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Στατιστικά επισκεψιμότητας του planet.ellak.gr

Ακολουθώντας το παράδειγμα του Θάνου, περισσότερα στατιστικά! Ο Πλανήτης ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ έχει κλείσει 3 εβδομάδες λειτουργίας στο δικτυακό τόπο planet.ellak.gr. Η δημόσια ανακοίνωση του πλανήτη έγινε στην αρχή της δεύτερης εβδομάδας. Ακολουθεί περίληψη των στατιστικών που εμπεριέχουν 2 εβδομάδες δημόσιας λειτουργίας. Στο διάστημα λειτουργίας είχαμε σχεδόν 1000 μοναδικούς επισκέπτες που κατανάλωσουν 1.3GB. Η συντριπτική πλειοψηφία των …

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Multimedia support in Ubuntu Linux 6.10

This is a follow-up to the article Multimedia support in Ubuntu Linux 6.06 on how to add extended multimedia support to the Ubuntu Linux distribution. The new version of Ubuntu Linux, 7.04, has a new functionality to help add multimedia support in a seamless way; when you try to play a media file that requires …

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Blog promoting OpenOffice.org, ODF, open-standards

An interesting blog that takes you through the developments of ODF in the standardisation process is http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/. The first entry on the website is a static page; the second item is the newest entry, and so on. Recent posts talked about the OpenXML attempt for “fast-track” standardisation and how several countries dealt with this on …

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Translating the OLPC

In a previous post, we covered how to install fonts and enabling writing support on the OLPC. The OLPC contains a limited number of applications that are available to be translated. These applications include NetworkManager, part of the GNOME project (HEAD, extras) alsa-utils, ??? aspell, external atk10, part of the GNOME project (GNOME 2.18, developer) …

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The OLPC and Greek

(oh, I am writing this through a lousy Net connection; thanks Engelados) I tried out the latest OLPC image, specifically build 218, on Qemu and my aim was to get Greek support configured, if it was not there already. The OLPC does not currently come with a good set of Greek fonts; you will need …

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GMail J2ME application for your phone

Update 2010: Link to .jar file (if you want to install using phone cable or Bluetooth): http://m.google.com/mail/download/binaries/L1/2.0.6/mail_n60-3.jar Older post continues… Google started offering a new service for GMail users; you can download a J2ME application to your mobile phone and start browsing your mails. You do not need to connect through the web interface. You …

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