August 2009 Archives
Sun Aug 30 21:09:29 EEST 2009
Increase Internet visibility in Blog and RSS Directories through XML-RPC Pings technology in nanoblogger
Today I went out with a friend for a coffee who told me about the importance of the so called Update Services or in jargon language XML-RPC Ping Services. To have a major further idea of what that is I used the following reading source .
I've used the following source for a script that executes the XML-RPC pinging. I've also used the Wordpress Update Service page to obtain some XML-RPC pinging destinations. So at the end I've built a small modified version of the script shown on the upper link which is responsible for notifying some major XML-RPC blog and RSS directories. For some convenience you can download the script here . In case if you decide to use the pinging XML-RPC ontification script just I like I did make sure to store the script somewhere on your machine running nanoblogger and add executing the script in your
"nb" just before the last line containing "exit" command. That's it now hopefully you should have the XML RPC Blog RSS notification up and running. Enjoy
Sun Aug 30 20:38:39 EEST 2009
A Holiday trip to the Rodopi's Mountains (Narechenski Bani, Wonderful Bridges, Assenova Krepost, Kosovo, Assenovgrad, Pamporovo)!
I've been on a holiday with my mother
and father for 10 days on a vacation town called Narechenski Bani.
The place was wonderful. The place is well known with it's plenty
springs of mineral water which is proved to have a feeling effects
on the human body. The healing effect is said to be due to the
waters comprising of radium in a qualities which instead of having
destructive influence on the body have healing ones. More about the
resort and the water healing characteristics could be red more on
Narechenski Bani's (
Narechen's Baths) website . Narechenski Bani is situated in the
ridge of the Rodopi's mountains and has many national landmarks
near by. Some of the landmark's I've visited were Snezhanka's Peak
situated in Pamporovo
.
Another wonderful winter sky resort located in the Rodopi's mountains Bulgaria. I and my family also visited The Wonderful bridges just to comment on that it's an awesome must place ! Take your time and visit it! I guarantee you won't regret 'bout it. We've also visited the ancient king Assen's Fortress or as we use to call it here in Bulgaria Assenova Krepost . What makes the fortress an unique destination is the Orthodox Church named: "The Holy Petrich's Theotokos". The church is probably named after the miraculous orthodox Church icon kept in Bachkovo's Monastery. Yes we also visited the holy cloister of Bachkovo's Monastery . I've spend a great time there talking with two monks one of them known under the Church name monk Boris Mikhail (who by his words is a monk already for 29 years). And another hieromonk. Both of them seems that liked me a lot and we had a sort of spiritual talk so to say. One of the monks said soon there would be a monk. He outlined that many people asked him is God going to completely destroy the human race on which he always answered that this is not going to happen since God loves his creation man, a being created above all other being living on earth. I've even stayed for the late night holy liturgy monk service. It's important to mention that in Bachkovo's monastery there were many holy relics of an orthodox saints. Holy objects who used to belong to the holy fathers as well as a particle of The Cross on which our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was crucified! I've also gave honour to the mother of our lord the Holy Theotokos Mother Mary through the icon of Petrich's the holy virgin Merry, I will post here a link to a copy of the icon <"http://www.pravoslavieto.com/manastiri/bachkovski/5/sv_Bogorodica_Bachkovo.jpg"> Petrich's Holy Theotokos Mother Mary . The icon is miraculous and through it many believers has received healings from various diseases. The icon's painting is dated back to at least the 12th century. In that manner of thoughts if you're a believing orthodox christian or just a christian believer catholic protestant make sure you visit the monastery. Man can feel God's grace being abundant in the monastery and the district near-by. Right after the wonderful time spend in Bachkovo's Monastery. I've also followed a route out of the walls of the monastery in a path climbing up through one of the crest of Rodopi's mountain. The path contained many things interesting things and holy places as well just like The Ossuary (Kosnicata), where many holy man and Bulgarian Church patriarchs monks, priests etc. were buried. Next the route included many nice fountans with natural spring water. A Holy Spring named "Dormition of the Holy Virgin". In the spring the water is healing as well as reported by many miraculous. Later in the route I went through stone stairs also including a small chapel and then another one. Near-by was supposed