June 2006 archive

GNOME: Women’s Summer Outreach Program

Πρόκειται για το γραφικό περιβάλλον GNOME που θα βρείτε σε διανομές ελεύθερου λογισμικού όπως Ubuntu Linux, Fedora Linux, OpenSUSE και αλλού. This summer, GNOME will sponsor three female students to hack on GNOME-related projects from the comfort of their own home. Each project will last two months, and each participant will each receive a stipend …

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My hard disk does not power up

My hard disk (3.5″) that I use as external storage does not power up any more. 🙁 Most probably it happened due to overheating. Is there any way to salvage the information? Do hard disks have some sort of fuse that can get blown? I do not mind if the procedure is invasive (that is, …

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Ⲙⲓⲁ ⲁⲕⲟ̀ⲙⲁ ⲉⲅⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ̀ ⲓⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲅⲓ̀ⲟⲩ

Ⲁⲛ ⲙⲡⲟⲣⲉ̀ⲥⲉⲧⲉ ⲛⲁ ⲧⲟ ⲇⲓⲁⲃⲁ̀ⲥⲉⲧⲉ ⲁⲩⲧⲟ̀, ⲉ̀ⲭⲉⲧⲉ ⲥⲧⲟ ⲥⲩ̀ⲥⲧⲏⲙⲁ̀ ⲥⲁⲥ ⲅⲣⲁⲙⲙⲁⲧⲟⲥⲉⲓⲣⲉ̀ⲥ ⲅⲓⲟⲩ̀ⲛⲓⲕⲟⲛⲧ ⲙⲉ ⲩⲡⲟⲥⲧⲏ̀ⲣⲓⲝⲏ ⲕⲟⲡⲧⲓⲕⲱ̀ⲛ ⲕⲁⲓ ⲝⲉ̀ⲣⲉⲧⲉ ⲉⲗⲗⲏⲛⲓⲕⲁ̀. Ⲅⲓⲁ ⲁⲡ̀ⲟⲇⲉⲓⲝⲏ ⲟ̀ⲧⲓ ⲕⲁⲧⲁⲫⲉ̀ⲣⲁⲧⲉ ⲛⲁ ⲇⲓⲁⲃⲁ̀ⲥⲉⲧⲉ ⲧⲟ ⲕⲉⲓ̀ⲙⲉⲛⲟ ⲁⲩⲧⲟ̀, ⲅⲣⲁ̀ⲯⲧⲉ ⲱⲋ ⲥⲭⲟ̀ⲗⲓⲟ ⲧⲏ ⲫⲣⲁ̀ⲥⲏ “Ⲡⲟⲩ ⲑⲁ ⲃⲣⲓ̀ⲥⲕⲉⲥⲉ ⲥⲧⲓⲥ ⲧⲣⲓⲁ̀ⲛⲧⲁ Ⲙⲁⲓ̈̀ⲟⲩ”. Update: The encoding of this post is UTF-8 (Unicode). You are required to have the appropriate font …

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Can you read Coptic?

Coptic is the most recent phase of ancient Egyptian. It is the direct descendant of the ancient language written in Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts. The Coptic alphabet is a slightly modified form of the Greek alphabet, with some letters (which vary from dialect to dialect) deriving from demotic. As a living language of …

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How to easily modify a program in your Ubuntu?

Suppose we want to change the functionality of an Ubuntu application but we do not want to go into all the trouble of finding the source code, installing in /usr/local/, breaking dependencies with original versions and so on. Let’s change Character Map (gucharmap), and specifically change the default font size from 20pt to 14pt, so …

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Παρωχημένα πράγματα

παρωχημένος -η -ο [paroiménos] E3 : που ανήκει στο παρελθόν: O ιστορικός μελετά παρωχημένες εποχές. || (γραμμ.) Παρωχημένη λέξη / έκφραση. Παρωχημένη σημασία / χρήση μιας λέξης, που υπήρχε παλαιότερα. || (γραμμ.) ~ χρόνος, συντελεσμένος. [λόγ. < αρχ. παρῳχημένος (γραμμ.: ελνστ. σημ.)] Πηγή: http://www.komvos.edu.gr/dictionaries/dictonline/DictOnLineTri.htm Υπάρχει συζήτηση στη λίστα i18ngr για το αν είναι κατάλληλη η …

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