Archive for February, 2006

Mises à jour hardware…

Friday, February 24th, 2006

J’ai récemment troqué mes deux Suns (SparcStation5 et Ultra1) contre un bête (mais rapide) AMD Sempron chez moi. Le bruit en provenance du placard est déjà fortement réduit.
Maintenant, il me reste mon firewall/routeur qui est une Sun IPX. Je voudrais bien le changer pour un truc qui fasse moins de bruit, qui consomme moins et [...]

colino.net upgrade!

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Yesterday - or was it the day before… - I finally upgraded the server(s) running colino.net and a few other sites…

Before
After

The old ones were nice and fun, being kind of rare Suns - an Ultra1 with a 170MHz CPU and a SparcStation 5 with a 110MHZ CPU. But they were also a pain, with their [...]

Nice software !

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

I heard Thunderbird was a real emailing application. I heard it was a good one, even. Then I noticed that, when replying to such a mail:

Thunderbird does “stuff” to the subject:

The source of the header is:
Subject: Re: [Toulibre] [Fwd: “Quels =?UTF-8?B?77+9IGRhbnMgbGVzIGNvdWxpc3M=?=
=?UTF-8?B?ZXMgZGUgbGEg77+9IG11c2ljYWxlIiA/XQ==?=
What a piece of crap :-)

Blind test

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

There is the mohawk
His way of walking
Quite high above the ground
Fearless of looking down
Skywalk
Some people say that
The navajo know
A way of walking
Quite high above the ground
Fearless of looking down
Oh no.

Who sings that ? Bonus song: on which album is it?
(do not cheat with Google)
Edit:  You’re disappointing. It’s The Navajo Know by The Pixies (Trompe le [...]

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