no need to memorize…

Besiktas JK’s supporter group (carşı) has done yet another awesome thing.After the death of Michael Jackson, they’ve prepared a banner written that:”God forgive MJ’s soul who is a great Besiktas supporter and lived half of his life black and the other half white.”
Btw, this banner has no racist content, it’s just for fun, and really fun for a turkish person.
Fyi, the colors of Besiktas are black and white

a gallows humor about Turkey’s current media… Sorry, in turkish…

Last thursday, I had the last mid-term exam of my undergrad life, and first time in my life I decided to read the course book. I eventually caused my failure from the exam since reading 260 pages in 2 days was impossible. And see what I’ve focused in the book Here are some interesting foot-prints from the history of computer networks:cell phone networks

Finding locations high in the air to place base station antennas is a major issue. This problem has led some telecommunication carriers to forge alliances with the Roman Catholic Church, since the latter owns asubstantial number of exalted potential antenna sites worldwide, all conveniently under a single management

Invention of automatic switch:

In the early days of the telephone, the connection was made by the operator plugging a jumper cable into the input and output sockets. In fact, a surprising little story is associated with the invention of automatic circuit switching equipment. It was invented by a 19th century Missouri undertaker named Almon B. Strowger. Shortly after the telephone was invented, when someone died, one of the survivors would call the town operator and say ’Please connect me to an undertaker.” Unfortunately for Mr. Strowger, there were two undertakers in his town, and the other one’s wife was the town telephone operator. He quickly saw that either he was going to have to invent automatic telephone switching equipment or he was going to go out of business. He chose the first option.For nearly 100 years, the circuit-switching equipment used worldwide was known as Strowger gear. (History does not record whether the now-unemployed switchboard operator got a job as an information operator,answering questions such as ”What is the phone number of an undertaker?”)

Value of copper:

At one time, 80 percent of AT&T’s capital value was the copper in the local loops. AT&T was then, in effect, the world’s largest copper mine. Fortunately, this fact was not widely known in the investment community. Had it been known, some corporate raider might have bought AT&T, terminated all telephone service in the United States, ripped out all the wire, and sold the wire to a copper refiner to get a quick

payback.

Cadillacs going crazy

Sometimes omnidirectional radio is good, but sometimes it is bad. In the 1970s, General Motors decided to equip all its new Cadillacs with computer-controlled antilock brakes. When the driver stepped on the brake pedal, the computer pulsed the brakes on and off instead of locking them on hard. One fine day an Ohio Highway Patrolman began using his new mobile radio to call headquarters, and suddenly the Cadillac next to him began behaving like a bucking bronco. When the officer pulled the car over, the driver claimed that he had done nothing and that the car had gone crazy. For sure nobody believes him but in that year, it becomes a usual event in Ohio Highway. Later GM engineers realize that the wireless system that Ohio Highway Patrol use affects Cadillac’s computer controlled break system.

Were the king blessed by god?

A case could be made for redefining the foot as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1 nsec rather than basing it on the shoe size of some long-dead king.

Does humankind have to solve any problem that he faces with an invention?

It is noteworthy that modern wireless digital communication began in the Hawaiian Islands, where large chunks of Pacific Ocean separated the users and the telephone system was inadequate.

Today, while working, I had to take “diff” of each folder and found the following command. Works perfectly on macOSx shell, should work in linux shell too.

diff -qr dirA dirB | grep -v -e ‘DS_Store’ -e ‘Thumbs’ | sort

here, DS_Store and Thumbs are two folders you want to exclude. The output looks like:

Files ./dirA/File1 and ./dirB/File1 differ
Files ./dirA/File2 and ./dirB/File2 differ
…

While surfing on facebook, I found a cool website where you can very quickly put yourself in cool photos.

FACEinHole.com

it’s easy, you choose a photo where the face is blank, than upload your own photo or have a webcam shot. then you become a new person

nice and cool website to have fun, it is really easy to use which made me write this post,

good job faceInhole !

here what they do:

Once one of my friends sent a link of a poem, then there was more of him on the website, and the first one I clicked was this awesome poem, there must be sth that made me click that link.

It is cool because it  defines one night stands in a nice way:

Half an hour

I never had you, nor will I ever have you
I suppose. A few words, an approach
as in the bar yesterday, and nothing more.
It is, undeniably, a pity. But we who serve Art
sometimes with intensity of mind, and of course only
for a short while, we create pleasure
which almost seems real.
So in the bar the day before yesterday — the merciful alcohol
was also helping much –
I had a perfectly erotic half-hour.
And it seems to me that you understood,
and stayed somewhat longer on purpose.
This was very necessary. Because
for all the imagination and the wizard alcohol,
I needed to see your lips as well,
I needed to have your body close.

Constantine P. Cavafy (1917)

taken from : http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/halfhour.html

As iPhone users know, there is no sms delivery report functionality on iPhone. Although I was not curios about this, today it drived me crazy and I googled for the solution.

