My Sun Certified System Admin notes
It is little old but I found it useful from time to time. My Notes
no-www
I removed www from my site name, so from now on it is only http://rayed.com/, www.rayed.com will be still acceptable but will be redirect to rayed.com.
Here is how it is done in Apache:
<VirtualHost *> ServerName www.rayed.com Redirect permanent / http://rayed.com/ </VirtualHost>
Figlet
FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text, it mainly for UNIX but you can find other versions for other OSes.
http://www.figlet.org/
_ _ __ __ _ _ _ ___ __| | ___ ___ _ __ ___ | '__/ _` | | | |/ _ \/ _` | / __/ _ \| '_ ` _ \ | | | (_| | |_| | __/ (_| || (_| (_) | | | | | | |_| \__,_|\__, |\___|\__,_(_)___\___/|_| |_| |_| |___/
Google toolbar now for Firefox
I never liked Google toolbar anyway, but for those who can’t live without it here it is:
Google Firefox toolbar
Ubuntu Linux?
Lately I raed (and heared) a lot of good things about Ubuntu Linux, my understanding is that Ubuntu is a user friendly Debian (I am sure it is more than that).
My friend Osama Aldosari gave me a copy of Ubuntu CD, and made think of installing it on my laptop, more to come one the experince.
Read more about Ubuntu at Wikipedia
Archive link fixed
I added small Javascript to the list:
<select onchange=" location.href= this.options[this.selectedIndex].value; ">
My wife’s painting
My wife bought this lovely painting:
The painting is by an Iraqi artist -I couldn’t get the name- check other paitings from www.iraqifineart.com
Moved to WordPress
I moved my blog from Blogger to WordPress the process was very easy, but I am still having difficulties with slow parts of WordPress!
Moving my blog from Blogger to WordPress
I am thinking seriously about moving from Blogger to WordPress, Blogger is really great service, I mainly choose it because it doesn’t need any server side scripting at all, i.e. it will work with SAUDI NET myweb service.
But lately I moved some parts of my site to a new server, and I now have a more reliable Apache+PHP+MySQL installation, and start playing with wordpress and it was really cool feature, I even built a plugin 🙂
any way here is my test wordpress page: (http://rayed.rayed.com/wordpress/)
My new Nokia 6230i
I bought a new Nokia 6230i mobile phone after I my old Nokia 6610 was stolen (actually dropped in a cap while he drove me home).
The new phone comes with 1.3 Megapixel camera see a sample picture
Luckily STC started providing MMS service, which allows me to send emails from mobile phone, so now I can take a picture from mobile phone and email it direclty my flickr account, or I can blog by sending an email to my Blogger email address.