Archive for October, 2007

The perfect email setup… for me

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Email has always been a problem for me. Using web interfaces is a pain. Even the new JavaScript, single-page apps nowadays are bloated and slow. You can’t compare them to evolution, thunderbird or even outlook Most Email Service Providers (ESPs) do provide POP3, but POP3 doesn’t support folders and is not a good [...]

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Happy Eid & عيد مبارك

Friday, October 12th, 2007

كل عام و أنتم بخير

Happy Eid

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Making the most out of a 64MB VPS

Saturday, October 6th, 2007

About 2 months ago I got myself a Virtual Private Server(VPS) from http://www.vpsvillage.com. I am paying $5 a month for a Xen virtual machine with 64MB of RAM and a 4GB hard disk. I have lots of plans for my VPS. The most essential is hosting my website (basically this blog plus a small rails [...]

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