Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Brouters

Last night i was searching for OSI reference model on google and suddenly i saw a word BROUTER which works on Layer-3 (Network Layer, i never heared about this before so i did search on google and find out that Brouter is combiantion of Bidge and Router, Brouter is a device which attempts to deliver packets based on network protocol information, but if a particular Network layer protocol isn’t supported, the brouter bridges the packet using device addresses (MAC address).

Friday, September 12, 2008

KAABA

“KAABA”- The House of Allah in Makkah. The Kaaba is covered by a black cloth known as “KISWA”, which is produced and changed every year. Special factory is designed for the making of Kiswa in Makkah. It costs approx SR 17 million. The cloth is made of 670 Kg’s of Silver and dyed black. About 120 kg’s of pure gold and 50 kg’s of silver is used in writing the Quranic verses over the cloth. The total area of the cloth is 658 sqr meter