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Αεροφωτογραφίες της Ελλάδας από το Υπουργείο Περιβάλλοντος, Ενέργειας και Κλιματικής Αλλαγής

Αεροφωτογραφία Ομόνοια, Αθήνα από το ktimanet.gr

Πριν λίγες μέρες ανακοινώθηκε με δελτίο τύπου από το Υπουργείο Περιβάλλοντος, Ενέργειας και Κλιματικής Αλλαγής η διάθεση αεροφωτογραφιών εξαιρετικά μεγάλης ανάλυσης. Αυτή είναι η ανάλυση που προσφέρει αυτή τη στιγμή το Google maps για την Ομόνοια, Αθήνα. Ενώ αυτή είναι η ανάλυση που προσφέρει το Υπουργείο μέσω υπηρεσίας από το Κτηματολόγιο Α.Ε. Η ανάλυση για …

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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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Converting between XKB and XML

I completed the stage that takes keyboard layout files from XKB (X.Org) and converts them to XML documents, based on a keyboard layout Relax NG schema. Then, these XML documents can also be converted back to keyboard layout files. Here is an imaginary example of a keyboard layout file. // Keyboard layout for the Zzurope …

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Today you’ll make history with Firefox

Today you’ll make history with Firefox Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 18:15 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now. Download page with …

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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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FOSDEM ’08, summary and comments

I attended FOSDEM ’08 which took place on the 23rd and 24th of February in Brussels. Compared to other events, FOSDEM is a big event with over 4000 (?) participants and over 200 lectures (from lightning talks to keynotes). It occupied three buildings at a local university. Many sessions were taking place at the same …

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