Manal and Alaa's bit bucket

Issue	Fix	Status
Incorrect links in "Last 15 Posts" block	Edit block code-function l	Fixed
Slow performance	Ticket opened on host company	Waiting
Wiki module doesn't work	Try to get wiki.module used on my previous site, otherwise edit all nodes using it to be pure HTML	Waiting
BIDI module doesn't work	Try to get bidi.module used on my previous site, otherwise modify all arabic nodes to be aligned to right	Waiting

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Here we are, a domain and hosting all by me. The migration done successfully but still some fixes required specially "The Input Formats", internal links and file links.

But the first thing to notice that the new site is slower than the one at manalaa.net, although manalaa.net was hosting many sites + manalaa.net itself which has large number of visitors.

Comparing the two sites using WebSiteOptimization.com, here's the result:

ikhnaton2.com

ikhnaton2.manalaa.net

Global Statistics Total HTTP Requests: 62 Total Size: 147199 bytes Object Size Totals Object type Size (bytes) HTML: 12304 HTML Images: 52382 CSS Images: 32743 Total Images: 85125 Javascript: 17781 CSS: 31989 Multimedia: 0 Other: 0 External Objects External Object QTY Total HTML: 1 Total HTML Images: 19 Total CSS Images: 31 Total Images: 50 Total Scripts: 4 Total CSS imports: 7 Total Frames: 0 Total Iframes: 0 Download Times Connection Rate Download Time 14.4K 115.49 seconds 28.8K 58.44 seconds 33.6K 50.29 seconds 56K 30.74 seconds ISDN 128K 10.38 seconds T1 1.44Mbps 2.18 seconds

Global Statistics Total HTTP Requests: 46 Total Size: 115950 bytes Object Size Totals Object type Size (bytes) HTML: 12227 HTML Images: 68987 CSS Images: 322 Total Images: 69309 Javascript: 13043 CSS: 21371 Multimedia: 0 Other: 0 External Objects External Object QTY Total HTML: 1 Total HTML Images: 32 Total CSS Images: 3 Total Images: 35 Total Scripts: 5 Total CSS imports: 5 Total Frames: 0 Total Iframes: 0 Download Times Connection Rate Download Time 14.4K 90.87 seconds 28.8K 45.93 seconds 33.6K 39.51 seconds 56K 24.11 seconds ISDN 128K 8.08 seconds T1 1.44Mbps 1.61 seconds

I think I've a lot of work to do the few upcoming days to optimize the site. I'll add a wiki page to Migrating My Site book to log every change I do here. Visitors feeback are appreciated.

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I've been migrated to new site location: http://www.ikhnaton2.com. I would like to invite my visitors and friends to check my new site and inform me if they are facing any difficulty. Please, point your feed readers to the new site feed: http://www.ikhnaton2.com/rss.xml

تم الانتقال لموقع جديد: http://www.ikhnaton2.com. أدعو الزوار والأصدقاء زيارة الموقع الجديد وإخبارى إذا فيه أى صعوبات. برجاء توجيه قارئ التلقيمات للتلقيمة الجديدة: http://www.ikhnaton2.com/rss.xml

Drupal Migration Step#2: Install all modules on new site to be typically as the old one

List of missing modules on the new site installation:

Drupal Migration Step#2: Install all modules on new site to be typically as the old one

List of missing modules on the new site installation:

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#	Steps	Status
1	Install new Drupal 4.7 on the new site location	Done
2	Install all modules on new site to be typically as the old one	In Progress
3	Restore both site to the default theme (bluemarine)	Done
4	Change new admin -> settings of the new site to be similar to the old one	Done
5	Backup database of the old and new site locations	Not Started
6	Restore old database backup to the new site database	Not Started
7	Login as USER 1 and run update.php	Not Started
8	Check missing files, get them from the old site one by one and upload them in the 'files' directory of the new site	Not Started

#StepsStatus
1Install new Drupal 4.7 on the new site locationDone
2Install all modules on new site to be typically as the old oneDone
3Restore both site to the default theme (bluemarine)Done
4Change new admin -> settings of the new site to be similar to the old oneDone
5Backup database of the old and new site locationsDone
6Restore old database backup to the new site databaseDone
7Login as USER 1 and run update.phpDone
8Check missing files, get them from the old site one by one and upload them in the 'files' directory of the new siteIn Progress

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... So, I'me doing double action here, moving my site from (ikhnaton2.manalaa.net) to (ikhnaton2.com) and since my site @ manalaa.net built on Drupal 4.6 and my new site has Drupal 4.7, I have to upgrade too.

Drupal.org have good documentation for upgarding from 4.6 -> to 4.7. Basic steps are:

1. Backup old site files and database.
2. Delete those old files from current drupal folder.
3. Download, extract and upload the new files to where old files was located.
4. Copy necessary old files to the current drupal folder:
   • .htaccess
   • sites/default/settings.php
   • the 'files' directory
   • any other files you need from the 'backup' directory
5. Login as USER 1 and run update.php

Since I don't have access to my files neither by SSH or even FTP
and I'm moving from site location to another location, I guess my steps will differ as follows:

... So, I'me doing double action here, moving my site from (ikhnaton2.manalaa.net) to (ikhnaton2.com) and since my site @ manalaa.net built on Drupal 4.6 and my new site has Drupal 4.7, I have to upgrade too.

