Jan 1, 2024
New Website - 2024
Part of my new year resolution is to redesign my website, and make it more accessible and faster. I shall also write mor...
Dec 16, 2020
New Website - 2020
Webfaction is no longer in business, hence I had two options: Migrate my wordpress site to another hosting provider. Red...
Feb 24, 2019
Forgiveness, Apologies and moving on.
As I live in this life, I learn a lot. One of the most important lessons I have learned is Forgiveness. I believe that f...
Sep 19, 2016
Good Deeds and Price Tags
People nowadays believe Good deeds always comes with a price. Ironically, I would have admit that everyone has a price t...
Jul 8, 2016
Leaving Home -- Movie Quote
Its been a while since I watched TV, tonight while I was relaxing on my Sofa, I watched the movie I am number four. I li...
Jul 14, 2015
Relationship Fights
Everyone fights. No relationship is without arguments or fights, if someone claims they never argue, they are either lyi...
Mar 3, 2015
Android Wear and iOS
Few days ago, I saw a Video showing the Developer Mohamed getting notifications from iOS on his Moto 360. I said to myse...
Apr 20, 2014
Samsung Galaxy S5 - Review
VIVA Bahrain Offered me to test the Samsung Galaxy S5 for few days and my first impression about the device was Wow! Und...
Apr 10, 2014
Mass DMCA Takedowns by WhatsApp
Couple of months back I read an article on OpenWhatsApp site about Mass DMCA Takedowns by WhatsApp. Tarik in his post me...
Mar 19, 2014
Telling the Truth or Lying -- "Unknown" Movie Quote
I don't watch movies much those days, but whenever I watch a movie, I write the quotes I like the most from every movie ...
Jan 28, 2014
I migrated my blog to WebFaction
For the past few years, I've been managing my dedicated server and a development VPS and sometimes couple of development...
Sep 13, 2013
I almost died and I got a second life
Few days ago, I almost died due to my allergy. But I got a second chance to live in this life. A new life to be thankful...
Feb 21, 2013
Time Travel and my theory
When I was a kid, I was a very naughty kid. Years ago, I remember when I was using my dad and grandpa toolboxes to disas...
Oct 12, 2012
Photochromic lens - Worth the price or not?
A week ago, I went to buy myself glasses. I made my frame choice which happened to be GUCCI and I wanted a transition gl...
Jun 3, 2012
PHP mcrypt on RHEL6
Here at work, the system admins were required to install PHP and php-mcrypt on RHEL6.. The admins faced an issue saying ...
May 12, 2012
Operations Management - First Class
We got to meet our Professor Dr. Lori S Cook. My first impression about her is really good. I think she is a good teache...
May 3, 2012
HTC One X - Unboxing Video
So, today I got my new HTC One X.. Couldn't wait till we recorded the unboxing video and did the editing.. All done in a...
Apr 22, 2012
People walk in and out of our lives
Almost everyday, we meet new people, it doesn't matter how we meet, we could meet in the elevator, or while stuck in the...
Apr 13, 2012
Quote from 10 Things I hate about you movie
Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want. Go for it!
Apr 6, 2012
Our Memories
I once posted a quote about memories (http://www.almahdi.cc/quotes/quote-about-memories/), it says that: Memories are th...
Jan 24, 2012
Why do we get upset or feel upset?
Been thinking recently why do we get upset? I think its one or more of what I am listing below occur. 1. Expectation It'...
Jan 12, 2012
Galaxy Nexus - Review
Every few months, I buy a new gadget.. I rarely write reviews, but I found that writing reliefs me, and gives me the com...
Jan 6, 2012
I got myself a gift, Galaxy Note!
Few days ago, I purchased a Galaxy Note. Keeping in mind that I preowned a Dell Streak and I was completely in love with...
Jan 5, 2012
Extend LVM Partition online
I have been facing this recently at work. Luckily, we run a private cloud on VMWare Infrastructure with Storage on EMC S...
Dec 30, 2011
Prayers for Mohammed Albanna
Few days ago, Mohammed Albanna had a bike accident. Today, I went to see him, hearing that he have become better. I hear...
Dec 13, 2011
Bowling Night at Adhari Park
Last night, we went to Adhari park and had so much fun playing bowling. It doesn't matter who wins! Its the fun that mat...
Dec 9, 2011
Friendship and Love
Could friendship and Love coexist? This question that I have heard many many times. Today, I decided to write about this...
Oct 25, 2011
PHP Obfuscators and Encoders
A common problem with Interpreted Languages (eg. PHP, Javascript, Java, Python) is that its really hard to protect the s...
