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Friday, December 12th, 2014 
I run into a funny case I went to see some friends in another City and used their Samsung Tablet for some Skype Chatting and few Skype Calls.
When logging in I forgot to untick the "Save password" tick and when I left the city and travelled to my home I saw on my wife's Skype (who has my username) logged in that still my Skype keeps logged in. In other words Skype shows I'm online even though I was not really connected.
I remembered I forgot to logoff Skype from the Tablet, so any time the tablet was connected to the internet or restarted Skype started I was automatically logged in Skype. This was pretty annoying because many people write me when I'm in fact offline and the messages end up in the tablet and I'm not answering making truly a bad impression (many friends and relatives, think I'm rude for not answering and even started being angry with me without me knowing why …)
To solve the situation, I had to use /remotelogout Skype Chat Windows command which is not visible as standard commands:
/remotelogout
This command logout all users logged in any device ( Android / iPhones Mobile Phones etc.) so afterwards, one can be sure you're logged in just from one device (the current one from where you execute the command)
To be absolutely sure, there are no other devices logged in with your credentials there is also /showplaces command:
/showplaces
You have 1 online endpoints:
{6934eadb-3eec-e001-4bc6-064e0552018f} 'WINDOWSVM' (Windows Skype)
The standard commadns shown in Skype help with /help typed in on any userchat opened Window are:
/help
Available commands:
/me [text]
/add [skypename+]
/alertson [text]
/alertsoff
/help
However there is another less known Complete list of supported Skype (Hidden) commands you can use to imitiate most of GUI Skype motions + a lot of info you can get only via those commands, here it is:
| Command | Description |
| /add [Skype Name] | Adds a contact to the chat. For instance:/add alex_cooper1 will add that member to the chat. |
| /alertson [text] | Allows you to specify what needs to appear in a chat for you to be notified. For example, /alertson London will only alert you when the word “London” appears in the chat. |
| /alertsoff | Disable message notifications. |
| /clearpassword | Removes the password security. |
| /find [text] | Finds specific text in a chat. For example,/find Charlie will return the first instance of the word “Charlie” in the chat. |
| /get allowlist | Details people with access to the chat. |
| /get banlist | Details people banned from the chat. |
| /get creator | Details the person who created the chat. |
| /get guidelines | See the current chat’s guidelines. |
| /get options | Details active options for current chat – see /set options below for a list of the options available. |
| /get password_hint | Get the password hint. |
| /get role | Details your role in the chat. |
| /get uri | Creates a URL link that other people can use to join the group chat. |
| /golive | Starts a group call with other participants of the chat. |
| /info | Details number of people in chat and maximum number available. |
| /kick [Skype Name] | Eject chat member. For instance,/kick alex_cooper1 will eject that member from the chat. |
| /kickban [Skype Name] | Ejects chat member and prevents them from rejoining chat. For instance,/kickban alex_cooper1 will eject that member from the chat and ban them from rejoining. |
| /leave | Leave current group chat. |
| /me [text] | Your name will appear followed by any text you write. For instance, /me working from home will cause the phrase “working from home” to appear next to your name in the chat. You can use this to send a message about your activities or status. |
| /remotelogout | Sign out all other instances except the current one. This will also stop push notifications on all other instances. |
| /set allowlist [[+|-]mask] .. | Sets the members allowed in the chat. For instance, /set allowlist +alex_cooper1 will allow that member to join the chat. |
| /set banlist [[+|-]mask] .. | Sets which members are banned from the chat. For instance, /set banlist +alex_cooper1 will ban that member from the chat. /set banlist -alex_cooper1will allow them to rejoin it. |
| /set guidelines [text] | Set a chat’s guidelines. For instance, /set guidelines No spoilers! These can be returned to be viewed in the chat by the command /get guidelines. |
| /set options [[+|-]flag] | Sets options for this chat. For example: /set options -JOINING_ENABLED switches off the JOINING_ENABLED option, while /set options +JOINERS_BECOME_APPLICANTS will switch on the JOINERS_BECOME_APPLICANTS option. |
