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My favorite song “Whiskey Lullaby”

Alaa Qutaish — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:30:49 +0000

Song name: Whiskey Lullab

Singer: Brad Paisley

I have been addicted for this song for very long time , and it has been rated as one of the top 10 for 2 of my best friends. so i thought it would be nice to share it with you too . I uploaded it on my website

Here is the video clip link: Whisky_Lullaby.flv
you can also check the lyrics

She put him out
Like the burning end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart
He spent his whole life trying to forget

We watched him drink his pain away
A little bit at a time
But he never could get drunk enough
To get her off his mind
Until the night

He put the bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
He finally drank away her memory
Life is short
But this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees

We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that says I’ll love her till I die
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby

La x 7
La x 7
La x 7
La x 7

The rumors flew
But nobody knew
How much she blamed herself
For years and years
She tried to hide the whisky on her breath

She finally drank her pain away
A little at a time
But she never could get drunk enough
To get him off her mind
Until the night

She put the bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away his memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees

We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whisky lullaby

La x 7
La x 7

How to back up and restore MBR?

Alaa Qutaish — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:14:47 +0000

Backup and restore MBR (Master Boot Record).

What is MBR anyway ?
MBR is the first 512 byte boot sector of a partitioned data storage device “Hard Disk” and it is not located in a partition, it is located in the Main boot record in front of the first partition.
MBR contains the primary partition entries in its partition table.

What is it for?

Holding storage primary partition table, with exact max four primary partition tables
Bootstrapping the operating system after BIOS loads and executes the MBR
Identifying uniquely disk media with 32-bit disk signature

MBR code expects and scans the list of primary partitions entries in its partition table to find one and only partition marked with “active” flag , and then it loads its VBR “Volume Boot Record”

It is possible to edit the code inside the MBR sector using “Disk Editors” like fdisk. So what fdisk does is manipulating MBR code.

what would happen if we deleted our MBR or messed up with its code?
Simply, we will not be able to locate our partitions anymore and it would be a blind hard disk that can not see its partitions.
That hurts isn`t it? So the solution for this is to back up the MBR so we will not be afraid if something wrong happened in it.

How to back up the MBR?
Back up command:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/alaa/Sonyvaio-MBR.bkp bs=512 count=1

How to restore the MBR?
If the MBR is damaged, then you will be not able to boot from your disk, right? , so you have to do the following steps:

1- Boot up from Live CD like “Ubuntu or Gentoo or whatever you like”
2- In the terminal window type:
mkdir tmp
3- You have to mount the partition where the MBR image is saved, for example we saved it in my home directory, so :
mount /dev/sda5 tmp
cd tmp/home/alaa
4- Finally we restore the MBR image with this command:
dd of=/dev/sda if=Sonyvaio-MBR.bkp bs=512 count=1

Almost dead!

Alaa Qutaish — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:25:13 +0000

Poem: Almost dead
Author: Alaa Qutaish
Date: 29/09/2008

From the moment you left
the world became a grave
dark, mess and strange

You took my soul away
i can`t forget the pain
can`t you feel around?
the air can`t breath
the night can`t sleep
and woundes feel so grieve

I still smell you in here
even when i`m in fear

And it hurts me inside
love for another man
when you grew in me
and lived on me
How would you put that aside?
Don`t you really care?

I miss you so bad
how would i understand
that you`ve gone with time?
is this called the fate?

God plz, bring her back
to feel the warmth again
to get my strength again
and be her shield of pain

Amin.

Welcome to my blog

Alaa Qutaish — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:02:59 +0000

Actually i was planning to establish my web blog for long time but i could not enough time for it.. ,
i just found the time after i quit from the worst ISP company on the earth and i got my life back. whatever..

In this blog i will discuss and talk about Programming issues , Linux system engineering , Security flaws and vulnerabilities

hope you enjoy my posts..