ABOUT DELL & RELATED SERVICES IN RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
Well, as far dell is concerned, I've a good experience with Dell, I'm an IT consultant and worked in many Saudi organizations until now in the IT sector itself, where ever I placed dell desktops I never heard any complains, even for my own use I prefer dell computers, as far the cost is concerned, I think it's a lot cheaper and affordable if you compare to competitive brands. The problem we sometimes face in Saudi (especially in Riyadh) is that, if something goes wrong, for instance, if a notebook's charger is damaged and not working we've to spin ourselves in whole city in all major computer related sites and if we get a charger we'll be in doubt that whether it's original or second quality, there is a huge impact of brands like Dell in the market, until now I didn't find any specified and dedicated maintenance center or some kind of regional show case with maintenance opportunities in Riyadh from Dell's side, if you see HP, you'll find too many authorized maintenance center right in the city center with other computer shops, consumers are smarter than before, people buy that product which has the best service available (regional). Now technical people always recommend Dell notebooks, desktops, servers for enterprises but a normal user always thinks that HP support is available easily so let's buy HP it looks better than Dell. So the impact of service centers and regional centers on the consumers is too much, especially in Saudi community, users like the product which is marketed more often. As Dell is one of the oldest and major computer manufacturer they must think and get out of the eBusiness world, they should open centers in public places where majority of computer consumers lies.
COMPARISON BETWEEN APPLE'S MAC & WINDOWS BASED PCs
There's one more thing I would like to say is that, I don't understand why people compare Apple Mac and a Windows based PC, whatever Mac is and whatever Windows is today, no one should compare it. Let's talk in a way too advance level prospectus. The future of computer world is Web based applications and centralized virtualization servers to provide services to all end-user peers. Now the point is, would an asp.net developer buy a Mac? would IIS server run on Apple computers? would a security analyst use a Mac for security measures? Windows is way too advanced, two-way sync. in different versions of Windows? Unicode support? Built-in powerful firewalls? Okay lets keep it precise, before 2 years, I was a great fan of Apple when it comes to designing, but now when I'm running a Quad-core with 64bit Windows with up to 16GBs of RAM, do you think me as a developer or programmer would to switch to a Mac for designing? Real example; I use designing applications, MS Visual Studio, word processing software, browsing on multiple browsers, e-mail client, chatting clients, and so forth at a same time! with superb speed! I can run other operating systems virtually on this Windows machine how about that?... My point to all this long discussion is that, there is no comparison of Apple's Mac with any of the MS Windows based machines, Mac has it's own value in Media, and Windows has it's own Value in a lot of other stuff than just Media. And Apple's theory; the more you get richer, the more our products get cheaper to you. Where as Microsoft say, Okay? are you a student? verify your university I'll give you up to 90% discount!! How's that?...
No offense, I'm a Mac & a Windows user. Cheers!
Comments sent by me to Zawya.com Members
In love with Apple's Mac? Living in Saudi?
Well guys, if this is the scenario and your wish list is full of Apple's products or at least one of Apple's product, and you think it's too expensive to buy it from a reseller you should sign this petition which few of my friends and true Apple fans just made! More than 300 signed! Be one of them to bring Apple in Saudi Arabia!
All of you who thinks that Apple should open a Regional Outlet and they must open showrooms please sign a petition in the following links!
This will help us get Apple products much cheaper and available at high scale to all Saudi Community!
English page: http://www.wewantapplesaudi.com/
Arabic page: http://www.saudimac.net/
Friends please sign the petition, it not only help Apple fans, but also local companies and organizations who like to have Apple machines but are too expensive!
I'm Thankful to all of you for your cooperation.
Regards,
Faisal Mohammad (Admin Fdilbar.com)
2009 T20 World Cup & Pakistan's Victory!
"Fan's Celebrated Victory in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia"
All eyes were on Pakistan's National Cricket team when they successfully reached to the finals, Sri lanka's Cricket team was known to be one of the strongest team of the era, unfortunately the results were totally different. With amazing performance and smooth pressure less game played by Pakistani team left a mark in the cricket history once again. Pakistanis all over the world had celebrated this achievement. I would like to share some of the snaps taken by us after the match, young Pakistanis in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, showing the proud and happiness over T20 World Cup Achievement! More over, videos will be posted on facebook, youtube and our official website too. I'll be posting the link in while. Thanks to Abeer Abbas Zaidi, Hassan Shahid, Sulaiman Khan, Mohsin Khan, Agha Zain and all those brothers who cheered up the silent streets of Riyadh! Pakistan Zindabaad!