to be located a cave which I wasn't able to visit because it was getting too dark outside and it was time to go back the way before the night darkness has complete fallen. Another great place we visited was Assenovgrad's Church which contained �nother Holy Spring. What made the spring different was the fact that in the spring water's small reservoir there were a lot of beautiful fishs swimming, also it was notable that the mountain water of the spring was suitable for drinking and wasn't fish smelling even though there were a plenty of fishes swimming around. Throught our vacation time we had the great oportunity to also visit many other small chapels (paraklis). One notable is the one situated near-by the King Assen's Fortress, named st. Athanasius (Sv. Atanasii). We've also traveled to a church situated 6 km away from Narechenski Bani in a small village called Kosovo. Kosovo is extraordinary unpopulated region located on 1600+ meters height in the mountain. The village possess the shocking number of 6 inhabitants. Even though it's small size the village has a big Church under the name "Holy Virgin Mary". It's an astonishing fact that all the church maintance is done by an old 94 years old sweet granny,
Baba Dana
This women looks like she has achieved already holiness. Her temper and manners were like kids she was too good and warm-hearted. Her words were filled with love, etc. Anyways I've moved away from the topic. So back to where I was the what makes Kosovo so special as a destination. It's the Church Holy Virgin Mary which includes a miraculous white stone containing a stamp of the Byzantine's patriarchate. The church is built in 1886 (if I remember correctly), by inhabitants of the Village. Nearby the Church there is a small ossuary containing the relics of many many Bulgarians martyrs who died refusing to accept the muslim faith during our country was under the slavery of the Ottoman's Empire. Baba Dana has said that God has spoken to one of the priests who served in the Church long time ago on the same place where the miraculous stone is located. She says that God has said "Whoever respects me stays on the stone between 2 or 3 minutes". I don't know how but later on many people started visiting the church with faith and has received miraculous healings from various uncurable diseases like for example cancer. Probably under the stone or within the stone it's contained the holy relics of some of the patriarch saints or a holy item through which God's grace springs around the place. I've met a lady who has reported that a lady has reported that her daughter was healed from a cancer when she slept in the Church. I and my family has also visited the nice orthodox Church and do worshiped in front of the life-giving and saving crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The cross it self was located as usual in any orthodox Church on a high place right above the alter's dveri. I've also been to the Church twice and tried to sleep to obtain some blessing and health restoration from the Lord. I should testify that when I laid my head on the stone and spend some time in the Church I've felt enormous grace or as the wordly man says energy flowing out of the stone. My whole body electrified and God's Spirit flowed through it my guts started stirring around and I've felt like like fire flowing through me. To be honest I first went to the place a bit skeptical but after I've felt it I couldn't anymore be skeptical. During the holiday I've unfortunately had some bad times in which we had quarrels and misunderstandings which eventually thanks God were solved. In Narechenski Bani there was also a nice path leading directly to the mountain, the nature views there were astonishing. I have to outline that the external God's grace is pretty evident in the Rodopi's mountain compated to the external grace granted by God herein the cities. The air in the mountain is a times clearer than in the dirty cities we inhibit. Another impression I had was that people in the Rodopi mountain use to live much more peacefully and are quite much relaxed. The whole Rodopi mountains contain a numerous spring spots. The nature beauty is amazing as well. I've liked it there so much that I had a desire to move and live there. Thanksfully God granted us a safe drive through the shart mountain road turns. We went through many cities heading back to Dobrich, some of the destinations were Stara Zagora, Nova Zagora, Sliven, Kotel, Shumen etc. Being away of work and administration was quite restoring both for my psychic and overall bodily health. In Narechenski Bani I've met a girl in the Church there st. Elijah. She ownes a wordpress in Bulgarian discussing many interesting topics related to metal music, books, philosophy and art.Check out Brutallica's wordpress blog . Just to complete this enormous post. I want to express my gratitude to my family and God for making this trip to Rodopi's mountain a reality.
