ramez hanna's blog

i spent a long time trying to configure X to work with my two screens (one being the laptop screen and one being an external LCD) 

• Driving license taken away for driving over speed limit
• car fucked up because of a goverment that puts blocks in parking spaces with no warning signs that you can't see in the dark

EU, European Uninon is a joke, you'd expect the embassies to be well connected having one single sink for all Shengen requests, and that when one embassy needs some infor about your passport they w

I get the following error when trying to ssh to an  ubuntu dapper machine

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host 

i only tested thes instructions on Ubuntu, but it should work with any distro 

I wanted to create a Linux guest in XEN, this is how i did it i could go two ways, rpm based OR debian based

Welcome to my new website
The website was first a simple blog on blogspot and later on i migrated to Toenda CMS

I finally got my home box up, so far it used for testing out drupal, download files
well i want to make it a some sort of online desktop
not as in a web os way, but more like a google space for me, it will have

* all my files (photos, music, documents, etc...) -> google docs/photos OR webDAV
* bookmarks -> same as docs so far

More advanced features might be included in phase 2

* shell access (in case i die and go to hell) -- mainly for ssh access to other places -> PHPShell
* irc client ->
* rss reader ->

and in phase 3

I needed a quick smtp server t osend out emails from my drupal installation, so here is the "quick & dirty" way to do it
I decided to use postfix, the choices were sendmail, postfix, qmail and exim but sinse i have no experience whatsoever with exim i took it out, qmail is too much for such a small task (although i recommend it for high load servers) sendmail is too comples to configure, so that leaves me with postfix
all u need to do is

1. install postfix: yum install postfix or if you use a debian based distro apt-get install postfix

Google has added IMAP for Gmail. Starting 26 Oct, IMAP will be rolled out
to Gmail accounts.

-- from gmail what's new --

Just launched!

Free IMAP

Sync your inbox across devices instantly and automatically. Whether you read or write your email on your phone or on your desktop, changes you make to Gmail will be seen from anywhere you access your inbox. Don't fret if you don't see "IMAP Access" yet under the Settings menu. We're rolling it out to everyone over the next few days.
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