İsmailTaha

If I wanted to be tagged as I tag my posts, two of the tags would possibly be antisocial and technical. This is what I wanted to be and how my destiny and nature drives me. Mostly destiny drives me this way because I don’t think that I know myself to define nature clearly (besides by mentioning about the destiny, this paragraph includes a confession of being religious).

The tag-able characteristics of mine are common for the majority of the programmers. Because becoming a computer nerd needs a bohemian lifestyle which kills the social life. For my case the situation a little different. Before I had an obsession of becoming a computer nerd (in fact I had that obsession since elementary school but I have no chance to take action), I had no social life. So the lifestyle mentioned didn’t have to kill the non exist social life, it just killed the possibility having one.

If someone has reached here before being bored will say “What the hell! There is no relationship between the tittle and context.” So it is time to tidy the mess up! For couples of week I have been investigating the statistics of visitor to my blog. And I have end up with a conclusion that my site is visited by visitors who have searched social keywords in Turkish. This is result of mostly blogging in Turkish and the Turkish users are not interested in technical issues mostly. Even I myself search the technical stuff in English. Since I have mentioned about being antisocial and technical, I don’t generally write about social stuff unless I have some extra-ordinary moments or had a feeling that forces me to write.

Actually my writings are invaluable but, if it wouldn’t be found by searching from google, it is much more invaluable. Some of the reasons that the latest posts are written in English are getting visitors from google, being useful to mankind, the desire of being famous , doing some practice of English and etc.

In my future posts i will use English on my site and after a while i will be editing the categories for that purpose. Of course the local stuff will be written in Turkish…

Kind Regards,

I was intended to buy an earphones because I didn’t have a good quality earphones about 2 months. I decided to buy one of MX series of Sennheiser with help of a friend of mine. He let me try his MX 160 earphone. I like its quality and the resolution of the sound.

I made some research about the best price. Darty seems to provide best price. But i didn’t find its site assuring to give my credit card information. Then i have gone to Media Markt to check the prices. But it was more expensive than Darty. They have the claim of best price that says if you find better price in İstanbul so we give the double of difference. According to their claim I wanted to buy the product to same price as Darty. They just said internet sites are not proof for better price, the proof needed to be an insert or printed advertisement.

The reason why i wanted to buy from Media Markt was that i was near to Media Markt and there is no Darty located on my daily route. Their rejection irritated me so i just didn’t wanna buy it from there.

Then today, i have gone to Kadıköy, and after a little bargain with the seller, i have bought the earphones with the same price as Dart offers from a small techno-market .

I have been testing my earphones for couple of hours, it work like a charm, but my notebooks sound card is not enough to feed it. It causes a little lack of sound quality. When i use sound based devices like mp3 player, it works more efficiently.

PS: If you are going to buy it please be careful about buying the original one. Imitations may bother you. In Turkey product should have Metan bandrole on the box.

Dün çok kıymetli Nadir kardeşimin(/abim) isteği üzerine tiyatroya gittik. Oyunun adı “Kafes”ti. Oyunun konusu hakkında bir bilgi veya bir metin yoktu, dolayısıyla konu hakkında hiçbir fikrimiz yoktu. Kafamız boş olarak girdik salona ve başladık izlemeye.

İlk araya kadar benim tarzım değil dedim, zira oyun karamsar bir tablo çiziyordu. Kendisini kafese kapamış, okumak ve etrafındakilere kafa tutmaktan başka bir iş yapmaka, psikolojik problemli bir karaktere sahip olan Christiano etrafında dönüyordu. Tiyatronun başında Christiano’nun nasıl bir ruh hali içinde olduğunu anlatıldı. Sonrasında neden kafese kapandığı ve etrafındakilerin onu oradan çıkarmak için çabaları ve bu çabalara tepkisi. Ardından abisinin karısı ile uygunsuz bir yakınlaşma yaşaması ve annesine yakalanmaları ve bazı teferruatlardan sonra da abisini öldürmesi ile oyun sona erdi.

