Archive for May, 2004 | Monthly archive page

Aprilia SR50 weblinks.

I`m shopping for some spare parts (a light bulb to be more precise) for my scooter: Aprilia SR50 Ditech. There are not much online sources for my scooter Unless you want to buy engine/exhaust tuning stuff for it. I made a lot of search online to find some useful links for my scooter. Here are [...]

Each emerge -pv world creates a sweet thrill…

This time`s emerge -pv world was 70 packets, 100 MB source code download. And I do update my box pretty periodically. Since I wanted to give a chance to Gnome a month ago, and the _stable_ version according to portage was the 2.4 version, I installed that one. So the main cause of that many [...]

Back to scooter days!

YAY! I got my scooter back from hibernation! I rode from my colleague`s house to my place (approximately 30 miles) on a busy freeway. To make things worse, it was rainy. But I was still lucky that only the road was somehow wet since it stopped raining right before i left his home. Although it [...]

Mini Howto: sftp chroot

The goal: Create an SFTP server with encryption. Needs: Do not allow the SFTP users to reach/see the OS binaries on sftp sessions. Create unique environment for their logon session. Do not allow the SFTP users to login to the server using ssh. If possible, use the same service for legitimate admin tasks, etc… Solution: [...]

Gentoo theme for T610

I created a gentoo theme for Sony Ericsson T610 (T61x). Here is a screenshot of the theme. Click here to download it.

Zipir is famous. Again…

Zipir is mentioned again in FLCD mini-god david`s blog. Bow before him!

Lego bots pics

At last I could transfer our team`s lego bots pics to my hard drive. There are only two for the moment. (Batteries died ) I`ll post more as soon as I get more

Back to summer wheels!

At last yesterday we changed with Ekrem my car`s wheels from my winter wheels to it`s original RCs My car is a beast again!

VCD transcoding

I have two video files that I want to transcode into VCD format. Both files` container formats are mpeg. (352×288). For some reason K3b did not like them to burn to a VCD. So I had to use transcode. Here is the command line that I used. transcode -V -y mpeg -F v,1 -E 44100 [...]

Clay bar magic.

The enlightened followers of this page knows how much i like my car . I was reading in many forums (e.g. vwvortex forums) that clay bar was creating miracles on the body detailing of your car. I don`t believe in miracles I have to see it first… I went to some auto parts shops to [...]