dimitris kalamaras

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Summer’s Rain

Scars are the wounds that we show
Time only heals
When you’re letting go

Savatage

Track 10 on Savatage’s Gutter Ballet (1989) and the one with Criss Oliva’s best solo ever.

And the 2011 accoustic version:

Bash scripting

A simple Bash script to clamdscan your /var/www files

Here’s a very simple Bash script that scans for viruses in files inside all folders in /var/www. I use it primarily to scan uploaded files on websites hosted there.

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Blackened 2020

Metallica: Blackened 2020, the social-distanced version

Metallica gave us a new awesome version of their classic Blackened song playing from their homes! Blackened was the first track of the 1988 studio album …And Justice for All.

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COVID-19: The rules of contagion

In a NY Times interview, mathematician Adam Kucharski explained how a contagious disease like the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (aka COVID-19) is spread and which of the figures that keep popping up in coronavirus news we need to pay attention to.

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Great videos – Iron Maiden Live 1981

This awesomely remastered video of Iron Maiden performing live in Germany from early 1981 is just amazing. Shows the roots of the band and justifies Paul Di’Anno saying it was a metal punk band. And most songs sound even better than the studio versions. A truly brilliant performance of four gifted musicians and a great singer. Clive Burr on drums just rocks. Just listen his take on Phantom of the Opera.

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SocNetV v2.5 has been released!

The Social Network Visualizer project happily released today a brand new version of our favorite social network analysis and visualization tool. SocNetV version 2.5, codenamed “maniac”, brings new features and improvements (i.e. custom node icons) and it is as usually available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Go to the project’s Downloads page and get it!

Drupal Theming: Boostrap Subtheme with Sass, Compass and Grunt

This article is a quick how-to create a Bootstrap subtheme for Drupal 7, as described here and here, to be able to work with the Sass CSS preprocessor. If you don’t know what Sass is and does, read this introductory guide.

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