Christiano pozitif herşeyi silmiş, bir yazarın bütün kitap öykülerini ezberlemiş ve bütün yargılarını bu kitaplara dayanarak çıkartmakta. Hiçbir insana güvenmiyor ve tiyatro sonunda da yazar Christiano’yu güvenmemekte haklı çıkarmış.

Benim oyundan gözüme çarpan bazı noktalar şunlar: Çarpık aile yapısı, Katolik dininin* bol bol eleştirilmesi, hayatın çok karamasar yansıtılması ve aşkın** çok önemli olduğunu söylemeri ancak bunun tersini insanların gözlerine sokmak isteyen bir son sahne.

Kendi değerlendirmeme gelecek olursak, ben bu tarz tiyatro, film, v.s. izlenmemesi gerektiğini düşünüyorum. Çünkü bu tarz buhranlı senaryolar ister istemez insanın hayatına da yansıyor. Zaten günden güne azalan pozitif enerjimizi götürmekle kalmıyor negatif yönde katkıda buluyor. Aklıma bir aralar izlemek hatasını yaptığım see inside filmini hatırlatıyor. Ne sefalet, yoksulluk, sıkıntı anlatıyorsa anlatsın içinde ümit olmalı. Bu oyunda ümit vardı ama ihanetle dumura uğrayan bir ümit. Tabi senaryonun güzel bağlandığını inkar edersem yalan söylemiş olurum. Ustaca dikkatler bir yerde toplanıyor ve tam başka birşey beklerken ummayacağınız birşey oluyor. İşte o anda olay kopuyor…

* Katoliklik bir meshepten çok din olarak görünmekte olduğu için bu ifadeyi kullandım.
** Genel yanılgı olan şehvet ve aşkın birbirine karıştırılması da söz konusuydu.

Today I have bought Logitech MX 1100. This mouse is a bit bigger but its usefulness and its ergonomic design covers the its size.

It has some key features for me, these are : hyper-fast scrolling, laser optics, long battery life and full compatibility with Linux. I wanna mention them in detail:

Hyper-fast Scrolling : The wheel of mouse has 2 modes which can be switched by the button right behind the wheel. First mode is the normal mouse wheel that we all know, the second is hyper-fast scrolling. In the second mode when you pushed the wheel forward or backward then it continue to turn around for some seconds on its own. It enables you to scroll long pages really fast.

Laser Optics : The most important advantage of Laser mouses for end-user is capability of working on almost every surface you can imagine, while optical mouse can have issues on shiny or black surfaces.

Long Battery Life : After 9 months I am going to see if the estimated time is correct or not.

It’s really worth to buy it, you won’t regret.

Kind Regards

These days I am really into Amarok and music. Maybe its because my continuing graduation project about digital filtering. I’m interested in and working on sound signals.

Today I had a question mark on my mind; why I couldn’t use my multimedia keys of my notebook on Amarok? By default I could use the multimedia keys with native gnome players such as totem, Rhythmbox and etc. Since I couldn’t find satisfying native media player on gnome, so I prefer Amarok.

After a goggling session i have found an Amarok Script in the kde-apps.org which is called Gnome Multimedia Keys 2. By installing it my blue leded multimedi keys work like a charm.

Kind Regards

In fact i have started to hate Last.fm after blocking non-subscribed users out of US, UK and Germany to listen music on their system. I have searched similar sites to consider my music taste and give me same mixture of songs. I must confess that i couldn’t find one like Last.fm .

