Today, I was playing with apache mod_rewrite and decided to make my blog a little bit tidier. So I created a rule to make all my links looking like: http://emresaglam.com/blog/[storyID]. Since there are many many tutorials on the web on howto use mod_rewrite I`m not going to go into details. I created an .htaccess file [...]

The new album from Portishead is announced in Beth Gibbons`site! yay! 

And today`s photoblog picture is: Bosphorus, Istanbul. Click to see different sizes!

Here, I read an Intel whitepaper about how one can improve the performance of Snort (or an IDS system) using Intel multi-core architecture. I recommend you to read that whitepaper, it`s full of nice ideas about distributing the packet capture and the other steps like decoding, pattern matching, etc over different CPU cores and taking [...]

The new Pardus is out. (I`m late to announce here ) I`m seeding the distro through p2p (torrent). So if you want to grab it using your favourite p2p client here is the torrent URL. Do not get it and go away! Please seed some Update: Here is the official torrent. I`m seeding this one [...]

I`m changing my photoblog postings from now on. I decided to try Flickr and see how it goes with that.  First posting is the maiden tower in Istanbul. (Kızkulesi the original name)