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Made by Dad: 67 Blueprints for Making Cool Stuff

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Today I was listening to:

Now I’m shifted a bit upstream to make sure that we continue to load that pipeline with innovation. I have an opportunity to spend time in Silicon Valley, and just recently in Israel, meeting with partners, potential partners, whether they’re small companies, start-ups, or large companies that have innovative ideas that really could create new experiences for our customers

Just an observation for fellow Greeks because even in a remote work world location matters. And those who startup from here need to put Greece on the map.

Παστίτσιο

Δεν είμαι σε θέση να κρίνω την απόφαση, αλλά σε όσους συμφωνούν με αυτή έχω ένα ερώτημα:

– Ποιος προσβάλλει περισσότερο τον Παϊσιο (και το θρήσκευμα): Ο Παστίτσιος ή όσοι αποδίδουν μυθικές ικανότητες στον γέροντα;

Ούτε ο Παϊσιος θα αποδεχόταν τις δυνάμεις που του αποδίδουν.

Racket on the Mac

Since I’ve bought “Realm of Racket” I thought that I should install Racket on the Mac. The last time I seriously looked into it it was still called PLT-Scheme.

My first choice was to use a homebrew formula. Unfortunately this requires XQuartz and I did not feel like installing it too.

My second try was to compile it from the source. ../configure –disable-gracket && make worked, but make install failed. I really did not bother with why. I just wanted to install it and play around. This was not an installation for a lot of users after all.

So I got to download the precompiled Mac binary from the web site. 364M later it was all installed and happy.

Let’s see now if I’ll go through the book top to bottom…

PS: I remembered that I owned the eBook from this Ruby Rogues episode.

Βιβλία που αγόρασα σήμερα

Δον Κιχώτης

Πήγαμε (η πεντάδα) μαζί και με άλλους φίλους και είδαμε την παράσταση:

ΚΑ-ΤΑ-ΠΛΗ-ΚΤΙ-ΚΗ

Να την δείτε.

ΥΓ: Το όλο setup του Δον, έφερνε προς την φυσιογνωμία του Θεοδόση Τάσιου (engineering joke, I know). Ευφυές.

ree and EC_GROUP_new_curve_GF2m undeclared

I was trying to install ree for some legacy application and got bitten by this:

error: ‘EC_GROUP_new_curve_GF2m’ undeclared

But thanks to @mpapis this was all taken care of:

rvm install ree --patch $rvm_path/patches/ruby/ssl_no_ec2m.patch

This problem surfaced right after the “Oakley curves” were removed from OpenSSL.

TODO list bankruptcy

Today while going over my Filofax TODO lists, I declared “TODO list bankruptcy”. It was filled with a lot of stuff that was not important, or lost its importance as time went by.

I will try to keep this to three tasks per day and am even considering a weekly “bankruptcy” on what is left behind and not dealt with for at least 15 seconds.

“I have fought the “WINMAIL.DAT” problem”

Mike A posted today on mailop:

I have fought the “WINMAIL.DAT” problem in my day job, and won. One outside sender was sending to multiple recipients in our company; some of them got regular attachments, while others got WINMAIL.DAT files. It turned out to be a setting in individual addressbook entries at the sender’s end of things.

Re: on becoming a sysadmin

Μέρες που είναι, ας γράψουμε κι ένα success story.

Εκεί λίγο πριν τελειώσει το 2007 μου έστειλε mail ένας φοιτητής (ας τον πούμε Νίκο) από το ΠΑΠΕΙ που με ήξερε μόνο μέσα από το blog μου. Το mail του συνοψίζεται σε μία ερώτηση:

– Τι χρειάζομαι για να γίνω system administrator;

Μια κάπως πιο μεγάλη απάντηση από αυτή που του έστειλα δημοσίευσα την Πρωτοχρονιά του 2008. Σήμερα ο Νίκος δουλεύει σαν system administrator σε μεγάλο οργανισμό, διαχειρίζεται περισσότερα μηχανήματα, χρήστες και complex environments από εμένα και θα έλεγα πως τουλάχιστον επαγγελματικά πατάει καλά.

Μπράβο φίλε.