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 the 'Linux' Category

I recently came across a need to search the “bulletin officiel” in Morocco, which is a government magazine that lists laws, verdicts, explanations as well as all other official material. Given that the solution presented by a govenment website didn’t allow searching this database, I decided to create a search engine that parses, indexes and [...]

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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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Beryl + Netbeans blank window problem

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Assuming that you have Beryl installed and configured, it is known that Netbeans will start and display a blank screen. This is due to the fact that Beryl doesn’t support SWT yet. This is a workaround this situation:
#yum install libXp
assuming you’re using bash
$ echo “export AWT_TOOLKIT=’MToolkit’” >> ~/.bashrc
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