May 2011 Hike in northern Tehran…

Posted on Monday, June 6, 2011 by Paymaan Jafari Taayemeh
Paymaan regenerating power :)

Afjeh to Dasht e Havij hike.

Travel light! This is the most important advice I can give.  If you are going to take a long hike, do your best to keep your package as light as possible.  Learn easy ways to provide any needs by yourself, wherever possible.  the lighter you are, the faster you can move and the less you get tired, and you extend your range and possibilities this way.

Last Friday 20 May 2011, I finally begin to try my long planned solo hike.  It is years I have not done pressure tests like this on myself, and as a non-athletic person reaching 40,  I had to prove some things to myself and get back on track.

3 day hike path, excluding rides.

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King’s mosque entrance gate, Tehran Bazaar

Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 by Paymaan Jafari Taayemeh
King's Mosque in Tehran Bazaar, مسجد شاه

King's Mosque Entrance gate from inside

Walked in Tehran Bazaar for a few hours and had a chance to take a photo of  Masjed Shah (King’s mosque) entrance gate from inside. Illegal but who cares, it is just a photo.

Bazaar always looks amazing.

The image is also available on Panoramio and Google Earth.

 

 

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Tehran mountains

Posted on Thursday, June 3, 2010 by Paymaan Jafari Taayemeh

Here is a very short video and some images I have taken from mountains located in north of Tehran. At this time of the year, it has the mildest weather and it is a great place if you really need some oxygen.

Please also visit my images on Google Earth or Panoramio:

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Changed my main desktop.

Posted on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 by Paymaan Jafari Taayemeh

Hi there,

Right at  new years eve of Iranian calendar  (21st March 2010), and the start of the spring, my computer shut down and never turned on again 🙂

I didn’t want to rush to fix it, as everything is being rushed here just like what happens at the Christmas eve, so I thought I have to put myself on computer-rehab for the holidays, and I did. Well, I used my mobile phone to connect to internet sometimes 🙂

After a week, as soon as shops opened, I went to the market, bought a new main board (GA-EP45-UD3L), a core2 duo E5300 Intel processor (I have been stayed with AMD since 5, 6 years ago), and 2GB of DDR2 dual channel RAM.

Seems not much, but I didn’t want to consume a lot as the old main board can be repaired for about 12USD and I will possibly put it up as a second system.

I had to also buy a new power for the computer, as it needed more wattage and I wanted the system to be stable. I also lowered the BIOS settings to have an even more stable system and it is still fast enough for my purposes.

Hard Disk and GFX board are still the same, and optical drives as well. This new Main Board has more SATA ports, lots of USB (10 at back of the case, 8 on board and I added 2), but no 1394 and no visible RS232C and Parallel. It has them on board but I need to put sockets there myself. Better than nothing though, as most other Main Boards lack RS232 and Parallel these days.

The funniest part was that although installing new Main Board drivers was very easy, there was no sound. It took me three days (nights to be correct), until I found a solution, and the main reason was that Microsoft has been forgotten to include the UAA Microbus drivers for HD Audio in its WinXP SP3!!!

Well, some good guy had a page to share his info to resolve this. Overall idea is to edit the registry so stupid Windows XP thinks it is SP2, installs the driver, and you again tell it that it is SP3!!!

Very idiotic I believe. I have never seen an OS so stupid 🙂

The other problem was with my Linux Mint.  Although I have not changed my Hard Disks, it can not find its /dev/sda5 partition to boot, although it is there.  I guess as main board is changed and probably I have changed the SATA ports for each of 2 hard disks, the UUID of partitions are changed.

I am working to resolve this one too, still no success.

and  I have turned 39 this last 4th April 🙂  and happy spring to all of you.

Paymaan.

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Long time no update…

Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 by Paymaan Jafari Taayemeh

Hi Everybody, sorry I have not updated the blog for a few month, just know that I am alive, and will work on putting more of what’s going on my mind here, if any sudden overflow happens again (which can be put openly 🙂 )

Take care.

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My summer fishing trip video clip

Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 by Paymaan Jafari Taayemeh

This video contained a great Greenday music synched to it beautifully, but unfortunately Youtube forced me to remove the music for copyright problems.  If you wanted the original version tell me directly please.

Paymaan.

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Michael Gray; aka KD7LMO is dead since April 2009.

Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 by Paymaan Jafari Taayemeh

It is so sad to hear a legend of your dreams, somebody who you have learned alot from, or at least from his knowledge shared on his website, has died when you haven’t been looking at his site.

The story is about somebody who taught me a lot through his website, and his near space electronic projects, who showed me lots of what I know about electronic and hardware design.

I have been forgetting his site name (which was also his HAM radio sign), and I was trying to recall his code, and when I finally recalled and googled it, the page told he has been killed when bicycling back in April!!!

May he rest in peace, Michael Gray, AKA KD7LMO, KD7LMO.net a real professor and engineer.

His website is now archived at http://www.ansr.org/kd7lmo/www.kd7lmo.net/index.html

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Fishing for Brown Trout, 2009!

Posted on Sunday, August 9, 2009 by Paymaan Jafari Taayemeh
looking west south, in the middle of lake (a point of soil is out of water) is where I was fishing last year, when water level was so low!

looking west south, in the middle of lake (a point of soil is out of water) is where I was fishing last year, when water level was so low!

For 3rd year on, I decided to go to Laar lake at Damavand peak foot fishing for the rare brownies, yes these are really rare, at least in Iran, where this lake is the only lake holding them.

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Snow in Spring!

Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 by Paymaan Jafari Taayemeh

Something funny happend this morning,  we have had a strange Noruz holiday this year. One day was so cold, one day was so warm, and today a close friend called in the morning and told me to look out of the window, believe me, we had not such a snow the whole winter!  it snowed and snowed and I guess whitened all the mountains around Tehran and now a few hours later, there is nothing at least in our part of the city you could call snow.  Of course it is still cold, so maybe it snows again tonight.

Overall, it is really strange in this time of year in Tehran to snow.  Not that Tehran is a warm city, but we have had quite some not so cold winters in the past few years.

Cheers,

Paymaan.

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