Omar Abdel-Wahab

2010 Browser round-up

Omar — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:56:37 +0000

Tom's Hardware has been one of my favorite sites for years. The folks there carried a Grand Prix for 2010 browsers, obviously comparing all major browsers with one thing in mind: PERFORMANCE. An amazing comparison: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/firefox-chrome-opera,2558.html

Installing Nagios

Omar — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:03:36 +0000

Recently, I have been working on monitoring Linux servers in my company. We needed something that's rock-solid and reliable. Nagios was the answer to the needs and here is my quick and dirty how-to.

In this book, we are going to installing and configure Nagios to monitor few servers.

Even more good news: Microsoft ordered to pay $290M and stop selling Word 2007

Omar — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:01:25 +0000

Seems like 2009 won't go without few bells and whistles: Microsoft, accused by a patent infringement, lost a case, is ordered to pay $290M fine and stop selling Word 2007.

Firefox finally did it!

Omar — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:48:04 +0000

Yaay! Firefox is now the world most popular browser:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-weekly-200827-200951

Viva Open Source!

Moving to Emacs!

Omar — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:39:41 +0000

After a long VI life, I decided to move to Emacs. Though I still believe that VIM is a much better editor, Emacs has fixed some long going issues I had with VIM.

Entering the Mac World

Omar — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:48:39 +0000

After a long time of comparing Notebooks and Netbooks, I decided to buy a MacBook from Apple. I must say it feels a lot comfortable than GNOME, as stylish as KDE, much stable than Ubuntu and a heart full of BSD. I quickly installed most of the stuff I needed for my daily stuff, migrated my stuff from my last Linux laptop, got few things tweaked here and there and everything was as good as I wanted it. Another happy mac user.