Archive for May, 2005

Why I voted NO to the European constitution

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Just give a look at how software patents make their way in.
Passing the software patents during a fisheries meeting
Maneuver fails thanks to Poland
Fisheries, take 2
European Parliament requests a restart of the procedure
European Commission rejects this request
Looks like the European Commission is working with Microsoft on this?
Is that democracy?

“Phishers get personal”, web sites and security 101

Friday, May 27th, 2005

I read an interesting article about how phishers (that is, people trying to get personal informations about you, generally in order to empty your bank account) try more advanced techniques now. According to the articles, they feed various websites’ login forms and password remainder pages with various email addresses, hoping to get results that’ll tell [...]

Claws 1.9.11

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

Paul released a new version again! This one fixes most of the problems that people were experiencing with aspell’s support. It should work reasonably correctly, although I’m sure someone could find glitches.
Too bad, a gcc 2.9x user tried to compile this version but not the previous 1.9.9, because I’ve put a declaration in the middle [...]

Claws 1.9.9 and further

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

We released Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.9 last week. Looks like a good release, as it’s been quite silent on the mailing-list on the subject. Silence means good release, while endless threads means bugs (reality is sometimes harsh)…
One thing that kept coming again and again, however, is the status of the spelchekcer, which was badly broken on gtk2. [...]

Spam, Copy-Control

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

Spam
Some asshole sent out a batch of spam using my address as From: address. It’s the second time already… I came back at the computer today and found 58 bounces in my mailbox. ISPs, maybe it’s time you start using SPF?
Copy-Control
Last time I bought an Asian Dub Foundation album, I found it to be copy-protected [...]

merde!

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

Ils font chier, tous, à rentrer du travail en bagnole
a) en même temps que moi
b) par le même chemin que moi
Bande d’emmerdeurs.
Colin,
soulagé

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