I came to Ankara yesterday. Ankara changed a lot in 10 years! 🙂 It`s got bigger and better I guess. I’ll spend some time here and leave Wednesday morning for Çeşme. Photos from Ankara coming soon 😉

I landed safely! Smuggler delivered almost every single thing to the addressies 😉 Today leaving for Ankara. Will update soon the blog (I hope so) With some pics from the trip. Stay tuned!

Well, check this article written by Oktay. Way to go bro!

Since I`m going back to Turkey for vacation next week, everybody wants something from me. Laptops, video cams, digital cameras, etc… I hope I won`t be stopped by the border officers accused of being a smuggler! 🙂

Anyway the laptop requested by Sinan is an Acer Ferrari 3200. This is a very sleek design and a very RED notebook. (I don`t want to go into details about specs and all.) It comes with a very cute red and Ferrari logo embbedded optical mouse.

Enough with PR BS. Sinan also wanted me to put more memory in the laptop. (2 x 512MB) So I ordered them from Crucial Technology. I recommend everybody to go there and do the same thing. Because they are good!

The memories came and they were ready to install. I turned the back of the laptop and opened the memory expension slot. SURPRISE! There is only one memory slot! But the booklet and stuff says that there are two expension slots? Where the hell is the other one? WTF? So I started to dismantle the laptop. 😀 Here are some good shots of the operation 🙂

So the first picture shows you the actual place of the second memory slot! In order to go there you should remove the 4 screws behind the laptop where the screen joints are. And then you have to push the screen all the way back to an almost 180°. The next thing to do is to remove the plate where you have your power buttons and carbon fiberish look ferrari cover. You have to put your fingers between the keyboard and the plate and push it upwards. Use the force! 😀 Once you remove it, unscrew the three screws in front of the keyboard and remove it. Be careful there is this plastic flat cable under the keyboard so do not force open it! Under the keyboard you have the memory slot. (Check the first picture)

The two other pictures are my two hours waste of time for finding how to open the laptop and find the memory slot! 🙂 Sinan will be pissed off when he sees these pictures 😀

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Contribute to our cause and visit us, give link to us, and Send us your Linux CDs for recycling!

do this:

find -type d | xargs -i chmod g+x {}

I discovered that after accidentally changing recursively the group executable bit of all my files 😉

My peon is a moron… Yes. I talk about the owner of this page… My peon Emre… Everyday he goes into a room and never comes back for at least 8-10 hours. The other living organism in the house also gets into the same room around same time as my peon, and sometimes doesn`t come back even for days. I get bored to stay in the same room for 10 mins and they go to that room and stay there hours, sometimes days! Meow! What a boring life it is!

But i have no respect for this lowest form of life! It is a disgrace for the cat family! It walks on two feet only! AND DOESN`T HAVE A TAIL! (I`m not talking about the lack of whiskers… sheesh…)

I`m sleepy….

From now on, sometimes Zipir will take over the blog (just like he took over the world sometime ago) and write his own thoughts, his life and he will share his ideas with you. He did not comment how often he will do that when asked. (i think he is lazy anyway…) Stay tuned for Zipir the ruler…

Here is an excellent article about why you should change your browser.

Please do yourself a favor and change your browser today…

Alternatives?

Mozilla

Firefox

Netscape

Opera

We got a new association. (the others…) TASSA, as the name tells us, aims the scholars and scientists. Let`s hope that this one does not end up organizing picnics and “festivals” at the end of the day (like the the others) and be useful.

Everybody interested on this topic, please visit the webpage!