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archive old revisions of a git repository
Archive old revisions of a git repositorySometimes one would like to continue development in a repository but without...
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Postgres/WAL-e: delete backups older than date
Deleting backups older than a particular date with WAL-eWAL-e has the delete before and the delete retain commands to...
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PyCon Belarus 2017
PyCon Belarus 2017This weekend I had the opportunity to attend PyCon Belarus as a speaker. Shout-out to Maya, Dimitri...
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Γιατί η δραχμή μας βγάζει από την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση
Υπάρχει η άποψη ότι δεν μπορεί κανείς να μας αναγκάσει να φύγουμε από την Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση ή από την Ευρωζώνη. Υπάρχει...
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Moved blog to Jekyll
Finally moved the blog to jekyll, hosted on GitHub pagesIt was a long time I wanted to do this, so finally it’s done....
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git: shallow clone and sparse checkout of submodule
If you have a huge repository (in size and in history) and want to add a subfolder to your project as a submodule you...
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tmux: synchronize in all windows (not really)
A neat feature in tmux(1) is the :setw synchronize-panes option, which causes tmux to repeat in all panes the keys ty...
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tmux: synchronize in all windows (not really)
A neat feature in tmux(1) is the :setw synchronize-panes option, which causes tmux to repeat in all panes the keys ty...
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Quick'n'dirty ELB healthcheck
Sometimes you have a service you are running on multiple instances in an AWS autoscaling group, and you want to monit...
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keeping your shell connected to an agent
One of the most annoying things about using an ssh-agent type process is making sure that the environment in your she...
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send Graphite output to Slack
Just a quick recipe to send rendered graphs from Graphite to Slack, using your crontab(5) and Incoming Webhooks:0 5 ...
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target a specific host with an ansible playbook
Sometime you have a playbook that's all like:---- hosts: all...and in your inventory you've got a long list of hosts ...
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debugging python objects and fields with gdb
Sometimes your python code crashes or runs into a deadlock. For this the Python Extension for GDB 7 are very handy. O...
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journal entry for Monday the 6th of January
Hello 2014. Let's see, will I succeed in keeping a journal like I've promised myself many times before? "This time it...
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My Linux OS history
Following Nikos and Vagelis here's a (possibly incomplete) timeline of my personal OS usage:MS-DOS (~1990) , on a 486...
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an alternative to subsidising recycling?
Having just read "Recycling: can it be wrong when it feels so right?" on Cato Unbound , and having laughed at myself ...
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vertical preview pane in gmail
I'm trying out this lab, perhaps late to the party but anyway. I kind of like it, especially the vertical split. My 2...
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Thoreau on Facebook
When Thoreau came inside after swimming naked in the pond, and capturing a frog for dinner, he was surprised to see m...
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Simple autoreload for wsgi python apps running in uWSGI
While developing, it's usefull to have uwsgi autoreload your application. In my case I rsync changed files to the ser...
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Φάε το κερασάκι - Eat the Cherry (Αρκάς)
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unaccountable police - a personal report
Μπορεί να μην έχω πάει (ακόμα) στο αυτόφωρο, όπως ο Θάνος Δημάδης, έχω όμως και εγώ σχετική προσωπική εμπειρία από το...
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forget your failures
Sometimes we are attached to our failures as much as to our successes. After all, our failures are our own creations ...
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Us vs. Him
David Friedman offers some rational reasons to hope Obama wins, and also discusses the emotional aspect of such valua...
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Spell check XML files without VIM syntax problems
I've been using XMLMind's XML Editor lately to write some documentation in the Docbook XML format. The editor has ver...
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Terminology Principles
Transparency:Can the reader understand what the concept is about by looking at the term?Consistency:Is the new term o...
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κυρώσεις και τα μέτρα..
Αυτός ο νόμος πλήττει αυθαίρετα το εισόδημα των φτωχότερων ανθρώπων που ζουν σε αυτή την χώρα καθώς και των επιχειρήσ...
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sed memo: output boilerplate around each line in a file
Given three files xx0{0,1,2} the following sed script will first output the contents of file xx00 and then for each l...
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Siamese Twin-engine Jet
Την ώρα που όλος ο σοβαρός κόσμος είναι εξοργισμένος με τα αποτελέσματα των εκλογών στο πάλαι ποτέ Σιάμ οι όχι τόσο γ...
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The trouble with sectarians
The trouble with sectarians, whether they be libertarians, Marxists, or world-governmentalists, is that they tend to ...
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There is a heavier price to pay
Πολλοί γνωστοί μου εκθείασαν αυτό το άρθρο με τίτλο "Greece pays a heavy price as eurozone strives to protect its rec...
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Chomsky vs Norvig (with the help of O'Reilly)
Μέσω του Lieberman διάβασα πρόσφατα την κριτική στον Chomsky του Peter Norvig και συστήνω να την διαβάσετε και εσείς....
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No news is.. what news?
Θεωρητικά ισχύει αυτό που βλέπουμε στο Σύνταγμα πρακτικά: η δημιουργία του νέου δεν γίνεται δια επιτροπής. Μια επιτρο...
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Heart of Glass (Puppini style)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NpMR6RiM4k]Heart of Glass by The Puppini Sisters, originally by Blondie
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Guitarra Dimelo Tú
[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/15380427" params="show_comments=false&auto_play=false" width="1...
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Swing στον δρόμο - Frankie 95+2 + flash mob
Πέμπτη 26/05/2011, Ώρα: 20:30Λίγο πριν το τέρμα του πεζόδρομου Ερμού (προς το Γκάζι) κοντά στο αμαξοστάσιο - χάρτης. ...
