My week was, troubleshoot firewall behaviour, more troubleshoot, a little bit more… are you bored? now write some scripts to read some data from some DB. are you bored? now GO BACK TO TROUBLESHOOTING! I`ll make some data publishing later on about my troubleshootings.

My current task is to use a policy compliance tool to check all of our systems. Find the guessed passwords, Missing OS patches etc… Not to go into the details… The program I am using uses its own database. Therefore it is a pain to make user specific queries to the program…Thank god, for this, [...]

I was net-surfing, and I saw this page. It gives you and incremental cost of the war in Iraq to US. While the big weapon companies are having fun, all we can do is watch the numbers increasing… How the numbers are generated? What is the algorithm behind? Go ahead and check costofwar.com. So I [...]

So that is in turkish. Sorry anglophones. oktay 2:35 PM: kde gibi bir c++ programý compile ederken oktay 2:35 PM: kasýlýyor mu alet? oktay 2:35 PM: gentoo? oktay 2:36 PM: çok feciiiy ^CONAN^ 2:36 PM: seni isiririm oktay! ^CONAN^ 2:36 PM: -O olarak ne kullaniosun? oktay 2:36 PM: OMO oktay 2:36 PM: veya ALO oktay [...]

Scifi channel has just started its new show mad mad house. It is a “reality” show in which stupids race to get some money. I hate reality shows. They are far from real. They are absurd, and boring. Especially the elimination phase. OMG! this is nothing about elimination, it is for commercials god damn it. [...]

Free Linux CD Project (FLCD) has restarted its operations. FLCD is a non profit organization which collects used (or new) Linux CDs from the people who don`t need them anymore and sends those CDs to others who actually need them. (Low bandwith, no connection, No CDburner, No MONEY! etc…) Please contribute the cause.

My friend Asli came to visit us (me and my buddy ozgur) She is our long time friend from Istanbul. She is a math genius and an atomic ant. Anyway we went to NYC to have some fun and show her around. The trip was excellent. We first went to SoHo and ate brunchish food [...]