by stratosg | Mar 15, 2008 | Quickies, Thoughts
Jeez! Everybody on the net just keeps on doing this thing. Even people i know they know their way around computers and the internet and i see them keeping chain mails alive. Mails like “Forward this to as many people as you can and”… a cent will be...
by stratosg | Mar 12, 2008 | My Coding, Tutorials
The title of the post is pretty streight forward. Here is a problem i face every day and i believe every developer, that has something to do with databases, does. When you need a result set that has to be created out of sever or eight tables what do you do? Do you...
by stratosg | Mar 11, 2008 | My Coding
I thought of this idea a few days ago and it realy got me excited. The basic thought is that a daemon checks your email and when you have a new one he dispatches and SMS to you with the sender and the subject of the message. This way you can chill out anywhere and...
by stratosg | Mar 10, 2008 | Misc
Kites all over Greece! Well not here, where i live because there is no wind what so ever, but in general it’s tradition. Kites, chalva, olives, lagana and in general all the little things. Counting today, 49 days of a very hard fasting period start, leading to...
by stratosg | Mar 10, 2008 | Quickies
A quickie here fellas. If you want to set your time on a unix machine you have to do two things. First of all set the timezone and then set the correct time. You set the timezone by copying the appropriate file to /etc/localtime. For instance, if you want to set your...