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The cost of cheap components
I really wanted to avoid writing again about radio waves and electromagnetic interference because it is not one of my strong points; alas one cannot …
within specifications —as one blog wasn’t enough
This post is more of a status update. I recently started a new, technical blog. The name is within specifications and you may check it out at …
Fast PWM and Electromagnetic Interference
Yesterday came to my attention a project that turns the Raspberry Pi into a FM transmitter. It is totally awesome and you should check it out. While …
Fast PWM on ATmega328, up to 8MHz
A couple of days earlier, a friend asked me how he could get fast PWM from an Atmel ATmega328 microcontroller —fast as in over 62.5KHz. Surprisingly I …
Android, Open Source and a self-induced hackathon
tl;dr Android as a whole -from Google’s code repository to cheap Chinese tablets- is open source to a certain extent but, although this acts as a …
Gitlab 4.0 on a Gentoo server, ~amd64, hardened w/ Apache.
The article about Gitlab on Ubuntu gets some views every day, so I guess it is an interesting subject -and it should be. GitLab is a great project. It …
GitLab on an Ubuntu 10.04 server with Apache
Recently I saw the light, or something very bright at least, and decided it is time to use a central git repository to store my personal projects …
Yet Another Backup Script: mrbStudio
Some years ago I decided that I needed backups. Our systems are more fragile than we tend to think; hardware break downs, hard disks failures, laptop …
adversities: dog day
Yesterday afternoon I took my camera with my favorite -and only prime- lens, the EF 50mm f/1.8, to exploit the rare light of the upcoming storm. The …
before instagram -and a bit of a rant
These days social networks’ inhabitants can often be divided into pro-instagram and anti-instagram. The former usually don’t put much thought into it, …
Granny Hair
The Greek phrase for cotton candy is granny hair. This photo was shot in June, at the old harbor of Chania, during a blackout. I like it because I see …
What is your favorite…
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how to choose who to follow on twitter
You are a heterosexual male. Your EQ (emotional quotient) isn’t something to brag about and most probably you wouldn’t want to brag about it anyway. …
Porn vs War
Warning #1: This post may change the image you have for me, but it shouldn’t. Humor, in all of its instances, is a sign of a healthy mind. Warning #2: …
old photo, new post processing
Too much time has passed since my last published post -though my drafts keep piling. Today I want to share with you a photograph I took a long time …
Wallpaper: KDE – permanent type
This is the fourth and last wallpaper of the KDE wallpapers week. It is the less “clean” image in this series. I think that it doesn’t match up well …
Wallpaper: KDE logo textured
The third KDE wallpaper is here. It is a photo of a textured version of the KDE logo. If your monitor is too bright it may not look good. for 4:3 …
Wallpaper: powered by KDE – plain
As promised here is the plain version of the wallpaper. Again shot with the Canon 500D – EF 50mm f/1.8 and edited with GIMP. for 4:3 monitors powered …
KDE wallpapers week
It is official! This week is going to be my KDE wallpapers’ week. I will post 4 KDE related wallpapers. The first one is already here and soon the …
Wallpaper: powered by KDE
Yesterday I decided to play a bit with textures and the result was a KDE wallpaper! I love it and I hope you will like it too! I will post a plain …
New theme, new 404 page, new server and zero ads!
Quite some changes happened at the website in the last few hours and I want to write some lines about it. new theme As you can see I installed a new …
Wallpaper: Water Drops
Some days ago I tried to do some water drop shots because they are easy to do, fun and the results, although not original, are most of the time …
FrontAccounting ERP, are you interested in a Greek Translation?
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wordpress, atahualpa, xLanguage and widget titles translation
My site is implemented in wordpress. I use the very nice atahualpa theme from bytesforall and a special plugin for multilingual websites, xLanguage …
Nespresso Art
For the next few months I have to abstain from alcohol and most types of coffee. Espresso (Lungo) is one of the few types of coffee I am still allowed …
Fraud Art: The void towards knowledge in the dusk of the industrial era
Today I am proud to introduce you to the Fraud Art (F.Art™) series, an effort to make you art (un)aware. It involves uninteresting pictures and …
Fujitsu Amilo Pi 3560 review from a Linux user
This week I bought a new laptop although my old one has still plenty of life in it thanks to Intel. Their graphics drivers suffer for over a year now …
Wallpaper: Poser
Some days ago I decided to play a bit with some HDR techniques. With the help of the open source Qtpfsgui I created my first pseudo HDR from a photo …
musearch: per ebuild USE flag descriptions on your terminal
There is some material I want to upload to the site eventually. I will begin with musearch, a bash script useful to Gentoo Linux users. musearch lets …
Opening Act
Welcome! Today is a special day since I managed to start officially a “project” I wanted a lot but neglected flamboyantly for a long time: the …