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Aug 13, 2008

Translate server error

Yes, i know that this is all over the place and pretty much everyone knows about it by now, but i simply found it too good to resist.

Apparently some restaurant in China decided to use an automatic Internet translation service to translate their restaurant name in English. There was a problem with the server, however, which resulted in this:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/15/chinese-restaurant-c.html

 

Just priceless.

posted at 04:03  ·   ·  humor  internet  photos  cool
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Apr 07, 2008

Canon EOS 400D and gphoto2

Πριν μερικές ημέρες χρειάστηκα να τραβήξω μερικές φωτογραφίες με την Canon EOS 400D μου, χρησιμοποιώντας remote capture. Συγκεκριμένα ,ήθελα να φτιάξω ένα script που να τραβάω κάποια αντικείμενα φωτογραφία και να συσχετίζονται αυτόματα με την αντίστοιχη εγγραφή τους στη Database.

 

Ομως το gphoto2 δεν ήθελε με τίποτα να δουλέψει. Έβρισκε την μηχανή, τράβαγε φωτογραφίες, αλλα όταν ερχόταν η ώρα να την ‘κατεβάσει’ μου έριχνε ένα ωραίο segfault.

Είχα δοκιμάσει τα πάντα (εκτός απο ultrex) και δεν είχα δεί λύση. Είχα απογοητευτεί.

Εντελώς τυχαία , σήμερα έπεσα σε αυτό το blog post. Εκεί διαβάζω α) οτι θέλει να δίνω κάποιες εντολές σε μία γραμμή, και β) στα σχόλια έγραφαν οτι πριν φτιάχτηκε στο trunk πριν μόλις 2 ημέρες.

 

Αμέσως checkout απο το subversion, configure , compile ,install κλπ. και ως δια μαγείας, δουλεύει!

 

Για παράδειγμα αυτό δουλέυει:

 

gphoto2 --set-config capture=on -F 1 -I 1 --capture-image

 

 

Σκέφτομαι οτι θα ήταν ωραίο ένα GUI για αλλαγή των ρυθμίσεων και remote capture όπως το software της Canon. Ίσως αν έχω χρόνο αυτές της ημέρες (πράγμα πολύ απίθανο μέχρι μέσα Ιουνίου…)

 

posted at 00:24  ·   ·  linux  photos  greek  eos400d
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Jul 24, 2007

What people do to get their revenge…

The image below is a small part of the scenery outside my balcony. Take a look at that wall. What purpose does it serve? It’s just a wall next to a building. I’ve been living here only for a year, so i don’t know the stories of this ex-village (It used to be a village but now it’s more like a suburb of Patras). My mother however grew up here so i asked here if shew knew what was the deal with this wall. She knew.
Here is the picture. Scaled down and painted for your satisfaction:

Revenge can have curious forms

Here is the story.
There were this two women who where cousins. They had some differences , and one decided to get some revenge. They were owners of adjacent pieces of land. One had had built a house on her land, the other had not. The piece of land that had no house, covers two sides of the house (a wall and the side that has some balconies). So the lady thought it was a great idea to pay money and build a great wall and disable the other womans balconies. Priceless huh?
Their heirs thought it was too silly and took down the wall, but a small part remains to remind us of just how silly revenge can be.
posted at 15:19  ·   ·  photos  revenge
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