Posix In Egypt Positively in Egypt

i know quite a lot of people who use billing.telecomegypt.com.eg to get their phone bills every three months. I use it. When I do. I use it to get the phone bills for myself and my relatives and my in-laws. So, about 6 months ago, when I got a blank page as a result. It pissed me off but I said to myself, "It's broken and they are going to fix it soon"

i use gnu screen extensively these days.

every work day, i ssh into my home pc and use irssi to log on to irc. i may also want to do other things like check my personal mail or my downloads. screen allows me to do that.

I am writing this as I move along with my tests and trials with fc6.

So last nite, finally, the torrents (i386 and x86_64) finished downloading with my generous friend's (Aly!) dsl. And then, he came over and we watched while I upgraded my laptop.

The format of this story will be in the comments as it happens.

I was with my brother this afternoon, and he told me the main reason he disliked Fedora Core was the absence of a central system control panel. So, I hacked this bash script to gather to give a GUI to all the system-config-* tools out there.

Remember, this took me 2 hours to learn about zenity AND kdialog AND code, so it's a bit of a hack <cough> a lot </cough>

Without further ado, I present to you, system-config-controlpanel:

WARNING!: The geek factor here is extremely high.

Ok, now that we got that out of the way. I had always wondered how Linux installers inserted the cd tray whenever I hit enter for the change of media. I always believed it was an obscure program that only a few knew about. Then I discovered the secret.

There was a time where I was mounting iso files and copying its contents to another folder. I was doing it quite a bit and got pretty tired of doing so by the third time or so. My solution was to write a shell script to mount the iso file.

A few weeks back, I was asked if AIX supported virtual ips; that is if a network card could have more than 1 ip.

And naturally, I said yes of course.

The Current Level 3 Manager is a shell script that helps the system administrator to set up current and manage it.

But what is current? current is an up2date rhn server clone. so with currentl3 it will set up the database, the ssl certificate, install dependencies, and configure clients to use the current server.

On Thursday 21st of September, 2006, the Government of Egypt (GOE) decreed that Daylight Savings Time (DST) will end 1 week early and that the time change will occur at midnite of that day.

Two different pages for supposedly the same site:

egypt.tv and www.egypt.tv

but there is a dns misconfiguration that happily shows us what web server is running and on what operating system.