Welcome back Edu

"The best day of my life"

The fist statement told by Eduardo Da Silva - Arsenal striker - after his dreadful injury last year (I wrote a full post about this incedent: Eduardo Da Silva & the horrible injury). The Croatian striker returned last night and scored twice against Cardiff City and puts Arsenal into FA Cup fifth round. We (as Arsenal fans) cannot say more than:

"Welcome back Edu" 

Full  Report from Telegraph

Obama mentioned an Islamic hadith at National Prayer Breakfast

In the politic world, we used to get surprised by the countries presidents. President Barak Obama had a speech last week at the yearly National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C., and he was speaking about the faith and "how it should be Unite, not divided".

The most interesting thing that he mentioned the Islam and Muslims more than one time. Moreover, he mentioned hadith said by our messenger Mohammad peace be upon him:

In Islam, there is a hadith that reads “None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.”

I think, this means that this president knows a lot of thing about our religion more than all previous America's president.

# Reference: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/02/obama_faith_sho.html

حينما يفعل الأتراك ... ما لم يفعله العرب

لا يمر حدث سياسي على الأمة الإسلامية أوالعربية، إلا ويكون لنا من مواقف الخزي والعار الشيء الكثير. لم نعد نطالب بصد عدوان عاشم ظالم، بل لم نعد نطالب بمواقف الشجب و الإستنكار. فهذة المواقف أصبحت حلم يحلم بها المواطن العربي المسلم. الآن نحن نطالب بنطق كلمة الحق، و الإعتراف بالظلم و التعدي. فالطفل اليتيم، و الأرملة المكلومة، والأم التي فقدت أعز ما تملك لا يطالبون سوى بالإعتراف بحقهم الذي تعدت عليه القوة الغاشمة الهمجية التي تضرب دون رحمة، و تقصف دون ذرة إنسانية. كل ما استطعنا فعلة هوتعديد أسباب هذة الحرب، و إشارة أصابع الإتهام لبعضنا البعض. تحليل المواقف السياسية، و التصريح لنشرات الأخبار والبرامج الحوارية هو أكثر ما تميز به السياسي العربي.

و في المقابل، وجدنا دولاً و حضارات أخرى أنصفت إخواننا المسلمين، وذكرت كلمة الحق أمام العالم أجمع. كلنا شاهد موقف رئيس الوزراء التركي رجب طيب أوردوغان حينما إنسحب من مؤتمر دافوس بسويسرا بعد مشادة كلامية مع شمعون بيريس. أوردوغان بهذا الموقف لم يعد الحق لأصحابه، ولن يمنع دولة الصهاينة من معاودة الإعتداء على غزة. و لكن وجدنا رجلاً إستطاع تسجيل موقفاً لم يستطع أي حاكم عربي أن يسجله، و كل مااستطعنا فعلة هو التحية والتبجيل لهذا البطل !!

Distributed Denial Of Service

As usual, I was listening to security now podcast episode #8, and Steve Gibson was talking about the DOS and how it works, and what is the different between DOS and Distributed DOS. I found it very interesting topic and I heard a lot of information I never heard about it.
DOS stands for Denial Of Service, and it is simply a packet traffic that might cause problems for the other end. When a client want to establish a TCP session, the first packet sent from the source (web browser for instance) to the destination (server for instance) is called SYN packet. When the server receive the SYN packet, it allocate number of resources (memory, processor etc) and send back a SYN/ACK packet. If the sender is keep sending this packet (SYN packet), the server will keep allocating resources to the clients till it run out of resources. So DOS does not consume the connection bandwidth ! it attack and consume the server resources.

Conversely, Distributed DOS does consume and attack the conection bandwidth. It simply works by infecting a large number of computers (hundreds to thousands), and tell these computers to attack a single end-user. These computers act as slaves and start sending traffic to this end-user (SYN packet or any other packets). One of the most popular DDOS example is ping packet attack (ICMP packet).

So as a conclusion, DDOS consumes the victim's connection bandwidth, while DOS attacks the victim's resources.

ISP Technology is My New Challenge

Recently, my upper management decided to put me in the ISP department as a line manager. I'm happy with this development because I spent almost a year and half in Atheeb Telecoms keep moving from position to another without having a clear role or responsibility.

When I joint Atheeb I worked for data center project and PMO corporate for almost eight months. Then, I have been moved to work for network integration with IT project. I was following up and tracking the integration issues in addition to my envolvement in the data center project. After I got the PMP certificate last October I joint the network PMO team. My role was to manage the network program as well as developing the project management methodologies in the network department. It was very exciting opportunity for me to practice my knowledge in project & program management.

Eventually, I end up in the ISP department. I said eventually because this is my position as per the final structure. This is a good news for me and at the same time it triggers a new challenge for me in the coming days. ISP technology is a moden technology and it is an interesting feild to be specialized in. I'm intending to focus and consuntrate my reading on this technology. I'll first build my study plan so that I can schedule my time, and to cover all its topics.

Hope insha'allah my plan works, and I got succeed in my new challenge.