Archive for March, 2008

Clo has a blog!

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

As the title says… Clo (my wife) has a blog! There’s some cool stuff on it, you should give a look :-)

Picture from CloBlog ;-)
EDIT: because most of my readers don’t read french fluently, yes, that means I’ll be a dad in about 6 months ! (and Clo will be a mother, too ;)

Debugging: easier than it used to be!

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I just realised that, since I started doing free software development, debugging has become much easier than it used to be.
At first, I didn’t even knew gdb, and debugged with printf()s. Totally impractical, slow, prone to error (as it moves corruptions to other places or even completely hide them), requires recompilation and a new run [...]

Claws Mail and the huge folder

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

A coworker of mine noticed after cleaning up his IMAP folders, that he managed to fill INBOX.Trash with 313.924 mails, and Thunderbird failed utterly at managing that folder.
He then tried to open it with Claws Mail, which succeeded at the second attempt (a wifi disconnect ruining it at 70% the first time - and the [...]

vCalendar’s views: poll!

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Which one do you prefer, and should be the default view for vCalendar?

Poll is here!

New calendar view in vCalendar!

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

A picture is worth thousand words:

I hope you will like it!
Edit: By the way, most of the GUI code of that calendar comes from the excellent XFCE Orage clock and calendar application. Thanks to Juha!

Stuff that happens to sysadmins

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Buy one 1U server from $supplier, specifically ask for a pair of rails, learn that “Of course it comes with rails!”.
Two weeks later. Buy a 42U rack, and eight 1U servers, all of these from the same $supplier, and at the same time. Receive your rack and 8 servers, without rails. Inquire by email: “No, [...]

Nine Inch Nails rocks

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Nine Inch Nails rocks: they just released their new Ghosts album on bittorrent sites, complete with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license.
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| size: 67,342,352 (64.2 M)
| dest: /home/colin/Nine Inch Nails - [...]

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