Luckily, there is one (for Turkey/turkcell).

Just add a *N# to the beginning of your sms, then when the sms is received by the receiver, Turkcell sends you an sms.

I know this is not usable, but better than nothing.

Apple plans to add delivery reports to version 2.2 , lets wait and see…

today, while I was trying to find some interview questions for a guy coming for the interview today, I came across to a good presentation…

It briefly explains when should use flex, when should use flash by comparing flex-flash , flash player-air .

It is good for people who has problems to distinguish flex-flash and overuse flex (or flash).

So I decided to share it here:

Blind pre-flop all in!

We went to Las Vegas with two colleagues for this weekend, not to return back to Turkey without seeing Las Vegas, the city of gambling.

The whether is hot, but they’ve created a new world in the middle of desert. Definitely unbelievable, congratulations to the US investors for creating Las Vegas, might be considered for the south-east of turkey. ( I know, we’re too far from this intellectuality while the only betting is done by government and the rest is prohibited by laws.)

Anyway, the club we went Friday night was very qualitative (hotel wynn). Good cover, long line but beautiful girls! But for the day time, las vegas does not have enough attractions… They have Eiffel tower from france, statue of liberty from New york and blah blah, form all around the world. So there is nothing special, no meaning to see Eiffel tower ‘copy’ in vegas. So I decided to play poker for Sunday day time, which I was not planning after Reno experience.
We went to Excalibur, one of the most famous hotels in vegas and guess what, they had electronic tables :s. So no meaning to play, just hanged around in the strip. Then we tried Monte Carlo, and there was a poker room as we wanted, 1-2 blinds, just 4 fun players. I sat in a table with 100 bucks buy in. It was kinda aggressive combined with guarantees, and I did not have any fun, by losing slowly. And my colleague had to leave the table by guessing some guaranteer is bluffing…
I was just sitting on the table to loose my last 30 bucks to leave this fcking las vegas trip… But then things started to go well, first I made it more then 100 with my first good hand. Then the
”central bank” guaranteer left the table. After it, the baseball team that the guys supported won its match, we had free shots of some drink followed by a two pair aces, I could pursue someone to all in in pre-flop(who had 10 pairs), making my budged +250. The table was funny, winning was not making me happy I was just having fun with chatting intellectual rich drunk guys. (ok, to be honest, I was also waiting to take over these drunk guys while drinking my black coffee). Then another guy, who solved my tactics, changed his seat to sit close to me and he got my 100+ buck within 2-3 hands. I was again close to start budget, but still having fun. Later, the guy, who ordered the drinks, wanted to leave table but did not want to visit cashier to get his money. So he got 100 bucks then left the rest 40 something with blind pre-flop all in. He wanted to loose it, or just give as a gift. I had a bad hand, so did not call, an indian guy called him. He had a king and a queen suited and the blind pre-flopper had a 5 and 8. In flop, there was a king, so the Indian guy was winning the bonus 40 $.But then, the next cards after flop was 4 and 7, which was a straight for the blind pre-flopper. Unbelievable, but yes  . He just put his 80+ bucks as a blind pre-flop all in for the next round. He was trying to get rid of that money, since his team won, he was rich, and he had a beautiful gf. Next round, again I had a bad hand, did not call 80+. Two guys called him, and one more time, although a guy had two pairs, the blind pre-flopper has reached a straight!!! But this time one more guy had straight with the same height, so shared the money. The blind pre-flop all inner (what a nick name ), just got his new 100 bucks as cash and put 45 $ as the pre-flop all in for the next time. And this time I had Ace and King suited. This time I called him, with 3 guys. All cards opened, no big cards, guys show their hands both having an ace followed with a small number. I thought I won! But noooooo, the pre-flop blind god-luck man had a flush!!!.I could not believe, nobody could but he had!!! I lost almost 200 bucks but never had this much fun! Then he decided to leave the table, what he was trying to do in the last 3 rounds and won 300 $ without wanting, all buy luck. It was unbelievable; everybody was in tears, celebrating him. I had to run through the poker room before calming down, but it was fun!
Yes, unbelievably, a blind-pre flop guy won 3 hands in straight. I was glad that las vegas, in the end, showed how unbelievable it is! It was one of the most enjoying times of me in this USA trip. I just cashed my 140 bucks, ordered beer for my colleagues in the Harley Davidson café.

Now we’re back in the hotel room, watching world poker tournaments. It was fun las vegas, thank you! And poker is good!
Btw, the title is chosen by one of the players from the table….

I was working on some stuff about openfire and made a google search

openfire AuthCheckFilter

then google returned this page:

Couldn’t match
/search?q=openfire+AuthCheckFilter&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

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seeing google main page with an error is not common, so it was good seeing the giant failing to handle a request

after 1-2 minutes, google started working, but i have a screen shot !