http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens a swiss geek in Athens 2010-09-04T11:37:43Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1107 The working week on Naxos was quite successful. I had put myself under pressure at the start of the week, feeling that there is lots to do and a few big open questions in the code. My task was to feature up a part of one of my apps, where a heavy for... digital betabug 2010-09-04T11:37:43Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1082 Since some time now, I'm finishing up a project for someone else (long story). There's a lot of Flash involved (aua) and some rudimentary cms in some files that run in a Micro$oft .NET environment. Today, as I was searching for a solution for a very ... digital betabug 2010-05-28T20:31:31Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1073 If you use Flickr (or, as some people lovingly call it, "Fuckr"), you might have noticed, that it's almost impossible to get real critique or even real comments on your pictures. All most people ever seem to get is shoulder slapping in the form of "Good shot", "wonderful capture", and "well taken" etc.. This might be feeling good for an average of 3 days when you start out, but it turns sour and empty fast. Well, being a geek and all, I thought about a technical solution or, failing that, at least *messing with the stuff in a fun way*. photography digital betabug 2010-04-23T10:03:02Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1066 The long easter weekend is over, today is high time to pick up work again on one of the new features I'm building for one of our Products. Being the sole member of my development team, when some bugfixes and other stuff came along, I had left off bui... digital betabug 2010-04-06T15:22:46Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1062 Yesterday we went on an excursion to Kalavryta, taking the scenic rack railway up there. The railway trip is wonderful, travelling through a narrow gorge. The train moves quite slow and - at least now in spring - you can open the windows to take pict... travel digital betabug 2010-03-27T11:24:09Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1060 It's been a month since I successfully set up a VPN from my e71 to my OpenBSD server. A `twitter from Markus Mediger`_ - that I found by chance - claimed that "S60 VPN only works with some obscore Nokia certified HW AFAIK. Practically unusable...". This reminded me to maybe publish a little report of what I'm doing and not doing with my e71 on VPN. digital betabug 2010-03-23T14:53:46Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1058 Yesterday I noticed that the lack of image editing app for my e71 won't be so bad anymore... it should be fairly easy to hack up a python app with pys60 for the Nokia to turn and resize images! I could then couple it with the phone's speech recogniti... digital betabug 2010-03-19T14:54:19Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1051 There are many options for making SIP/VoIP phone calls over the Internet. There are some with nice user interface, some that get you over almost all the the little hurdles and problems (like for example `X-Lite`_, which you should try if you're ever stuck unable to make a connection, as it seems to work around most problems on its own). But if you're a real geek at heart, there is only one choice: pjsua_. pjsua does not have any such timewasting features as a GUI or an address book. digital limnos betabug 2010-03-06T14:51:37Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1044 This evening I wrote down the documentation to go with yesterdays post about me getting the VPN from my e71 to my OpenBSD server working. I've put the documentation into my little wiki, which makes editing for me easier, but commenting right there fo... digital betabug 2010-02-24T23:13:34Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1043 It took me some time, but this evening I finally got it rolling: I have set up a VPN connection from my Nokia e71 mobile phone to my OpenBSD server. On the Nokia phone I'm using Nokia's VPN client, on OpenBSD I'm using the standard, built-in IPsec wi... digital betabug 2010-02-23T21:59:36Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1035 There was a time when I was doing my long distance phone calls either through my "normal" telephone or through Skype. Then I got fed up with both - due to the price for the phone and due to the whole Skype-is-a-black-box-giant thing. I switched to Gizmo, which coincidentally had a nice frontend for my mobile phone. There I was more or less happy for a while. OK, it would sometimes not work or was laggy, but that was expected. These aren't business calls, when they don't work, I'll call the next day. But then Google bought Gizmo and now I'm kind of stuck with what to do... digital betabug 2010-02-05T16:55:42Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1024 Yesterday evening I attempted my server upgrade. Within 5 minutes I was stuck with an Open Firmware error running amok and blocking everything. I called it a day and was ready to relax and let my server be the pile of plastic, silicium and lowgrade p... digital betabug 2010-01-05T10:23:53Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1022 These days "between the years", that I'm not working, I prepare to upgrade my server. That's right, the very server that you view this web page on. Still have a lot to prepare and read up, but once I'm done *preparing* there will be some "downtime" a... digital betabug 2009-12-30T13:54:59Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1016 In vim, Greek, and utf-8 Keyboard Commands, Giorgos had asked in a comment if it would be possible to not only switch vi's keyboard shortcuts to a Greek keyboard, but also to use Greek letters for ex commands. For example to be able to write :γ for :... digital language betabug 2009-12-03T15:15:25Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1007 This morning I woke up slightly earlier and got my little digital point-and-shoot camera to the importers office for repair. The shutter button is stuck. The camera is a Pentax Optio W60, waterproof and fun. They told me there is a surge of camera re... digital betabug 2009-10-20T09:10:43Z