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I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 yesterday, it seems cool except being hard to personalize the GUI.

Using Text Mode Location Bar was disabled like the previous releases but i was able to enable it from preferences. Natty has no option for that. By knowing that in linux there is always an alternative way to solve such problems i have started search the solution for this and i have end up with the following command which permanently enables the text mode location bar for nautilus:

$ gconftool-2 --type=Boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry true

The command changes /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry boolean parameter to be true where nautilus checks whether to always use the location bar in text mode. It’s also possible to switch location bar to text mode for the instance with the shortcut CTRL+L but when the directory changes it returns to its default.

I was uncomfortable with the default configuration but if somehow someone gets lock with text mode location bar and don’t like it to be so the parameter could be set to false with the following command:

$ gconftool-2 --type=Boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry false

My blog was being illegally attacked(DDos) continuously and the source of the attack couldn’t be tracked by my hosting company(in fact it’s always like this when DDos attacks exists). That’s why it was not accessible for about one and half week. I don’t want to blame anyone but we will see after the purpose of attacker got clear.

Blogum yasadışı olarak devamlış şekilde saldırı(DDos) altındaydı ve saldırının kaynağı hosting şirketim tarafından takip edilemedi(işin aslı DDos atakları söz konusu olduğunda durum hep böyle oluyor). Bu yüzden yaklaşık bir buçuk haftadır blogum erişilebilir değildi. Kimseyi suçlamak istemiyorum ama saldırıyı gerçekleştirenin amacı açığa çıktığında göreceğiz.

This year there were a very nice innovation about downloading and sharing files which called put.io and it drive people – including me – crazy starting from its beta version. People are trying to get beta user invitations and I was one of the lucky ones and i have been able to get invitations about 20 which i have given them to my friends. In the beta period put.io have given plenty of storage and bandwidth to the users and it was fun to see how fast it’s downloading. Then it turned into a paid service i prefer not to pay the Premium or Pro plans of it. Thus with the basic plan the storage supplied became 10Gigs in my case where i should delete files to download new ones which means the deleted files could not be shared with my friends in put.io.

Besides to these put.io crew supported to share files and search before downloading which saves storage and time and it’s really logical. But search functionality is only between your friends and as put.io gets bigger the number of users increased dramatically. So sending invitations to users became a very time work to do. As a programmer I just simply write a javascript line to send friendship request to all users and run it from the address bar of the browser. But it was at earlier stage.

Some time ago i have mentioned what i have done to a very precious friend of mine and he advised me to prepare a GreaseMonkey(GM) script for it. Then i have prepared a GM script to send request to all users instead of doing it manually. In fact 2 weeks ago this script was ready and i have twitted about it but i couldn’t be able to publish it.

The script could be found in the following url which is a github repository:
https://github.com/scriptmonster/Put.io-Friendship-Request-GM-Script

I will try to give an installation instruction, but its just available only for geek people who knows how to use GreaseMonkey. Your feedbacks will be appreciated.

I while ago i have bought a Logitech MX 1100 mouse, and i have mentioned that in my blog. It is an amazing product but not perfect. I had problem with my mouses hyper-fast scrolling feature. There existed a friction and that friction causes the wheel to not scroll.

I have submitted my problem to Logitech Customer Care and they have responded me and let me emphasize my problem. I have specified my problem clearly so convincing agents were very fast and easy. I didn’t think that there could exist a replacement process. But it was what happened. The new product was shipped via UPS and i have received it in two days (Netherlands-Turkey).

The replacement took place a month ago but i had the chance of writing post about it.

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.

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..