This is not another BOOO Master Card sucks complaint… It has nothing to do with financial bending over to Master Card or high APR rates, etc… It does not matter how much a company makes profit by lending credit to x amount of people, and getting rich over that… It is business, you like it or not…

BUT if your company is a financial company, please stay as is! Don`t try to judge history with your financial power! Shut the fuck up and act like a credit card company. Master Card has no right to shape the history the way as they see, or the way people wanted to be seen!

I`m sick and tired of all the motherfuckers that has financial power (including countries, not only companies or organizations) to press lies and false accusations over my country. You all try to slow down and stop the growth of modern Republic of Turkey, but you will ALL fail…

If you wonder why I`m pissed off, I`m not gonna repeat the story, please go and read what Master Card did…

For pictures and color, also read this too…

I`m in Chincoteague, VA. It is a small fishing village which is now I guess more touristic village than fishing 😛 It has one of the most beautiful beaches of the east coast. The beach is more than 30 miles long, situated in a National Park, it is very naturally and well preserved. (Assateague Island National Seashore) There are a lot of wild animals sharing the same habitat when you are in the park. Like deers, squirrels, lots of birds and snakes, etc..

Btw I`m writing these lines very quick in an ice cream shop with wireless access. My mom and dad are bored so I should stop writing and start heading Virginia Beach. They already think that I am uber geek. 😛

As some of you might know, my parents are here. So we need to make those touristic visits. I`ve been to Shenandoah several times before but never to Luray Caverns and All Skyline Drive. This weekend we decided to go visit both of them. They are 1,5 hours drive from Washington, DC Metro area.

I think if you are living in the area and have a motorcycle, that is a great place to go riding. The road is extremely sweet and twisty. I also suggest you to enter the Skyline Drive from Rt211, that means from Thornton Gap Entrance. (Here is the map) Because few miles just before the junction of 211 and skyline drive is a wild twisty run Be also very careful on the Skyline Drive because the wildlife is very interested into humans. (Especially deers ) Don`t feed them! Consider then not hungry!

Unfortunately this weekend I didn`t have my motorcycle. But driving too is always fun! There are gazillions of hiking trails that you can take (of course including the 2700+ miles appalachian trail). Please take a moment to help the trail survive by getting informed before hiking and by making donations. (The Appalachian Trail)

Luray caverns are few miles east of the Thorntop Gap Entrance of the Skyline drive, on the Rt 211. That place literally ROCKS! You have to see those millions years old naturally crafted stalagmites and stalactites. The cave has a guided tour of 2 miles. Although I don`t like the feeling of visiting a cave on an unnatural path along it, this is the best you can get.

Don`t forget to see the one-of-a-kind stalactpipe organ in Luray Caverns. It is the biggest natural music instrument in the world, distributed to almost 3.5 acres it has 32 mallets. It is a masterpiece. I wish I could hear a live concert in the cave. Also visit the beautiful Car and Carriage Museum right next to the cave. Your entrance fee to the cave includes also the entrance to the museum. So don`t miss the chance! I`ll post some pictures later on.

Lovely day in Botanic Garden, DC.

I now have a stupid spammer trying to flood my blog by sending weird poker links by using my comments. Hey dumbass, I APPROVE MY COMMENTS AND HAVE NO INTENTION TO SHOW YOUR IDIOTIC LINKS TO THE WORLD FROM MY WEBPAGE! So I just closed comments section. Go ahead and try to spam now….

El mi yaman bey mi yaman….

I had several problems with my blog. But it looks like it has been automagically fixed, I can continue blogging

I`m back from the military service. I`m still one piece. It was a fun experience and I think everybody should have the same experience.

My mom and dad are visiting me. So I have lots of stuff to do with them.

The weather is also getting better, so more riding.

Anyway, that`s it for now. I`ll blog more soon

First I went to San Jose for training, then one week of work, then one week of CISSP training and the exam, now back to work, another week later I`m flying home to Turkey for my mandatory military service. Now you know why I don`t update the blog!

I found this page on a motorcycle forum. Very good informations for beginner riders. And whole bunch of good links for newbies.

Not sorted in order of importance….

– BelgeTR, a turkish document portal for turkish speaking Linux users. This used to be a very good project started by my friend Ferda. But it is waaay outdated and old now. So I am working on a better solution for that. A solution based on LinkBase.

– We are making all our servers compliant! This is a huge task and will require a big effort from security and system administration side. So… Patience!

– I`m working on updating my home machine. I have some specific drivers that I have to compile each time. (like hpt RAID, etc…) Gentoo just refuses to emerge world for some reason.

– I still have to “framize” my laptop. I have all the software structure to turn it into a digital image display, but I still need to figure out how to remove the LCD and remount it as a frame. Thank god I managed my stupid Dlink wireless card working.

– I have to Beta test the PCMCIA kernel support for Uludag. Onur will kill me if not…

– Clean and detail my rims for winter storage. (well half of the winter is already gone but… )

– More to come…

At last I “migrated” to Linux kernel 2.6.10 from 2.4 series. My main problem was the support for hpt raid drivers. Now Highpoint has the drivers (v2.0) for the 2.6 kernel. Time + drivers = new kernel 😛 Yay! 2.6.10…