Sep 11, 2011
MBA Class - Leadership vs Management
In my MBA class, we are taking a course about leadership. I always thought that leaders are born with this talent. I sti...
Jul 17, 2011
What is beauty?
This question popped up to my mind and it is inspired by the previous post (What is Love?). Beauty is an interpretation ...
Feb 17, 2011
Disclaimer
Every blog needs this. I should have done it earlier, but I guess I never knew what other write. But now, I created a pa...
Feb 7, 2011
What is love?
What is love? It is a question that have been asked by Hussain Nasser (@hnasr). So, here is my answer. Keeping in mind t...
Feb 5, 2011
Viva Bahrain 3G network and Phone battery life!
If you haven't noticed, using Viva 3G network consumes more battery than any other network in bahrain, zain and batelco ...
Jan 14, 2011
I bought myself a Dell Streak
Few days ago, I sold my iPad.. For few reasons.. 1st, I couldn't find a proper use for it. I used it for browsing, but i...
Jan 14, 2011
Why I don't jailbreak my iOS device?
I just had a conversation with my friends. Why I don't jailbreak my iOS devices. A basic overview: Jailbreaking the devi...
Jan 11, 2011
Loading fixed width lines in MySQL
Today I required to load a file into a database, the file requires some parsing to be loaded. Normal developer would loa...
Jan 7, 2011
Mac OSX Defrag
On my daily life, I deal with VM Images and File processing.. Large files.. This causes my MacBook to slow down due to F...
Dec 27, 2010
I got my self an android Phone!
Hmm, I couldn't resist acually... So, I got my self an Android Phone... Its an Acer Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition. It...
Nov 8, 2010
Why did I get an iPhone and not any other android phone?
I am being asked this question a lot lately. Well, I cannot compare the iPhone to other android phones because android i...
Oct 24, 2010
Hacked using WP Lost Password?
A Saudi guy was trying to hack my website... Of-course, due to my knowledge of security, his attempts were not successfu...
Aug 15, 2010
Switched the Internet from Menatelecom to VIVA
I have been using Menatelecom for over a year now, it was good, however, I never had success with VOIP with them... I di...
Jul 7, 2010
Quote about Happiness
For every minute you are sad, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Jun 14, 2010
Quote About Forgiveness
What is Forgiveness? In English, To forgive is to renounce anger or to excuse. However, there is another definition: For...
Jun 8, 2010
Python Programming!
I have tried Python earlier, but its syntax didn't make sense to me. Several weeks later, I wanted write a small app, so...
Jun 1, 2010
Quote about Friendship
A true friend walks in when the whole world walks out.
Jun 1, 2010
Quote about Memories
Memories are the best souvenirs.
May 3, 2010
A Very Quick Update once again
Once again, I post a very quick update... I seem to be busier than I expected. I have been really active on twitter, you...
Apr 10, 2010
Quick Updates
It has been really a long time since I last wrote something on my blog, but here is a quick update.. I have been really ...
Mar 5, 2010
Since Viva BH doesn't provide manual settings...
Since Viva BH doesn't provide manual settings... I decided to extract their manual settings from the automatic settings ...
Mar 5, 2010
VIVA Bahrain - 1 day review
I am one of the people who gets really annoyed when I don't get what I have been promised with. I have people who don't ...
Feb 24, 2010
Follow me on twitter
I have been a bit active on twitter.. I don't know when I stop twitting.. However for the time being, you may follow me ...
Feb 10, 2010
Replace text in many files using perl
Last night, I have several files containing the same text and I wanted that text to be replaced. I used perl one liner t...
Feb 5, 2010
ZenCrypt -- PHP Encoder
Last night, I was searching the internet for PHP Encoders, I always knew that ZendGuard and IONCUBE are the best. Howeve...
Jan 20, 2010
Few days ago, I purchased an iPhone 3GS 32GB
Few days ago, I purchased my White iPhone 3GS 32GB. My History with iPhone is long back when I the 2G. I love the change...
Jan 4, 2010
A new year arrives and new projects to come
A new year arrived, and new projects are arriving... My friend Marwan and myself started having several projects to be d...
Dec 11, 2009
You have Zero Privacy Anyway -- Get over it
I have read a very nice article in OSNews talking about that we have a zero privacy on the Internet. I recommend reading...
Dec 6, 2009
Rain and accidents
Today was a rainy day. Which we are not used to. So we'd expect accidents. Here is an example taken by my N900 [gallery ...
Dec 3, 2009
Story about Love
Story: وقع طائر في حب ورده بيضاء وقرر ان يصارحها ولكنها رفضت وقالت انها لا تحبه فظل يصارحها بشكل يومي حتى قالت له الور...