| The available flags to commands are listed below: |
| | HISTORY_DISCLOSED –
Joiners can see the conversation that took place before they joined. The limit that they can see is either 400 messages or two weeks of time, depending on which is reached first. |
| | JOINERS_BECOME_APPLICANTS –
New users can join the chat, but cannot post or receive messages until authorized by a CREATOR or MASTER (see the table below for more information on roles).< |
| | JOINERS_BECOME_LISTENERS –
New users can receive messages but cannot post any until promoted to the USER role. |
| | JOINING_ENABLED –
New users can join the chat. |
| | TOPIC_AND_PIC_LOCKED_FOR_USERS –
Only a user with a CREATOR role will be able to change the topic text or accompanying picture for the chat. |
| | USERS_ARE_LISTENERS –
Users with a USER role will be unable to post messages. |
| /set password [text] | Create a password (no spaces allowed). |
| /set password_hint [text] | Create the chat’s password hint text. |
| /setpassword [password] [password hint] | Create a password and password hint for the chat. |
| /setrole [Skype Name] MASTER | HELPER | USER | LISTENER | Allows you to set a role to each chat member. A description of roles is given in the table below. |
| /showplaces | Lists other instances where this Skype name is currently signed in. |
| /topic [text] | Changes the chat topic. |
| /undoedit | Undo the last edit of your message. |
| /whois [Skype Name] | Provides details about a chat member such as current role. |
| /fa or / | Repeats the last search. |
| /history | Loads the complete chat history into the active chat window. |
| /htmlhistory | Generates a HTML file of the chats history and opens it in the browser. Skype 4: not iplemented in this version anymore. |
| /clear | Clears the chat window. |
| /goadmin | Enters the administration mode of the chat (only if creator) and adds a small text “Creator” to the user-icon in the chat. I didn’t find so far a way to leave this mode again. According to the Skype documentation the only effect is the “Creator” tag but I’m not so sure about that. |
| /dbghelp | Outputs a list of (debug?) commands but without description. |
| /showmembers | Lists all members of the chat with their currently assigned role. |
| /showstatus | Prints some infos about the current conversation. Conversation convoi id, Consumption horizon, History date and Message count. |
| /showname | Displays the name of the original conversation |
| /verify | Shows some text about missing messages on my computer. Maybe checks the message-database for validity. |
| /golive [token] | (since Skype4?) Opens a management window in a group conversation which allows to handle conference calls. The sense of the (optional) token is not yet clear to me but seems to give you a link which you can share to others and allow them to join the conference. |
| /fork [skypename/s] | (since Skype5?) Duplicates the current group chat leaving out the contacts which are added to this command. |
| /fork [skypename/s] | (since Skype5?) Duplicates the current group chat leaving out the contacts which are added to this command. |
| /showplaces | Displays a list of the currently online Skype instances using this Skype name (and have Skype version >=6 or recent mobile versions). |
| /remotelogout | Logs out all other currently online Skype instances which are using this Skype name (and have Skype version >=6 or recent mobile versions). |
| /get listeners | Shows the list of listeners set with previous command. |
| /golive [name] | this command starts a call with other participants of the chat. It’s your choice to indicate a call name or not. |
| /undoedit | undo a edit made to the chat |
Other thing you might not know is there are Skype hidden emoticons
For more see official skype help.chathelp.
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Monday, March 26th, 2012 One more year, we are into the great Lent and we're given the Grace to hear the Good tidings (Good News) handed down by Archangel Gabriel to our Virgin Lady (The Mother of God). We hear the GOOD NEWS that our Lord Jesus Christ is conceived immaculately and is to be born from the Holy Theotokos most pure body:
Here is a little part of the Gospel New Testamention reading from Luke for the day:
28 The angel went to her and said, Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.
29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
30 But the angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God.
31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.
32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,
33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.
