Mahmoud Kassem

Washington Post Security Fix spent the past several weeks compiling statistics on how long it took some of the major software vendors to issue patches for security flaws in their products. Since Microsoft Windows is the most-used operating system in the world, it makes sense to lead off with data on Microsoft's security updates in 2006.

OpenDNS activated its London (UK) DNS cache servers yesterday besides their other 4 locations in USA. Probably this makes them faster for many users especially in Europe. However, since Egypt biggest Internet DSL providers (Tedata.net and Link.net) AFAIK are currently routed through flagtel.com (London), it will be even faster for us here in Egypt and seems to be more stable than our own ISP DNS servers.

Internet users accessing from Egypt can now create their own Google Mail (GMail.com) accounts for free without invitations.

Well, I just turned 21. Its great U know...
Nothing new recently though except I am finalizing my work in my B.Eng Project. Not like the usual system in other Universities, Our graduation projects defense are in Late August.

SETTEC LTD sends SPAM daily to Egyptians using Random Arabic/Egyptian names and emails.
Changing the domain name almost every week (158 domains detected). Geeks could not accept this, we have to request the termination of Internet services (Internet Connection and Domain Service) for SETTEC. We should fight SPAM before it starts to be a normal act in Egypt.

Did you ever get SPAM messages with a Random Egyptian name in the from addresses every day?
That's SETTEC LTD way of doing business, buying your email addresses from others, sending SPAM and may be selling your email addresses too. They are usually advertising their training events. More details below

On June 10th, 2006 I finally finished my undergradute (5 years BEng program) final exams. However, The graduation project is not done yet (an FFT Proccessor for Communications Applications on FPGA). The defense is in late August.

I will have more time to blog and to do interesting stuff soon. I have already written some articles but locally (localhost: 127.0.0.1) so I'll post them soon.

For now, I'll upgrade Drupal, The Content Management Platform that I am using.

 

Updates:

• Upgraded to the latest stable Drupal :)
  
• Installed new modules and themes.