Welcome to stratos.me
A blog where I write anything that comes to mind.Stop forwarding chain e-mails for crying out loud!
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 given to a sick...
Loading to RAM vs Querying to get all
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...
Writing a Mail2SMS app…
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...
49 days to Easter…
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 the...
Unix set timezone
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...
iRobot… heading t(w)here?
I just saw, for once more, the big blockbuster iRobot. The idea of inteligent robots and evolving artificial inteligence has always fascinated me. I mean the idea of creating something that can immitate human and the human behaviour is a big thing by its self. Think...
Mailing for hardcores or… masochists!
Here we are again! Another tutorial in the series of "hardcores or... masochists!". I find it interesting into digging into the protocols that we use many times a day and we have no clue what is going on behind the scenes. And here i come with the next most used thing...
wget headers
In the previous posts about the HTTP protocol, "HTTP for hardcores or... masochists" and "File upload and download via PHP", there was a discussion about headers. Well with the wget tool, availiable in all linux distributions, you can send any header! You can use the...
Facts site & Jasmine!
Here i am with another site idea. From 2003 i've been studying at University of Peloponnese, UoP for short. Some realy crazy things have happened and we have met some crazy and good people. So, when i went to Tripolis, about a month ago, i was talking with a friend of...
Voting plugin Safari!
I have been trying to find a small and easy voting system for wordpress the past few days. It seemed like an easy task but since i am realy new with wordpress and i don't know my way around it yet, it became a bit complicated. I found some from the extension directory...