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cd //

Shaker — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:16:04 +0000

Today @work, i typed the following command by mistake: cd // the funny thing it worked and gave me that i’m in // path!! shaker-vm2 // $ cd // shaker-vm2 // $ pwd // i don’t know if its normal thing, after all, good to know!

Installing Gentoo at Tilaa.nl VPS Hosting

Shaker — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:18:51 +0000

UPDATE, Tilaa now have Native Gentoo Support starting from August, so no need to follow this method as updated in the comments. Last week, i ordered a VPS from Tilaa.nl for testing, they use KVM Virtualization, IPv6 support and prices are good, also traceroute to middle east seems to be better than other locations, so [...]

qemu/kvm tap networking

Shaker — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:29:29 +0000

The following is the commands to create a virtual bridge and virtual interfaces so you can use it with kvm/qemu tap networking, Actually i think you can do all of this using a GUI interface via Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager), but i don’t know why i feel its difficult to use it, anyway. You will [...]

ping tip: CTRL + \ (backslash)

Shaker — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:56:44 +0000

I were checking one of the servers connectivity using ping, usually i use CTRL + \ (backslash) to send a quit signal for applications i run in terminal, but ping responded to the signal by showing ping status: 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1253 ttl=47 time=433 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1254 ttl=47 time=239 ms 64 [...]

Installing PPTP Client in Fedora 11

Shaker — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:00:58 +0000

Usually, When i wanna connect to online servers for checking them or whatever, I ssh to my work PC then to them, unfortunately our main gateway is down today. So i tried another solution which is trying our work VPN connection, Network Manager didn’t help me or maybe i didn’t know how to configure it [...]

Tornado, the real-time web server that powers FriendFeed, now open source.

Shaker — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:44:44 +0000

Facebook announced Tornado as new open source web server framework, it can be used to serve thousands of simultaneous connections, its high performance is really interesting, i think ill test it in the coming days. checkout the following links: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=301 http://bret.appspot.com/entry/tornado-web-server friendfeed website: http://friendfeed.com some details: Tornado is a non-blocking Web server framework written in [...]

not enough B12

Shaker — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:52:40 +0000

Two days ago i checked my B12 Vitamin, and as expected it wasn’t enough so the Dr suggested to take one injected and then i have to take drugs course, so as suggested i started by taking the injected and here we go; it really did effect, and i started to be more active, feel [...]

back

Shaker — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:39:20 +0000

whoops finally i feel am free,, for more than 2 months, am recalculating everything in my mind, and how the work was so much heavy those two months,, maybe a lot of you noticed i deleted a lot of posts, anyway, finally i just feel like i never tired before. I just started to play [...]

Linux examination machine

Shaker — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:42:31 +0000

Two days ago i did a nice interview, it was interactive exam, someone ask you through the phone to troubleshoot/do many things and in the same time he see what you do and what is the output of your commands, in my company, when i was interviewing people, all what i do is oral questions.. [...]

inittab to auto restart script

Shaker — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:50:44 +0000

Do you have a script/application that you want it running all the time, if it crashed then it auto restrart, auto launch on reboot ?, I have a php script that must run all the time, it do telnet to a port on another server and do some commands on that port… anyway i want [...]