Another wonderful winter sky resort located in the Rodopi's mountains Bulgaria. I and my family also visited The Wonderful bridges just to comment on that it's an awesome must place ! Take your time and visit it! I guarantee you won't regret 'bout it. We've also visited the ancient king Assen's Fortress or as we use to call it here in Bulgaria Assenova Krepost . What makes the fortress an unique destination is the Orthodox Church named: "The Holy Petrich's Theotokos". The church is probably named after the miraculous orthodox Church icon kept in Bachkovo's Monastery. Yes we also visited the holy cloister of Bachkovo's Monastery . I've spend a great time there talking with two monks one of them known under the Church name monk Boris Mikhail (who by his words is a monk already for 29 years). And another hieromonk. Both of them seems that liked me a lot and we had a sort of spiritual talk so to say. One of the monks said soon there would be a monk. He outlined that many people asked him is God going to completely destroy the human race on which he always answered that this is not going to happen since God loves his creation man, a being created above all other being living on earth. I've even stayed for the late night holy liturgy monk service. It's important to mention that in Bachkovo's monastery there were many holy relics of an orthodox saints. Holy objects who used to belong to the holy fathers as well as a particle of The Cross on which our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was crucified! I've also gave honour to the mother of our lord the Holy Theotokos Mother Mary through the icon of Petrich's the holy virgin Merry, I will post here a link to a copy of the icon <"http://www.pravoslavieto.com/manastiri/bachkovski/5/sv_Bogorodica_Bachkovo.jpg"> Petrich's Holy Theotokos Mother Mary . The icon is miraculous and through it many believers has received healings from various diseases. The icon's painting is dated back to at least the 12th century. In that manner of thoughts if you're a believing orthodox christian or just a christian believer catholic protestant make sure you visit the monastery. Man can feel God's grace being abundant in the monastery and the district near-by. Right after the wonderful time spend in Bachkovo's Monastery. I've also followed a route out of the walls of the monastery in a path climbing up through one of the crest of Rodopi's mountain. The path contained many things interesting things and holy places as well just like The Ossuary (Kosnicata), where many holy man and Bulgarian Church patriarchs monks, priests etc. were buried. Next the route included many nice fountans with natural spring water. A Holy Spring named "Dormition of the Holy Virgin". In the spring the water is healing as well as reported by many miraculous. Later in the route I went through stone stairs also including a small chapel and then another one. Near-by was supposed to be located a cave which I wasn't able to visit because it was getting too dark outside and it was time to go back the way before the night darkness has complete fallen. Another great place we visited was Assenovgrad's Church which contained �nother Holy Spring. What made the spring different was the fact that in the spring water's small reservoir there were a lot of beautiful fishs swimming, also it was notable that the mountain water of the spring was suitable for drinking and wasn't fish smelling even though there were a plenty of fishes swimming around. Throught our vacation time we had the great oportunity to also visit many other small chapels (paraklis). One notable is the one situated near-by the King Assen's Fortress, named st. Athanasius (Sv. Atanasii). We've also traveled to a church situated 6 km away from Narechenski Bani in a small village called Kosovo. Kosovo is extraordinary unpopulated region located on 1600+ meters height in the mountain. The village possess the shocking number of 6 inhabitants. Even though it's small size the village has a big Church under the name "Holy Virgin Mary". It's an astonishing fact that all the church maintance is done by an old 94 years old sweet granny,
Baba Dana
This women looks like she has achieved already holiness. Her temper and manners were like kids she was too good and warm-hearted. Her words were filled with love, etc. Anyways I've moved away from the topic. So back to where I was the what makes Kosovo so special as a destination. It's the Church Holy Virgin Mary which includes a miraculous white stone containing a stamp of the Byzantine's patriarchate. The church is built in 1886 (if I remember correctly), by inhabitants of the Village. Nearby the Church there is a small ossuary containing the relics of many many Bulgarians martyrs who died refusing to accept the muslim faith during our country was under the slavery of the Ottoman's Empire. Baba Dana has said that God has spoken to one of the priests who served in the Church long time ago on the same place where the miraculous stone is located. She says that God has said "Whoever respects me stays on the stone between 2 or 3 minutes". I don't know how but later on many people started visiting