Aly Badawy

Change user name in UNIX

alybadawy — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:34:15 +0000

I have been getting a lot of questions about how to change a user name under UNIX, and how is the best practice to do so, or how to change the UID; In this tutorial, I will be showing …

Backup Ubuntu to TAR file

alybadawy — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:35:29 +0000

If you have a Ubuntu server (or even a client), you should consider keeping periodical images of the whole systems as backups; This is, actually, very important in the case your system has been compromised or hacked, or you simply …

Force remove the ‘www’ from domains

alybadawy — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:48:33 +0000

This is very essential for webmasters, to avoid the search engines’ duplicate penalty. It will also make your links look better. Simply, Google and other search engines would consider the two following domains a duplicate of each other and apply …

Push your GIT to Multiple Repositories Simultaneously

alybadawy — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:35:19 +0000

All developers that use GIT as a way for version controlling should know how essential is it sometimes to push your commits to different remote repositories. whether for backing up or to submit your work to different destinations. In this …