Archive for September, 2005

Spamassassin is well-trained.

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

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 [...]

OpenOffice “performance”

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

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 freed

Monday, September 26th, 2005

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, [...]

What the hell

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

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?

:-)

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

First Ubuntu annoyance

Wednesday, September 7th, 2005

[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.

1.9.14 taking the world over

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

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 [...]

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