Tarik Guelzim

Computer Science, Networking, Telecom, Web 2.0 & Open Source

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.


--- Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)

Archive for July, 2008

I have configured  an old   laptop I owned  to access the wireless network I have. The box runs fedora core 5 and a mini pci 1350 card.  Since there’s a lack of documentation online on how to install and configure some hardware I decided to share my experise in this area with everyone, so buckle [...]

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Dropping to Single Mode from GRUB

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Lately I have locked myself out my gentoo linux box and not been able to log on to root.
This situation happens to most of Careless! Linux users, but thanks to the GRUB flags, one might
able to overcome this situation with ease.
my /boot/grub/grub.conf looks like this
on your machine, you can do
1. $more /boot/grub/grub.conf to view yours
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I recently came across a project in which I had to setup a clustered J2EE system based on TOMCAT and MySQL. The project required fail safe environment, load balancing and clustering of a web based application in a Vmware contained setup. Nevertheless, installing and configuring 15 linux machines is a tiring and time consuming task, [...]

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In this article, I am going to share my experience and solutions to problems I encountered while currently building a web application in Struts and Dojo.

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