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Χαρτογράφηση με OpenStreetMap (OSM) και Ελλάδα

Τμήμα χάρτη από το Ηράκλειο Κρήτης (Google Maps)

Το έργο OpenStreetMap (OSM) φιλοδοξεί να φτιάξει ένα ελεύθερο χάρτη του πλανήτη. Όπως η Wikipedia είναι η μεγαλύτερη συμμετοχική εγκυκλοπέδια, έτσι το OpenStreetMap θέλει να γίνει ο μεγαλύτερος συμμετοχικός χάρτης. Τα δεδομένα που εισάγονται στο OpenStreetMap διατίθενται με την άδεια Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike. Γιατί χρειαζόμαστε το OpenStreetMap αφού το Google Maps είναι δωρεάν και …

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GMail J2ME application for your mobile phone

We talked a couple of years ago about the Google J2ME (Java for Mobile devices such as mobile phones) application that you can download and install on your phone. With this application, you can run GMail on you mobile phone, and access your e-mails with your data plan (GPRS, EDGE or 3G). To install the …

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Java plugin 64-bit, now available.

Sun Microsystems announced the 64-bit version of the JRE, which includes the Java Plugin. This means that if you have a 64-bit version of a Linux distribution, you can now have Java applets running in your Firefox. Download at https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html You can install in /usr/local/ Then, you need to make a symbolic link, (it’s OK …

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ANTLR grammar for XKB, and Relax NG schema (draft)

I completed the ANTLRv3 grammar for symbols/ configuration files of XKB. The grammar can parse and create the abstract syntax tree (AST) for all keyboard layouts in xkeyboard-config. ANTLRv3 helps you create parsers for domain specific languages (DSL), an example of which is the configuration files in XKB. Having the ANTLRv3 grammar for a configuration …

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Parsing XKB files with antlr

antlr (well, antlr3) is an amazing tool that replaces lex/flex, yacc/bison. One would use antlr3 if they want to deal with Domain-Specific Languages (DSL), an example of which are the text configuration files. In our case, we use antlr3 to parse some of the XKB configuration files, those found in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/??. Our aim is to …

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thersa.org.uk, infected.

The screenshot shows the thersa.org.uk website has been infected, and users that visit it end up running in their browsers malicious JavaScript code. The code loads Javascript files from the .cn and the .la domains. There is a reference in one of the files to a cookie named killav (Kill Antivirus?) that may disable some …

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