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Emre Sağlam

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How to change your auxiliary battery on your LR4

December 6, 2020 2 minute read

I probably am one of the few who likes the ECO functionality on my LR4. You stop, the engine stops. Simple. Until it doesn’t…

GE Dishwasher parts nightmare!

November 14, 2020 1 minute read

We have a GE dishwasher. Model number: PDWT380R10SS. It’s one of those that has “touch buttons” on the lid.

New Blog!

November 8, 2020 less than 1 minute read

I decided to say good bye to Wordpress today. Let’s see if I will regret this decision in the long run. :)

Apple watch radio

May 1, 2020 less than 1 minute read

If you’re like me and you have the radio app not working and your Apple Watch is saying: “Sign in to your Apple ID in General in the Apple Watch app on your ...

So you lost a disk on a MD RAID5 array, now what?

April 28, 2020 2 minute read

It happens, you just lost a disk on your RAID5 MD array, or things are not how it should look like… How do we troubleshoot this?

Run pihole without raspberry pi

November 16, 2019 less than 1 minute read

I have few 24/7 running linux boxes at home. I wanted to try pi-hole. But I really didn’t want to add another computer (raspberry pi) on my network.

shadowsocks auto deploy

April 6, 2018 less than 1 minute read

I wrote a cloud-init script to automate the deployment of a shadowsocks server. I shared it in a gist here. Features: Creates a non-privileged user Uploads...

Air Quality Index Bot

October 16, 2017 less than 1 minute read

After the devastating Northern California wildfires, I found myself looking at AirNow multiple times a day. Also at work, like many Bay Area tech companies, ...

iCloud Photos, Meraki and Traffic Shaping

September 25, 2017 2 minute read

I turned iCloud Photo Library on this week. We have close to 250 GB of photos, videos in several different computers and mobile devices. You might have guess...

Yaesu FTM-400XDR and Chirp

December 18, 2016 less than 1 minute read

I use Chirp. I love it. It's the only way to program my Baofeng UV-R(+) radios... Period. Also I love that I can download repeater settings according to a zi...

No timer in Mac OS X? No problem!

October 11, 2016 less than 1 minute read

Mac OS X doesn't come with a timer installed by default. There are bunch of timers in the App Store, you can definitely install one of those. But here is how...

Bloomsky weather data in pymultimonaprs

October 8, 2016 less than 1 minute read

I wrote a small python script to get the BloomSky weather data and "air" it on APRS using pymultimonaprs. You can find it in my github repo. Read the README....

Replacing Unity with XFCE in Ubuntu

September 29, 2016 less than 1 minute read

Here is what I do as soon as I install a new Ubuntu instance: I remove unity desktop and replace it with XFCE. And if you want to do the same it's pretty str...

ý yerine ı görmek istiyor musunuz?

September 16, 2016 less than 1 minute read

Türkçe karakterlerin sorunsalı olan ISO-8859-9 formatıyla UTF-8 arasındaki uyuşmazlığı çözen küçük bir python scripti yazdım. Program girdi olarak ISO-8859-9...

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