- Faisal Asif
Few captured videos;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGmvle05JhI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40G2t0mYgbM
(Part from News)LONDON: Pakistan won their first major title in 17 years when they stunned Sri Lanka by eight wickets in the World Twenty20 final at a sell-out Lord's here on Sunday.
Seamer Abdur Razzaq claimed three wickets as Pakistan bowled and fielded aggressively to restrict Sri Lanka to 138-6, then coasted home easily with eight deliveries to spare.
Shahid Afridi hit an unbeaten 54 off 40 balls, his second consecutive half-century, and former captain Shoaib Malik made 24 not out during a match-winning partnership of 76 for the undefeated third wicket.
Pakistan, runners-up to India in the final of the inaugural World Twenty20 in South Africa two years ago, ended Sri Lanka's unbeaten run in the tournament with style.
Pakistan last won an offical multi-nation tournament in 1992 when Imran Khan's team lifted the World Cup by beating England in the final at the Melbourne cricket ground in Australia.
The win by Younus Khan's team gave Pakistanis back home reason to cheer as the cricket-mad nation has been deprived of international tours due to security concerns in the volatile nation.
Some Memories - I do care
Girl, I still remember the day I first talked to you, and how can I forget those moments when I recognized you as a different person. Don't you think it was just a small gift from God that you came to my web site just to read my poetry? You never thought that one day you'll be missing me this much, neither did I thought that someone would care for me so much. It's just hard to describe my feelings in words. I remember when we used to talk for hours and hours, it was so different, so pleasant, so beautiful. I used to call you 'toothpick', awe, how beautiful life was, but everything is different in reality. Some times life show us dreams and inspire us to acheive every goal with an unpredictable spirit, we try hard and reach our destiny, but sometimes even if we try our best we don't get what we like and we're hurt. It's our history, human is born crying and leaves this world crying, we never care about what good happened in our lives, we just remember the sad moments, the hurts, the cries and the weak moments. I've been thinking about this all damn day. And I think it's great to leave you a message forever, I always cared for you, and I will care for you, no matter where this life takes me, no matter how far I go, no matter how high I fly, I'll never forget anything you said. Sometime it's too hard to tell our feelings to each other but it's not difficult to understand someone you love. I broke your heart, I hurt you, and whatever I did to disturb your feelings, I never did it intentionally. I always care, even if I don't show it. We had best moments, we had laughters, we shared happiness, we shared our feelings with eachother, we lived together, but whatever happened was through this technology, and whatever is happening is through this technology again. Sometimes we say something while smiling, but at the other end, it ends up with an upset face. Life is just complicated. A post...just to tell you...that I do care, "They tell me they love me, when they don't like my Happiness", that's too interesting..
100 years back, life was better..
It never ends at my head though; I don’t really know why people act so weird in front of me these days. It’s just bad, I don’t understand people, and brain doesn’t accept their acts anymore. Everyone is racing in this fast track of life, but why? And after all I feel like blowing someone’s head when my girl acts like a wild bull. I just don’t get it why the hell everything is so lame these days, where ever I go, on road or at work or at institutes or any other place, it’s just weird, weird enough to make someone completely mad. I planned to have a break from this life, I should leave this country for a while, to get some rest, but that’s impossible, where ever I’ll go there are issues with people and their lives, and I don’t know why the hell I’m so social, I just help everyone which I really don’t like but I always do it. Life was easy 100 years back, you never heard about any weird diseases, there were no cars, everyone was strong, no chatting, no facebook, aaaah it just feels good when I think about a small hut, little bone fire, fish being cooked, you got nothing but a banana tree leaf to wear, just awesome, you feel dirty, you go and take bath at the waterfall, everything natural, you eat fruits and vegetables, you hunt animals down and later roast them, it’s like peace of mind. Seriously, life is too hard these days, same shit every day, you wake up early, then you find out that there’s no water, then you’ve to suffer and curse the local authorities, use distilled water for bath etc. I just don’t want to write more, life just sucks these days, especially here in Saudi. Culprits everywhere.