Drupal.org have good documentation for upgarding from 4.6 -> to 4.7. Basic steps are:

1. Backup old site files and database.
2. Delete those old files from current drupal folder.
3. Download, extract and upload the new files to where old files was located.
4. Copy necessary old files to the current drupal folder:
   • .htaccess
   • sites/default/settings.php
   • the 'files' directory
   • any other files you need from the 'backup' directory
5. Login as USER 1 and run update.php

Since I don't have access to my files neither by SSH or even FTP
and I'm moving from site location to another location, I guess my steps will differ as follows:

I have tried the last week to register a domain for my site (ikhnaton2.net) at RegisterFly as it has the lowest price for .net domains which cost $2.75 (~L.E.16) per year. I tried but the operation couldn't complete, I send email to there billing team but the email failed to be delivered to their email. I open a support ticket through their online site but no answers up until this moment.

Anyway, by chance I was checking Yahoo! Small Business Domain Registration and found very attractive offer: any domain for only $1.99 (~L.E.11.5) per first year. I immediately register my domain (ikhnaton2.com). I thought .com will be more popular than .net. I received a confirmation email that my new domain (ikhnaton2.com) is active in 45 minutes, WOW!

I have tried the last week to register a domain for my site (ikhnaton2.net) at RegisterFly as it has the lowest price for .net domains which cost $2.75 (~L.E.16) per year. I tried but the operation couldn't complete, I send email to there billing team but the email failed to be delivered to their email. I open a support ticket through their online site but no answers up until this moment.

Anyway, by chance I was checking Yahoo! Small Business Domain Registration and found very attractive offer: any domain for only $1.99 (~L.E.11.5) per first year. I immediately register my domain (ikhnaton2.com). I thought .com will be more popular than .net. I received a confirmation email that my new domain (ikhnaton2.com) is active in 45 minutes, WOW!

I frequently need to be uninteractivly email me from HP-UX server when some output file is generated. I gathered here some used methods:

A. Using mailx:

1) For text files:

 more filename.txt | mailx -s 'subject' email1@company.com, email2@company.com 

2) For binary files:

 uuencode filename.bin | mailx -s 'subject' email@company.com 

B. Using elm to attach files:

echo '[include filename.xls applications/msexcel base64]' > tempfile.txtelm -s 'Subject' email@company.com < tempfile.txt

I frequently need to be uninteractivly email me from HP-UX server when some output file is generated. I gathered here some used methods:

A. Using mailx:

1) For text files:

more filename.txt | mailx -s 'subject' email1@company.com, email2@company.com

2) For binary files:

uuencode filename.bin | mailx -s 'subject' email@company.com

B. Using elm to attach files:

echo '[include filename.xls applications/msexcel base64]' > tempfile.txt
elm -s 'Subject' email@company.com < tempfile.txt

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Amnesty International calls for arms embargo on both Israel and Hizbollah as US continues to supply Israel with smart bombs and ammunition.“Governments supplying Israel and Hizbullah with arms and military equipment are fuelling their capacity to commit war crimes. All governments should impose an arms embargo on both sides and refuse permission for their territories to [...]

Exactly as he fucked up before with his new release (back then) video (clip) on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and his support to Hamas in Palestine. Today, he asks the ‘mujahedeen’ of the ‘ummah’ to go support their ‘brothers’ in Lebanon and Palestine. Last time he spoke, the Hamas government and the Egyptian MBs came out and denied any [...]

Backup your blog could be an easy task if you're running it on your hosting space. You'll probably just backup the database using phpMyAdmin and backup files using FTP. However, backup could be a hard task for bloggers using free services like Blogspot, BlogSome or Wordpress.com.

Why taking backup?
Backup is important because your priceless post could gone one day due to a hack attack, hardware failure on your blogging service provider, blocking your site or migration from blog to blog!!!

I've searched a little for ways to make blog backup easy, I'll try to introduce them here.

So the story begins from 2002 when it was the first time to think of a third mobile operator in Egypt. But the plan was delayed for "the sharp decrease in the volume of local and international communications investments, shortage in liquidity as well as the non-feasibility of the project," according to Minister of Communications and IT Tareq Kamel. However, Egypt's National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) had decided to re-open up the mobile telecommunications market to a third operator by the end of 2005.

In May 2006, eleven candidates, including EgyptTelecom, Etisalat Dubai, Telecom Italia, Kuwait's MTC, Turkcell of Turkey, South Africa's MTN and Russia's MTS all presented bids for the mobile license.

I'm really sorry, I've disabled anonymous comments to prevent spams attack.
However, this'll not affect allowing free of speech here.
If spams stops (hopefully) or my hostage allow spam fighter methodolgy, anonymous comments will be back.

