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	<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog</link>
	<description>my views on Australia, Egypt, Linux and other stuff</description>
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		<title>SGI IS4600 unboxing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently purchased an additional IS-4600 disk array from SGI filled to the brim with 2TB SATA disks. Once we build all th LUNs (8+2 raid 6) we will end up with an additional (usable) 680 TB of disk. This beast can handle an aggregate 6.4GB/s of I/O and can sustain 175K read (45K write) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2011/04/19/sgi-is4600-unboxing/</link>
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		<title>Egyptian 2010 Elections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, the 28th of November 2010 was a sad day for Egypt. It was a day that could have been the beginning of a new era of progress and justice. It was the 2010 parliamentary elections in Egypt. Unfortunately the ruling dictatorship had other ideas. It followed its usual tactics of hiring thugs to scare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2010/11/29/egyptian-2010-elections/</link>
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		<title>Beautiful Data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Mphil thesis was on sparse matrix vector products and while visualising the datasets I worked with I felt that the patterns the sparse matrices took were often quite interesting. Recently I noticed that the University of Florida Sparse Matrix Collection was displaying the visualisation work done by Yifan Hu which you can see here. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2010/11/05/beautiful-data/</link>
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		<title>I am off to Egypt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After almost 2 years away from the land I love, I am going to Egypt for 2 weeks. I leave Sydney on Friday the 23rd of April. I can&#8217;t wait to see all my family and friends. Egypt, here I come!!]]></description>
		<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2010/04/23/i-am-off-to-egypt/</link>
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		<title>Virgin Mobile Broadband with Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have being meaning to get myself a mobile broadband USB modem for casual use. It makes sense if you do not want to shell out $15-$20 for wifi an hour. Whenever I take my family for a holiday on the cost, or find myself waiting at an airport I can just get online. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2009/12/27/virgin-mobile-broadband-with-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu 9.10 is great</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just updated 3 machines to ubuntu 9.10. My Desktop, my netbook and my mythtv machine. All of them were updated flawlessly except my notebook where the grub2 configuration was not updated&#8230; Chaos followed until I figured out that the kernel being booted was messed up and subsequently figured out that I needed to fixup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2009/12/17/ubuntu-9-10-is-great/</link>
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		<title>OpenSolaris Automagic homedir Creation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Often with LDAP setups a user will log into a box where his home directory doesn&#8217;t exist. Linux provides us with a pam_mkhomedir.so module that automagically creates missing home directories for you. No such module exists for opensolaris. This bug report offers an alternative using autofs. #!/bin/bash # if the filesystem is available under /export/home, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2009/09/01/opensolaris-automagic-homedir-creation/</link>
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		<title>I Start a New Job</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bout 2 weeks a go, I started a new Job at ANU Supercomputer Facility (ANUSF). I must admit that I am a bit excited and hope that I will be content over there. This should be getting exciting in the next couple of months as they are installing a new supper computer. They are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2009/07/19/i-start-a-new-job/</link>
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		<title>At long last I submit my thesis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I finally submitted my thesis titled &#8220;Use of Graphics Processing Units for Sparse Matrix Vector Products in Statistical Machine Learning Applications&#8221;. The relief I feel is amazing. To all the research students out there in the final stages of submitting, may your journey be easier than mine. I am off to watch a movie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2009/04/24/at-long-last-i-submit-my-thesis/</link>
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		<title>Wistrons Pursebook with Arabic Keyboard. Cool.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking at the new Pursebook at engadget [link] and I noticed that the keyboard had Arabic characters. Kind of exciting I as I am planing to get myself one of these new ARM netbooks when they come out later this year. Having an Arabic enabled keyboad would be a big plus.]]></description>
		<link>http://ahmed.elze.in/blog/2009/04/04/wistrons-pursebook-with-arabic-keyboard-cool/</link>
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