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Michalis on .*. Michalis on a dot under a star. Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Wireless connection affected by neighbor. Something strange happed this evening. The wireless connection at home had such a bad signal quality that none of my devices could connect to the router. I looked it up online, and found that is possible for wireless networks to interfere with each other. I followed the suggestion in the article and changed my channel from automatic (resolved to 11 by the router) to 1. This did the job! Femio...
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Michalis on .*: Switching to Opensuse
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Michalis on .*. Michalis on a dot under a star. Sunday, November 29, 2009. 1 upgrade of OpenSuse 11.1 and 2 installations of 11.2. In the last 3.5 years I used Gentoo. Linux as the operating system of choice for my personal computer. Apart from Gentoo, I had also done and maintained an ubuntu. Installation, for use in another personal computer. Eventualy, I got tired of gentoo compilations, and ubuntu sadly collapsed under its own weight. Time to try something new, I say. 111 on a HP. The installation st...
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Michalis on .*: August 2010
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Michalis on .*. Michalis on a dot under a star. Sunday, August 01, 2010. FreeBSD on the SheevaPlug HOWTO. Six months ago I purchaged a SheevaPlug computer. After sharing my experiences about the device with my friend Minas, he managed to get his hands on the similar Sheeva computer and he installed FreeBSD on it. The following article/HOWTO, on installing FreeBSD on the Sheeva is written by him. Minas is a FreeBSD advocate for many years now. Recently my friend Jim, bought the plugcomputer Sheeva eSata.
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Michalis on .*: September 2011
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Michalis on .*. Michalis on a dot under a star. Monday, September 26, 2011. Q&A site για Κηπουρική (ερωτήσεις και απαντήσεις για Κηπουρική). Πρόσφατα δημιουργίσαμε το " Ρώτα το Κηπολόγιο. Μια διαδραστική σελίδα Ερωτήσεων και Απαντήσεων (Q&A site) με θέμα την κηπουρική. Το νέο site αποτελεί ένα spin off του Κηπολογίου. Και βασίζεται στην πλατφόρμα OSQA. Ακολουθεί τη φιλοσοφία των διαφόρων stackexchange sites με δημοφιλέστερο, στην κοινότητα των developers, το stackoverflow. Σχετικά με το site:. Άλλα πάλι ...
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Michalis on .*: May 2009
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Michalis on .*. Michalis on a dot under a star. Sunday, May 24, 2009. Wireless) Kodak picture frame w820 and Linux. 2 days ago I bought a KODAK EASYSHARE W820 Wireless Digital Frame. I intended of using it to stream media from my Linux computer, preferably using its wireless capabilities. The disappointing thing is that the manufacturer only provides software for Windows. The frame connects to various RSS feeds, most notably Flikr. It also has the capability of logging into a Flickr account. Also...The f...
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Michalis on .*: October 2009
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Michalis on .*. Michalis on a dot under a star. Saturday, October 03, 2009. Contact info on a QR Code. Bar codes containing any kind of information seem to pop up everywhere these days. They get a big boost from mobile devices which support bar code scanner applications like zxing. The format most commonly used is QR Code. The future of this idea seems promising. For example, Wikipedia displays their QR code. Posted by Michalis Giannakidis. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Contact info on a QR Code.
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Michalis on .*: April 2009
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Michalis on .*. Michalis on a dot under a star. Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Fake road sign advertisement. Creating fake road signs is fun and quite popular on the internet. I gave it a go and I found out it is not that difficult to create one using standard tools (ex. gimp. Here is the result of my first attempt:. An advertisement of papitsa. Posted by Michalis Giannakidis. Labels: fake road sign. Saturday, April 18, 2009. Blogger Tag Cloud Widget. I found this blog entry. It is more to my taste. Var lb = n...
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Michalis on .*: Feeding images to a digital picture frame
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Michalis on .*. Michalis on a dot under a star. Sunday, February 14, 2010. Feeding images to a digital picture frame. My digital picture frame. Has a limited amount of build in memory. In order to put more pictures on the frame, I choose to resize them to the frame's native resolution of 800x480. I' m pretty sure that there are applications that manage image collections on Linux and also do image resizing. However, I prefered to use ImageMagic. And some scripting to do the job. My script, dir2w820.sh.
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Michalis on .*: February 2010
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Michalis on .*. Michalis on a dot under a star. Sunday, February 14, 2010. Feeding images to a digital picture frame. My digital picture frame. Has a limited amount of build in memory. In order to put more pictures on the frame, I choose to resize them to the frame's native resolution of 800x480. I' m pretty sure that there are applications that manage image collections on Linux and also do image resizing. However, I prefered to use ImageMagic. And some scripting to do the job. My script, dir2w820.sh.
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Michalis on .*: July 2009
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Michalis on .*. Michalis on a dot under a star. Saturday, July 25, 2009. EliteBook 8730w - OpenSuse 11.1 - Multimedia keys. To have the volume multimedia keys to work on OpenSuse 11.1 and the elitebook 8730w, you will need to configure the keys with xmodmap:. Put in /.Xmodpap:. Put in .kde4/Autostart/Xmodmap-autoload:. Chmod x .kde4/Autostart/Xmodmap-autoload. You may need to check the location of your KDE Autostart directory. This can be found in System Setttings Personal About me. Sunday, July 19, 2009.