Exciting movies in 2012

New year is coming, and so new movies. I conducted a detailed investigation on these movies (which is only watching the trailers) and selected the most interesting ones. Here are the movies to be watched:

Who does follow too many Tv series?

tvcountdown.com is a useful website if you are following popular U.S., Japan or British TV series and want to know when the next episodes will be on air. You can also create a customized list by selecting specific series. It has a simple design and easy to use interface. There is no need  to explain more.
Besides, I heard that there are similar websites which can also enable users to download those Tv series by torrent, but since torrents are mostly illegal, it will be a felony if I share those particular websites here :)

Fancy stuff for Ubuntu terminal

Yeah Ok. I got bored and tried to find some fancy things about my terminal screen. I have already changed background picture, fonts and and names... however something was still missing. And now, I had friends in terminal who greets me and tells some quotes for the day. I suppose that s an entertaining way to get start doing some stuff on terminal. First check my new terminal greeting by Bender from Futurama.

And then I can read the quote of the day from my cyber-cow!

Now everything is fantastic... So lets see how can we do this. I ll try to explain it simply:

First we need to install the quote generator engine- fortune:
sudo apt-get install fortunes fortunes-off 

Then lets install the cyber-cow:
sudo apt-get install cowsay

Now we need to edit .bashcr file in order to see this greeting at the start up of terminal.
cp .bashrc .bashrc.bak

gedit .bashrc


after we opened the file,  type  cowsay "$(fortune)"  at the beginning of this document (save&quit). When you restart terminal, here what you are gonna see the cybercow with a quote:


 ______________________
  & %%%%% &;
 ----------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||


Now lets make a bender greeting.

For that we need to create and edit another file:
gksudo gedit /usr/share/cowsay/cows/bender.cow

When the file is open, paste the following (save & quit)



$the_cow = <
   $thoughts
    $thoughts
     ( )
      H
      H
     _H_
  .-'-.-'-.
 /         $thoughts
|           |
|   .-------'._
|  / /  '.' '. $thoughts
|  $thoughts $thoughts @   @ / /
|   '---------'
|    _______|
|  .'-+-+-+|
|  '.-+-+-+|
|    """""" |
'-.__   __.-'
     """
EOC

Now again lets open the holy file which enables us to create greeting message:


 gedit .bashrc 


and at the beginning of the file, type: 

cowsay -f bender "greetings master!" 


Now you have Bender too. 


You can customize the phrase in quotation such as " Whats up bro! here is the quote of the day!: $(fortune)"

That s all which I can tell simply !


P.S. I d like to thank Monsterstack from UbuntuForum for these great tips. For detailed  info (such as how to change cow to dragon or Bender to Fry) please visit: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1154065

What is wrong with you Ubuntu?

Why Ubuntu is getting worse? When I started Ubuntu with the 8th version, everything was so smooth and fine. There was lots of options that I can change themes, styles and many other features. And now look at the 11th version. It s getting slower, problematic and so on... Moreover, it was like a MacOS that most of the features somehow restricted. I have no option to change the theme. Furthermore, I cannot find properly working commands in forums to make things customized. What now? should I pay for getting new themes? I m hopeful with 12th version of Ubuntu. But if she continues to be that bitchy, I m sorry but I have to break up with her...

Boss in the scene: We are all hunted!

wearehunted.com is a platform that brings emerging songs and new artists that you may not even hear of them in radios or TVs. It  became my new addiction and cyber-spiritual channel to the music. Good productions, excellent songs and joyful interface... Simply create your account and start discovering new songs, form your own playlists and share with your friends.

Sometimes if you are lucky, you can download free Mp3 of emerging singles.

Bon appetite!

What is going on in the backyard?

The following video give information about our caring friends Facebook and Google, and their act behind us.

I m afraid to break all my eggs!

We  have everything in one basket: search engine (google) & mail account (gmail) & videos (youtube) & online documents (google docs) &Bookmarks-passwords (google sync)& photo albums (picasa) & blogs (blogspot) & music (google music) and now Chromebook which collects them all! For what cost? Is it for free? No! in exchange of a copy of your data and tracks of you on the web. The company gains billions of $$ by the cumulation of this tiny data of people. Yes, they are used for semantic algorithms to provide you "better" service and for "customized" advertising. However, it massively infiltrates to our privacy... Here, I want to talk about all the eggs in one basket and the alternatives.

As you see, Google is the huge basket here and it freaks me out day by day! I need to reduce to risk of losing my data like videos, favorite links, documents... Backup is important since everything s been dragged into the web. Only think I can do right now is to back up to my USB storage device. But it is getting difficult since it is hard to convert online docs to offline formats adn maintain periodically. Due to the fact that Google is inevitable checkpoint on web, I cannot think of another solution without comprimising our privacy. So, what I can think of as an alternative solution is existance of a back-up online service which watches me in internet ( like google) and other than keep tracking my path, also saving my data on alternative cloud storage account (this program can be a browser). So, in any case, if I may hacked or lost data by server crashes or close my google account, I can reach them all. It should not be a sub-company of Google, since it is the only one who knows everything about me, thus, it can be a rival company. Since Google "obeys" the government regulations about privacy and we trust it (the common trust we have to huge coporations), this alternative company can be a coperation which is also subject to the same regulations and as big as to gain our trust. From another point of view, it is also a advantage for that company which will have leverage to compete with Google within the same level. I do not like to share my privacy with third parties but inevitably Google had me, so it s no problem if  another big company (like Microsoft) also had my data. Since it should be a competitive market, google's monopolistic position has been ruining the game. If rivalry boosts up again, it would be better for the market and consumers- as defined in the marketing books. I love to be optimistic:)

It is a fact that Google has control of everything. What we should know that they still need us, and we need to act responsibly considering the society as much as ourselves. Dont put all your eggs in one basket!


What are the next topics:

- I hope this eating little fish competition has an end, and we have to see new big players in the scene. Big boys! let the kids grow up!

- I hate to see a facebook comment pane including my name and pic in every web site I surfed! Hey, when has my privacy that much exposed?

- Everyday, data are piling up! who can manage it effectively and extract useful info out of it will be the new king!