Hatem ZIDI
👋🏻 Hey! I’m Hatem ZIDI, I break down tech, wrestle with impossible projects, and pretend knowing what I’m doing.
Brace yourself for rants, accidental wisdom, and random epiphanies on tech, life, and why “it depends” solves everything.
Stay curious—or just stay confused. Either works!


Y2K38 countdown starts saturday 19.01.2008

“I just wanted to remind everyone that Saturday, January 19th 2008 will mark the beginning of the 30-year countdown to the Y2K38 bug, when Unix time will overflow 32 bits. Some 30-year loan calculation software might start having problems with this over the weekend.”

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googleTalk can be a translator too

google released 23 translation chat-bots.
you just send them a message and they’ll reply back with the translation within a second.
you can use it inside Google Talk or any other jabber client.

List of bots:
ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en
Explanation on the language codes:
EN = English, NL = Dutch, DE = German, ES = Spanish, FR = French, IT = Italian, KO = Korean, RU = Russian, JA = Japanese, ZH = Chinese.

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