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I’m delighted with my boxee-enabled apple tv. It’s great. One of the features I like most is that I’m able to watch tv series not available in Greece (I live in Greece).

Like Comedy Central, for example South Park -I don’t mind the ads they insert, even though I would like to be able to pause.

But why on earth, is Hulu and CBS blocked outside the US? Correction: I know “why”, don’t get me into the legal and regional (business) agreements they have. I rephrase: how does this help them?

What happens, is that most users that would watch Lost, Heroes, How I met your mother, etc. on their browser or boxee, get to download the episodes via bittorrent. This means a) they see no ads, and b) it’s easy for them to share the files even with people that wouldn’t bother to download them, or don’t know how to do it.

CBS, Hulu, and others, wake up! Your decisions on online distribution cost you money!

Panayotis misc

Suddenly, yesterday, all my categories and tags disappeared from my blog. It was as if I had never tagged any posts, and never used any categories. I couldn’t even see the default category in the admin panel!

Here’s what went wrong.

I hadn’t realized it, but I was running out of disk quotas. Actually, I had no space left on disk on my server!
This caused some trouble to mysql (obviously).

All I had to do was to clear up some disk space (I deleted some big files, and backup folders), and restart the mysql service.

Dada! Everything works fine now.

Panayotis misc howto