No words to say, just a big space of silence surrending me where just those words come from far away. I hardly hear them and no tear there to flow. It's so dry...

Song: "Lover Why" by Century

A sign of time
I lost my life, forgot to die
like any man, a frightened guy.
I'm keeping memories inside
of wounded love.

But I know
I'm more than sad and more today.
I'm eating words too hard to say
a single tear and I'm away.
Away and gone...

I need you
so far from hell, so far from you
cause heaven's hard and black and gray.
You're just a someone gone away.

After being detained since May 7, 2006, for non legal charge, at last Alaa has been released today June 20, 2006. He'll be back home at tomorrow or after.

Congradulations to Alaa and his wife Manal.

The news is spreading out very fast and very loud, find below some links.

On Blogosphere:

Hello guys, how r u all? I know the post title may be little depressing, it is a curious thought I had long time ago. I wanted to publish it but as I am not very clever in the document work, I was delaying it. I will try to do my best. I wanted to [...]

Hello guys,how r u all?,i know the post title may be little depressing,it is a curious thought i had long time ago,i wanted to publish it but as i am not very clever in the document work,i was delaying it,i will try to do my best.I wanted to make a schedule of comparison but [...]

Make The Poor Sing and The Victims Happy

Ceremony Mission:
The main ceremony mission is to stress on freedom of speech and to highlight the background of the current events that we have seen all its chapters. These incidents that results for arresting about 800 Egyptian from various political parties and others with no political party affiliations or sectarian. Seven bloggers are among those detainees’ people as far as we can know.

Ceremony Idea:
The ceremony idea began when some Egyptian bloggers wanted to collect donation for "Upkeeping Committee of Detainees" provided by "Hisham Moubarak Center for Legal Assistance" as a limited financial support to help the continuity of this committee services to detainees.

In the middle of all the bad feelings I’ve after reading the list of blogs I follow every night, I came through this quiz and decided to do it as a kind of escaping from the feeligns or doing anything useful….Or as result of frustration……Any way I’ve done the first quiz with 9 questions only [...]

In the blogoshpere world, most of the times I write comments that is important to me and want to keep an eye on interesting discussions. So, I used some methods to accomplish this and I'll explore them here.

Client-side Methods:

• Using Del.icio.us social bookmarking:

Bookmark all posts that's I have commented or which are interested to me to follow and tag it with common tag.

• Create a blog for comments:

Some people create blogs and post their own comments twice, one of the original post page and second on there comment blogs with the original post URL and use this blog to follow up there blogs. I do something similar here in my drupal-based blog. Created a new content type (using felxinode) with fields like: Post Title, Post URL, Comment Body and Comment Date/Time. I used it for a while and you can find it under Linkblogs tag. However, after few posts, I found this boring and inpractical.

وحدتنا ستكون ألهاماً للعالم….عنوان كتاب قرأته للأب متى المسكين منذ مدة طويلة ولكن لازال العنوان دائماً عالقاً بفكري وقلبي….أكثر ما يؤلمني و يؤرقني يومياً هي حالة الأنقسام الداخلي التي يعانيها الشعب المصري والذي دائماً ماعلت فيه أصوات المصلحة الشخصية على المصلحة العامة….أصوات البحث عن السلطة من أجل السيطرة على السلطة من أجل الخدمة الوطن والتغييير….ألخويؤلمني [...]

Find below some photos of the Egyptians demonstration dated 2006-04-20 regarding the last event in Alexandria. The demonstration was in Cairo, Shoubra Masr attended by many political movements and individuals as well either muslims or christains.

Logo created by CAESAr-DIABLo. I like it, thanks Caesar.

More photos can be found at The Big Pharaoh's Blog.

Read also a first attended impression at Memo's Blog.

The Dream Are they killing the dream? Or the dream is killing me?I used to believe in dreams, I used to have a dream, I used to believe in my dream, and I used to fight for my dream. Even if I didn’t realize my dream, I enjoyed fighting for it, I enjoyed every [...]

I've been spending many years supporting people in different mailing lists, Yahoo! groups, forums or even on individual bases using private emails and on-site support. This has been always on volunteering bases. Actually, I enjoy supporting others and it's (for sure) widing my knowledge and experiences.

AskTom was one of my prefered sites to find answers about Oracle. Expert Exchange is another prefered place for me to support others. On the other hand, contribution in different FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) communities has taught me many aspects about supporting and learning from others.

All of this had make me think from long time to create my support forum (lets call it Ask Ikhnaton2 for instance) as a free service for supporting others in the topics in which I've enough knowledge. And here it's my initial step (goto: Ask Ikhnaton2 forum), wish it'll success. You could ask in any of the provided topics and I'll answer as soon as possible. There's no SLA (Service Level Agreement) for sure as it's a volunteering activity but I'll try my best. I don't assume I'm expert in all of the provided topics but I could give a hand for sure.