34 How will this be, Mary asked the angel, since I am a virgin?
35 The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.
37 For no word from God will ever fail.
38 I am the Lord’s servant, Mary answered. May your word to me be fulfilled. Then the angel left her.
You can also read the feast troparion and some more information on this great Christian feast here
This year, today's feast also coincides with the comemmoration of one great Church Father – Saint John (monk) Lestvichnik .
St. John Lestvichnik is honoured as one of our great ascetic saints across all Orthodox Christian dome.
Actually Lestvichnik word (comes from ancient Bulgarian / ancient Slavonic) and is a title. st. John received the Lestvichnik title as his spiritual life was so high and up to God, like climbing from earth to Gods heavens.
The meaning of Lestvichnik is "of the Ladder". After his title name Lestvichnik was named also his greatest life work Lestvica, which translated to english means Ladder
To read more about st. John Lestvichnik living a good Egnlish translation is here
Just in case to preserve, this great saints short living (english translation), I've made a mirror of st. John Lestvichnik (short) living here
Lestvica is a very popular ancient monks living rule (guidance text);
"a true instruction for those following after invariably, and as such would be a ladder of affirmation, which would lead those wishing it to the Heavenly gates…"
Lestvica was written by st. John Lestvichnik, after a 40 years ascetic seclusion in (speachless solitude
The monks spiritual instructions rules and advices work "The Ladder" bears the title Ladder described by st. John like so:
"I have constructed a ladder of ascent...
from the earthly to the holy...
in the form of the thirty years of age for the Lord's maturity, symbolically I have constructed a ladder of 30 steps, by which, having attained the Lord's age, we find ourselves with the righteous and secure from falling down".
The purpose of this work, is to teach – that the reaching of salvation requires difficult self-denial and demanding ascetic deeds. "The Ladder" presupposes, first;
1. a cleansing from the impurity of sin – the eradication of vices and passions in the old man;
second;
2. the restoration in man of the image of God. – Although the book was written for monks, any christian living in the world can receive from it the hope of guidance for ascent to God as well as get a support for better spiritual life.
The Monks Theodore the Studite(Comm. 11 November and 26 January), Sergei of Radonezh (Comm. 25 September and 5 July), Joseph of Volokolamsk (Comm. 9 September and 18 October), and others – in their instructions relied on "The Ladder" as an important book for salvific guidance.
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Friday, January 11th, 2008 I and Alex Drunk Asenovgrad’s Mavrut in the central park it was very cold, but at least an experience. Right now I’m a little hot (cause of the wine). I’m urinating too often recently and it drives me mad. Also I’m a kind of lost I told Sasho about Torsion fields and stuff but he make a fun of that no matter I think that’s a serious matter here is an interview with Nikolay Palushev that may be of an interest to the reader
http://www.spiralata.net/kratko/articles.php?lng=bg&pg=128 .
Today I had English in the college pretty boring haven’t had a lot of work I had to fix few binary permissions part of a postfix also delete some old backups and create a new samba share some mail server problems for few minutes I think that’s all … I hate this world so much everything is so useless and awful. I hope to meet God soon …
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Sunday, November 5th, 2006 Today we first met Habib (a colleague from Holland College I study in). We took a newspaper and searched for him a living place. We called from one bulphone to some of the newspaper advertisements but was not able to find any suitable living place for the price he could afford (60 or 70 leva). After that we went to a coffee place called “Central”. Then we went to Mino’s coffee and stayed and talked for 3 or 4 hours with Habib mainly about Bangladej.He told us about different specific things in Bangladej, like for example he explained us the attitude of people to a local people who are musicians (I forgot the exact Bangla’s name of ‘em), he told us Bangla’s people will probably think of us we’re musicians if we go to Bangladej. He said the people appreciate this people as fortune and the musicians live on the hospitality of the people. I went home checked something on the servers. It seems there is a new RC release of clamav 0.90rc2. I installed the new release and tested it but it seemed it has some problems with the clamd.conf’s syntax and I’ve uninstalled the 0.90rc2 and installed the old one which is 0.88.5. Praise God I’m spiritually okay. I’m going to have a sleep now but I’ll first read a little (The Bible). Blessings in the name of Jesus Christ 🙂 !
