Empathy, The New Kid On The Block
2009-02-05
If you’ve used Linux as a desktop, you’ll know it’s only playing catch-up when it comes to instant messaging. I’ve been using Pidgin since was called Gaim, I think I started using it back in 2003. I love how minimalistic it is. Sadly the developers are going nowhere with it, at least that’s my (as well as a few others) humble opinion.
Alf Mabrook Tamer
2009-02-05
This is a shout out to my old friend Tamer, yet another fallen soldier from the ranks of bachelorism. We attended his wedding last night it was awesome!
Congrats man and good luck on your new life.
Xbox 360
2009-02-02
So I finally coughed up the money to get an Xbox 360, the thing is, every store that sells the Xbox in Jordan is highly overpriced (423$ as opposed to 199$ for the Arcade version) and the consoles are VERY old, dating back to 2007. This means they are using the old chips which are highly not recommended. A friend of mine, Tamer, came from Bahrain Friday and was kind enough to pick up the console for me. Thanks man ^_^.
Google Chrome On Ubuntu
2008-09-05
Slow Browsing Under Ubuntu
2008-08-23
EDIT: This post only covers IPv6, please check the update post which covers IPv6 and Firefox
Today when I rebooted to my Windows installation which I very rarely do, I noticed that browsing under Windows feels much faster than under Ubuntu. After booting back to Ubuntu I noticed the “looking up domain.tld” part was taking a lot of time, which seemed a little odd.
Microsoft Keyboard Function Key Fix
2008-07-14
I’ve owned a Microsoft MultiMedia Keyboard 1.0A for years now. It’s a well belt keyboard to say the least. Only one problem though, the “F Lock” key. As a Linux user I have no use for the “Special” keys Microsoft added to the keyboard, and the button always starts turned off, no way to fix it.
My Best Friend Got Married!!
2008-07-08
Congrats Faris on your wedding. I wish you and your wife all the happiness and prosperity this world has to offer.
Good luck
And I got a famous friend
2008-06-09
The Express Line
2008-06-06
FreeBSD, Postfix, Dovecot, and Active Directory
2008-05-25
A while back one of my clients had an unpatched qmail server configured with local system users, it was set up in a collocation long before I took over. After having to listen to a lot of complaints about slow internet connectivity I found out that 40-50MB attachments were very common. Another thing I didn’t like about this set-up is the fact I had to maintain 2 password databases; An Active Directory for local user login and a shadow file for mail. So a local set-up with Active Directory as a back end was needed.
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