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Thank you so much for reporting Raficoo!

Tranlation from http://translate.google.com ... The continuing tension in Iraq: the arrest of a group suspected of terrorist financing operations After a temporary lull in the days that the Iraqi elections were held in January 30 (January), which last saw the flow of the Iraqi people of all national...

Finally DSL was released in Lebanon in Spring 2007. Unfortunately, this is NOT a good news. The packages are still very expensive and the features are VERY poor comparing to the outside World. 1/ It is slow. The smallest package is 128kbps and the biggest is 1MB. 2/ The bandwidth it VERY limited pe...

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A well-known industrial company has an opening as follows: Job Title: I.T. administrator Job Location: Beirut Job Overview: - administrate an existing Oracle Based System under W 2003 Server & Printer Sharing. - Participate in planning, migration and implementation of new applications. - Monitor...

For the moment, you may want to drop your tech. thoughts into "Computer & Internet".

They have been advertizing like crazy since the beggining of the war. It seems to be a normal dial-up with some kind of "web accelerator" software. Nothing very new. These softwares have been arround for a long time now. I would really doubt that it is as fast as they say. (But I suppose a...

I guess it is war time... Today, Friday 28 July 2006, by the end of the day, some people tried to attack our server. This forum was down for more than 30 minutes. I suppose it will happen again...

The name Lebanon (also "Loubnan" or "Lebnan") is derived from the Semitic root "LBN", meaning "white", a reference to snow-capped Mount Lebanon. In British English, the country has often traditionally been referred to with the definite article as the Lebanon,...

07.25.2006 1:59 PM EDT Israelis, Lebanese Blog To Each Other As War Rages 'This is the first conflict where the citizens of enemy countries are blogging in real time to each other,' Israeli blogger writes. by Gil Kaufman "Looking to the Good side of the WAR!!!" "Israel - finish Hizbo...

I don't think so... But what's the point of having game servers in Lebanon? They are useless for the moment. Local connections are too slow to play most online games, right?

Hi, This is a very common thing. It happens on many networks. Sometimes it is because the network is badly set and not maintained very well. Whatever the reasons, you should ALWAYS use a good firewall when you are connected to the Internet. WinXP's firewall is not bad for stopping incoming calls, bu...

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