Around these thoughts first i tried some tricks to listen music on it but it was nothing but a failure. Then i have decided to use last.fm to determine mine music taste by scrobbling. So I could benefit from its recommendations. But there were a small problem, my favorite music player couldn’t scrobble my statistics…

I have been using Ubuntu and Amarok for a long long time. Amarok has Last.fm plugin for years that enables both listening and scrobbling. But this time after doing configuration Amarok couldn’t able to save my login information that ask everytime. As a programmer i guess by not having the login information Amarok couldn’t be able to call Web Service to scrobble songs which needs authentication…

Lets cut the long story short, since Amarok is native KDE application it wants to save the login information for Last.fm to KDE Wallet, but in Ubuntu, i don’t have KDE Wallet installed and i don’t wanna have. We should say Amarok to ignore wallet! If we do so Amarok will save data on plain text. It’s not safe at all but its not a big deal for me and for the majority i thing. To do this the file ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc should be edited. To edit this file it should be opened by an editor, it could be gedit, nano, vi, vim, emacs, etc. whatever you want. In following command-line example i used vim.tiny which is one of the default editors in Ubuntu:
$ vim.tiny ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc

In editor Service_LastFm section should be found which seems like:
[Service_LastFm]
fetchSimilar=false
ignoreWallet=no
scrobble=true
sessionKey=

The bold line “ignoreWallet=no” should be changed:
[Service_LastFm]
fetchSimilar=false
ignoreWallet=yes
scrobble=true
sessionKey=

After this changed made, Amarok should be restarted if it was open. Then you sould do your Last.Fm configurations from Settings. Then it will write login information to the file that was edited. Both username and password could be seen from that file. Better not to share that file after this configuration!

Kind Regards..

Her seferinde javada tarih(Date) objesini istediğim formatta yazıya(String) çevirmem gerektiğinde googleda aramaktan bıktım . Örnek kod aşşağıda:

I’ve got bored to googling everytime when I need to convert Date object to String in a format that I wanted . Example code is below:

SimpleDateFormat formatter= new SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy.MM.dd ww 'at' hh:mm:ss a zzz");
Date now = new Date();
System.out.println("for:" + formatter.format( now ));


Az evvel farkettim, hosting hesabımın band genişliği dolmuş da girişlerde hata verir olmuş. Boşta duran bandwidth hakkımı bari yönlendireyim de zaten pagerank’ı 0 olan sitemi kazara ziyaret edenler olursa göz zevklerini bozmayayım dedim. Gerçi az daha sabretseydik şubat ayıma giryoduk …

WordPress’in son versiyonu olan 2.9′un çıkmasıyla blog’umu en güncel hale getirdim. Ancak her seferinde olduğu gibi tarihlerin türkçeleşmesini sağlayan locale.php dosyasını yedeklemeyi unuttum.

Zamanın behrinde hazırını bulamayınca kendim oluşturmuştum bu dosyayı. CTF‘ye katılmak üzere gittiğim İstSec‘de şahsen tanıştığım TEAkolik Hamza hocamın WordPress’in Türkçe sürümü ile ilgili şu feed‘ini görünce kendi kendime bizim dosyayı çalacak bir yer bulduk diye sevindim. Tabi sevincim kursağımda kaldı . Zira arkadaşlar yönetim panelini dahi tercüme etmişlerdi ama bizim dosya halen orjinal halindeydi.

Fazla arama zahmetine katlanamayıp kolları sıvadım ve başladım dosyayı düzenlemeye. Aslında dosyayı düzenlemede birşey yok ama angaryası çok. Sonuç olarak dosyayı yine hazırladım ve aynı hatayı yineleme ihtimalime karşın birde online kopyasını oluşturdum. Eğer ihtiyacı olan olur ve link ölmüş olursa irtibata geçmekten çekinmeyiniz.

Haaa İstSec ve CTF’den bir iki söz etmekte fayda var. İş dolayısıyla seminerlere katılamadım ama Bilal’in yazdığı şu, bu ve o‘ya bakıldığında güzel bir resim ortaya çıkıyor. CTF’ye geldiğimizde ise karizmaya fazla zarar vermemek için sadece bir iki resim linki vermekle yetineceğim.