تقبل الله منا ومنكم صالح الاعمال

UPDATE: I found an easier way to do the same thing Check it out

This post is an update of previous old post: Supporting right to left writing (for Arabic) in WordPress

In my blog I write in both languages English and Arabic, but I have to switch text direction from the template default English direction “Left to Right” to Arabic “Right to Left”. One way do to it is to add HTML tags in each Arabic entry.

Kiva Systems is a company that makes order fulfillment systems that use mobile robots for warehouse automation. Its material handling systems are used by Staples, Walgreens, GAP, Crate and Barrel, Toys “R” Us and Gilt Groupe, among others.

Wikipedia Kiva Systems

Amazon bought them for $775 million, you must watch the videos!

Last week my friend Osama Aldosary was cleaning his emails and found this 13 years old email from me back when I was working as a system admin at ISU KACST, and I was administrating the email servers that accept and forward all internet emails for Saudi universities, Osama was working for KSU back then.

Thank you Osama

Subject:	New Link Migration Plan
Date:	Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:34:40 +0307
From:	Rayed Al-Rashed < *****@kacst.edu.sa>
Organization:	KACST
To:	*****@kaau.edu.sa, *****@kfupm.edu.sa, *****@ksu.edu.sa, *****@ksu.edu.sa, *****@uqu.edu.sa

Salam Brothers,

As you all know KACST was connected through King Faisal Specializes
Hospital, and since KACST is now connected through ISU, we have to
replace our old IP addresses with the new ones from ISU.

Of course this will affect the leased-line link and E-Mail traffic with
all of you, and we tried to delay the migration as much as we can to
give you enough time to set up your own services through ISU link.

Our dead line to return the old IPs will end in less than a month, then
we have to return them to RIPE, we are going to start our plan to
migrate to the new IPs, and we have to stop the leased-line link and our
old mail relay that serve your domains when we return the old IPs.

I am sure that most of you are ready by now, but if you are facing any
problems we will be happy to help you with it.

NOTE:
Please send me the current state of your migration plan, and the
estimated time to finish.

-----------------------------------------------
Rayed Al-Rashed
Internet Services Unit
King abdullaziz City for Science and Technology
-----------------------------------------------

I create small Django app and tried to benchmark it with different backends, here is the result:

Backend	Req/Sec
PostgreSQL	68.41
PostgreSQL+pgpool	116.12
MySQL	127.61

The test performed using "ab" tool, 1000 requests with 5 concurrent clients: `$ ab -c 5 -n 1000 http://localhost/test`

My notes on installing and configuring PostgreSQL on Ubuntu Linux.

PostgreSQL is used by many large web sites and services, including Skype, Reddit, Instagram, “.org” registerer, check longer list here Prominent Users

Best of all it isn’t owned by anyone, not Oracle nor anyone else!

مقابلتي في اطياف اكرة صوتي المسجل، بعض الاحيان انسى انه انا 🙂

• جريدة الرياض
• جريدة الاقتصادية
• WireFilter
• حسابي في تويتر
• حسابي في فليكر

روابط ذات علاقة

Atari 800 XL MSX

جامعة جورج واشنطن George Washington University

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University

Django is a web framework written in Python language, my favourite computer programming language.

Python a language is really great language, easy to read and understand, and very easy to learn, but for me I always found setting up Python for web development as a challenge, socially if compare it to PHP, which almost works out of the box, actually most people think PHP works only in the web server and can’t work as stand alone application, search for PHP CLI if you are interested.

I will try here to document an easy Django deployment for my future reference and hopefully it will help others:

If you are working in Internet network operations you don’t want to miss this event, MENOG -Middle East Network Operator Group- is a conference where network operator from all over the globe and the region of course come to talk about network operation issues, trends, etc…
MENOG 10 Agenda

MENOG is also a great opportunity to get quality education, this time they have 2 workshops one about “DNS Operations & DNSSEC Deployment”, and another one about “IPv6 for ISPs”, the workshop is 5 days training.
MENOG 10 Workshops

Few months ago while waiting for our flight in the airport I took out my notebook (paper one) and I start drawing with my son Dody, we started drawing different monsters trying to be funny and creative, and we decided to write a book with the name “The Big Book of Monsters” where we fill it with drawings of monsters with names and describing their powers.

So here some sample pages: The Big Book of Monsters