24/12/2005
Worst Restaurant ever?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanjatiziana/76484944/
isn’t that the worst restaurant ever ?? would you ever go eat there ? Even McDonald’s is better than this crap.
Filed by kargig at 18:25 under General
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Ho! Ho! Ho!
Open Source is coming to town!
Just take a look at the savings of a school using Open Source compared to what it would have payed if it used MS products!
That’s a nice present for the educational system economy…But I guess some contracts are more powerfull than a few more computers educating students.
Have you forgotten the contract between Microsoft and the Greek Government ?
Just take a look at all these wonderfull things the Greek Government gains!
WHO is going to take a look at the source from the Greek Government ? The ministers ? for WHAT ? auditing ???
Now THAT’s usefull. Learn how a buggy system works. An excellent education plan. Learn from other people’s mistakes.
Oh ok..now I feel secure. Our government conducts audits to maintain “secure computing environments”…wow! I guess that could not happen on any other platform..right ?
Yihaaa!!! Let’s travel to Redmond! Free tickets for the ministers! And their families ? Their little children ? won’t they play with uncle Bill ? …who cares about the rest of the citizens ?
enough. Get a life and start working for your citizens than your already full pockets.
Filed by kargig at 14:20 under General,Linux
1 Comment | 3,495 views
19/12/2005
A list of interesting things to find on Google :)
How many network cameras are unprotected ?
Cameras ?
No, No, Mooore Cameras
I was sure there were some more!
And what about a list with even more cameras with a screenshot of each one ?
Enough with cameras…I know I can find mp3s on Google, but is there anything more worth searching for ?
just enjoy the power of Googling 🙂
Filed by kargig at 20:35 under General,Internet,Privacy
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18/12/2005
Opera-ize your Firefox and an awkward chat
Yesterday I installed a new firefox extension. Fasterfox gives firefox a nice speedup. Now it can almost be compared to Opera. Anyway…I think this extension is already my second favorite extension…after the Bugmenot extension of course.
Yesterday I had the most awkward chat to date. My friend Charis (aka Charmed[]) was on a plane from US to Germany and flying over the atlantic when he started chatting with me on my Greek Jabber server . I was amazed. That was so cool. Internet on a plane, what’s better than that when flying for hours and hours ? Watching boring movies ? naaah…
He was more than 30 hops away from me when I tracerouted him, with more than 3 seconds lag, but what the hell…it’s far better than nothing 🙂
I wish I could have internet here in Greece inside trains, planes, etc. Last time I travelled from Athens to Thessaloniki by train my mobile phone was unable to work throughout the whole travel because there was no signal…Internet on a train here in Greece is like 20 (light ?) years away from the current situation…
Filed by kargig at 18:43 under General,Internet
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15/12/2005
OpenOffice tutorials
A list of great OpenOffice tutorials on basic and advanced tasks by Bruce Byfield:
Filed by kargig at 03:13 under General
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10/12/2005
Warcraft 3 on linux
I’ve finally managed to play warcraft 3 on linux with pretty decent perfomance…
First of all install the game using Cedega. Read this one more time…I’ve said C E D E G A. NOT wine.
After installing using your registration keys, go find a nice no-cd crack from www.gamecopyworld.com. Install that too and you are set. If you have problems patching warcraft to it’s latest version use a symlink from the cedega c_drive c:\Program Files\Warcraft III to the cedega c_drive c:\war3\.
This small script will make your life a bit easier too:
#!/bin/sh
# edit the next path
pushd /PATH/TO/CEDEGA/c_drive/war3
#cedega war3.exe -opengl
#cedega w3l.exe -opengl
popd
UNCOMMENT 1 of the 2 cedega lines. The first one is for use with Warcraft III The Frozen Throne and the second one if you use a loader for pvpgn (read below). You HAVE to uncomment one of those 2 lines, OK ??
If you want to be able to play with friends on your own battle.net server, set up a pvpgn server somewhere and use a pvpgn loader to start warcraft. If you don’t use a pvpgn loader you WILL get an error about being “unable to connect”.
Last but not least, add these 2 lines to your /etc/hosts:
X.Y.Z.W uswest.battle.net
X.Y.Z.W Europe.battle.net
Where X.Y.Z.W is the ip of your pvpgn server. Have fun!
Filed by kargig at 17:21 under General,Linux
11 Comments | 10,606 views
Current weather Condition at Ioannina,Greece
just excellent…
Current Weather at Ioannina,Greece
I want one such device too 🙂
Filed by kargig at 03:59 under General
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09/12/2005
no progress…
Since gcc 3.4 was marked stable on gentoo, I emerged it and even did an emerge -e world. It took me some time because there were more than 600 packages to rebuild. Anyway, mplayer still denies to work with some videos using -vo xv even after the recompilation with the new gcc.
