Monty Widenius, the ‘father’ of MySQL, has created the the Open Database Alliance, with the aim of becoming the industry hub for the MySQL open source database. He wants to unify all MySQL-related development and services, providing a potential solution to the fragmentation and uncertainty facing the communities, businesses and technical experts involved with MySQL, following the news of the Oracle acquisition of Sun.

Via: Slashdot

The new Linux.com relaunched under the management of Linux Foundation.

I just came from my first meeting, one word awesome 🙂

Thank you guys for arranging such nice event, as usual you meet with many interesting people with great ideas, and a lot of energy.

One thing for sure, it won’t be the last meeting for me.

Finally after 2 years of delays alriyadh.com new version is released.
No matter how many test you perform, something will go wrong when you launch the website.
Special thanks to Turki Aljaber, and Malik Alghasab for a really great job building the website.
If you find any problem please let me know.

هي، أو هو: يدخل الشات ليتحاور مع الجنس الآخر
بكل شيء وحول أي شيء. يذهب إلى موقع الأفلام
ليشاهد أحدث الأفلام السينمائية. يدخل إلى منتــداه المفضل ليناقش في كل القضايا السياسية والاجتماعية
بكل جرأة. وعبر اسمه (أو: اسمها) المستعار يبتسم
بمرح ويوزع النكات على الآخرين. وما أن يضغط
على زر إغلاق الكمبيوتر، ويخرج من عالم الانترنت
الافتراضي، إلا وتعود إليه بطريقة آلية: تكشيرته، وخوفه، وشكله التقليدي المحافظ!
كل شعوب الأرض: شكلها الواقعي لا يختلف كثيراً
عن شكلها “الافتراضي” على الإنترنت.. إلا نحن ..
في الواقع شيء، وعلى الإنترنت: شعب افتراضي!!

Have you ever asked your self where does Google buy its servers, Dell, HP, IBM, or Sun?

Unlike everyone in the world, Google don’t buy servers from different vendor they build them!

It doesn’t make sense if you have 100 or 1000 servers, but if what about if you have hundreds of thousands of servers, which is the case for Google.

Actually Google have long time ago stated that they their own server, but the company revealed many new details about its servers, and operation.

Overall Grade: Very High Risk Location
Severe Problems: Political Violence & Repression, Political & Social Environment
Major Problem: Culture & Recreation Facilities
Other Problems: Housing, Climate, Disease & Sanitation, Education Facilities, Physical Remoteness, Communications

No surprise here. Life in the Saudi capital is not easy. “The possibility of a terrorist attack is an ongoing threat,” according to ORC, “while wide-ranging restrictions on dress, movement, conduct, food, alcohol, travel, and communications limit expatriate life.” The city is especially hard for foreign women. Finally, adds ORC, “violating the country’s strict moral religious codes is a particular danger in this conservative city.”

jQuery is a lightweight Javascript library, it is very easy to learn, I found this amazing video from Google TechTalk channel on Youtube, don’t be fooled by the presenter age (he is 12 years old) he knows what is he talking about, enjoy!

Ericsson has successfully demonstrated data-transfer speeds of more than 500 megabits per second over copper, the communications company said Monday.

The data-transfer rates were achieved using a version of digital subscriber line (DSL) technology called “vectorized” VDSL2, Ericsson said in a statement. The technology, also called “crosstalk cancellation,” provides the high transmission rates through a twisted pair of copper cables by reducing the noise coming from other pairs in the same cable bundle. VDSL2 has traditionally offered speeds of around 100Mbps.