London calling to the imitation zone.
Forget it, brother, an' go it alone

— London Calling, The Clash

I spent around 30 minutes setting up our office printer/scanner/fax machine on Linux. While there's been a lot of work in the CUPS world for setting up things automatically, scanning didn't particularly work out-of-the-box.

Here's what I remember needing to do to get scanning work ...

Building a new technology company is really, really hard.

In order to do it successfully, you have to sweat the details, worry about all the things that might go wrong, and suffer more than a few sleepless nights (either from working through the night or just worrying through the night ...

"Hi Dimitris. I was wondering whether you work on proton exchange membrane fuel cells, as I'd like to ask a few questions."

This introduction/message came on my Facebook account. At first I thought it was a joke, but such things do exist.

Fuel cell

Tip of the day: For deep cuts, add a stronger disinfectant (hydrogen peroxide-like) on top of Betadine; better against anaerobic microbes (via @vickykorvesi).

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it ...

Esse quam videri. To be, rather than to seem to be.

— Cicero

What are your favorite fonts for code editing? Mine are DejaVu Sans Mono (Vera-based) and Droid Sans Mono (Google).

Inconsolata is very good (and free) but I can't seem to get sub-pixel anti-aliasing with it (only normal one, which at <10px gets blurry). And Envy Code R is just ...

Reading this piece of code is like seeing Guernica for the first time.

— moi

I'm an avid fan of using sudo when needed and avoiding typing my root password. In the command-line this works fairly easy:

su -
usermod -a -G wheel MYUSERNAME
visudo
# Uncomment the following line:
%wheel  ALL=(ALL)       ALL

In GNOME, the above won't 'just work' due to the (fortunate ...

The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

— Scott McNeeley (Sun Microsystems)

"The difference between a million and a billion is the difference between me having a sip of wine and 30 seconds with your daughter, and a bottle of gin and a night with her."

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Στη FOSSComm είχα την ευκαιρία να δώσω μια παρουσίαση γύρω από ακραία σενάρια Web Development, εστιάζοντας γύρω από το Large/Popular Open Source Project & Release management.

Χθες, στην τοπική ομάδα Python στην Πάτρα, δόθηκε ένα καθαρό τεχνικό incarnation της παρουσίασης για το πώς χτίζεται και γίνεται deployed ένα scalable ...

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At bouzoukia, celebrating a friend's graduation with lots of Opa!

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep.

— Mark Pincus, founder and chief executive of Zynga

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Delicious pepper steak at Jackson's Hall at Kolonaki sq, Athens

I suppose it's old partner, but the beat goes on
Da da dum da dum da da...

— Eminem

This weekend @andy_lupo and me will head north to Thessaloniki to present at the FOSS-Communities Conference some of the kewl technologies we're using at Indifex. Andreas' talk is titled "Multi-GB databases with NoSQL" and mine "Extreme Web Programming".

Additionally, I was humbled to be invited from the local entrepreneur ...

An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

— Vinod Khosla

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Mozilla power -- another glimpse from today's visit at the Mozilla HQ

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At the Mozilla HQ

LWN.net interviewed Leslie Hawthorn, the main person behind Google Summer of Code. I liked how a small team in a big company Google can feel like a startup sometimes.

I think the most important lesson I learned was to just get out there and make things happen, no matter ...

Awesome teaching books might as well come with everything underlined by default.