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007 Today I have Marketing exam. Ofcourse as usual when I have exams I haven’t studied enough, and again I’m in the situation realizing I don’t know anything. I depend 100% on God’s grace to take that exam. Why I’m so dumb never study when
I have what I have. I can’t change my self I can’t study something I’m not interested into. Marketing is a subject which is simple but for Jerks IMHO :]. The logic of marketing is too abstract.
And yes what’s happening with me the last days. Well I’m feeling good now Praise the Lord. I’ve no idea what I should do with my life. I have 2 re-exams for now or maybe 3 ( I don’t know the results from the Research & Statistics Exam ).
The last few days I ran FreeDOS and Windows 2000 Pro SP4 under FreeBSD 6.2 with qemu. FreeDOS’s performance is very nice despite the fact it is emulated. The Windows is running a little laggish although I ran it with kqemu ( Experimental Module for qemu which enhances the typical qemu speed ). Yesterday we drink a dark beer with Nomen into the “Happy Person” Pub. My passion for computers is starting to come back again.
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Friday, February 17th, 2012 Free Software (FS) is free as in freedom as well as free as in price. Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is developed by geek hobbyist which voluntarily put their time and effort in writting, testing and sharing with anyone for free million of lines of programming code. This doesn't mean however the price of free software costs is 0 (zero). Though the "end product" – Free Software developed is FREE, "real" software costs as with any other product costs huge money.
I've recently read on Jeb's blog an estimation on how much is the cost of one of the major Free Software project efforts – Debian GNU / Linux
According to James E. Bromberger – the whole Debian project was estimated to be at the shocking price of $19 billion – $19 000, 000, 000 !!!
Here is how JEB got the $19 billions, a quote taken from his blog:
"By using David A Wheeler’s sloccount tool and average wage of a developer of US$72,533 (using median estimates from Salary.com and PayScale.com for 2011) I summed the individual results to find a total of 419,776,604 source lines of code for the ‘pristine’ upstream sources, in 31 programming languages — including 429 lines of Cobol and 1933 lines of Modula3!
In my analysis the projected cost of producing Debian Wheezy in February 2012 is US$19,070,177,727 (AU$17.7B, EUR€14.4B, GBP£12.11B), making each package’s upstream source code worth an average of US$1,112,547.56 (AU$837K) to produce. Impressively, this is all free (of cost).
James has done incredible job with this great research and he deserves applause.
However I believe the numbers proposed by his research are slightly different if we speak about realistic cost of Debian GNU / Linux.
The real costs of the working software ready to install on a user PC are way higher, as according to Jeb's research only the software cost based on code line count is considered.
Hence James software estimation calculates only the programming costs and miss many, many factors that constitute the software end cost.
Some of the many, many REAL COST / expenses for developing a huge Free Software project like Debian GNU / Linux to be considered are:
a) bandwidth costs for hosting free software (on the server side)b) bandwidth cost for developers or FS users downloading the software
a) Time spend to spread the word of the great added value of Debian and bundled software (Mouth by Mouth Marketing)
b) Time spend to advertise Debian and its free software components on blogs, social networks (identi.ca, facebook, twitter) etc.(Voluntary online Marketing, SEO etc.)
c) Time spend on generating ideas on future program versions and reporting them to Debian FS community
d) Time on evaluation and feedback on software
e) Time spend on managing free software repository (download) servers voluntarily (by system administrators)
f) Time spend by users on Bug Tracking & Bug Reporting
g) Time spend on research and self-actualization by software developer)
h) Time spend on software Quality Assurance
This are most of the multiple factors which should probably influence the cost of any non-free (proprietary software) project. No matter this costs apply for non-free software, it perfectly applies for free software as well.With all said if if we assume the non-programming costs are equal to the programming costs of $ 19 000 000 000 (suggested by Jeb). This means the real cost of Debian will presumably be at least $32 000 000 000. Putting $ 19 billion for all this long list of "additional" costs (besides pure source) factors is probably still very under-scored number.
