Life’s Master Project Plan
I’m wondering can anyone create his own life’s master project plan, or let’s call it master program plan ! of course nobody will guess his upcoming projects, but at least he can do for the main projects and deliverables in any normal person’s life. The plan is the most important project’s stage where you write all your project tasks, the task start/end date, and it’s dependencies. This will make the person feel he has a full control over his project’s scope, and he only needs to
- follow up and make sure the tasks starts and ends on-time
- fix any deviation might happen, and bring the project back on track
So if the plan has this importance, why don’t we plan all our life’s program ? I think it will add more enjoyment to our lives since we relieved our selves from thinking about each and every tasks. This also will make our lives more excited and challenged each time we feel our project got delayed and we need to bring it back on track. I think I’m going to start writing my own master project plan, and see what happen.
هيئة الإتصالات توقف التسجيل التجريبي للنطاقات .السعودية
قررت هيئة الإتصالات وتقنية المعلومات في السعودية إيقاف التسجيل التجريبي للنطاقات .السعودية إستعداداً لطرحها بشكل رسمي بعد موافقة الأيكان على طرح النطاقات بلغات غير اللغة اللاتينية. هذا يجعلنا نبدأ عصر جديد في التعامل مع أسماء النطاقات، وتحديات جديده قادمة على مستوى الخدمات، و التطبيقات، و حتى الشبكات.
http://www.saudinic.com.sa/page.php?page=62&lang=0
IPv6 dream
When you contemplate the telecom companies around the world, and see their vision and preparation for moving to IPv6, you will notice a clear conflict and variation in opinions. Some of them claim they are 100% ready and it is a matter of switching from IPv4 to IPv6, while others are taking this very seriously and they are assessing their infrastructure and testing with their neighbors. In either directions, we belief it is not an easy job to do so, and it needs a wise planning, and an extensive testing for functionality, performance, advanced features etc. It is a very lengthy transition period whether they like it or not.
Apart from all this, it is obvious that the business sector is trying to get a big bucks out of this events, and they are warning the operators in order to convince them to buy their products. It is like a harvest season for an idea that has arise two decades before.
It is worth mentioning here one of the amazing projects called 6NET which took place between sixteen European countries in order to gain experience on how to deploy IPv6, and how to migrate IPv4 networks, systems, application into fully IPv6. The interesting thing is that the American companies are not as much interested as the European and Eastern companies in moving toward IPv6 technologies. This might be because they acquired enough IPv4 pools in early days, and they needs another one or two decades to consume it !
Anyway, I think it is very essential for us to understand IPv6 technologies, and get used to it, before even think to plan for migration. This will create a very good opportunity for technical people to practice, and witness a new era of the routing protocol. Hopefully one day we can export this experience to others, not the other way around as usual !
TrueCrypt
I have been looking for an encryption solution since long time ago. I was looking for a solution to encrypt the hard desk in case my laptop got stolen, or somebody expose my confidential information. I heard about too many solutions from computer companies (IBM ThinkPad, HP etc), but to be honest, I hate the closed source solutions especially in this area.
Today, I was listening to security now podcast, and I heard about an open source solution for hard desk encryption. It’s called TrueCrypt. The idea is you create a container file (volume), set a password, and then mount it to a drive letter. Any file you write to the encrypted volume will be automatically encrypted, and any file you read from the encrypted volume automatically decrypted. This means no decrypted file will be stored on the desk, and no file encrypted file will be loaded to the memory. The good thing in this solution is that not all parts of the file will be decrypted and loaded to the memory. Only small portion of the file will be decrypted and loaded, and the application associated with this file will start running this file portion, and at the same time will start loading the next portion.
Too many features in this encryption solution, you can find more information in
http://media.grc.com/sn/sn-041.mp3
Tags: encryption, Security, truecrypt
IE8 disclose user information !
Be careful when you print an html page into a PDF file. If you are using IE8, you author name, and document full path will be written in the file itself, not the file header or footer. This is a serious problem when in comes to privacy, not in the security. The user information will be completely revealed which might lead to revealing the user name, password, or may be the secret question or answer. Also, it has discovered that MS PowerPoint store the full storage path as well, but this can be disable in the Document Property tab.
