Rayed’s Real Life

FreeBSD my favorite OS, has an official web based discussion forum:
http://forums.freebsd.org/
Congratulations, an good job.

It seems to me FreeBSD is getting easier everyday.

مقال يلخص احد اهم مشاكلنا في هذا الوطن:
في وطني كن مهايطيا ولا تكن مبدعا

احمد، جزاك الله خير، دائماً ما يثلج صدري بمقالتك.

Only 14% of IP addresses are left, which is estimated to be used in 811 days which is around 2 years!!

IPv4 Exhaustion counter

Does that mean the Internet as we know it will stop growing? yes exactly, if we ran out of IP addresses you can not connect your new game console, phone, notebook, etc… to the Internet.

Scientists has found many solutions to delay this problem, including “classless network”, and NAT, which allowed us to use the IP address space more efficiently.

The solution: IPv6

IPv6 solve many problems with the current standard IPv4, the most important one is IP address exhaustion, it has been their since 1996, and it has address space enough to give an IP address to every centimeter on earth.

The world wide adoption of IPv6 isn’t fast enough. With only 2 years to total IP address exhaustion, we should start moving now, and fast as we can.

Most network devices and operating systems already support IPv6, but unfortunately not many Internet provider support IPv6 connectivity.

In Saudi Arabia, no data provider including STC, Bayanat, ITC, nor any other service provider provide IPv6 service, I am not even sure if they have any plan to do it.

So what can we do, call them and ask about it, send them emails, blog about it, Saudi Arabia Internet usage is booming and IPv6 could be the only way to ensure it growth.

Drupal wins 2008 Best Open Source CMS from Packt Publishing

More from
http://www.packtpub.com/article/2008-open-source-cms-award-winner-announced

More from Wikipedia:

• Drupal
• Content Management System (CMS)

It is a bit of old news but thought I would share in case you missed it.
Basically Wikipedia is switching 400 server from Redhat and Fedora mix to Ubuntu server.
Check the details in ComputerWorld article

الكاريكاتير … قد يكون هو الشئ الوحيد الذي يقرأه السعوديين من اوله الى اخره

اعترف اني شخصياً احرص على الاطلاع على الكاريكاتيرات اليومية ونادرا ما اقرأ مقالات الكتاب، باستثناء فهد الاحمدي لكون مقالاته ظريفة وخفيفة ولا تجيب النكد.

فنانين الكاريكاتير السعوديون رسامين مبدعين (مثال) وغالباً خفيفين الدم (طبعاً هناك استثنآت)

في ما يلي قائمة بالرسامين المفضلين عندي.

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