntu Grub, so insert the repair CD and restart the computer, and press F12 so you can go to the boot menu and chose to boot from the CD/DVD ROM drive.

3- when you enter the menu:

a- Click on the "Command Prompt" option, then type : bootsect/nt60 C: /mbr

b- after the above finished, type exit.

c- Click restart

4- Now you should be able to boot to windows directly.

5- Now you will have "partition Wizard Home Edition" for here

a- after installing you will see all the partitions you have

b- delete the Ubuntu partition, and the Linux swap Partition.

c- resize your current partition to include the deleted ones

d- Click Apply on the top left.

6- YOU ARE DONE :-D

Any Questions or Comments are welcomed :-)

Boredom !

Define Boring !
Originally uploaded by salam khalifa

Why do we need to mine data in the first place?!
This subject was interesting in the beginning, but towards the end it was like "so what". I don't know why! maybe because of the project topic I've chosen, or the way the subject was presented ?! or that I am not sure the applications of these topics??

If you have any ides Y, please tell me!
or if you this Data Mining is not boring! tell me Y

Insults!

Insults are coming over and over, each time we are insulted, we say "nothing worse is going to happen", Apparently we are not getting the message; especially after today's insult. and it is more insulting when you are insulted by some you insulted before (almost, maybe this person consider it as an insult while we don't), I think the reason behind this series of insults is according to some people "is because we didn't listen to the elders" in the first place, well perhaps.

UPDATE[May 23 2010]
They Just Keep coming :@

UPDATE[June 22 2010]
And Coming :@
Is this Monthly basis or by Incident
I am sure many of the readers will not understand what is this, but to those who understood, what do you think the reason was?!

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Now what?!

i was reading through my AI ( Artificial Intelligence) notes, i felt that people are trying to make something out of nothing!

people are so happy that Blue Deep won Kasparov! but come on lets face it, OK Blue Deep won 3 times, but at the same time Kasparov won 1 time and 2 draws, so regardless to the complexity of the machine, human can beat it!

Another thing, when we play chess, we are really thinking of it, there exist some kind of feeling, there is consciousness which helps us to know what is very trivial and what does really needs to spent time in thinking. machines does not have this grace, it just calculate each and every possibility.

Another case, human face recognition system, tell me, how much time do you take to recognize your mother face?, if you saw me just yesterday; can you know me today? do u have to compare these faces against the faces in your memory every time you see a face ?!

So I don't think that we can go far, with the existing algorithms and current computer architecture.

The Turing Test!

As-salamu Alykom Everyone,

Yesterday night, a youtube addicted friend sent some amazing links which i want to share with you people and to start my first Blog as well.

The first video is about a female humanoid robot called Actroid, it(she) is very amazing she talks move her hands, body, and eyes just like a real human. it was there at the Tokyo International Robot Expo in December of 2005

The second video is also a female humanoid robot called Repliee Q1expo, she is the "most humanlike android ever built—and also quite attractive" said Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University. This robot blinks, her eyes dart around, her head shifts, her mouth twitches and sometimes she even smiles.With the help of sensors placed around the room,she also reacts to sound and movement (you can notice that in the video). The thing about this robot is no the intelligence- there is no intelligence machine inside- it is all about the powerful effect of subtle movement on the perception of humanness. 

But still -at least in my point of view- I don't think we did much!  just imagine how many loops are there in the program in either robot to make them blink or move their hand or eyes, imagine also the number of calculations made for the second robot in order to react to sounds and movements! we humans don't have to calculate how many time to blink in a minute, or what is the minimum amount of light or sound to make a reaction! Scientists are still wondering what makes us like this ?! well, i think it is the sole, because our sole is what keeps our bodies and brains alive! these robot does not have any lives, they are based on calculations, they don't have consciousness to be able to learn and feel. so i don't think we can reach a machine that can pass the Turing Test with 100/100 score! 

at last, Enjoy the videos :)

First Vedio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=091ugdiojEM&feature=related

Second Vedio:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY8-sJS0W1I&feature=related

hello

this is my first time and  iam just tryin' lol :)