Author Archives: Ahmed Tawfik

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About Ahmed Tawfik

Cybersecurity Professional, Systems Engineer, OSS & Linux Geek

Ubuntu Server Edition JeOS

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

A new great product from Canonical Ltd. that’ll greatly help virtualization users (VMWare, KVM…etc): Tech Specs – v 8.04: Less than 100Mo ISO image Less than 300Mo installed footprint Specialised -virtual Kernel 2.6.24 Optimised for VMWare ESX, VMWare Server and … Continue reading →

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Forcing Mount of NTFS Volumes after incorrect Windows shutdown (Draft)

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/disk0s1 /media/ntfs -o force

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A New Ubuntu Linux Fan :)

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

My neighbor has just converted to Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows after I told her about the great benefits she’ll have after the conversion and here are her comments after asking about her opinion in the new OS: Me: enty … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 2003 Network Load Balancing (Draft)

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

Key words to write about later: Configuration If the server to which the clients are configured to connect to is for examples called “myserver” with IP 192.168.10.211, then if you create a cluster, you should name your cluster “myserver” and … Continue reading →

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Wubi – The Easiest Way to Linux for Windows Users

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Ahmed Tawfik

There is GREAT new tool for Windows users who want to try using Linux, but are still afraid of playing with partitioning and dual-booting and so on, here is the solution to all their fears; Wubi. Wubi is a Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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