It’s been a while since I wrote something in this blog, I know, but I am coping to finish my M.Sc. diploma thesis so, it gonna be a while until the next time. So far there are 11-12 articles unpublished semi-finished about various issues hell I even wrote about the new acropolis museum but still
I ll be back (soon I hope)
PS I exceeded 170pages in my thesis and still have an enormous amount of topics to cover 
Αυτή η εβδομάδα (μάλλον το τέλος της προηγουμενης μέχρι την δευτερα) βγήκα και πήγα σε πολλά public events, και στα οποια θα ήθελα να αναφερθώ σε επόμενα posts.
- Escape Lanparty
- Artware festival
- Η ΚΙΝΗΣΗ ΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ ΠΑΤΡΑΣ ΕΝΑΝΤΙΑ ΣΤΙΣ ΚΕΡΑΙΕΣ ΚΙΝΗΤΗΣ ΤΗΛΕΦΩΝΙΑΣ
Στα επόμενα post θα αναφερθώ μερικώς η διεξοδικά στα παραπάνω events
All the good stuff in upatras happen by individuals offering services and organizing events on their own. In the upcoming weekend 22-23-24 / 5 /2009 two major events will take place in the upatras campus.

First and most important is the Escape Lanparty v5.2 [1] . Although this is an event for geeks and hardcore gamers, it seems , that it will draw a lot of attention over the student corpus. Many PWMN members will join the party as well (estimated numbers are 20-25 people of the pwmn community attending of the 200 available seats so this will be at least 10% of the attendants) Prepare your shares
This event will take place on the students dormitories hall[2] so be prepared to rock.

The second event is the artware[3], a mixture of artistic creation on various fields i.e. music, drawing, etc and will take place [4] in the computer engineering department.
I hopefully will attend both in a time sharing basis, so I will keep you informed. Of course you can get informed yourself by attending either or both of the events.
Cheers 
Η ιστορία επαναλαμβάνεται, σε άλλο πεδίο. Δεν θέλω να εκφράζω συναισθήματα και λέξεις για τους καραγκίοζηδες που επιλέγουν κρατικοδίαιτους τραγουδιστέ/αστέρες και όλο το συναφές στερέωμα PUBLIC RELATIONSHIPS και δεν συμαζεύεται από τα γαμμημένα τα χρήματα που με αναγκάζουν να πληρώνω κάθε μήνα στην κωλοΕΡΤ μέσω της κωλοΔΕΗ.
Για αυτό που λυπάμαι είναι οτι με τα ίδια χρήματα 1000-1500 άνθρωποι θα είχαν μια υποτροφία για να συνεχίσουν τις σπουδές για 2-3 χρόνια τους και να προάγουν τον πολιτισμό όχι της μορφής του κιτς πανηγυριού της φιέστας των κουφιων lifestyle symbols αλλά στο πεδίο της έρευνας και της ανάπτυξης πολλών και διαφορετικών επιστημονικών πεδίων
ΠΡΕΠΕΙ ΝΑ ΑΝΤΙΤΑΧΘΟΥΜΕ ΣΤΗΝ ΜΑΛΑΚΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΣΑΠΙΛΑ ΤΩΝ LIFESTYLE SYMBOLS.
ΑΜΦΙΣΒΗΤΗΣΗ, ΑΠΕΙΘΕΙΑ, ΑΝΥΠΑΚΟΗ - ΚΛΕΙΣΤΕ ΟΛΟΙ ΤΗΝ TV
Το LifeStyle ειναι μαγικό γιατί μετατρέπει τα μηδενικά σε νούμερα…
ΥΓ το τραγούδι για το EURO έχει αρκετές ομοιότητες με την ελληνική συμμετοχή στην σκατό EUROVISION, μπορείτε να τις βρείτε;
as promised and within the 16hours deadline the kOlga is back online. The new feature set installation (hotspot, gardenwall, red queueing on all interfaces, etc) is postoponed for the future.
Enjoy the beautiful saturday and the weekend
PS1. The tzikis link was decommissioned due to poor performance (4mbps up 4mbps down) but may be brought back if noone else provides a link for him.
PS2. To the guy that broadcasts in southwest patra region with mac address : 00:0B:6B:09:F2:7E and hidden SSID @ 5180Mhz please contact me if you interested for a link. My scans indicate a very good signal from your side (-55dbi with SNR of 50db)
...
configure: Using system-installed FFMpeg code
configure: WARNING:
======================================================================
WARNING: you have chosen to build gst-ffmpeg against a random
external version of ffmpeg instead of building it against the tested
internal ffmpeg snapshot that is included with gst-ffmpeg.
