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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 it. Galaxy Note gave me the same feeling. Love on first sight. I love devices with such big screens, makes it easier for me to edit documents and browse the web. Hopefully, when…

Ali Almahdi January 6, 2012 1 Comment
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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 SAN. I’ve got some production machines running RHEL and CentOS RHEL Clone. Recently, some of them started running out of disk space. Luckily, setup was done using default install. So, LVM was used by default. So,…

Ali Almahdi January 5, 2012 Leave a Comment
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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 heard good news from his mom saying that all surgical operations were done, no more required, and he is recovering.  I went inside to see him in the ICU, and when I saw him, I…

Ali Almahdi December 30, 2011 1 Comment
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Friendship and Love

Could friendship and Love coexist? This question that I have heard many many times. Today, I decided to write about this topic. Sometime ago, I have written a post to define What is Love?. It may not be the full clear picture, but it should serve the purpose for this post. Before I start into details about…

Ali Almahdi December 9, 2011 5 Comments
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PHP Obfuscators and Encoders

A common problem with Interpreted Languages (eg. PHP, Javascript, Java, Python) is that its really hard to protect the source code. Today, I will talk about PHP Obfuscators and Encoders. Two types of protection can be found for PHP, first type which is the easiest, Obfuscation. Making the code not human readable. An example of such product…

Ali Almahdi October 25, 2011 5 Comments
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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 still do, however, the professor and the article says otherwise, leadership can be taught to people. I can’t really figure this out, leadership is about coping with changes, motivating people and being able to guide…

Ali Almahdi September 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
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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 of some kind of love or let me say liking. When we see something we like, we say its beautiful. Defining the word “like” will take another post, so I will stick with the word…

Ali Almahdi July 17, 2011 1 Comment
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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 page that contains my blog disclaimer. This disclaimer applies to my blog and twitter, considering twitter as a microblogging tool. This link for my disclaimer: //almahdi.cc/disclaimer/

Ali Almahdi February 17, 2011 1 Comment
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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 that everything I write here is my own opinion, some people may agree and some don’t.. So please don’t flood me with comments saying that I wrote the wrong thing or I have a weirdo…

Ali Almahdi February 7, 2011 7 Comments
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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 to be specific. To make the story short, Viva 3G network is actually setup on HSPA+ which consumes more power than 3G. Brief Technical Information: Quoted from Wikipedia: High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is an enhanced 3G (third generation)…

Ali Almahdi February 5, 2011 2 Comments
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