http://funinc.org/w The life and time of the new Deeb Family Thu, 08 May 2008 20:07:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 23-09-2007 departure from Beirut airport, destination Malpensa, Milano Arrived there at 7:00AM - spent 1:45 between the huge crowd that was there. Most of the people simply passing thru Milan, as it is the cheapest airport this time of the year. Arrived at Stazione Centrale (downtown Milan) at 9:30 - We took ... http://funinc.org/w/20080506/beirut-milano.moo/ As I said in my earlier post, almost everything was set. We used google-earth and google-maps to find the location of all our hotels. We also used google calendar with sms notifications to set reminders for our train departure times. We packed light, not as light as we should have though. But ... http://funinc.org/w/20080506/preparations-for-italy.moo/ We've been married for 2 months, and were both looking forward to this trip :) Our agent, Amin, had proposed a list of places to go and things to see. He also made arrangements for all our hotel and train/plane tickets. So most of the trip was layed out before hand. We ... http://funinc.org/w/20080506/italian-holiday.moo/ Strange how it goes after one's been married for a while. Not a long time, just a while... Before we were married we would spend lots of time out and about, visiting every single restaurant one could think of (from AL Zouhour in Bourj Hammoud to L'Entrecote de Paris). And we ... http://funinc.org/w/20080505/dinner-and-a-movie.moo/ MySQL incremental backups can be acheived using the --log-bin option. For more information about that and for the original source of the following code, please see the mysql ref. manual. Now to the code: I added some logging to the script [ad#ad-1] #!/bin/bash MODE=$1 MYSQLUSER=backup FTPUSER=ftpuser FTPPASS=ftppass BINLOGPATH=/var/lib/mysql BINLOGNAME=mysql-bin ARCHIVEPATH=/var/data/backups/mysql/ setRead() { # change properties on binlog path sudo chmod o+rx $BINLOGPATH sudo chmod o+r ... http://funinc.org/w/20080424/mysql-incremental-backups.moo/ The Boss, our cat, aka ta2'oush / minet / inta ya / etc... likes to cuddle in my lap as soon as I start working! Here's a pic Paypouy took earlier :) http://funinc.org/w/20080405/me-and-the-boss-formerly-known-as-ta2oush.moo/ I've always liked one-liners. Here's one (almost) for installing the latest webmin on almost any linux out there! #!/bin/bash EXT=".rpm" PMAN="rpm -U" if [ -e /etc/debian_version ]; then EXT=".deb"; PMAN="dpkg -i" fi wget http://webmin.com -O - | grep $EXT | grep -o 'http://[^"]*' | xargs wget -O webmin_latest$EXT; $PMAN webmin_latest$EXT [ad#ad-1] You could copy and past the above in ... http://funinc.org/w/20080331/installupdate-webmin.moo/ I've been using AWN for a while, but was frustrated that some basic applets are not there. So I wrote one, last night, and will try to get my head around pygtk to write others if I find the time :) the applet I needed is the Network Monitor applet. Here's ... http://funinc.org/w/20080324/network-monitor-for-avant-window-navigator.moo/ OK, so what else would one need from an IDE. It's all there in a simple script. Here's my django IDE :) gnome-terminal \ --hide-menubar \ --tab-with-profile=dev --working-directory=/home/abdallah/Projects/ -e "python manage.py runserver" -t "server" \ ... http://funinc.org/w/20080314/my-dev-ide.moo/ set the folowing: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoLowDiskSpaceChecks  => 1 And you're done :) http://funinc.org/w/20080103/how-to-disable-low-disk-space-checks-in-windows-vista.moo/