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Documentaries
I think I’m a documentary freak… I watch a lot of documentaries of all types. Although I believe that “the reality is for the people who lack imagination”, I certainly love documentaries. Mostly I watch titles that are about the things that are not going well in the world. And I feel depressed afterwards… But [...]
Call reports in FreePBX
I’ve been having hard time to understand the CDR reports from FreePBX. There were a lot of duplicates, lots of couple of second connection entries, etc… All I needed is to set a criteria and see the reports related to that criteria. So here is how it goes: I need only ANSWERED calls. I need [...]
Tales of Monkey Island
It looks like there is a new wave of Monkey Island series coming from Telltale Games and Lucas Arts: Tales of Monkey Island I just watched the trailer, it kind of seems promising. It looks like it will be released for PC and also for Wii. The game consist of 5 chapters. It will be [...]
Interesting article
I read an interesting article yesterday about how we interact with others information. The article is a great way of looking at the history of information. How it was delivered to us and how it will be in the future. Read the full article here. It’s a very good analysis. Here is an interesting chart [...]
Moved to my new blog
I’ve been planning this for a while. I had written my own blog engine, it’s been bits and pices of code I’ve been patching to each other with band aid and chewing gum… It was good for late 90s and early 2000… However the net changed, I had to move on, I didn’t update my [...]
Tepki İnsanları
Türkiye’de acayip garip bir internet kesimi var. Bu insanlara ben “tepki insanlari” diyorum. Açıkcası bu tip insanlarla çevrili olmak beni biraz korkutuyor… Biraz daha açmak gerekirse Hürriyet, Milliyet veya büyük Türkçe internet sitelerine yorum yazan bu tepki insanlarının ortak çok ilginç bazı özellikleri var. Mesela yüksek bir kısmı (%60-65) kesinlikle herşeyi büyük karakterlerle yazıyorlar. Sanırım [...]
İngilizce windows’da türkçe harfler.
Eğer siz de benim gibi ailenize Amerika`dan ucuz laptoplar getirip ingilizce windows kullanmak zorunda kalıyorsanız, türkçe harfleri bazı durumlarda görüntülemeniz zor olabilir. Bu durumlar için çok basit bir çözüm var. Start -> Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options seçeneğine gidin. Açılan pencerede Advanced sekmesine klikleyin. Language for non Unicode programs kısmında ise Turkish seçin. [...]
Viewing word files on a Linux console
I needed to see a word file on my ssh session this time… If you have a similar need try to use antiword. It basically parses the word document and sends the output as a text file to your console. Of course don`t expect it to render the graphic files in your word document
George Carlin died at the age of 71…
RIP George Carlin
washington, DC has the worst metro system EVER
It`s hopeless. Never ever trust wmata. They suck.
