http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens a swiss geek in Athens 2013-01-04T17:24:15Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1300 My Lenovo Thinkpad X220 has two disks, the Hitachi 320Gig drive it came with and a 64Gig Kingston mSATA SSD that I fit in there myself. The system (OpenBSD) and most of my home dir are on the SSD, which makes for a more responsive system. On the other there is a large partition that I mount into my home dir for the bigger digital cruft that always assembles over time. So in theory I could unmount the spinning disk and get more quiet and less energy consumption, but that didn't happen automatically. Yesterday though, my friend Rodolfo told me about atactl(8). Now *that* is a fun tool... digital betabug 2013-01-04T17:24:15Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1298 Background: There are some things that you know you're not going to switch to, but still you want to try. For myself, I know that I like the command line. I switched to OpenBSD from the Mac (ok, I still do some things on the Mac, e.g. full scale image editing), after deciding that I spend all my time on the command line anyway. I now use cwm and tmux. Still I wanted to give PC-BSD a try. For one thing, my laptop's hardware is supported very well in OpenBSD, but it's not supported *perfectly*. Maybe FreeBSD could improve on that, and the easiest way to find out (without having to digg into FreeBSD's config world) would be PC-BSD. And then, I just like to tinker with this stuff... digital betabug 2012-12-29T21:26:38Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1297 Yesterday the router that was fried in a lightning strike has been replaced. After making the necessary changes to the repeater, I thought it would be a good moment to play around with network stuff, since I have now two network options. There is the... digital betabug 2012-12-23T18:16:06Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1296 Χτες βράδυ λόγω εποχής και κίνησης είχα κολλήσει στο Mall στον Αγ. Δημήτριο. Πάω μια βόλτα από το Public εκεί να χαζεύω gadgets. Και τι βλέπω; Είχαν το Bookeen Opus (ebook reader) για " μόνο " 228 Ευρώ. Το " μόνο " είναι σε εισαγωγικά, γιατί online τ... digital betabug 2012-12-22T14:19:38Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1290 A few days ago we were talking with someone who we thought he would join our team (in fact he did a few days later). When all seemed to be asked and answered, half out of wittiness, I asked the " big " question: " vi or emacs? " Turns out, that quest... digital betabug 2012-12-04T18:39:59Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1284 So, here I am, on the other corner of Europe. Together with graffic we flew via Madrid to La Coruna and then drove with Wu to his place in Lugo. Yesterday we started " sprinting " on our customer's pyramid app. Sprinting, what's that? It means that f... pyramid digital travel betabug 2012-10-06T11:40:47Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1278 We went for a late afternoon swim today after work (ok, before work too, I'll soon continue a bit). While there I was reading the tmux book I had bought a weeks or so ago. I hadn't expected too much in that book, since I'm already using tmux, have ma... digital betabug 2012-07-13T20:16:47Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1277 Trying to access a repo on a https URL (using SSL) using darcs on OpenBSD, I got the error: " Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates " Even though there is a " real " , " verified " certificate on the SSL web host. The pr... digital betabug 2012-07-11T10:28:21Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1275 Like most programmers, I'm using JavaScript, because that's the way it is these days. Given the minefield of that language, I really want a tool like jsLint to watch my code behave. So what I did was to integrate jsLint into vim. Which wasn't so diff... digital betabug 2012-07-02T08:28:10Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1272 On my flight to Switzerland I was reading with the ebook reader. After a while I got bored holding it in my right hand, then my left hand, then back to the right hand... The table was too low to place it comfortably, so I had to find another solution... culture digital travel betabug 2012-06-19T16:27:51Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1269 I was trying to test some networking stuff with various operating systems. I have neither the patience nor the hardware to set up a bunch of real machines with those systems to try out things. So qemu came to my mind to simulate these things - which ... digital betabug 2012-06-09T22:10:08Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1266 Some weeks ago, undeadly.org published an announcement for the book " SSH Mastery " by Michael W. Lucas. The book isn't expensive and I was in the mood, so I bought it at smashwords. (At smashwords I was able to get it both in PDF for reading on the ... security digital betabug 2012-05-31T23:25:59Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1263 Saturday evening I was at the " one year of hackerspace.gr " party... at the hackerspace. Besides the good people I know through the hackerspace itself, I met there also Panos and Javier. I haven't been at the hackerspace from day one (as I was busy ... digital betabug 2012-05-27T23:03:28Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1261 Speaking of ebooks and technical manuals in my last post: I had some stuff that was in " CHM " format. Now in theory calibre can convert from CHM to epub, but it never worked for me. All I ever got was the contents and maybe the first page. Given a b... digital betabug 2012-05-25T10:20:21Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1260 The screen on my first ebook reader (Bookeen Cybook Opus) broke a long time ago. Some months ago I also broke the screen on the ebook reader I bought as a replacement (Bookeen Cybook Odyssey). So I calculated about sending them in for a repair. Now t... digital betabug 2012-05-25T10:00:37Z