the church with faith and has received miraculous healings from various uncurable diseases like for example cancer. Probably under the stone or within the stone it's contained the holy relics of some of the patriarch saints or a holy item through which God's grace springs around the place. I've met a lady who has reported that a lady has reported that her daughter was healed from a cancer when she slept in the Church. I and my family has also visited the nice orthodox Church and do worshiped in front of the life-giving and saving crucifixion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The cross it self was located as usual in any orthodox Church on a high place right above the alter's dveri. I've also been to the Church twice and tried to sleep to obtain some blessing and health restoration from the Lord. I should testify that when I laid my head on the stone and spend some time in the Church I've felt enormous grace or as the wordly man says energy flowing out of the stone. My whole body electrified and God's Spirit flowed through it my guts started stirring around and I've felt like like fire flowing through me. To be honest I first went to the place a bit skeptical but after I've felt it I couldn't anymore be skeptical. During the holiday I've unfortunately had some bad times in which we had quarrels and misunderstandings which eventually thanks God were solved. In Narechenski Bani there was also a nice path leading directly to the mountain, the nature views there were astonishing. I have to outline that the external God's grace is pretty evident in the Rodopi's mountain compated to the external grace granted by God herein the cities. The air in the mountain is a times clearer than in the dirty cities we inhibit. Another impression I had was that people in the Rodopi mountain use to live much more peacefully and are quite much relaxed. The whole Rodopi mountains contain a numerous spring spots. The nature beauty is amazing as well. I've liked it there so much that I had a desire to move and live there. Thanksfully God granted us a safe drive through the shart mountain road turns. We went through many cities heading back to Dobrich, some of the destinations were Stara Zagora, Nova Zagora, Sliven, Kotel, Shumen etc. Being away of work and administration was quite restoring both for my psychic and overall bodily health. In Narechenski Bani I've met a girl in the Church there st. Elijah. She ownes a wordpress in Bulgarian discussing many interesting topics related to metal music, books, philosophy and art.Check out Brutallica's wordpress blog . Just to complete this enormous post. I want to express my gratitude to my family and God for making this trip to Rodopi's mountain a reality.
Sun Aug 30 18:31:41 EEST 2009
Add Google Search Bar to Epiphany
Epiphany is the browser of choice I
have. In that manner of thouhgs today I realized it's really
irritating that by default epiphany lacks. The Google Search Bar
just like Firefox for example includes by default. I've googled to
find a quick solution and stucked on the following explanation of
how to do the trick. Hereby I quote it literally.
If you go into bookmarks, you will see a link that says "Search the Web". Go into edit bookmarks. Right click on the "Search the Web" link, and choose the "show on toolbar" option. Exit out of bookmarks. Presto! You should now have a google search bar in the toolbar, just like in firefox.
The whole concept of adding bookmarks to Epiphany is called Smart Bookmarks . Smart Bookmarks allows you to do numerous valueable things like for example adding Google Image Search Toolbar as well as Yahoo Search Toolbar in Epiphany or any other nice handy toolbar shortcut.
Hope that this would help to somebody out there.
If you go into bookmarks, you will see a link that says "Search the Web". Go into edit bookmarks. Right click on the "Search the Web" link, and choose the "show on toolbar" option. Exit out of bookmarks. Presto! You should now have a google search bar in the toolbar, just like in firefox.
The whole concept of adding bookmarks to Epiphany is called Smart Bookmarks . Smart Bookmarks allows you to do numerous valueable things like for example adding Google Image Search Toolbar as well as Yahoo Search Toolbar in Epiphany or any other nice handy toolbar shortcut.
Hope that this would help to somebody out there.
Fri Aug 28 01:20:56 EEST 2009
The Sign of the Cross
I've been on a holiday with my family
for 10 days to a Place Called "Narechenski Bani". I'll further
write more about it however I decided to post this because I just
came upon an interesting picture taken on the road for a place near
called Krystova Gora / Christ Forest. I've carefully looked over
the picture to assure myself that the cross is not fake or a
reflection from the front glass of the bus, however it's obvious
that the cross is probably real
The Sign of the Cross . Moreover I have to add I remembered
that the Holy Fathers and the Church teach that the Sign of the
Cross would appear in Heaven before the second coming of Christ our
Saviour and Lord. I have to praise God and thank him for all his
mercies towards me. Bless you Lord!
