Welcome to stratos.me
A blog where I write anything that comes to mind.Streaming music, a linux console and Streamripper
Have you ever wanted to record your favorite music station's show so you can hear it later and no podcast is availiable? I wanted to do so and started looking around. At first i started looking for windows programs doing such thing and stumbled uppon wm recorder which...
rtorrent won’t seed
Just a quickie here. I installed rtorrent on my local network on a Debian machine. I would enter a torrent, it would start downloading fine but it wouldn't upload! Port forwarding on the router is not enough. To be exact it is enough but the port protocol should be...
Stub class not found. Why’s that?
Since my early days with Java many stuff have impressed me but, among the things that impressed me the most, is the Remote Method Invocation (RMI). It makes it very easy to create applications over a network. One hard part about it was that we had to create what we...
PDF file specification
Now this is something i didn't know. I always thought that the PDF files are just jibberish bytecodes. This is not absolutely wrong but most of it is not right... What actually happens is that PDF represents documents as structured data. Opening a pdf document created...
The “Hello World” Collection!
I was crowling the net and i found this extra helpfull page. It is called "The Hello World Collection" and for those of you that are programmers it should ring a bell. It is actually the way to say "Hello World" in 366 programming languages and 58 human languages!...
Firefox about:config
It's been a few years since i stumbled uppon this page in Firefox. This browser is so configurable that just amazes me everyday! Well what i did is i downloaded a plugin for firefox, the vertigo plugin to be exact. What it does is that it lists all the open tabs...
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Cannot delete folder… Are you annoyed?
Have you faced this realy annoying message: "Cannot delete folder. It is beeing used by another program or person"? This happens to me frequently. For example when you are writing a word document and suddenly word crushes the file you were editing remains locked. This...
I am obsessed with… TrackMANIA!
A few weeks ago i saw this add on steam that they are giving away a totaly free game. I mean who can resist to this. So i was like "what the heck lemme check this out". I went along and downloaded the game (rally game and much more as i found out later). This is an...
MyBrowser to help you with HTTP headers
In the hardcores or masochists series i illustrated alot of http headers from a cimmunication with a server. I told you back then that if you want to check these examples you can use telnet. This is true but telnet is not that helpfull when you want to send alot of...