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Using Google Nexus One in Istanbul Turkey

Yes, it is possible. The device is compatible and can connect to the local 3G network (Turkcell) with minimal hassle. In addition, even though I had to purchase a two-year T-mobile subscription with my phone, the device is unlocked! Disclaimer: I purchased this phone directly from Google in May 2010. Google is no longer doing this. As soon as I landed in Istanbul, I went to the Turkcell kiosk, registered my IMEI number, purchased a prepaid card, and activated it. You MUST register your phone with the government agency or it may be banned permanently. The next step is to subscribe to the 3G internet service. There are two types of 3G services: 1. Faturali (invoiced) 3G Internet http://www.turkcell.com.tr/bireysel/3G/3Ginternet/tarifeler/faturali3Ginternet Subscription for this plan is automatically renewed every month. And there is an overuse charge which is currently 0,050 TL/MB. 2. Faturasiz (non-invoiced) 3G Internet http://www.turkcell.com.tr/bireysel/3G/3Ginternet/t...

Removing the .php extension from Symfony controller

If you wish to shorten your Symfony 1.4 URLs (http://www.yourdomain.com/symfonyApp.php/user/login) by removing the php extension from the controller (http://www.yourdomain.com/symfonyApp/user/login), then read on. 1. Update your factories.yml file and add the relative_url_root option as described below: all: request: class: sfWebRequest param: logging: %SF_LOGGING_ENABLED% path_info_array: SERVER path_info_key: PATH_INFO relative_url_root: "" formats: txt: text/plain js: [application/javascript, application/x-javascript, text/javascript] css: text/css json: [application/json, application/x-json] xml: [text/xml, application/xml, application/x-xml] rdf: application/rdf+xml atom: application/atom+xml 2. Create a symbolic link in your web directory to your controller: cd /your/symfony/project/dir/web ln -s symfonyApp.php symfonyApp 3. Update your apache c...

Netbeans scanning issue resolved

I was having problems with Netbeans 6.9 where it would just hang trying to scan my codebase which consists of around ~200.000 PHP files. Another issue was related to code completion and suggestions which caused the IDE to become unresponsive or, in some cases, hang. It looks like the issue is related to the heap size which is automatically set since version 6.0. Since NetBeans version 6.0, the default limit for heap size (-J-Xmx) is determined automatically, with respect to the amount of memory available on the system. There is no -J-Xmx option specified in netbeans.conf. However, if you specify the heap size limit (i.e. you add the -J-Xmx... option to netbeans.conf), then the limit given by you will be respected. http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqSettingHeapSize So I ended up increasing the heap size in netbeans.conf by adding the "-J-Xmx2048m" option. Here are my current settings: netbeans_default_options="-J-client -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-Xmx2048m -J-XX:PermSize=32m...

Switched to Git

Finally decided to port all my work in my subversion repostiry to Git... A couple of tips that may be helpful for new starters: 1. In order to do an svn export, simply execute: git archive | tar -x -C /path/to/dir 2. To revert local edits, run: git checkout filename 3. The concept of remotes was confusing at the beginning. Think of them as shortcuts to remote repositories. So instead of typing complex URL's, all you need to do is git push remote branch git pull remote branch once a remote is added. 3. Enjoy your merges :)

Securing Postfix and Dovecot with TLS

SSL/TLS vs STARTTLS This seemed to be confusing at first but here is what it boils down to: With STARTTLS, an existing TCP connection is upgraded to an encrypted one after the SMTP handshake. On the other hand, with SSL/TLS, an ecnrypted connection is negiotiated right away before an SMTP handshake takes place. In other words, STARTTLS is "TLS inside SMTP", while SSL/TLS is "SMTP inside TLS". See this page for more information. Another important difference between these two schemes is that STARTTLS does not require a separate port. You can continue to use the same smtp (25) or imap (143) port. SSL/TLS on the other hand requires separate smtp (465) and imap (993) ports. Setup I wanted to implement a STARTTLS scheme; however, I decided to revert back to SSL/TLS due to: 1. I am running Dovecot dovecot-1.0.7 on CentOS release 5.5. Unfortunately for me, I was not able to require SSL connections since the "ssl = required" configuration option is not av...

Fedora 12 + Nagios + PNP4Nagios

Setting up pnp4nagios on Fedora is pretty straightforward. 1. Install pnp4 nagios yum install pnp4nagios 2. Setup /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg process_performance_data=1 host_perfdata_command=process-host-perfdata service_perfdata_command=process-service-perfdata 3. Setup /etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg to send performance data to pnp4nagios. define command{ command_name process-host-perfdata command_line /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/pnp4nagios/process_perfdata.pl -d HOSTPERFDATA } define command{ command_name process-service-perfdata command_line /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/pnp4nagios/process_perfdata.pl } 4. Setup: /etc/nagios/objects/yourserver.cfg define host { name host-pnp action_url /nagios/pnp4nagios/index.php?host=$HOSTNAME$&srv=_HOST_ register 0 } define service { name srv-pnp action_url /nagios/pnp4nagios/index.php?host=$HOSTNAME$&srv=$SERVICEDESC$ register 0 } # a servi...

MogileFS with Postgres

First of all, you need Postgres version 8.2 or newer since mogdbsetup refuses to run with older versions. Anyways, I spent a quite a bit of time trying to install MogileFS with Postgres. I was getting "Can't create temporary test database:" errors. The answer was in the ~/.cpan/build/mogilefs-server-2.34/blib/lib/MogileFS/Test.pm file. The temp_store subroutine was defaulting to MySQL... Here is the setup step by step on my Fedora 12: yum install mogilefsd yum install mogstored yum install perl-CPAN // if needed yum install perl-MogileFS-Client perl-MogileFS-Utils yum install perl-DBD-Pg yum install perl-IO-AIO Setup services. chkconfig --levels 345 mogilefsd on chkconfig --levels 345 mogstored on Setup a test database to be used during compilation. $ createuser -SRlD mogile $ createdb -E UTF8 -O mogile tmp_mogiletest Setup environment variables for testing $ MOGTEST_DBUSER=mogile $ MOGTEST_DBHOST=dbhost $ MOGTEST_DBNAME=tmp_mogiletest $ MOG...