Welcome to stratos.me
A blog where I write anything that comes to mind.Back to the murder scene…
Tomorow evening i'm heading back to Tripolis. For those who know me, they know this is the murder scene for me. I've been studying Computer Science there the past 4 years and i had a pretty good time i must admit. I am heading there to take exams on two lessons on the...
Let it snow…
Well Syberia has given us some trouble. A cold weather has come down all the way from Russia and now it's snowing like crazy. Everything has gone below zero and life is getting a bit harder. Water is coming in, in drops. Air conditioning has frozen, causing it to...
Installation complete!
So here we are... StratoSector has steped into another era. It is now officialy powered by Joomla! As it came out, it was not a lossless migration. As a matter of fact many things will be lost for now, and some of them might be recovered in a later state. But, what...
Life as a house
Well i am considered to be a movie fan and i recently saw this one. I like movies that have a life meaning and i am surprised i missed this one. This is a 2001 movie that shows that hard life problems are nothing when death comes knocking at your door. A realy...
How “shared” is your hosting?
A quickie here. Have you ever wondered how many others are using your shared server? I have because at some points it realy chockes up. Check it out here. Mine is 600+ and counting... Check it out. You might find it usefull. /me back to work
Fiddling with encodings… What a mess!
This has been bugging me the few last months that i got a job and i have to develop greek sites. This encoding thing is a mess! You never gonna know what will happen the next time you develop a new site. One has to be very carefull about the database's encoding and...
Still on the process…
Well migrating is not that hard as i thought it would be. One thing is for sure. I've been missing around... Joomla is realy good especialy the new version. I mean it has many features, extensions, it is very organized and one can surely realy work miracles on it... I...
Migrate e107 to Joomla!
Well i've been thinking alot lately that e107 has started getting sloppy. It is becoming slow enough, many downtimes of their site, plugins stop developing any more and most of all i've heard that some of their developers have been recruited by Joomla. So why not...
fopen vs socket_create
So here is one that got me confused. I thought that the two functions are somewhat equivalent in the matter of reading a page. What i mean is that i thought either using fopen with a URL or create my own wrapper with the socket functions would be the same. How...
Linux download manager
Here is something i was looking for the past days. Today i just felt like i had to find out a way. What i needed is a console download manager for RapidShare. And the solution was right in my hands... I was thinking i had to find a suite to do the job nicely...