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Οδηγός πολυτονικού – Write Greek Polytonic

Update 10th May 2009: If you have Ubuntu 9.04 (or Fedora 11), Greek and Greek Polytonic works out of the box with the default Greek layout. For more, see https://blog.simos.info/archives/888 The rest of this blog post remains only for historical purposes and does not apply any more. Update 17th Nov 2008: If you have Ubuntu …

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The Keyboard Layout Editor

Update Dec 2010: Get the latest version of the Keyboard Layout Editor from https://github.com/simos/keyboardlayouteditor (this entry is a repost, the original was lost in a database mishap.) As part of the 2008 GSoC program, I worked on a Keyboard Layout Editor for the X.Org Foundation. The Keyboard Layout Editor (KLE) is an application that allows …

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Συνέδριο XOrg Developer Summit

Αυτές τις μέρες (αρχές Σεπτεμβρίου 2008) διεξάγεται το συνέδριο XOrg Developer Summit Εδιμβούργο της Σκωτίας. Διαρκεί 3 μέρες και οι σημειώσεις περιγράφουν τι ειπώθηκε. Simos Xenitellisblog.simos.info/

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We are back!

After a long hiatus (web-wise), this blog is back online. We lost about two weeks worth of comments and blog posts. Ouch. Now we are getting better with all this web hosting blog wordpress hosting web database blog thing. If something is not working, please report 😉 Simos Xenitellisblog.simos.info/

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Practical UPnP in Linux

UPnP is a set of protocols that allow the automatic configuration of devices. One of those protocols, the Internet Gateway Device (IGD) protocol, allows software to configure routers for NAT traversal without user-intervention. In other words, with UPnP/IGD, the long and error-prone manual configuration for port-forwarding can be done automatically. When tasks are done automatically, …

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Features for the killer VoIP app

I see two issues that plague FLOSS VoIP apps and do not allow their widest adoption. The first VoIP app that gets these, should get fame and glory. First, the majority of users are broadband users, with a router that protects the inside systems. It is not possible for an outsider to initiate a network …

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