- the developers use of their own computers (hardware depreciation)
- electricity bill of the volunteer (developer) working on the program or project
- electricity bills for servers where free software is stored and available for download
- volunteer developer IT skills and tech knowledge (KNOW HOW)
- Internet, network, dial up bandwidth cost
- personal time put in FS development (programming, design, creativity etc.)! here the sub costs are long:
- Costs for Project Management Leaders / Project Coordination
- The complexity of each of the projects constituting Debian
Very interesting figure from Jeb's research is the Programming Languages break down by source code figure.
Jamesresearch reveals on the 4 major programming languages used in the 17000+ software projects (part of Debian GNU / Linux):
- ANSI C with 168,536,758 – (40% of all projects source code)
- C++ at 83,187,329 – (20% of all projects source)
- Java 34,698,990 – (lines of code 8% of sources)
- Lisp – (7% of all projects source code)
His research also provides a general idea on how much the source code of some of the major FOSS projects costs. Here is a copy of his figures
Individual Projects
Other highlights by project included:
| Project | Version | Thousands
of SLOC | Projected cost
at US$72,533/developer/year |
| Samba | 3.6.1 | 2,000 | US$101 (AU$93M) |
| Apache | 2.2.9 | 693 | US$33.5M (AU$31M) |
| MySQL | 5.5.17 | 1,200 | US$64.2M (AU$59.7M) |
| Perl | 5.14.2 | 669 | US$32.3M (AU$30M) |
| PHP | 5.3.9 | 693 | US$33.5M (AU$31.1M) |
| Bind | 9.7.3 | 319 | US$14.8M (AU$13.8M) |
| Moodle | 1.9.9 | 396 | US$18.6M (AU$17.3M) |
| Dasher | 4.11 | 109 | US$4.8M (AU$4.4M) |
| DVSwitch | 0.8.3.6 | 6 | US$250K (AU$232K) |
As you can imagine all the source evaluation results, are highly biased and are open for discussion, since evaluating a free software project/s is a hard not to say impossible task. The "open" model of development makes a project very hard to track, open source model implies too many unexpected variables missing from the equation for clear calculation on costs. What is sure however if turned in money it is very expensive to produce. At present moment Debian Project is sponsored only through donations. The usual yearly budget 5 years ago for Debian was only $80 000 dollars a year!! You can check Debian Project annual reports throughout the years here , for year 2012 Debian Project budget is as low as $ 222, 677 (US Dollars)! The output price of the software the project provides is enormous high if compared to the low project expenses!
For us the free software users, price is not a concern, Debian is absolutely free both as in freedom and free as in beer 😉
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Thursday, September 10th, 2009 While playing with my installed programs on my recently updated Debian I stepped into a problem with /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so. It seems the library was linked to two non-existing libraries: /emul/ia32-linux/lib/libwrap.so.0 as well as /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3. A temporary solution to the issue is pointed out in Debian of the Debian Bug reports . As the report reads to solve that it’s required to:
1. Download libwrap0_7.6.q-18_i386.deb and libgdbm3_1.8.3-6+b1_i386.deb.
2. Extract the packages:dpkg -X libwrap0_7.6.q-18_i386.deb /emul/ia32-linux/dpkg -X libgdbm3_1.8.3-6+b1_i386.deb /emul/ia32-linux/
3. echo /emul/ia32-linux/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ia32.conf
4. Execute /sbin/ldconfig
5. Check if all is properly linkedExecute ldd /usr/lib32/alsa-lib/libasound_module_pcm_pulse.so|grep -i “not found”Hopefully all should be fixed now.
Tags: b1, bug reports, conf, deb, Debian, debian bug, download, dpkg, emul, grep, issue, ld, ldquo, lib, libasound, libgdbm, libraries, linkedExecute, Linux, Module, pulse, report, rsquo, sbin, sid, solution, squeeze, temporary solution, Unstable, usr
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