Miscellaneous

from The Forty Rules of Love, elif Shafak,

“..If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn to love yourself, fully and sincerely, there is no way you can be loved. Once you achieve that stage, however, be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses. ”

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In any given society the bulk of the people, the %98, the crowd, the group of people with average intelligence behaves like one single animal. It is very hard to distinguish the behavior, actions and emotional responses of this group individually and from animals.

When you buy a Turkcell 3g Vinn connection, it comes with a USB stick that is a 3G modem that establishes the connection. The USB stick installs a 3G modem on the system that you can use to create a Dial-Up connection with. If you create a new Dial Up connection, it will automatically default to this 3G modem and you can share this connection over a wireless network for others as well. Not required at home but if this is the only connection you have you should just as well use the dial up connection and share it over wireless for other devices that you may have. The only thing you need to provide when configuring the connection is the dial up phone number and that is *99#.

aksiyomlar:
1: insanların ürettiği hiçbir makina algının ötesinde karmaşık olamaz.
2: sağlaması olmayan hiçbir matematiksel işlem yoktur.

o zaman sadece bu ikisinden yola çıkarak bilgisayar eğitiminin zor olamayacağı gibi bir sonuca varabilir miyiz? burada gerçek sanatçılar programcılardır. bunları tıpta genetikte uzmanlaşan doktorlara benzetebilirsiniz, kimya, fizik ve matematik konularında da hakimiyet sahibi oldukları da söylenebilir.

tüm bunların bir sonucu olarak aslına bakıldığında bilgisayar öğrenmek zor değildir. işletim sistemi karmaşık bir sistem değildir. sistemi bilenlere yolcular dersek ve en uzun yolu gidip geleni konuşursak, bu adam yolculuktan yorgun ve mağruriyetinden gördüklerinin her birini paylaşmayacaktır. Amacı kendine saklamak ve bedavadan elde edilmesine kendi çektiği acılar ve sıkıntılar sonucunda erişmeden edinecek insanları düşündükçe sinirlenmektir.

temel yanlış belgelemenin olmamasıdır. temel problem bu uzun yol yolcusundaki sabır güç ve dirayetin herhangi bir bilgisayar öğrencisinde olmasının o kadar kolay olmamasından kaynaklanıyor.

tarlalar dolusu varlar ve yoklar ufka kadar uzanır. sistem adresler, bunları saklar, arar ve sıralar. ama bu zor bi işlem değildir, bu anlaması zor bir konu değildir, sadece uzun bir yoldur. birler ve sıfırlar zor olamaz, birlerin ve sıfırların olduğu yer her an birbirini takip eden bir yaradılış.

Dubai is a gem, it’s beautiful. It’s a utopia in the desert that amazes everyone at first sight and keeps them baffled for a long time trying to understand how it was accomplished. Hosting the world’s tallest man-made structure, it’s an oasis. But, there is a catch, there are actually multiple catches with this city. Having lived in Istanbul, Reading and then here for 4 months, hear my thoughts.

Climate. Unbearably hot in the summer for around 5-6 months. These days though it is where you want to be. The weather is a lovely 28 degrees and with a nice breeze from the sea in the evenings, you can do anything in this weather, though it is to my amazement that noone opens their windows whilst driving still. The AC is an addiction here and the sustained unnatural life style.

Labor. Dubai and the UAE is a fairly young country and one of the more moderate in terms of integration with the Western world among other Arab nations in the region. Due to the low population most skilled persons are expatriates and the local Emirati people do not constitute probably no more than %10-15 of the workforce. If you were to take the expats out, there would really be no business to be run here. That is unfortunate and one that the Dubai Sheikh is working hard to change but a hard one to tackle. As far as I can tell due to the low population, noone gets to be naturalized, you’re born an Emirati not made one That’s quite allright for most, however it is an issue as noone gets to love the place for what it is, you will never own a piece of land here or make it your home. Everyone works and lives here with the notion that one day, once they’ve saved enough money they will leave.

When the workers, the professionals and the skilled labor do not feel they are part of the society of the place, how will that help build the country? This is a sincere question and one that I have an answer to. The government here needs to come up with a plan to make an intermediate status for the skilled labor that keeps this country going, give civilian passports to those that come from countries like Palestine and integrate them better into the society. Make UAE one of the greater nations in the world.

In 20 years, when the oil runs out completely, this and other similar actions will make a difference. When the oil runs out, and the constant cash flow into the country stops, these people will leave. In my case, I’m here as long as I’m employed and I want to see a Muslim country successfully develop itself.

Transportation and the postal system. Unfortunately no GPS properly works here as every month there is a new road constructed that changes everything. With the GPS you generally find yourself in the middle of nowhere, which may be good as it helps develop desert navigation skills. Your chances of finding your target are better if you had a map and a compass than using the GPS and its maps being outdated every minute. Unfortunately this gets reflected in many other places as well. There is no postal system. You don’t receive any mail, the only mail you get will get to your office that everyone knows about. As every house, apartment building is new, there is no uniform way to define an address, noone, including the postal office will know where your house is. Very unfortunate. If you live in a very well known area, like Dubai Marina, Palm Jumeirah then you will get your deliveries, but don’t bother getting anything from the internet to your home address, you’d have to use your office address for that and work with a local cargo company that knows where it is

Food. Food is lovely. There is no comparison to the UK in terms of the wonderful colorful food culture here. Eating out is cheap, and you can literally eat out every night without creating a dent in your budget. Grocery shopping is cheap as well and the ingredients are as can be guessed eastern, middle eastern which helps cook as you wish if you are from the region, which was an issue for us when we were back in the UK as most food was frozen and cooked and not much focus on ingredients. The Lebanese cuisine is the best. It is the beautiful mix of mediterranean and middle eastern, love it. You can find Lebanese restaurants everywhere and generally speaking their quality is much better than the other nationalistic cuisine restaurant, well to my taste at least.

All in all, do I enjoy living here? I love it. Dubai is one of the best places to be if you want to save money, enjoy more outdoor activities than elsewhere and live comfortably. More details to follow later

This above design is something I’ve been thinking about for a while now. It’s got a large enough fan on the front and an exhaust fan right after the PSU. The PSU is a blocker unfortunately however this next one may be able to solve that:

I’m not sure about what sort of material to use for building the case however wooden panels and other wooden pieces may be an interesting way to build it. Metallic panels and components are hard to work with and stitching them together will require welding or punching of bolts at certain points. I could also maybe use plastic but that is not something I can mould. Material wise I’m open to ideas.

Does it exist? In the workplace? In life? Politically? Religiously? No. It doesn’t exist. If FoS is puking all that I’m thinking about, and telling you and the receiver anything that comes to mind, then no, there is no freedom of speech. There is no freedom of thought. The world is built up on rules of engagement and like it or not, this is what we agree to when we decide to live in cities, attend educational institutions and be a citizen.

If I was brave enough to leave the civilization and pursue my life long dream of becoming a fisher man, I’d be able to tell whatever came to mind about the fish. about the sea. about the weather. about how people are and why a great percentage of people are lacking brains, logic. Above a certain intelligence if you are, there is no way you can express yourself the way you want and still be peaceful with the people. There is no way.

It is unfortunate but at the same time a need. In the workplace if something is wrong, all those channels to take it up to are basically for show. Noone sincerely wants everybody to be able to speak their minds. There is no such thing. Take this blog for example. Whenever I write anything here it is with fear that it will release too much information about what I think and how my brain actually operates. I still try and push the limit as much as I can but it is not really close to what really goes on in there. I will retire someday and leave the city. Maybe I’ll be able to release information in such a manner that will help masses know the truth about things then.