Archive for the ‘General’ Category
To be or not to be
This is very, very good. Be safe on the road…
WordPress 2.9 – Carmen is out
The new features are automatic upgrade of plugins, automatic check for their compatibility, image editing integration (Crop, flip, rotate, etc…). Including videos on your posts are also much easier. All you need to do is to paste the video page URL of the supported web sites (youtube, dailymotion, etc…) The posts are not going to [...]
Digital Frame or bust…
I’m writing this entry to push me to finish my neverending story about the digital frame project I started. I’m hoping that the entry will give me some sort of ignition after more than a year. I had an old Dell Latitude c600 sitting at home and collecting dust. Like many other old hardware I [...]
Blackberry email reading tips
This is my favorite: If you press J and K on the email list or while reading the email, it moves between previous and next emails in the context. (just like in the vi ) While reading and email, if you press N it goes to the next email, P to the previous email. And [...]
The new 80′s
Enough with eighties revival! The only thing good about eighties was the music. The whole eighties fashion was horribly wrong and was a mistake. Please let’s learn from our mistakes. The shoes with weird color combinations were wrong. Same thing for the big sunglasses! Shirts with big metallic buttons all over and wide shoulders for [...]
Fun with Google Translate
I was playing with google translate, I wanted to get some turkish proverbs and translate them to english, then translate them back to turkish and back to english and so forth… Here are some of the results: Bilmemek ayip degil, sormamak ayip. Not to know not shame, shame not to ask. Değil, sormak ayıp ayıp [...]
Zipir
Zipir, originally uploaded by Emre Saglam. Meow
nmap 5 released!
nmap version 5 is released today. According to insecure.org it’s the most important release since 1997. Here is the changelog, Here are the release notes, And here is the download link. I want to mention one more time how much I appreciate all work done on this exceptional product.
Lightweight bomb scare at the Turkish Airlines office. (Only in Turkey?)
I went to the Turkish Airlines (THY) ticket office in Istanbul today to take care of some problems. This post is not about THY, it’s just about a stupid/funny story that happened right in front of the ticketing office. Me and my father just before getting in the office, we saw an old fashioned alarm [...]
