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Various french news sites report that Nicolas Sarkozy (french minister and head of the right-wing UMP party) is in the process of spamming french citizens with his crap propaganda. Strangely enough, I didn’t get his mail, although my mail address is probably in every spammer’s database… So I found a copy of the spam on Internet, looked at its headers, gave a look at my Postfix logs, and after grepping accordingly, it looks like I got it:

Sep 27 22:13:37 paperstreet postfix/smtpd[30891]: 7A11610334: client=ump.emv1.com[84.14.78.161]
Sep 27 22:13:39 paperstreet postfix/qmgr[385]: 7A11610334: from=, size=10925, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep 27 22:13:39 paperstreet spamd[30935]: processing message <1400207618.387064.1127851883025@sch1.emv2.com> for colin:1015.
Sep 27 22:13:43 paperstreet spamd[30935]: identified spam (7.8/5.0) for colin:1015 in 4.1 seconds, 10651 bytes.

Looks like my Spamassassin is well-trained and doesn’t miss any junk, after all! :-)

Finally, I know why OpenOffice loads as fast as a mammoth runs. According to this interview, this is mainly because the kernel I/O schedulers and readahead algorithm suck, and also because of g++ which sucks at linking.

Pardon, mais LOL.

Biloba is a board game that I wrote for Guillaume Demougeot, and which he open-sourced last week.
After the initial release, we had a few comments in the Linuxfr news I posted, and I released version 0.3 to address most of the remarks we got.

I’m really happy about this opening :-) Give that game a try, it’s addictive!

The default install of WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 4, when you choose a server profile, comes with X and gnome. WhiteBox is a de-branded RedHat Enterprise Linux distribution, so I suppose RHEL does the same.
Hey, RedHat, where did you learn installing servers? During a Microsoft Windows NT meeting?

[colin@jack ~]$ locate wireless-applet
[colin@jack ~]$ sudo apt-cache search !$
sudo apt-cache search wireless-applet
Password:
[colin@jack ~]$

Now, where’s my wireless applet! The stupid thing resembling the Windows connection monitor is no good. I want something with a percentage.

Paul did the latest release today… So far so good! On the contrary to what happens the most often, we had positive feedback, which is quite nice… Usually the rule seems to be “no feedback == good release”.

What changed the most in this release could be the Addressbook, but people using IMAP might want to grab it as it fixes a few annoyances related to the new libetpan code (no, not deleting without expunging yet ;)).

I tried to send a news on linuxfr.org about this release, but it got rejected – maybe because of the conclusion, who knows. So I sent it as a journal.

The release notes
The thread on -users