Little about Saudi Arabia's on-going projects
Well guys, let me increase your knowledge a bit more regarding on-going projects in Saudi Arabia. In few years, you'll see Saudi Arabia with a different view. 5 Economic cities are being build, which will have world's best communication technologies, not just communication, but best traffic facilities, best architect designs, and a lot more. The five economic cities will have a 'HUB' which will connect all these cities together and everything will be controlled, monitored, and managed electronically. Soon everything will be electronic (i.e. e-Government). Cisco's latest technology which you usually see in Hollywood Movies, that a man is in front of you but his body is somewhere else (physically not present but semantically there..). King Abdullah is one of their first client who accepted & planned to implement Cisco's Live TelePresence systems with UC (unified communications) all over the Kingdom which will change the Saudi world ultimately.
More over... you can see rapid development in Riyadh, roads are being decorated at a fast pace. King Fahad Road is already done. And you can see GREENERY while driving! with fascinating lightning effects!
in Jeddah, world's biggest main frame computer is being built which will be completed in next 20 years (approx.), and it will be a part of King Abdullah's new science university. The main frame computer is named "shaheen" and it's world's 8th LARGEST COMPUTER ON EARTH! Global scientists will research at this university as planned. And this is just a start... :)
More over... Riyadh's traffic was totally out of control (that's what the authorities used to say...), but now, current government implemented world's best traffic systems, some are being developed, some are already up and running. The number of accidents in Riyadh per month was MORE THAN WHOLE WORLD'S NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS per month, which is controlled efficiently in this year. I've been with guys who developed the new traffic control systems and integrated them with GPS etc.
Now whenever an accident occurs, when someone calls the traffic police, the operator sees the caller's position right away!! & officers are dispatched at the same time as soon the operator confirms! There are few special cars built to test a system which is not yet implemented completely but will be common soon, every police car will have a built-in radar which will act as weapons detection of EVERY KIND... ;) oh yeah... and Saudi Environmentalists are here too!! Government is applying ordinances which are GREEN, traffic police cars which are parked on highways all day got SOLAR ENERGY SAVERS!! you can see these cars on King Fahad Road in Riyadh, already there!...
everything is happening, but expatriates are no where... in all this development... who developed Saudi with their hard works :)
Heartrending Feelings
My philosophy: A man is incomplete without pain and sorrows.
Alright this statement seems too much heartrending to some of you, but life treats us like that. Nature has given us feelings that we can sometimes hide from outside world but sometimes cannot control them. A moment or two you’re happy with everything, and it feels like you own the world around you, and there is nothing you can get sad about. I don’t understand how it works but at times we give up ourselves, we think that the one we love is everything for us, we try our best to be loyal to that person, and what we get in response is nothing, not even the love and trust we had put in this unnamed relation. If we analyze our daily lives, mostly we get sad because of people around us. The reason could be anything. The way of communication, the way of understanding each others' opinions, the way of thinking, basically it could be anything you don’t appreciate.
Now there is a solution to this situation, or you can take it as my suggestion. Just ask yourself for a while who do you exactly live for? Why are you in this world? Would your actions hurt anyone’s feeling? Is there anyone who really cares for you, and how is your behavior towards that person? How do you know that you’re right if you’re not listening? What makes you think about the person you love? What is making you sad and why?
Couple of questions, but you’ll solve a lot of daily problems by answering them. You don’t have to love the one who don’t care about you. You should try loving the one who really cares about you and your feelings, who can understand you. It’s not important that the person you love must be with you physically, this is which makes us weaker with time, especially when you’re in some long-distance relationship. Sincerity is everything, but these days you’ve to show your partner that you really are sincere, and sometimes when you’re trying to show your sincerity the argument gets on which leads to other unexpected issues.
You don’t have to just sit and wait for the right time. You’ve to struggle for everything. You’ve to work hard till you achieve your life’s goal. Giving up yourself to someone you barely know is stupidity. True friends never hurt each other, and it’s better to have friends rather than diving in some deep love shit. (I might sound insane, but this is how it works, beware before experiencing it, because it hurts like hell...) And as I just said in the commencement, “A man is incomplete without pain and sorrows.” We are humans, we do mistakes, but regretting past makes no difference, so live happily, life has much more to give...
