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Here I am posting Live a real time experience from Al-Azhar conference centrer, EED Egyptian Engineering Day organized by IEEE egypt, organization wasn't that great, messy and everything takes long time to get it done. the 1st impression it is like this Chinese events where every one having 2x2 m or 1x1.5 meters to show whatever they have, the students gets the lions bite where they demonstrate there graduation projects, lots of interesting stuff.

A friend and a colleague asked me to help him on setting up SVN with apache authentication, after a little bit of googling I find a nice-easy-to-use-howto at archlinux website., which covers the SVN + Apache Basic Authentication, but here I'll talk about the Digest Authentication since it is more secure than apache basic authentication.

Storm " My Desktop PC " which running my home use Asterisk Server CodeName: Nothing , was always running GNU/Linux Ubuntu distribution, but at some point I feel I want to learn something new , something much more stronger , so I moved Storm to OpenBSD 4.3 after few hours of fighing with the manuals again, don`t want to lose the harddisk data " which was was almost gone " also the official new release 4.3 will out 1

It is happening again, some days I sleep normally " which means i wake up every couple of hours and go back to sleep again " and most of days most of the night i'm awake can't sleep having Insomnia , again I become something strange something I can't understand myself, most of the time I Don't understand my own behavior my own actions and reactions, it just i feel there is something wrong and that is it but i never knew what it is... this time seems to be a big one never know when it will ends but it has to.

Long time since my last post AGAIN, sometimes i feel i just wanna drop out this website, but i think and i talk to my self saying " no no don't do that , you will have some free time someday and organize your life " so i keep it, Okay it been along time I`m using Ubuntu on my laptop "Desert" and on my desktop "Storm" and i had too many problems with feisty and gutsy kernels " when i close the laptop LED the laptop froze " i know it was a kernel / acpi t

Hello World!!!

at last after like 2 years with a shared 2MB internet Connectivity, I have my own 256K connection .. but it is mine i can do whatever i want with it and with the port fwd ,,,,, finally i can have my own asterisk server online with all the amazing feature i need .... and using wi-fi is more fun " TV + nice sofa + laptop + internet = rulz "

Pidgin is a multi protocol IM application , which supports lots of protocols like yahoo, msn , icq , japper " gtalk " and more. as far as i remember the appendices was the headers of gtk2.0, i'm not sure about the rest. anyway let us start compiling pidgin sure you can find packages for your distro. but i prefer to compile it from the source ;-)

Again it's the 5th of November it's been one year from my 1st post a FULL YEAR ! so let us take a look on what changed....

Work as usually ups and downs but i picked up some new technologies and new tricks as always.

Yesterday the last Friday of July was the System Administrator Appreciation Day , so happy sysadmin day for all the good sysadmins around the world, unfortunately some people thinks that administrators always relaxed and have so little work as long as the system is up and running, but it's not true, they always keep maintaining the services making sure everything running and update and many many other things . anyway I wish you all had a great day, not like me..

Friday, a day off for me I`m up since 7 am on my computer doing lots of stuff working , reading , chatting , emails ,etc ,etc ,etc. Even I'm so tired from the whole week work i couldn't get much sleep, i went to pray , back working on a problem with our router at work for 3 hours or so , find another problem on one of the servers had to go to to office for another 4 hours , back home find another problem in the same machine and can't go back to the office, i was trying to fix but i couldn't and here i`m now at 2 AM and I'm still awake ..