Nov 23, 2009
Nokia N900
On Saturday, I got my Nokia N900... Simply this phone rocks! I love this phone! Nokia N900 Maemo 5
Nov 16, 2009
Added a feature to my blog!!
I just installed the plug-in Add to Any on my blog. It allows visitors to be able to share my posts using it rather than...
Nov 16, 2009
Beautiful time in the past, I wish I can go back!
Once upon a time, there was the most beautiful part of my life, when: When my Dad was the only hero, When Love was my Mo...
Oct 26, 2009
What a messed up world? -- What the hell?
I never imagined that my country will end up like this, I always believed and knew that we were raised well. We where th...
Sep 8, 2009
Setup unixODBC on Linux for Oracle and Sybase
I have been working this week on configuring a Linux server to connect to Oracle and Sybase using unixODBC to be used by...
Sep 6, 2009
Post using my Storm with wordpress client
This is a post using my storm. Now I can blog at anytime.
Sep 5, 2009
Arabic Fonts for Blackberry OS >= 4.5
I finally have done it, I have been resisting to do an OTA package for arabic support for a long time, but now, when I s...
Sep 5, 2009
Attempt to fix the Storm screen click
I have tried to loosen the screws a bit, and it worked. However, I have to do some tweaking now.. Try to adjust until I ...
Sep 5, 2009
DynoStorm Results for my VW R32
I was really disappointed with my DynoStorm Restults. I will do another run with nothing inside the car, since I had lot...
Sep 5, 2009
I got my storm from repairs..
I got my storm from repairs.. Yet the screen doesn't click well!! I think I will try losing the screws as suggested here...
Sep 5, 2009
Purchased DynoStorm
Today I purchased DynoStorm, I will post some graphs of my car hopefully tonight! DynoStorm: http://www.bunsentech.com/p...
Aug 31, 2009
Getting a new DSG Gearbox soon
My Gearbox had few issues lately, we have changed the Mechatronic, but yet it is not shifting correctly! I am having har...
Aug 31, 2009
Pictures of my Milltek Non-Res Exhaust
Two Pictures taken with my Blackberry Bold [gallery link="file" columns="2"]
Aug 31, 2009
Waiting for my storm to come back from repairs!
My Storm has been sent to repairs few weeks ago, and I am waiting for it to come back this weekend. Temporarily I am usi...
Aug 31, 2009
Yesterday I received my VF Engineering Air Intake
So, yesterday I received my VF Engineering Air Intake and I couldn't wait for another day to get it installed... So, I c...
Aug 21, 2009
Yesterday was one of the best days in my life...
Yesterday was one of the best days in my life... Many good things happened yesterday!
Aug 17, 2009
Hassan Alasfoor -- My friends father, my uncles friend passed away
Few days ago Mr. Hassan Alasfoor passed away in Germany while having his treatment. On Friday, his body was brought to B...
Aug 16, 2009
Just ordered VF Engineering Air Intake
I have just ordered VF Engineering Air Intake for my car... I am waiting for it to arrive and have it installed..
Aug 7, 2009
Back to Bahrain
I am just back to Bahrain!! Home sweet home!!
Jul 31, 2009
First impressions with Blackberry Storm OS 5
The Startup of the device is slow, however, once it starts, the device is noticeably faster. I like the new animations w...
Jul 31, 2009
Going to Turkey tomorrow morning...
Well, I am leaving to Cyprus Turkey for one week!! Leaving tomorrow morning night.. I am so excited!
Jul 31, 2009
GoogleTalk doesn't work with OS 5.0
GoogleTalk doesn't work with OS 5, I will downgrade to 4.7 and then install a hybird firmware. Tonight is the testing ni...
Jul 31, 2009
I don't have time to upgrade to Hybird OS
I don't have enough time to upgrade to Hybird OS after I have downgraded my OS, I will probably upgrade once again when ...
Jul 31, 2009
Upgrading my Storm Blackberry to OS 5
I am currently (while I am typing) upgrading my Blackberry Storm to a leaked OS version 5, I hope everything goes fine.....
Jul 27, 2009
Asterisk is not easy to trouble shoot
I have setup Asterisk PBX, everything works perfectly, with one SIP trunk, however, when I try to add the second trunk, ...
Jul 27, 2009
Re: Asterisk is not easy to trouble shoot
Aaah, Finally, I figured it out... It was a due to DHCP and DNS.. My setup is a server with two interfaces, this server ...
Jul 24, 2009
Simple Webserver in Python
Sometimes I need a simple webserver for serving files for my kickstart installations. I have found a simple solution: py...
