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.

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.

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

Small report I worked on to find out the hosting location of Saudi Arabia’s top accessed websites, the aim of this report is to raise the awareness of the lack of Internet hosting in Saudi Arabia, and the slow adoption of Saudi TLD “.sa”. Short summary only 8.9% of sites are hosted locally, and only 4.9% have “.sa” domain. The Report Please have a look and tell me how can I improve it.

I ordered The Ultimate Microcontroller Pack with Arduino UNO, in fact I ordered 2 packs one for me and my 6 years old son, and one for my 13 years old nephew Abdullah. I am very excited to try all the components, so far I am still with LED and buttons, looking for moving my first servo and of course my first robot 🙂 Features (1) MakerShield (Prototyping shield) (1) Mini Breadboard (2) Micro Servos (1) LCD Screen 16&#215;2 (2) Force-Sensitive Resistor (1) 9V Battery Case w/Plug (1) Component Storage Box (1) Deluxe Jumper Wire Pack (1) Full-Size Clear Breadboard (2) Protoboard 7&#215;9 (1) Heat Shrink Tubing (10) 330 Ohm Resistors (10) 10K Ohm Resistors (10) 1K Ohm Resistors (10) 10nF Ceramic Capacitors (10) 100nF Ceramic Capacitors (5) 100uF Electrolytic Capacitors (3) 5mm RGB LED (5) Basic Green LEDs (5) Basic Red LEDs (2) Tilt Sensor (5) Mini Pushbuttons (3) DPDT Switches (2) Photo Resistors (2) Thermistors (1) Rotary Potentiometer (1) Transistor NPN (1) Diode (1) 8Ohm Speaker with Leads (1) Piezo Buzzer (3) 8-Pin Stackable Female Headers (5) 8-Pin Female Headers (2) 40-Pin Male Breakaway Headers (1) 6-Pin Stackable Female Header (1) 40-Pin Male Breakaway Dual-Headers (1) Mini DC Motor (1) Vibration Motor

My list of embedded boards, I hope to keep it updated as I learn more about embedded systems options: Arduino: $15, Atmel AVR, microcontroller. Pinguino: $24, PIC, microcontroller. Netduino: $35, ARM, Microsoft .Net!, Atmel 32-bit microcontroller. Raspberry Pi: $25, ARM, Microprocessor, SoC, Good Video (HDMI), Linux. Teensy: $16, Amel AVR, Microcontroller, Tiny. BeagleBoard: $89, ARM, Ethernet, 2GB MicroSD, Linux. mbed: $45, ARM.