http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens a swiss geek in Athens 2010-03-09T10:24:27Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1053 Yesterday morning I woke up to a darker world. We had again reddish-yellowish sand from the Sahara (or from Africa in general) in the wind. At the same time it was cold, which is kind of weird. The cold wind came from the North, the sand from the Sou... athens betabug 2010-03-09T10:24:27Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1052 This morning we woke up a bit earlier than usual on a Sunday, to go and help with planting trees on the Ymmitos hills that had been burned down at the beginning of last summer. The event was organized by the municipality, various nature and forest or... life betabug 2010-03-07T12:57:01Z 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/1050 Today all the public services in Athens are on strike. That includes the public transport: No busses, trams, trolleys, metro are moving. People are taking their cars to the streets to get to work (well, those who aren't working in the public service ... athens betabug 2010-03-05T10:47:55Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1049 Έφτασα στο δρόμο αυτό ακριβώς στην στιγμή για την παράσταση. 2 λεπτά πριν και δεν θα ήταν τίποτα, 1 λεπτό μετά και κατέβηκε ο "μάστορας". Μου αρέσει και σαν φωτογραφία, σαν να κάνει εναέριο μπαλέτο. life betabug 2010-03-04T20:48:42Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1048 There was a short zope-dev meeting on #zope today. I'm not a zope-dev, but after they were done, I asked a question^W^W^Wgriped a bit about the new "eggified" Zope 2.12 install procedure. A big discussion ensued. I learned / noticed a couple of things: zope betabug 2010-03-02T22:12:16Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1047 tumblr_ is a blogging service that is well known for its ease of use: Basically you can send in posts to your personal (and secret) tumblr mail address and they will appear on your blog. Cool. My COREblog has a similar "moblog" feature, but I have to give some special formatted information to make the post work - and to make it authenticate, I have to include a password (which is sent in cleartext, no real security there). This morning with my friend saad_ we wondered about the security of tumblr's offering: Given that someone got hold of your posting address, how good are they at weeding out faked posts? security betabug 2010-03-01T14:24:00Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1046 Almost three years after the fire that destroyed a large part of the forest on the parnassos mountains (Πάρνηθα, parnitha), and a bit more than three years after I went hiking at parmitha, I went back. Today, on a sunday with fine ... travel fire betabug 2010-02-28T20:28:02Z http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/1045 Touristen in Athen meiden meiner Erfahrung nach die Athener Busse und bewegen sich im öffentlichen Verkehr lieber mit der Metro. Der Grund ist klar, das Bus-System wird als chaotisch und undurchschaubar empfunden, nur was für Insider. Ist es auch - fast! tourism athens betabug 2010-02-27T10:24:27Z 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