In Turkey we are approaching a referendum for a major constitutional change. I’m not going to write about what the change is and how it impacts citizens’ lives, that’s my father’s job Instead I’m going to write about how voting abroad for Turkish ex-pats is handled. I’m only living abroad for ten years and I [...]

If you need to run native Linux client for Lotus Notes 8.5 on Ubuntu 10.04: 1) After installing your ibm_lotus_notes*.deb files, drop the following files under /opt/ibm/lotus/notes libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 You can get the files here. 2) Install msttcorefonts package: sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts 3) Go to File -> Preferences and choose Windows and [...]

The Beast, originally uploaded by Emre Saglam. Heavy HDR. Picture of the evil clown thingy in Seattle.

First of all, setting up screensaver configurations in gnome is a total mess. I don’t know why they decided to release and use gnome-screensaver instead of using xscreensaver. And I don’t want to know either. My ubuntu setup is an archaic one. It’s an upgrade over an upgrade over an upgrade. I probably upgraded 4 [...]

Fire man, originally uploaded by Emre Saglam. This is a street performer jumping a fire rope while standing on a ball @ the Baltimore Harbor.

White squirrel?, originally uploaded by Emre Saglam.

I successfully printed my first envelope on my Canon MP620. I used Open Office and this wiki article from openoffice.org. Al I needed to do extra is to choose the orientation icon like this. The rest was just to feed the envelope from the manual feeder Easy and recommended!

Nokia released a 16 MB minor release for the n900. The firmware version is: 3.2010.02-8 I had some issues with the update. I basically ran out of rootfs disk space. The update application complains as: Not enough space in location. For me disabling all the extra repositories and running apt-get clean; apt-get autoremove did the [...]

I am starting to believe that my battery issues were 2-3 isolated incidents. Lately the phone is staying a full 13-15 hours without any issues with moderate usage: 3g/wifi browsing, media player + FM transmitter and the rest. One thing I did is to remove the RSS applet and empty the RSS feeds. I almost [...]

This battery life situation is kinda pissing me off. I wrote a script to get charge, battery %, and cpu load. Made it run every 10 mins to collect the data. I unplugged the phone at 9:40 am. No 3g, no wireless, very few interaction. About 10-20 mins phone conversation. And at 15:30 the battery [...]