Sun Aug 16 12:44:41 EEST 2009
Remote System Administration
I've recently purchased
remotesystemadministration.com a domain name and respectively a
website dedicated to cheap remote system administration. The
website is remotesystemadministration.com
. The website provides all kind of system administration via SSH,
Radmin, VNC etc. on an affordable price on mutual agreement.
Fri Aug 14 14:13:26 EEST 2009
Run Apache with SSL Self Signed SSL Certificate
Recently I had to run apache on
Debian 4.0 (Edge) with Self Signed certificate. To make it happen I
had to Google around and try out stuff. I've red that Debian comes
with a command (apache2-ssl-certificate) that generates a self
signed openssl certificate. However on my Debian systems this cmd
wasn't available. So I had to google around about it, and I came
along the following
website which provided me with the script itself and some
instructions how to use it. I've modified a bit the archive
mentioned on the above website to make the install instructions of
the website through a script. I've built a new archive based on the
archive apache2-ssl.tar.gz that includes an extra file runme.sh
which does the proper installation for you. The new archive itself
could be found here
.
Wed Aug 12 18:35:56 EEST 2009
Google Hidden Tricks
Type in google "google l337" and
press "I'm feeling lucky", try the same with "google gothic",
"google bsd" etc. Type google hidden tricks in youtube and check
out the videos for more.
Tue Aug 11 13:24:58 EEST 2009
Convert Picture to ASCII
A friend of mine has recently
recommended me a web service which is able to convert a normal
picture in JPG or PNG to an ASCII equivalent. You might try it out
on text-image.com
.
The converted picture of mine face.jpg can be seen in ascii here .
The converted picture of mine face.jpg can be seen in ascii here .
Mon Aug 10 14:41:36 EEST 2009
A possible way to increase free Disk Space on Linux
One of the servers's hard disk I do
administrate is filling up for some time. In order to increase the
amount of free space I remembered that there was a system reserved
space for system repair purposes like executing fsck, etc. etc. By
default Linux has a certain amount reserved for this purposes if I
remember correctly this is usually 5% of all the disk space
available. To check the amount if pre-reserved disk space on a
linux installation you might use let's say the cmd
You'll get your occupied space by default in blocks which is a bit unconfortable, however if not familiar please read what is data storage block
In my case I've decided to reduce the pre-reserved system space to 2%. To achieve that I've executed the following command
# tune2fs -l /dev/sda1
You'll get your occupied space by default in blocks which is a bit unconfortable, however if not familiar please read what is data storage block
In my case I've decided to reduce the pre-reserved system space to 2%. To achieve that I've executed the following command
# tune2fs -m 2 /dev/sda1
The benefit I've got was 2 extra gygagybates of disk space. Which I
guess is quite a good gain.
You can further read about the topic in Linux's tune2fs manual or
alternatively on the following blogs:
Linux Free Disk Space Not Tally
tune2fs increase linux free disk space
.
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Thu Aug 6 18:49:28 EEST 2009
Last year Sha`Nar's Play in Robindhood
story
I'm at
Static's place and examining my HDD and incidently I came across a
nice video that was starring Sha`Nar's also known under the
codename (lunarstill) a.k.a. (Niki). Niki and his class used to
play a Robynhood stage play as there are each year. Hereby I
include a copy of the stage play Our beloved friend
Sha`Nar . Many days has passed since he departured on
13.07.2009. We miss you dear beloved friend!
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Thu Aug 6 16:55:48 EEST 2009
Helpful Firefox / IceWeasel
Plugins
I have a bunch of helpful firefox extensions that might be of an
interest for any regular Firefox user. I'm putting a list of all
the firefox plugins I use currently.
1. Adblock Plus
2. ColorfulTabs
3. Download Statusbar
4. DownloadHelpfer
5. Fasterfox
6. Firefox
7. Firebug
8. Greasemonkey
9. keyconfig
10. Kgen
11. SearchStatus
12. SwitchProxy Tool
13. User Agent Switcher
14. Web Developer
15. YSlow
Well I hope this might be helpful for you. Have fun.
