spinning world

Update: I wrote the previous post in the morning when I woke up… I was trying to get ready to leave for work so I was pretty hasty. Let me talk about this a bit more:

blogme.gr is a website that offers nothing more than a directory for Greek blogs and an RSS feed feature. Apparently someone (and from what’s implied it’s someone well-known) who was satirized in one of the blogs that blogme.gr was pointing to, decided to sue Mr. Antonis Tsipropoulos, the owner of blogme.gr just for linking to the “offending” blog! For this reason, and thanks to the bravery of the Hellenic authorities, the hard disk of blogme.gr was confiscated and Mr. Tsipropoulos was put into custody!

This whole thing leaves me just speechless. I mean, okay, the person who sued may be completely ignorant of how the internet world works… This whole thing could be a well-played farce but unfortunately is for real. Reminds me of another big fiasco (the story about DWG Dirty Works Greece website).

Sometimes I feel really proud to be Greek (just look at some of my September posts) and some others I just want to know my head on the wall with what I hear happening… Unfortunately it’s one of those days that the second thing happens. If I find more information about this I’ll post it.

Apparently the blogme.gr website now shows only a “Website Censored” notice. I copied the text from my friend pitsirikos, did a rough translation with altavista’s babelfish and some quick corrections (expect far from an error-free text!) and here it is:

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I just read today that a Greek blog company which offers only a blog directory and RSS feeds is being prosecuted for what one of the hosted blogs is writing! I really wish I had the time to translate the full text but unfortunately I don’t.

Babelfish translation (far from perfect but you’ll get the point)
edit: if you get an error from the translation link just refresh a couple of times

And of course I couldn’t wait a single day to install it! For the official announcement you can look at the official Fedora wiki page. I was lucky enough to find it at the UW-Madison computer science department mirror, so I had downloaded the DVD in less than an hour! I was trying to hold myself and not download it from one of the leaked mirrors… I wanted the real thing

So, last night I burned the image and started installing! At first I installed the XEN virtualization kernel (just to give it a try) but the system was too slow… So I decided to reinstall with a normal kernel. I know that I could just replace the kernel but I did something stupid (that I don’t want to talk about!) and I was too lazy to fix it. I preferred to just reinstall – I hadn’t done any config at my system yet so it seemed simpler. After the install I reboot and trying to minimize my drooling my system hangs just when the kernel starts loading! Crap! “Luckily” I had seen this before: I just modified the kernel parameters, adding “acpi=off” to the end. This fixed everything. My laptop booted the new Fedora. I never bothered even logging into Gnome. I opened KDE and started playing

First move: to install the lastest version of Opera. We are talking real bleeding edge here heheheh! Next installing fonts, color schemes etc etc… Here’s how it looks now:

I enabled livna’s repository to install nvidia drivers. As root just do:

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I may not be a Xandros user (Fedora Core 6 is on the way, yipee!!! — I’ll be posting when released) but as a Greek I have to mention this. While killing my time in Wikipedia, I read that the name Xandros comes from the Greek island Andros that is part of Cyclades. Quoting from a post in their forums:

According to their PR person, the name is a combination of X and Andros; X as in the windowing system and Andros as in the Greek island named for the divine hero who settled there. Ming Poon noted that they like to think of Xandros as being the start of a new desktop model. Not to be outdone, Michael Bego (VP of Sales and Marketing) observed that the X also applies to customers, as in ex-Windows users.

Could it be because of the Greek (at least his name is unmistakably Greek!) CEO?