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Ποιο είναι το λάθος του Hellug;

(σχετική προηγούμενη δημοσίευση για το ίδιο θέμα). Είναι ένα μεγάλο ερώτημα τι λάθος κάνει ο Hellug και δημιουργούνται καταστάσεις που περιγράφονται σε κάποιο βαθμό εδώ. Παρόμοιο ζήτημα υπήρξε πριν από επτά μήνες περίπου αλλά και παλαιότερα, και φαίνεται ότι επηρεάζουν την γενικότερη κοινότητα ΕΛ/ΛΑΚ στον ελληνικό χώρο. Είναι το λάθος με τους «άλλους» ή στον …

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Google Street View enters Europe

Google Street View has entered Europe. The Wikipedia article has up to date information on the countries covered already (France, Italy, Spain). In addition, there is information of the countries that will get covered in the future. The colored areas are the areas that Google Street View data is available. These areas appear when you …

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ert-archives.gr: “Linux/Unix operating systems are not supported”

ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) is the national radio/television organisation of Greece. ERT recently made available online part of its audio and video archive, at the website http://www.ert-archives.gr/ When browsing the website from Linux, you were blocked with a message that Linux/Unix operating systems are not supported. This message was appearing due to User-Agent filtering. Even …

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Localisation issues in home directory folders (xdg-user-dirs)

In new distributions such as Ubuntu 7.10 there is now support for folder names of personal data in your local language. What this means is that ~/Desktop can now be called ~/Επιφάνεια εργασίας. You also get a few more default folders, including ~/Music, ~/Documents, ~/Pictures and so on. This functionality of localised home folders has …

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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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Delicious Firefox extension

Delicious Firefox extension Προέρχεται από τον simosx. If you are in social bookmarking and del.icio.us, you cannot miss to use a Firefox extension to post your favourite pages. There are two del.icio.us Firefox extensions, the one I like is http://delicious.mozdev.org/ I tried the more popular https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1532/ some time ago, however I was not impressed on …

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