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Wed Aug 5 18:06:35 EEST 2009
Clear old Apache Log Backups
I've recently wrote a small 3
liner that makes my life easier by cleaning my obsolete apache log
files. Check it out clear_old_log_backups.sh
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Wed Aug 5 15:46:20 EEST 2009
Resolution of a problem with cyrillic
(CP1251, KOI-8R) / Bulgarian / Serbian / Slavonic on Windows
XP
Today I've encountered a weird
problem. An old not to say ancient program designed to work under
MS-DOS refused to visualize correctly on Windows XP. Therefore with
a help of a friend (Static)and some research online I've found the
solution. The solution comes to this:
1. Edit with notepad c:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt
2. Add lh tbds /b to last line
3. copy tbds.com to c:\windows\system32\
I've mirrored the tbds.com to make your life easier download
tbds.com from here Also
make sure that the options for the shortcut or the bat starting the
program under cmd.exe are configured to be on fullscreen as well as
assure yourself that the the settings for
Screen Buffer Size are:
Width: 80, Height:25 (300 is wrong value). If your lucky with God's
help your proggie would visualize correctly cyrillic under cmd.exe
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Tue Aug 4 18:29:11 EEST 2009
Play Ascii Games on Pc-freak
I was considering starting a
new 'ascii games service'. Thus I've created a user `play` to
provide a bunch of nice FreeBSD based ascii games able to be played
directly through SSH (For all lacking a nice tty compatible client
like gnome-terminal), try with PuTTY
. To play the games:
telnet or ssh to: ascii-games.pc-freak.net
login with user: play
password: playnow
Enjoy!
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Mon Aug 3 19:59:05 EEST 2009
A short but awesome song
Some time ago I've stumbled
upon a rocking song by a demoscene artist named with the loud and a
bit funny name NINJA! Anyways you can download the song here Industrial Bushido
. By the way the guy has plenty of awesome music. All this is
stored on the great modarchive
website be sure to visit it! I guarantee you'll never sorry
that.
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Mon Aug 3 15:19:38 EEST 2009
Pyramid and all seeing eye
Today I've red the following
article discussing stuff related to Global World Conspiracy and in
particular the all seeing eye + pyramid graved on the 1 US dollar
currency. Read it here
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Mon Aug 3 14:52:24 EEST 2009
Reasoning over the existence
If man takes his time and takes
a look unprejudiced look on what is happening. I'm sure he won't
fail to notice the insanity of the surrounding world. Every new
technology or new procedure or social service. Makes the world more
and more confused and complex. I've been to a First Investment Bank
today to transfer some money to a friend's account. The bank
personnel acts so fake. The more people chase after the cult of
money the more out of their minds they got. Today I went to a
partly disabled christian friend of mine uncle Kolio (chicho
Kolio), he is an invalid on at least 70% and if not more he barely
moves with a help of assistant. It seems that for all the disabled
people in Dobrich there are around 7 or 8 professional paid
assistants granted from the municipality in other words there is
not enough personal to go and help him for ordinary stuff for at
least 2 hours a week. This is so insane seriously that my mind
hardly grasps it. I'm looking around and I see people going nowhere
everywhere. Nobody hasn't have even the smallest clue of what is
the reason for his existence (at times even me). Even people who
have any faith in the true God (The Holy Trinity) and confess
Christ as a Lord and saviour do have their unfaithfulness and
doubtfulness every now and then. For quite some time I'm
considering becoming a monk even though after I've red some blog
notes on who is suitable for becoming a monk I seem like more
suitable for becoming a priest. Anyhow probably you might be
interested at the blog so I share it here with you:
On Becoming an Orthodox Monk . Hope that might be helpful to
somebody out there. Currently I'm listening to Tourniquet and
relaxing a bit after I've had some (spiritual hard times) a couple
of hours before. Well that's mostly how my life flies this days. I
have to give thanks and Glory to God for all his unnumerous mercies
towards me! Thanks Lord!
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