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	<title>Zein's place on the net</title>
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	<description>my views on Australia, Egypt, Linux and other stuff</description>
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		<title>I am off to Egypt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After almost 2 years away from the land I love, I am going to Egypt for 2 weeks. I leave Sydney on Friday the 23rd of April. I can&#8217;t wait to see all my family and friends. Egypt, here I come!!
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		<link>http://www.azein.com/blog/2010/04/23/i-am-off-to-egypt/</link>
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		<title>Virgin Mobile Broadband with Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have being meaning to get myself a mobile broadband USB modem for casual use. It makes sense if you do not want to shell out $15-$20 for wifi an hour. Whenever I take my family for a holiday on the cost, or find myself waiting at an airport I can just get online. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.azein.com/blog/2009/12/27/virgin-mobile-broadband-with-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 is great</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just updated 3 machines to ubuntu 9.10. My Desktop, my netbook and my mythtv machine. All of them were updated flawlessly except my notebook where the grub2 configuration was not updated&#8230; Chaos followed until I figured out that the kernel being booted was messed up and subsequently figured out that I needed to fixup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.azein.com/blog/2009/12/17/ubuntu-9-10-is-great/</link>
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		<title>OpenSolaris Automagic homedir Creation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often with LDAP setups a user will log into a box where his home directory doesn&#8217;t exist. Linux provides us with a pam_mkhomedir.so module that automagically creates missing home directories for you. No such module exists for opensolaris. This bug report offers an alternative using autofs.

#!/bin/bash
# if the filesystem is available under /export/home, then serve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.azein.com/blog/2009/09/01/opensolaris-automagic-homedir-creation/</link>
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		<title>I Start a New Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bout 2 weeks a go, I started a new Job at ANU Supercomputer Facility (ANUSF). I must admit that I am a bit excited and hope that I will be content over there. This should be getting exciting in the next couple of months as they are installing a new supper computer. They are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.azein.com/blog/2009/07/19/i-start-a-new-job/</link>
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		<title>At long last I submit my thesis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I finally submitted my thesis titled &#8220;Use of Graphics Processing Units for Sparse Matrix Vector Products in Statistical Machine Learning Applications&#8221;. The relief I feel is amazing. To all the research students out there in the final stages of submitting, may your journey be easier than mine.
I am off to watch a movie or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.azein.com/blog/2009/04/24/at-long-last-i-submit-my-thesis/</link>
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		<title>Wistrons Pursebook with Arabic Keyboard. Cool.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking at the new Pursebook at engadget [link] and I noticed that the keyboard had Arabic characters. Kind of exciting I as I am planing to get myself one of these new ARM netbooks when they come out later this year. Having an Arabic enabled keyboad would be a big plus.
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		<link>http://www.azein.com/blog/2009/04/04/wistrons-pursebook-with-arabic-keyboard-cool/</link>
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		<title>Happy Eid &amp; كل عام و أنتم بخير</title>
		<description><![CDATA[كل عام و أنتم بخير و الى الله أقرب
May every Eid find you ever closer to Allah

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		<link>http://www.azein.com/blog/2008/10/01/happy_eid_ul_fitr/</link>
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		<title>Book Collection Managment for Linux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, the options available to Linux users interested in managing their book collections were limited. The situation was so bleak that I attempted to create my own web-based application. That app was fine until I tried to host it on my 64MB VPS and failed (RoR had a footprint of 60MB all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.azein.com/blog/2008/09/26/book-collection-managment-for-linux/</link>
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		<title>Dell Mini 9: Good Netbook but Pricing All Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have not found a netbook that I feel 100% comfortable with. All the products out there have either too much or too little. The EEEPC901 comes the closest but is a bit too expensive for my taste (I would guess it is all the extra SSD).
Zein&#8217;s perfect netbook:
o Linux based (No Windows tax for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.azein.com/blog/2008/09/06/dell-mini-9-good-netbook-but-pricing-all-wrong/</link>
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