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Xine pvr:// undocumented feature
I am happy owner of a Hauppage WinTV PVR 150 card. On linux, both mplayer and xine support it but xine has special support for it (in the form a special MRL for it nonetheless) so this is why i prefer it.
The problem i had was that the PVR …Defense against ssh brute force attacks
I have ssh daemon open on this server and accessible to the internet. I need it since i need to access my computer when i am away. Recently, however, i became the target of brute force attacks against sshd. I would block the offending IP using iptables but this would …Slashdot story accepted
It seems that a story i submited to slashdot was accepted and became this story which appeared in the front page.
They did change it than i originally submited it, as i had mostly copy-pasted the story from the blog of Asteris Masouras.
The story is about the arrest of …Moving to Patras
I came to Athens in the summer of 1997. The time has come for me now to return to Patras.
I will be taking the server off in a few hours since i am transfering all the equipment to Patras.
I don’t yet know if adsl access is available …The benefits of Web 2.0: Server side blink
Long ago, Netscape introduced the world to the wonders of the amazing <blink> tag. Unfortunately, the blink tag never really cought on. This failure should be attributed to the non-standard nature of the tag, which in other words means that it only works on Netscape (and Mozilla/Firefox).
With the …MgOpen fonts ebuild for Gentoo
The people at Magenta.gr have released some fine Greek fonts for free. They are available at: http://www.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen
For Gentoo users i created an ebuild that will do the installation for you. get it here. This is my first attempt at creating an ebuild but …A stupid Sudoku solver in Python (and PyGTK)
During the holidays i was bored out of my mind. Holidays in my family means that we gather some close relatives and friends at our house and eat. Not once. Not twice, but every freaking day. So when a sudoku magazine fell in my hands i thought it would be …Asterisk
During the last days i have been spending most of my time reading about asterisk and toying around with it.
I have managed to set up a few IAX2 and SIP extensions in order to play with soft-phones (mostly kiax and kphone).
However, by far the coolest part is the …