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Night, by Kostas Karyotakis
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eDqkn13Qk0]The kids that play, in the spring duska faraway yell;The wind tha...
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Only, by Kostas Karyotakis
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKPbQ7s65ng]Oh, it all had to come about the way it came to beThat hopes and ...
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Η Πολυάννα, το γκέτο και ο Έβρος.
Αφιερωμένο σε όσους, με αφορμή το προηγούμενο σχετικό με τον Έβρο άρθρο, με χαρακτήρισαν Πολυάννα που "αθωώνω" την πα...
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LCD Soundsystem - "Someone Great"
YouTube - LCD Soundsystem - "Someone Great".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaYsczkWti0
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Joy of Stats: Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes
YouTube - Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four.http://www.youtube.com/wat...
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a wakeup call to deadened urbanites (Steve Paxton)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a82Qy62bUTc&fs=1&hl=en_US]I think that one of the reasons I got involved in d...
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how to insert any unicode character over VNC
Been using GRNET's ViMA service a lot lately and sometimes it happens while using a vm's console via VNC that I need ...
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Vote for me!
Σε αυτές τις εκλογές στον Δήμο Αθηναίων είμαι, ως μέλος της δημοτικής κίνησης «Πορτοκαλί», υποψήφιος με τον συνδυασμό...
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You are not alone
Originally uploaded by Of all the voices in my head
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Ου επιστρατεύσεις
Με αφορμή μια ερώτηση που έγινε σε αυτό το νήμα έκανα κάποιες σκέψεις, που επειδή βγήκαν μακρύτερες απ'ότι θα ταίριαζ...
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empathy needed (re: TeacherDudeBBQ)
Stolen kiss at the KamaraOriginally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQTeacherDude's been robbed, again. This is just horr...
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Speak No Evolution, Hear No Evolution, See No Evolution
Speak No Evolution, Hear No Evolution, See No EvolutionOriginally uploaded by darwinsbulldogLove it.. sums it up nice...
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Nocturna Soledad
Nocturna SoledadOriginally uploaded by T. de Ti'm in this picture
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a way to track office-suite documents with VCS?
Nice to hear Sofia's happy with dropbox as a solution for finding the latest version of her dissertation. I was think...
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Election blues - ΦιΣ, #deb8, Κ.Ο.Τ.Ε.Σ. και Πειρατές
Δυστυχώς σε αυτές τις εκλογές δεν συμμετέχει η Φιλελεύθερη Συμμαχία, του οποίου κόμματος είμαι μέλος. Οι λόγοι πολλοί...
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Arrest this squash!
Arrest this squash!Originally uploaded by koukPicture this: shouting in the streets, Immigrant vegetable sellers runn...
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The oldest university in the world a madrasah?
Browsing through a guide book for Poland I came upon the claim that the Cracow Academy is the second oldest universit...
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περί δράσεων
Μέχρι τώρα έχω αποφύγει, όπως και όλοι οι φίλοι στη Φιλελεύθερη Συμμαχία, να εμπλακώ στο κατίνιασμα και στην γκρίνια ...
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Vote for me in #eu09
Greek Liberals BallotOriginally uploaded by koukAs some of you know I am once again electioneering with the Greek Lib...
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Horse heads
Horse headsOriginally uploaded by koukFound in the new Benaki museum.
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akadimias vs solonos vs google maps
Ok, I've heard about map producers incorporating mistakes in their data to identify copies, but this goes too far: [g...
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A Poem Beyond Belief
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="100" caption="The Bad Astronomer"][/caption]I just got to reblog this poem b...
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using forward slash in unix filenames
Ok, I was automating the creation of some ogg files based on title's appearing in a text file. Doing it myself, with ...
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Mass/Bulk Follow with py-twitter
While trying to maintain the Greek Liberals twitter account, specifically trying to follow a bunch of people that I ...
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Ada Lovelace Day
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Ada Lovelace"][/caption]In order to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day...
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Italian bloggers call for support
From Bebe Grillo comes another initiative against the Italian Governments attempts to censor bloggers:Send in your ph...
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Athens Airways
[caption id="attachment_95" align="alignright" width="225" caption="Athens Airways Checkin"][/caption]Today I flew to...
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The green cloud
I subscribe to Bill St. Arnaud's CA*net 4 News mailing list (he's got a blog too). Bill works at CANARIE Inc. which o...
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memo: change wordpress domain name
If you want to move a wordpress.org installation to a new domain these commands are necessary to bring the database u...
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Obama is left handed
Sam Wang, one of the authors of "Welcome to your brain" (Published in greek by AVGO Books), appeared on ABC's Good Mo...
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boring proof: pentax optio w60
After some consideration of my habits, I decided against getting a dSLR (I was between the Olympus e420 and the Nikon...
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διαχωρισμός κράτους-εκκλησίαςλαού;
Πήγα να γράψω άλλο ένα σχόλιο σεντόνι στο post της e-diVa "Το κράτος δεν είναι κάτι έξω από τους πολίτες" αλλά προτίμ...
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Tangoimperial.cz
Back in autumn 2008 I visited Prague to attend a workshop. Beautiful city.In Prague, my friend and colleague Giannis ...
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Το the anarchists in the #griots
No, I don't mean the oportunists that destroyed and pillaged for fun or profit. I'm not about to equate anarchism wit...
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A Proper newe Booke of Cokerye
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="156" caption="Eenen seer schoonen ende excellenten Cocboeck"][/caption]I jus...
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upcoming: politics
I have recently and improbably been involved in politics. Procrastination permitting, this site will see soon contain...
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Hello world!
This is your my first post.