Archive for November, 2007

ICE Campaign – “In Case of Emergency”

November 28th, 2007

I liked the idea pretty much, so I’m forwarding this wonderful message to all my readers.

ICE Campaign – “In Case of Emergency”

We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory
but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to
our closest family or friends.
If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people
attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn’t know who to call.
Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact
person in case of an emergency? Hence this “ICE” (In Case of Emergency)
Campaign The concept of “ICE” is catching on quickly. It is a method of
contact during emergency situations. As cell phones are carried by the
majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a
contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under
the name “ICE” ( In Case Of Emergency).
The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to
the scenes of accidents, there were always mobile phones with patients,
but they didn’t know which number to call. He therefore t hought that
it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognized name for
this purpose. In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel
and hospital Staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by
simply dialing the number you have stored as “ICE.”
For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc.
A great idea that will make a difference!
Let’s spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our Mobile
phones today!

Please let this concept spread and start by your mobile today ;)

Internet Connectivity Monitor Script

November 26th, 2007

I was assigned to monitor the link status here in the company because we had many problems regarding our new TEData internet line. We couldn’t calculate exactly when the line is down and up, so I wrote a small script to run as a cronjob to create a log for the internet connectivity status.

The script is quite useful and very light, it’ll generate a log about your internet connectivity and will try to detect the reason of the internet connectivity problems.

Note: you’ll need to change the value of the variable GATEWAY_IP to your gateway/router/dsl_modem IP address before running the script. And you don’t have to be root to run this script.

you can download it from this link

I Love Google and Google Hates Me!

November 18th, 2007

As I’m a big fan of google and its history, services and culture, and I do really love them for what they did to the digital world. They hate me very much – How Come! – yeah they hate me, let me tell you the story…

» Read more: I Love Google and Google Hates Me!

Fedora 8 Test Drive

November 15th, 2007

A few days ago I got a brand new Fedora 8 on a DVD iso and I was too excited to have a setup on my laptop. In fact I didn’t install Fedora 7 because I always felt that it doesn’t have much to add, wasn’t that stable too and it had one famous problem regarding firewire and video capturing.

starting from the installation, it was smooth and sexy, I’ve added the additional repository and chose alot of my preferred packages.

After Installation it was pretty sleek on GNOME and pretty UGLY! on KDE!, it seems that fedora developers insist convincing me of using GNOME so I said I’ll go for GNOME for awhile and see.

» Read more: Fedora 8 Test Drive

Starting Solaris Administration

November 4th, 2007
السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته
I’m posting this entry while staying in our Sun classroom @Linux-Plus attending the solaris 10 administration part 1 course by Ahmed Kamal, as a beginning to learning solaris administration.
I’m pretty excited to learn solaris and of course I didn’t attend the essentials course as it’s pretty similar to Linux essentials, knowing that I’m not a fan of solaris but it’s quite interesting and it has quite interesting technologies, so why not solaris? :)
Ahmed kamal is an excellent instructor for me atleast :) because he is quite fast and I like that to avoid getting bored.
Thank you Ashraf Sobhy (our GM) and Thank you Kamal of course for your great speed and efficiency :)