Once upon a time there was an old man in a village. He was very poor, but even the King envied him… He had a white horse so legendary that the King offered the old man almost his entire treasury for it, but the man would not sell it..
“To me, this horse is not a horse; it is a friend. Would a man sell his friend?” he always used to say. One morning they woke up and the horse was gone. The villagers gathered around the old man: “You senile old man, it was obvious they wouldn’t leave this horse to you, that they would steal it. If you had sold it to the King, you would have lived like a lord for the rest of your life. Now you have neither money nor a horse,” they said…
The old man said: “Don’t be in a hurry to judge. Just say ‘the horse is gone’, because that is the truth. Anything beyond that is your interpretation and your judgement. Is the loss of my horse a misfortune or a blessing? We don’t know yet, because this event is only a beginning. No one can know what will follow.”
The villagers roared with laughter at the senile old man. Before 15 days had passed, the horse suddenly came back one night… It turned out it had not been stolen; it had gone off to the mountains on its own. And on its way back, it brought along 12 wild horses from the valley. Seeing this, the villagers gathered and apologised to the old man.
Almost all of us download files from, or upload files to, the internet in our daily lives. When doing so, we usually make use of the storage services that some websites provide. For the file we upload or are going to download, the website whose server we use creates a link. Although everything is normal up to this point, these links can be removed from the servers over time. For this reason, it is quite difficult to tell at first glance whether previously created links still work. To prevent this, it is enough to add a small add-on to the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Thanks to the add-on, a small green tick or a small red cross appears right next to the link we are going to use.
As all students at KTÜ know, our university recently created email accounts ending in …@ogr.ktu.edu.tr for all its students. Considering how much students rely on email in their daily lives, I think this is a very useful initiative. I actively use this email address, but the situation is this: as you know, all faculty members have email addresses ending in …@ktu.edu.tr. There are two basic differences between the email addresses of these two groups, students and faculty members. First, as you may have noticed, student email addresses contain the .ogr part, while faculty addresses have no such part, which is not a big deal. The second, very important difference, however, is that the server services of student email accounts are provided not by KTÜ’s servers but directly by Microsoft Outlook’s servers. Briefly, this means the following: while faculty members’ email is fully supported by KTÜ’s servers, the email addresses of us students are supported by Microsoft Outlook. This in turn means that when we want to integrate our email addresses containing the .ogr part into the Microsoft Outlook program and use them easily from the desktop, we cannot use the SMTP (outgoing mail server) and POP3 (incoming mail server) settings that KTÜ provides for faculty members. In this post, I will tell you about a few things I went through while trying to integrate the student email account KTÜ provides to us students with Microsoft Outlook, and, as a result, how to do it.
Surfer 8, produced by Golden Software, is software that can be used for drawing 2D and 3D contour maps and block diagrams, calculating the area and volume of a desired region, drawing cross-section lines and detail
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