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Building Voice Infrastructure in Developing Regions
The “VoIP-4D Primer” is a free guide available in four major languages. The work is an effort to disseminate the use of telephony over the Internet in developing regions. The 40-page guide targets both technical and non-technical readers. The first part presents the essentials of telephony over the Internet. For those interested in the more…
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cygwin can run GUI applications!
cygwin can run GUI applications! Cygwin not only run console applications but also can run GUI applications such as gvim, xman, and xemacs; But you have to run startx to start graphical system at first. Typically xemacs can run form the text console but gvim and xman need to run from the graphical console, i.e.…
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Last year I restarted my dream again, Ubuntu!
I really fond of open source software, there are several reason, stating it again is a repetition, so I will just put some links: The Cathedral and the Bazaar How To Become A Hacker http://www.opensource.org/ Several years ago, I have tried Sun Solaris, Free BSD, Redhat 7.0 and Mandrake, they all was nice, but I…
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Sending Subversion Commit Information by Email
On each commit, I want to send email with the commit details to a list of emails.This is necessary to keep everyone involved updated. We are using subversion versioncontrol system on windows, we use cygwin extensively to automate frequent tasks.Here are the steps to do so: Environment:– Windows XP Service Pack 2– Cygwin DLL release…
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Build you own Linux distribution
It is amazing how it is easy to build your own Linux distribution, look at:http://www.gnewsense.org/Builder/HowToCreateYourOwnGNULinuxDistributionhttp://www.rocklinux.org/wiki/Main_Page You can also easily build you own Live CD from any working Linux installation, look at:http://www.linux-live.org/ It is a matter of more several years and Linux will be the public operating system for everyone. From ahm507.blogspot.com
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Bash Script Tutorial and Advanced Guide
In automating tasks, we should create scripts, the most common scriptinglanguage available is bash, in my effort to develop personal backupshell script I need to have bash tutorial, I found “A quick guide towriting scripts using the bash shell” athttp://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/bash-tute.html very helpful, asit focus on the basic concepts. I also made a google search on…
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German Company in Egypt and Open Source Solutions!
I have a friend working as a sales manager in a German company branch inEgypt, it seems he is a bout to leave them. The company sells LearningManagement Solutions and Business Process Management Solution, look atthese links: http://www.im-c.de/international/http://www.ids-scheer.com/ I always prefer open source solutions, this is a strategic direction for me, I found many open…
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Software Version Control – Subversion- Installation and Configuration
>> There is a bug in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, this article is best viewed with FireFox 2.0 Software Configuration Management (SCM) in Roger Pressman book Software Engineering: A Practitioner’s Approach, says that software configuration manage ment (SCM) is a “set of activities designed to control change by identifying the work products that are likely…