Omar's blog

After installing and playing around with Solr on my Gentoo box, I had to deploy the same stuff on Debian Lenny/sid.

The difference between the two distros wasn't huge but it worth mentioning that Tomcat 6 didn't hit Debian's experimental until the moment I am typing this.

The installation of Tomcat 5.5 and Solr 1.2 from APT is as easy as:

I use two mice on my Gentoo box due to few good reasons. Trying to get them to work all the time took some time though I am not sure if that's because I am too stupid to make them work together.

Anyways, here's what worked for me:

~ # less /proc/bus/input/devices

Find the line that says "Handlers" below your Synaptics and the other mouse.

Being the football fan that I am, following like 7 football championship, it's very important to have some website where I can read follow-ups, watch summaries and goals, read few articles, etc. So I am a big fan. I was trying to find a decent football website in the Arab area, since I need to read more about our local championships.

Argon, my first and last (so far) machine, has been suffering shortage of RAM due to the immense Java and Apache applications running simultaneously in addition to the insanely greedy Firefox.

Today I bought Argon a 2GBs memory module running at 667MHz and I intend to double it very soon. I hope this small boost will whet Argon's appetite for the time being.

argon ~ # free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          2024        711       1312          0        114        247
-/+ buffers/cache:        350       1674
Swap:         2925          0       2925

The other side of the Arab-Israeli dispute has its effect even on hosting!
Hostweb, an Israeli hosting company, blindly blocks all incoming requests from ANY Arabian country to any of the domains it's hosting. The company says that this radical action is to prevent attacks from Arabs.

Weird, huh?