Osama’s Blog

I am contemplating the task of rebuilding my Linux box at home, it’s currently running Mandrake 10.1 and has 3 Hard Disks (2×18GB+1×160GB) and a DVDRW Drive…

Here’s What I’m thinking of:

• Replace 18GB Hard Disks with Larger ones (200GB?)
• Ubuntu - I really like the slogan “Linux for Humans“…
• Implement Software RAID (Mirroring RAID1 or RAID5)
• A New Partitioning Scheme (I wish we had Native zfs or Linux)
• A New Backup Strategy using rsnapshot

IBM Developerworks has this nice introduction to linear optimization

Web 2.0 Colour Palette list all the web 2.0 sites and the colors used in them….

I just dugg lifehacker’s guide to mastering wget. wget is one of my favourite tools on Linux, and many of my scripts use it.

I am usually logged into my home pc even when i’m at work (ssh/putty are great) and whenever I want to download stuff I just wget it.

It’s also a great mirroring tool… just do a wget -r http://www.test.com/

Room 101 has a list of GUIs since 1984.. here

Step by step tutorial to create groovy vector art. I thought I’d share this crash course in creating amazingly hot vector artwork.

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an easy way to do incremental snapshots with rsync and ssh is described here

This is a list of firefox extensions, categorized by econsultant.com

I want a Firefox Extension to … 200+ common problems solved : eConsultant

You can never be afraid of testing something with VMWare’s Virtual Appliances Directory, especially since VMWare Server and Player are now free.

Askyahoo answers the question Why is it that computers never have a “B” drive? but they are dead wrong.

They say “ Technically speaking, the “computer” isn’t missing the B drive, it’s just that later Microsoft operating systems have omitted it as unnecessary. You can read more about the ins and outs of archaic drive systems at Microsoft Support. ” but don’t they know that it has never been omitted from Microsoft operating systems?

If you install a second floppy drive it will still show as B:

Linux/Unix has a better paradigm, they do not use drive letters but you can mount any floppy drive/Hard Disk/CD/DVD/USB Storage in any folder that you want.

p.s. I haven’t used a floppy drive in 4 years so I think we can even remove the A: floppy.