SAUDI NET increase customers emails to 100MB

SAUDI NET got jealous from gmail for providing 1GB of free email service, so SAUDI NET will increase email quota to 100MB, to get SAUDI NET email you need to subscribe to one of SAUDI NET service, either Dialup, or DSL.

Installing Fedora Linux on my machine

What is Fedora?
Fedora is basically a hat, see image in Google

In the computer world Fedora is a new Linux distrbution sponsored by RedHat, and supported by open source community, it existed to replace RedHat free version Linux.

Dual booting howto

• Using PartitionMagic I resized Windows XP partition, and added two new partitions, 9 GB for Linux, and 1 GB as FAT32 partition, to be shared between Windows XP and Linux.
  
• I installed Linux, with GRUB (boot loader) installed in the partition (and not on MBR).
  
• I rebooted the machine, then from Windows I used bootpart to add Linux to Windows boot option.
  

ISU block blogspot.com

ISU (Internet Service Unit) is blocking all domains under blogspot.com, blogspot is used by Blogger.com to host its customers blogs.
ISU always block the whole domain when they find bad subdomains!!
I already filled unblocking request.

Anyone interested on afkary.net

afkary.net domain will expire soon any one interested I can transfer the domain starting now.

ssh tunneling = fast browsing

A while ago I tried tunneling proxy conection though ssh, you asked why ... because ssh have a neat compression feature, it will compress all ssh communication between your client and the ssh server, and by tunneling HTTP proxy trafic through ssh you can speed up HTML page loading time, you can really see the difference.
Any way I had a problem of having to run ssh client every time I want to use the Internet, even when you want to check one small thing, it was kind of anoying to change the proxy from the localhost (thought tunneling) and connecting directly to the SAUDI NET proxy server.
Today I invested sometime to build small proxy auto configuration script, that will try to use the local proxy (compressed & tunneled) and if it fails it will try to connect directly to the proxy, here is the script, give it a try it really makes thing FAST.

// proxy.js save this file in localy and 

// point your browser auto config to it

function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {



  if (isPlainHostName(host) || 

      dnsDomainIs(host, ".saudi.net.sa")) return "DIRECT";



  return "PROXY localhost:8080; PROXY proxy.saudi.net.sa:8080;";



}

myweb under construction page

Misfer our talented designer designed new Under Construction page, this page will be the default page when the customer create new myweb account.

rayed.com points to rayed@myweb

I forwarded request to www.rayed.com to http://myweb.saudi.net.sa/rayed, for the following reasons:

• To promote using myweb service provided by SAUDI NET.


• To replace my own blogging software with Blogger, I know I can make Blogger publish to rayed.com directly, but I didn't want to publish in two locations.
  I also migrated all entries from the my own software to Blogger, so nothing lost. (as if there anything owrth saving!)


• The most important one, is because myweb.saudi.net.sa is much faster than my own server, which is a very old machine, with very limited bandwidth.

Fouad playing with Blogger

Two days ago I talked with my brother Fouad about Blogger and it features, he couldn't grasp the concept at first, but he subscribed to it, and played with it, and he created his first weblog.
Fouad isn't computer savy, and he found Blogger useful may be you should try it your self if you didn't yet.
I didn't get the URL of Fouad Blogger yet, I'll publish as soon as I get it.

Another Blog from email

and this time from GMail.com

Blogger.com new interface

Although I liked the old one, but the new is really cool, the colors are great, the interface seems more logical, and they got rid of the HTML frames.

I got my GMail.com email account

I forgot to mention this earlier, but one week ago when I logged in to Blogger.com I got an invetation to try Gmail.com service, if you never heared of Gmail before, it is a webmail service provided by google.com and they give 1GB of space.

Blogging from Email

Blogger is really very nice service :)
I entred this entry by sending an email message to special email e.g xxxx@blogger.com, and it just posted it to my web site, I start to love these guys.

SAUDI NET website really sucks

SAUDI NET web site is really bad, we are trying to replace it since ... well forever actually but we couldn't, the marketing people signed a contract (!!!) with external company to deveploe the website.
and we are still waiting, it is really bad, and every time I see it I get very angry :(

Dinner at STC executive club

The weather was nice and we witnesed a lonar eclipse too ... unfortunately I forgot to take a picture for the eclipse :(

Check out other pictures

Developing news paper site

It would be very interesting project to do, many ideas in my head but we will see what will comes from it.
I'll definitely use CSS to support many printer friendly, light, handheld version of the web site, and will have RSS syndication.
and of course it will be compressed for faster download, what else ... I'll keep thinking

The worst part that it should be very simple to use, this would be hard to do, but I'll try my best.

I bought new Canon digital camera

I like it a lot, although my pictures (most of them) look blury.

This is not my home, but I liked it

SAUDI NET myweb rocks

I really like it free web space, no ads, my own name, and fast, yummy!!