Author Archives: Emil
Recommendation: The Underground Bootcamp
If you are all about health and fitness, I recommend that you visit The Underground Bootcamp for the most insightful and informative articles relevant to your daily life.
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Nagios Alert Templates
Some of you may have first or second-hand knowledge of Nagios and the types of alerts it sends out to your Network Operations Center (NOC) or similarly functioning department. You will also notice that the alerts are difficult to read … Continue reading
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Unix Commands to Know and Use
I will be updating this entry with commands that I have come to use throughout my system administration and engineering work. I hope that it is of some use to readers who stumble on this site. Watch for changes in … Continue reading
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Native Christians Massacred: The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I
One of my friends has sent me a research paper written by Hannibal Travis of Florida International University College of Law titled “Native Christians Massacred”: The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I. Please read it, discuss it, … Continue reading
Logitech UVC Webcams: Firmware Error
It has been known that many of Logitech’s UVC webcams do not work well under Linux due to a specific firmware bug. Several developers of the linux-uvc project have been trying to hammer out a software workaround with limited success. … Continue reading
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Akitu / Kha B’Nissan / Assyrian New Year: Nuhadra, Iraq
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Assyrian Administrative Area
This is the letter I sent to Anna Eshoo, Congresswoman for the 14th district, in regards to the proposed legislation she would have put forward to House of Representatives in early January 2007. However, this bill did not make it … Continue reading
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Zimbra Connector for Novell Evolution
Seeing that Zimbra released a beta version of their Novell Evolution connector two weeks back, I went ahead and downloaded the code from their SVN server. Today, I have created a package for Ubuntu 7.04 (aka Ubuntu Feisty) that integrates … Continue reading
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Evolution Contacts to Zimbra Addressbook
A question was asked by a fellow Zimbra user by email about exporting contacts from Evolution to Zimbra’s Addressbook and I offered him the following advice. Open a terminal and execute the following command: evolution-addressbook-export –format=csv –output=file.csv Login to the … Continue reading
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Assyrian Empire: Bringing Civilization to the Near East
This essay was written for the Mesopotamian Archaeology 123B course taught by Professor David Stronach at the University of California, Berkeley in 2000. The impetus to change from a nomadic to an agricultural lifestyle forever changed the economic, political, and … Continue reading
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