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Started the weekend early, as I took a day off on Friday. We went to Albi with Clo, took some photos (B&W shots to be developed, scanned and uploaded). It was really cold and we even had a little snow!

Did not work on Sylpheed-Claws; did not work on anything, almost didn’t touch the computer, apart for reading mail and loading the iPod I just bought with lots of mp3s. GtkPod works great. I had to tweak my auto mounting script to ignore the iPod, and created a mounter and unmounter script that are automatically run by gtkpod.

Firewire works fine in linux 2.6.10. The iPod charges over firewire when plugged in; if plugged via USB2, it only charges when there is no file transfer taking place. It can also charge via a wall socket, the AC/DC adaptor has a firewire plug to minimize the number of different cables used.
Nice piece of stuff.

From Nat Friedman’s blog, Andrew Overholt’s blog, and referenced in Havoc Pennington’s one, you can see nice flash demos about bleeding edge free software.

Congrats, people, you’re leading the open-source world and you provide demos that no one can read without using proprietary plugins. I find that ironic, at best.

Aften having told Alfons that a patch he sent to port Hoa‘s MailMbox plugin was not really needed because There’s already a port of it in the gtk2 branch, I seem to remember not porting the GTK part of it due to laziness.

Well, at least my “port” compiled. Hum.

Some people just can’t be bothered to program efficiently. Probably because they don’t suffer from it, while using their stuff on gigahertz-class machines; I invite them to check their work on my old server, just look at the time WordPress needs to render this page, or here (and this is just the index page!)
Compare that with the speed on other parts of this site, even the heavy (compared to WordPress) database stuff in my personal account manager is much faster.

Fortunately, the upgrade of this server will be done; it’ll be replaced with an UltraSparc 5 in march.

Edit 1: As Yann points out, it’s going to be an Ultra 1, not 5.

Testing image inlining. People, meet Clo, my girlfriend.

Hello
Seems like i’m falling for the blog mania. This one is likely to be mainly about open-source – especially Sylpheed-Claws, which I help developing – and things related to them. I may also plug my photos. Hopefully this blog won’t be too much about useless stuff (by the way, my cat attacked me at midday. Bad cat.)

If you want to know more, just visit the rest of my website.