This is a very bad idea. So bad in fact that words cannot express
just how bad it is. Suffice to say that it is BAD.
The GStreamer developers cannot and will not support a gst-ffmpeg
built this way. Any bug reports that indicate there is an external
version of ffmpeg involved will be closed immediately without further
investigation.
The reason such a setup can't be supported is that the ffmpeg API
and ABI is in constant flux, yet there aren't any official releases
of the ffmpeg library to develop against. This makes it impossible
to guarantee that gst-ffmpeg will work reliably, or even compile,
with a randomly picked version ffmpeg. Even if gst-ffmpeg compiles
and superficially appears to work fine against your chosen external
ffmpeg version, that might just not be the case on other systems, or
even the same system at a later time, or when using decoders,
encoders, demuxers or muxers that have not been tested.
Please do not create or distribute binary packages of gst-ffmpeg
that link against an external ffmpeg. Thank you!
======================================================================
checking for sed... /bin/sed
...
LOL that’s what I call programmers with humor
And of course build succeeds and ffmpeg packages works alright 
the wifi node due to maintenance is down and will be down for at least 16hours.
There will be installed new ap cards, new casing and some new cool features.
My apologies for the inconvenience
Cheers
oh yeah this is a “I love netbeans” post!
In general NetBeans is quite similar to most other IDEs; you get a project view on the left, an outline of the things in the current file under that, an editor on the right, a task/problem view below the editor, and some properties ron the right to the editor. It does all the usual tricks you’d expect, like tabs in the editor, syntax highlight, code assist etc.
The reason I choose netbeans as my dev platform/IDE some time ago was mainly its java support, and for sometime I used it just for java. As time passed by I intergrated every single project in every kind of wierd language in netbeans.
- Free/Open Source, hell yeah the swiss army knife for the poor programmers
- Cool-intelligent auto completionm, for the bored programmer. It can definitely save you some keystrokes!
- Generates UML diagrams (reverse engineering). Cool when some weirdo requires you to provide them in some stupid report
- Cool Testing features (i.e. junit intergration for java, profiling etc). NO MORE
System.out.println("Var IHateDebugging="+IHateDebugging); Cheers
- Many languages supported (Currently: java,C/C++,python,ruby,php, etc - hell I’ve even inline assembly in C projects)
- Multiple Revision control systems support (mercurial,cvs,svn, you can even find a git module). Auto diffing, auto patch creation. Saves you keystrokes, saves you alt-tabbing (which is also a keystroke)
- Refactoring (When you are bored and you create a variable with name SusanIsABitch because susan (your boss) forced you to add the z irrelevant feature and next morning requests the patch to review it, you can easily hide the hatre. (TIP of the day: remember not to commit SusanIsABitch part of your code)
- Swing gui builder. Which kid doesn’t like this? And which kiddo doesn’t appriciate this? I tell you the ungrateful bastards are the ones who haven’t created a GUI application by hand (i.e. creating all the components not by an IDE but by coding them each single one of them)
- AutoFix (i.e. when missing an import statement in java code netbeans automatically inserts the import statement, cool huh?)
- Local Revision control System! If this ain’t cool then tell me what is! When the stupid project manager assigns you a task but he is so lame that cannot create an rcs account then netbeans is your friend. And this Feature ROCKS MY WORLD!
- In some cases It is better than language dedicated IDEs like ZEND (when you write ugly php -php mixed with html- then netbeans gives you a great html tag editor verificator, and checker! Hell yeah if only netbeans could wash my clothes too!)
As a conclusion; If you want to spend less time coding producing the same or somewhat better code, quit reading my shit and go grab a version of netbeans. It’s frakin’ free! As an easter egg remember that netbeans may have another cool feature waiting just for you to discover!
an unplugged version with dylan
enjoy
Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one deared
Disturb the sound of silence.
Fools said i,you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach to you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.
After a while trying establishing a new link among korki[1] and hawk[2], today the seed was grown. Since some rearrangement took place over tzikis roof (this guy had the worst cable management and efficiency I’ve seen ever) The link is pretty solid in at tzikis part. I have to align better but the results are quite cool for a first connection and given that his part isn’t at full height while mine isn’t the best alignment (-79 ~ -82 dbi)
OSPF and other thingies are setup and the only important thing is for tzikis to provide for some service and to organize his local lan (his subnetting skills are …
)
Please welcome 10.140.31.0/24 to the network and with him the Panoulix (welcome back dude)
Cheers