That’s the error message:
X11 error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)?,?% 1 0 32%
MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: vo_check_events
I’ll keep trying…
Btw, I read some rumours that Cisco is going to release callmanager 5 under linux. I hope that becomes a reality because the current callmanager 4.1(3) runs only on windows 2000 and there are times that the whole system freezes for no good reason, or times when IE crashes. The whole configuration of the callmanager is done through a web browser…in order to add a single device you need 10 clicky-clickies…I hope this changes too.
Filed by kargig at 13:31 under General,Linux,Networking,VoIP
No Comments | 3,338 views
06/12/2005
command to play .asx streams on linux
05/12/2005
mplayer -vo xv or -vo x11 ?
03/12/2005
Med Associates total lack of security
Last week I went to Athens, Greece to set up a laboratory with a pc connected with 2 mice cages(!). Mice are put inside the cages and then one can monitor their movements through some infrared sensors. Data is sent to the pc where a program (Activity Monitor 5) made by med-associates is used to analyze those movements.
It was saturday when I tried to install the program. I inserted the cd inside the cd-rom, and started the installation process. After 2-3 “Yes, I Agree, Next,etc” I faced a password entry field. But I was given no password! I checked the manuals and I saw that I should sent them an application form filled with some names, location and so on, to be sent a password via email. I started calling them, but noone would answer at their offices, it was saturday and pretty close to Halloween…so there was no chance of ever finding anyone at their office.
Luckilly one of my friends was with me and he was looking inside some dlls to check if there was any sign of the password checking algorithm, so that we could extract any infos about it. He didn’t find anything, and then I told him to start looking inside the installer. He started looking for the error message while I was calling a proffessor that I know, that was using the same program. There was a chance that the password for the program the proffesor uses could work for our case as well. After 10-15 minutes I got the password, and when I went to the pc to enter it my friend had located the error message, some garbage beside it and then a string of 8 letters and numbers.
I first tried the previous password that the professor gave me…it did not work. Then we tried the string that we found next to the error message…GUESS WHAT! IT WORKED! !!
Was what we did “illegal” or was the company plain stupid ? We had bought the program but we had no password so we had to “hack it”. I think it’s rediculous for a program that costs more than 1000$ to have it’s password hardcoded inside the installer. They could have a password checking algorithm inside the installer and a password generator at their offices. That sounds more “secure”.
Anyway…it’s a program meant to be used by doctors…its real price should be around 50-100$. There’s nothing really special about it…but hey..doctors have money…they should pay 😛
Filed by kargig at 13:03 under Encryption,General,Privacy
1 Comment | 5,767 views
19/11/2005
howto find music on the net for free!
1) one nice way is using google to find unprotected ftp and http dirs with indexes…try a search like this:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Deftones”
You will get plenty results 🙂
2) del.icio.us could be handy too…if you are not looking into something really special..
http://del.icio.us/tag/system:filetype:mp3
3) Soulseek
Soulseek started as a netword dedicated to electronic music sharing…It has faced many many problems in the past…but has a LOT of dedicated users that are willing to share. There are many channels and no moderators…so things can easily get out of hand inside the chatrooms.
Have fun…
p.s. I really MISS napster…
sux# strings napster.exe | grep -A 5 Copyright
Copyright 1999 Napster, Inc.
Build
1318
Release Version
v2.0
good old days…
Filed by kargig at 23:50 under General,Internet
1 Comment | 4,736 views
17/11/2005
ser/openser and Cisco ata 188
I’ve recently installed a ser (SIP express router) in one of my machines (well, in fact it’s more like openser) mostly for self tutoring. The config file was quite a pain to tune. Many many options, many many modules which all look quite usefull, and you can get easily distracted from what you should be doing. Luckilly there are some HOWTO’s (but not complete) around the net.
What I find about ser/openser VERY stupid and annoying, is that while it’s tools are mostly written in bash they have the default password that comes with the installation hardcoded inside. It would be much easier if the installation procedure asked you for a username/password instead of the defaults “ser/heslo”. Anyway…you can change them later quite easily…but it’s still annoying.
A tool you might need is sipsak. It’s like a wrapper of some common commands a SIP administrator might frequently need.
Installing Cisco ata 188 and making it work for ser/openser was trully easy. You have to download the latest sip image (ata_03_02_01_sip_050616_a.zip) for the ata adapter from cisco (you need a password for Cisco’s site) and upload it to your phone (instructions are inside the zip file’s readme file). Inside the zip file that contains the image and some readme’s there are a few other executables that can be used for debugging it. What’s interesting for us linux users? Cisco provides binaries for almost all those tools inside the zip! In fact I upgraded my ata from linux 🙂
Then go to http://ip.of.ata.given.by.dhcp/dev and you get a very nice menu with quite a lot of options, and some monitors (ethernet, RTP stats) that did not exist in previous versions. Just fill in your username/password, display name and sip proxy server..and you are good to go. The device registers itself without any problems and I was able to make calls to ata 188 from/to Linphone, Kphone and Xten-Lite(both windows and Linux).
Here’s my testing ata 188:
Filed by kargig at 11:17 under Linux,Networking,VoIP
2 Comments | 9,421 views
