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Turkey is in a race with China on Censoring the net

May 14th, 2008 by Osman S Borutecene

On May 5th, Youtube is censored again in Turkey. Apart from this, after opendns had a great failure on resolving google.com and some other subdomains on google, I changed my settings back to normal, that is having an automatic dns which is not opendns. Then I saw the grim reality of censor in Turkey.

I realized that there are many, many web sites that are censored via court order. One of them is Geocities.com. Another one is CNN.com’s technology section.

I am really upset. Turkey always tried to become a european country in the last 200 years but hey, we are getting farther from that, not closer.

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Ubuntu is disappointing me

May 14th, 2008 by Osman S Borutecene

After approximately one year, I turned from gnome to kde once again. The reason is, gnome is behaving like windows day by day. First of all, performance is weak and its getting weaker while you continue to use gnome. It is not being a ram monster or it is not about something called the registry in windows. It is something else and I don’t know what it is.

Firefox performs better under kde than gnome. Many other software opens faster in kde than gnome. Gnome is useful, very useful at times, I can’t deny that but performance sucks.

Now, for the last 24 hours, I am on kde and I can see the difference once again. I have to admit that I only work with kdebase or kde-core but I don’t think that this is the difference.

I believe that the font rendition mechanism on gnome is affecting its performance. There may be other factors affecting the performance too, but I believe that they are similar things like font rendering.

I have read somewhere on the net that firefox on ubuntu with pango causes performance problems. What is kde using?

Anyway, if you are on ubuntu with gnome, try giving a chance to kde (3.5.8 right now) and see the difference. All you have to do is this:

$ sudo apt-get install kde-core

Have a nice Wednesday.

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Buggy Internet Explorer 6 and other vulnerabilities

May 12th, 2008 by Osman S Borutecene

I am in an internet cafe right now and I can’t login to visnum.com

Maybe it is forbidden (!), maybe not, but there is this unlock visnum.com option here, too. And this unlocking does not unlock visnum.com but it locks Internet Explorer and I have to start again all over.

Well, this is a present form Microsoft to us. I even don’t have any idea why this setting doesn’t allow me to see visnum.com but the same settin allows me to login into the control panel of wordpress which is also on visnum.com

What is the logic, reason and idea behind this?

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