Archive for November, 2008

Groovera

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

just few days ago my friend told me about this new internet stream called Groovera

and I liked it :)

actually groovera has 3 radio streams and I listen only to one, the one my friend told me about

the stream name is Low Mercury and they describe it as a mix of downtempo, techno, house, nu-jazz etc.

now what is interesting about this is that it sounds really unusual, nothing like I’ve heard so far

there are times that I think it is great, times when I get nervous listening to it but most of the time its cool

and there’s this other stream that I listen to a lot

it’s Radio Best 92.6 FM from Athens

it’s got a really good selection of new cool music at friday night (starting at about 10pm)

I think the DJ responsible for the good vibes is Spiros Pagiatakis (Σπύρος Παγιατάκης) but I could be wrong ;)

anyway, check out those streams :)

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Police Dash Cam Of Meteor Over Edmonton, Canada

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

people more than 700 kilometers apart report seeing this meteor hit Canada

check out this video shot from the police vehicle

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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

I upgraded few days ago and ran into problems

my wireless card based on atheros chip stopped working
it seems they’ve deliberatly removed madwifi support from wpasupplicant or something so I did two things, I downgraded wpasupplicant to hardy version and compiled/installed madwifi drivers from the project website

another problem that is still unresolved is the graphics
they’ve removed the old good driver, i810 and instead put intel driver for xorg
the intel driver is twice slower
I can’t watch flash movies any more, it’s that slow
and worse, if I hibernate from the X, I get garbled screen on next startup, nothing works
so I’ve found a workaround, I hibernate from text mode ;)

anyway, I noticed kde applications have better looking interface, a new sound manager (pulseaudio), no more gaim (now it’s called pidgin)…

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Google Tech Talks

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

great stuff for us geeks out there

well it’s not just for geeks

you can find there general videos like about the health, nutrition, meditation etc.

I’ve seen Larry Walk talk on Perl 6, some astronomy videos, etc.

highly recommended, check it out here

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Linux Install Day

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

at saturday, I was at this linux install day in Novi sad with friends, had a good geek time :)

it took my mind out of the things I face each day…

if you look really hard you can spot me in the pics ;)

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Achievo ATK Framework

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

few days ago I was writing this php/ajax application for a client and then I realized I needed a way to manipulate the tables

some tables were simple but some had two or three relationships

I thought about writing a generic class for the simple tables and doing other tables “by hand”

then I realized… maybe someone else wrote something similar

and I’ve found just that

Achievo ATK framework makes it really simple to create /admin for your client so he can manipulate his tables by himself

but that simplicity comes only after you’ve spent some time getting familiar with it

at first, atk coding seemed cryptic but now I’m into it and it feels natural

atk will make your life easier because once you understand it you can easily manufacture table interfaces

it has support for cascading deletes so you don’t have to worry about orphaned records

one thing I’d like to see is full UTF-8 support

it currently uses iso-8859-1 character set by default (english language)

I got it here

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