Shami's Blog

One of our clients has a website that you can go to using multiple URLs. The server was set up in a way which does a redirection to point into a sub folder. This redirection changed the URL used to a specific one, and the client didn’t like that.

Read More - Apache, Rewrite Rules, Redirection, And Multiple Aliases

So the Tawjihi results this semester should go online in about 5 minutes. As always, I’ve been getting calls since this morning asking me to check if the results came out or not. Tawjihi is the most important class in a student’s life, which faculty you go to depends entirely on the results of the exams you take during that class.

Read More - Tawjihi Results

A good Windows administrator can put together a more secure setup than a bad Linux administrator. This is an article I stumbled upon today, it shows, from a programmer’s point of view, why Windows is harder to secure than Linux.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311 (Sadly the link no longer works)

I finally got myself to register as a Linux users. I guess I got a nice number, I wish my phone numbers were as good :D

Now this reminds me of the times I used to watch this. When was that?? I guess it was the 1980s.

Enjoy :D

Over on the O’Reilly Network, there’s an interesting piece about how Microsoft tried to hire people to contribute to Wikipedia . Not wanting to do the edits directly, they were looking for an intermediary to make edits and corrections favorable to them.

Shame on you Microsoft

Yesterday after I added my previous post I remembered this little thing, I know it’s old but it’s still funny.

Read More - A Song For The System Administrator

A few weeks ago we switched one of our clients to use a hosted anti-SPAM/anti-virus solution. Everything was fine before that, but ever since we did so I started getting delays in the initial welcome message the mail server gave. I thought (And that’s where I went wrong) that it might have been caused by the provider, sending the messages in bursts.

Read More - System Administrators Must Never Think, They Must Troubleshoot

Now that I think of it, I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird for more than 3 years now, it is one of the best email clients I have ever seen, and with the available extensions, it can do almost anything.

At home, I only open Thunderbird when I want to check for new email, but at work, I like to leave it open all the time in case I get any emails from my coworkers.

Read More - Thunderbird, Linux, And New Email Notification

So last week I was attending the Microsoft Windows Vista and Office launch event, one of the speakers, Bandar Sharafi is a dear friend of mine. During his session, which was the last, I was very tired, and I lost track of what he was saying. This is what happened, taken from Bander’s blog: We had a lot of fun during that session, Mohammad Shami a very close friend who was attending the session decided to take a nap!

Read More - Caught Sleeping at the Sharepoint Seminar