No my son didn’t even try to break, it just break in 4 places in 20 minutes, the worst toy I ever saw. Of course Kudu isn’t the only restaurant with crabby kids toys, Herfy and almost all restaurant in Saudi Arabic.

The only exception is McDonald’s, where kids ask for it just for the toys.

Local restaurants, please improve your toys.

For more info: http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.2/index.php

Don’t know what is KDE? check Wikipedia KDE page

I am currently preparing for Saudi Arabia IPv6 workshop, that we at CITC arranging at 8th of February 2009.

The workshop will have many high profile speakers in the IPv6 field.

You can find more information about the workshop at IPv6 website: www.ipv6.org.sa

Don’t forget to register for the workshop.

P.S. the website is built using Drupal

I got a DNS failure when I tried to access my website yesterday, I didn’t suspect my ISP because I am using OpenDNS as my name server, so I switched back to SAUDI NET name servers and it worked fine. So I thought it was OpenDNS problem, until I read the news about large-scale DDoS attack on Network Solutions my DNS registrar, where I also host my DNS for rayed.com.

Slashdot Article

تنظم مدينة الملك عبدالعزيز للعلوم والتقنية في يومي السبت والأحد القادمين ورشة عمل بعنوان “المحتوى العربي المفتوح” وتأتي هذه الورشة لتعزيز مبادرة الملك عبدالله للمحتوى العربي.

شخصياً اعتقد ان انطلاقة اي تطوير للأنترنت يجب ان تبدأ من المحتوى.

نقلاً عن: سوالفي

Slashdot:

Qt, the highly polished, well documented, modern GUI toolkit owned by Nokia will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5! … [Nokia] want to encourage and stimulate the use of Qt Everywhere. This is fantastic news for all commercial developers looking to create cross-platform applications …

Wikipedia:

Qt is most notably used in KDE, Opera, Google Earth, Skype, Qtopia, Adobe Photoshop Album, VirtualBox and OPIE.

Really good news for KDE project and fans.

One of Drupal’s best features is the modular design, the core of Drupal is very small but flexible, and it only implements basic functionality.

The good news is that Drupal already has hundreds of modules to implement any missing feature, you can even build your own module if you didn’t find a module to fulfill your needs.

But having all these choices make finding the appropriate module a really hard job, to help you select the best Drupal modules I found a good list of module at Acquia (a commercial company founded by Drupal inventor Dries Buytaert to provide different services around Drupal).

nginx [Engine X] became the world 4th most popular web server, according to the latest Netcraft survey.
It is an event based web server, which makes really scalable especially for static files, so if you are serving many images, audio files, video, you might consider it.
It can also configured to work as HTTP and mail proxy.
Of course you should look also at Lighttpd [Lighty] which work with the same principle, and I have been using it for around 2 years for alriyadh.com