Jul 21, 2009
CSS is not as easy as I thought...
CSS is not as easy as I thought it would be!!
Jul 21, 2009
Long time since I last blogged....
Hmm, Its has been a really long time since I have last blogged, I just have been really busy with tons of other stuff. I...
Jul 13, 2009
I have successfully integrated...
I have successfully integrated twitter with my blog.
Jul 13, 2009
Testing twitter, and trying to...
Testing twitter, and trying to integrate it with my blog
Jun 29, 2009
VW R32 vs BMW M3
Saturday Night, I raced my friend BMW E46 M3.. We had lots of fun! I was shocked with the results.. I never imagined tha...
Jun 20, 2009
I installed Milltek Exhaust System on my R32
On the 16th of June 09, I got my Milltek Exhaust System installed on my R32. It's a non resonated exhaust system, so it'...
Jun 9, 2009
I ported Template Parser from CodeIgniter to Kohana
I have been using CodeIgniter for many of my php development projects. However, recently, I have knew about Kohanaphp fr...
Jun 7, 2009
Which Programming Language Are you? -- I am C++
A friend of Mine sent me a link to an online quiz "Which programming language are you?" So here is my result: cplusplus ...
Jun 5, 2009
Time machine -- Sometimes I wish
Sometimes I wish if I could turn back the hands of time, I would have changed many things in my life. Actions and decisi...
Jun 5, 2009
Wonderful song by Pink -- Family Portrait
This song reminds me of some friends, this song is dedicated to all my friends who are having issues with their families...
May 26, 2009
Quotes from a Wonderful Movie -- 300
Last night, I was so tired, lying on the sofa, watching SuperMovies.. They played the movie 300.. Recently, I had this h...
May 17, 2009
Dealing with winmail.dat in Linux
Today, I have received an email from a Windows User using Outlook and he was using Rich Mode instead of plain text or ht...
May 14, 2009
I have a dream by Abba -- I really like this song
This morning, while I was stuck in the traffic near the Regency Traffic light, I was listening to Bahrain Radio 96.5, an...
May 7, 2009
My Nicknames -- Compiler and Ali the savior
I had two nick names that I always loved to be called with, I didn't invent them but they just got attached to me and I ...
May 5, 2009
Romantic Love Story -- Computer Love!!
When I was browsing my old tar backups, I found this wonderful love story, I have downloaded it way back from the intern...
Apr 28, 2009
My new car VW R32
On Saturday 18th of April, I have decided to buy the R32. So, I went for a test drive and I immediately fell in love wit...
Apr 28, 2009
What a messed up world -- Bahrain version!!
I really hate to see this, specially in my own country! I know that this happens, but its not public! Democracy and Free...
Apr 26, 2009
I know it has been sometime since my last post but...
I know it has been sometime since my last post, I have been really busy trading my BMW 330i with VW R32 and F1 Event. I ...
Apr 16, 2009
Download RealMedia Files and Convert them to MP3 in Linux
This morning I woke up and one of Fayrooz songs was playing in my head! I thought of Downloading all of them. So, I foun...
Apr 15, 2009
Don't waste your time on Jealousy
Quote: Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the ...
Apr 15, 2009
Live or die -- Quote
Last night, I was watching Rambo IV on ShowMovies, and I heard a good wise quote that I thought of blogging: Live for no...
Apr 15, 2009
Memories from Citibank Old Days!
Special Thanks to Abdulla Yateem (My friend) for sending me those pictures.. Those are more than a year old and they rem...
Apr 14, 2009
Don't -- Quote
Quote: Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Apr 14, 2009
Modification to the Chinese Proverb -- Give a man a fish
I told a friend of mine about the fish free version of the Chinese proverb, so he made another one, although not fish fr...
Apr 14, 2009
The nail that sticks up -- Quote
I was watching the movie Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift on ShowTime Action.. and I heard this quote.. So I thought of blo...
Apr 13, 2009
Breach of Contract -- What a messed up world!
Hmm, What a messed up world we live in... breachofcontract Reference: http://www.global-report.com/perth/?l=en&a=347624
Apr 13, 2009
Don't mess with your hair!
Quote: Don’t mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85.
Apr 13, 2009
Quote about Beauty
I have been writing quotes and I can't really recall where I heard them or read them, but I can recall about this one, B...
Apr 12, 2009
Chinese Proverb -- Give a man a fish
Although I hate fish and all types of sea food! But this proverb is true and I thought of blogging it! I wish it was abo...
Apr 10, 2009
Audi Q5 -- Test Drive and review
Few Weeks ago, Audi Center Bahrain called me to test drive the New Audi Q5. I had the Q5 since yesterday afternoon, and ...
