Mr. Latif Ladid, the president of IPv6 Forum, left a comment on a previous post on my blog with the latest update on IPv4 exhaustion, only 12% of IPv4 address are left, that is 2% in less than 3 months, the new estimate is 769 days.

This this insightful comment:

The IP address space is down to just 12% with 534 M IP addresses or 32 blocks left. see http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html One of the most obvious and easily quantifiable incentives of the move to IPv6 is the growth and the continuity of the Internet and then the run to the bank for the remaining address space as it will be needed to have a secure dual stack transition which is the most secure transition and will be unfortunately the rich man’s transition. All others will tunnel which is not secure making it the poor man’s transition. Even the transition will aggravate the digital divide between the haves and have-nots in terms of security. The IPv6 Forum knew this problem 10 years ago and pushed ISPs to move earlier to manage a secure transition, but it takes patience and passion to make this happen.

الدعوة الالكترونية الرجاء ارسالها لكل من تعرف وقد يهمة الامر:

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.