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Backup / Increase the Guest OS Drive on VirtualBox

Me2resh — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:20:38 +0000

Tried to search online for a way to increase the size of a vdi image, and there was no solution available online to do so.
I had windows XP installed on a virtual machine for mail, and testing purposes on the most hated IE6, and the drive ran out of a space, no solution or work around helped me increase it, all the solutions to modify the partition table, etc didn’t work for me.
Here is the simple steps i followed :

Add Another Disk Drive to the Guest OS
Backup the Guest Operating system drive using Norton Ghost to the newly added drive.
Copy the backup to a DVD image (I had to move it to the host drive first)
Make a new Virtual Machine with the new size you want.
Boot the new machine using Norton Ghost drive, and attach the DVD image with the created backup.
Restore the backup from the DVD created using Norton Ghost.
Restart the machine and you should have a working.
Delete the created DVD image, the extra hard disk, and the old machine.

If you have a shorter solution, please share

Compress and Split large files under Linux

Installing Zend Server on Ubuntu 10.04

Me2resh — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:45:45 +0000

I have been having issues trying to install Zend Server on Ubuntu 10.04 following the steps here http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Server-5-Community-Edition/zend-server.htm#deb_installation.htm
the problem was because there is a missing dependency for the “libmysqlclient15off” MySQL client library

to solve this, I had to install “libmysqlclient15off” from here (select the one that matches your architecture)

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/mysql-dfsg-5.0/

Then install it using the command line :

dpkg -i libmysqlclient15off_5.1.30really5.0.83-0ubuntu3_i386.deb

after that running the installation for Zend server from through repositories, will work with no interruptions.

Compress and Split large files under Linux

Me2resh — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:36:57 +0000

One of the common problems i used to face is transferring large files from Linux through mediums that doesn’t support large files, especially when it comes to more than 100 GB files, usually that is a virtual machine hard disk, or backup file.

To compress and split files under linux, this command can be used:

tar -cvj large-file.dvi | split -b 1000m -d - "small-files.tar.bz."

This command will compress and split the “large-file.dvi” to many files with size 1000mb for each, giving it the name “small-files.tar.bz.0, small-files.tar.bz.1, etc….”

To join the files together again, this command can be used:

cat small-files.tar.bz.* > large-file.tar.bz

and to extract the output file :

tar -xvj large-file.tar.bz

Recruitment System – One of my projects

Me2resh — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:57:04 +0000

I wanted to post this since a while.

The recruitment system is one of the applications I built for cha-international while working there beside developing the Middle East & North Africa travel awards system, mail marketing system, and converting all their servers from windows to Linux.

In brief the system has the following features :

Backend :

Managing countries, Nationalities, Languages, World Areas, System Announcements.

Managing Education Levels, Industries, Titles, Departments, System Reply Messages, Candidate Status, Candidates Classifications, and Quotes.

Testimonials section where the company can post its clients testimonials to be displayed in the frontend.

Managing 2 types of resumes : Uploaded Attachments, and Detailed filled forms Resumes.

Easy form for the data entry team to add the resumes from the backend.

Searching for candidates, using simple forms like name, email or advanced one which contains name, different nationalities, different languages, age, sex, industry, title, keyword in resume, etc.

Consultants area where they can post / close job posting, search for candidates, export word version of resumes, add to their favorite list, recommend them to another consultant.

Consultants also can comment on the resumes, change their availability status to be seen by other consultants, and communicate with the candidate through the reply messages and keep track of those sent messages.

The system has a approval workflow engine, the admins have to check the resume to approve it first.

The system has a privileges section where the administrator can create a new role, assign access to certain areas in the backend to certain role, and assign the roles to system users.

Feedback system where the backend users can communicate with the administrator for support tickets, etc.

Auditrail system where every action in the system is logged.

Frontend:

Simple upload form where users can just upload their resume and simple details.

Advanced profile form where users can fill in all the details, and add many attachments to their profiles.

Listing, Simple search, advanced search for jobs, and applying to them.

Clients area where they can request certain services.

Featured profiles, where a certain profiles selected by the admins showed in frontend.

The project was completely built from scratch using Zend Framework, and right now it has more than 70,000 applicant in its database, and the system is as fast as you see in the videos, these demos were taken with 50,000 record in the database.

Please don’t give me any feedback on the design , I am just a developer.

Here is some videos describing the different features of the system, I will try to post a better quality ones later.

Change your Signature

Search Resumes

Apply as New Candidate

Send Feedback to support

Consultant Functionality walk through

Check who applied for your job

Apply for Posted Job

Good Solaris How To list

Me2resh — Sat, 01 May 2010 12:32:39 +0000

Was looking for a way to grep for something in a subdirectory and stopped by this short but usefull Solaris How To list.

The grep item works with unix / linux boxes as well.

http://jeffnester.com/howtos/solaris/solaris.html

enjoy the power of shell

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Getting Wireless to work on Lenovo Thinkpad T400 with Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid

Me2resh — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:59:37 +0000

I struggled for a while to get my wireless card work after installing / upgrading Ubuntu on my T400 Thinkpad.

My T400 came with wireless card : Realtek Semiconductor .

To get it working, I followed these steps :

1- Open nautilus

sudo nautilus

2- Browse to /lib/modules/

3- Search for any rtl8192se and remove them

4-Download the drivers from Realtek website (Search for RTL8192SE)
Click to go to Realtek Website

5- Install the drivers

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-source-2.6.32
tar -xzvf rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0015.0127.2010.tar.gz
cd rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0015.0127.2010
sudo make
sudo su
make install
modprobe r8192se_pci

6- Reboot and it should be working out of the box.

Installing Java plugin for Firefox on Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid)

Installing Java plugin for Firefox on Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid)

Me2resh — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:41:17 +0000

After upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.4, I had some issues getting Java to work with Firefox, after checking the software center, I found that the Java plugin has been removed.

To get this fixed, I simply followed the steps in here http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9008918&postcount=32 and it worked well after that.

The world is going Mobile

Me2resh — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:00:57 +0000

Lately I have been spending a lot of time writing small apps for my nokia smartphone and willing to get iPhone for the same purpose. meanwhile We are working on a complete set of templates for a mobile version for all our 202 websites at work. and by chance A close friend is working on a wap gateway to server websites for mobiles. and Apple launched iPad !

All the above points is a live proof that the world is going mobile, reading that article here “The Whole World Is Going Mobile” and looking at the charts inside tells you where the next trend will be.

People will not have to carry a laptop, or sit in front of a screen, keyboard, speakers and case to just read the news, chat with friends, tweet, communicate on facebook, watch their favourite videos on youtube or play games. Simply they will do that using their mobile phones.

The small screen and keypad size is still a challenge, but there is large firms, and creative minds working on finding solutions to overcome those obstacles. and they do succeed.

Time now for the developers to master new areas, and designers to consider new audience.

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My Search Story :)

Me2resh — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:27:26 +0000

Getting Wireless to work on Lenovo Thinkpad T400 with Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid

What is your favorite MAC App?

Me2resh — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:16:42 +0000

Many of the new mac users are looking for apps to do the tasks they need on their new OS.

I am making a list of Mac apps to help the new converters , and the best source to prepare such a list is mac users, so what is your favorite MAC app ?

Mine is TextMate

TextMate

What is yours ?

note: your mentioned apps will be listed in a later post, thus your replies is highly important