Apr 10, 2009
Migrated to Word Press
I migrated from sNews CMS, which is the smallest Content Management System to WordPress for my Blog. I have updated the ...
Apr 7, 2009
2 Quotes about Hope
First Quote: Smile to life, and life will smile back to you. Second Quote: There is always hope!
Apr 7, 2009
Quote about Life!
There is a saying: When everything gets in your way, then you are in the wrong lane! I can't recall where I have read th...
Apr 7, 2009
Quote about Revenge
I just thought of writing this quote about revenge, and I don't know why it poped up to my mind, but way back, I recall ...
Apr 5, 2009
Clone Disks using Linux dd
Yesterday, Mohammed my friend asked me on how to clone disks since he remembers me cloning disks using Linux over Networ...
Apr 5, 2009
Ubuntu DVD Release
The reason that made me look away from Ubuntu was due to the CD release targeting desktop users and leaving developers, ...
Apr 3, 2009
Quote - from Kung Fu Panda Movie
I arrived home late last night, I was a bit tired, but I couldn't sleep, so I turned on the TV and started seeing Show C...
Mar 30, 2009
Load Delimited Data into MySQL
How to load Data from a CSV or any delimited file to MySQL: LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/path/to/file/name' INTO TABLE `tabl...
Mar 23, 2009
BOLT -- The Wonderful Blackberry Browser
BOLT is a web browser designed for Mobile Phones. It aims towards: Full PC-style browsing on all types of mobile phones ...
Mar 14, 2009
Choosing a Linux Distro -- Mandriva is a good choice
I formated my laptop after experimenting with Mac OSX, I wanted a good distro to be used on my laptop. Keeping in mind t...
Mar 14, 2009
Mac OSX Leopard -- Review
I have been playing around with Mac OS X on my laptop and my desktop for the past two days. Mac OS X is a really cool op...
Mar 12, 2009
Mac OSX -- On HP Pavilion dv5-1235ee
I have been using Linux and FreeBSD for really long time on my desktops and servers, however, I have never used Mac OS X...
Mar 12, 2009
Post Using Mac OSX Leopard on HP Pavilion DV5-1235ee
This is a post using MacOSX on my laptop... Now, sound works, USB works, however reboots sometimes doesn't work! ATI dri...
Mar 9, 2009
No More Python -- Back to Java
Well, I tried to use Python instead of Java... But I couldn't succeed. Although, I am a very fast learner, but Python sy...
Mar 9, 2009
PHP Framework -- CodeIgniter
Few days ago, I was searching for a PHP framework that I can use for my web development. I found many Frameworks availab...
Feb 27, 2009
New Laptop -- HP Pavilion dv5-1235ee
I bought a new laptop few days ago. I just installed Fedora 10 64-Bit... I am still customizing my setup!! However, This...
Feb 14, 2009
VMWare ESXi - Presentation in the LUG
Well, I presented VMware ESXi to Bahrain LUG The presentation convered the installation and value of the software when c...
Feb 9, 2009
Thinking of You -- Wonderful Song by ATC
I was listening to my MP3z and I came across this wonderful song... Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqffaAI...
Feb 4, 2009
Change file names case from upper case to lower case
A friend of mine asked me a good question, he copied files from a Windows Partition to his Linux partition, and some of ...
Feb 4, 2009
I just got my new Blackberry Bold 9000
I always wanted the Bold, but it took me so much time to get one. Anyway, I finally got one now!! The OTB firmware is so...
Feb 4, 2009
See you when you get there -- by Coolio
I started the car this morning, and my oldies CD started playing. While I was waiting for the car engine to warm up, thi...
Feb 2, 2009
Some of my wedding party pictures
I have uploaded some of the pictures of my friends who attended my wedding party. Thanks to all my friends. Here we go: ...
Feb 1, 2009
I hate Flu
I am having flu those days, it has been with me since last week, its really annoying!! I hope I recover soon, as I have ...
Jan 16, 2009
Improve Laptop Battery life in Linux
Since I bought my Laptop HP Pavilion DV6353, I couldn't get more than 2 hours using its battery. When I upgraded to Fedo...
Jan 15, 2009
Keep your Linux Workstation/Server time accurate using "rdate"
Last night, I was using my Laptop until I drained the battery. Today, I plugged in the power and started using it. I fou...
Jan 13, 2009
Blackberry Arabic fonts
Last night I was trying to upgrade my Blackberry Curve (8320) firmware. I downloaded a firmware from the internet and up...
Jan 13, 2009
My First post
This is my first post in my blog.