Tired of looking for core files in your whole $HOME (because apps do chdir, and cores are by default in $PWD)?
mkdir /cores; chmod go+w /cores; echo “/cores/%e.%p.core” > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
And voilà, you’ll find your cores easily in /cores. Much easier than find ~ -mtime 0 -name ‘core*’ !
Yesterday I received my new laptop, a Dell XPS m1330. I bought it to replace Clo’s aging laptop (the right hinge is broken, the battery is dead, and the DVD drive is so utterly broken I had to physically remove it because the stream of errors logged to syslogd made the laptop slow…) with my [...]
Back in may 2001, I grabbed my first domain name, colino.net. I wanted to stop switching URL each time I switched the hosting. At the time I had no debit card, and I chose the first registrar I found which accepted payment by cheque, amen.fr.
Since then, I grumbled and grumbled each time I had to [...]
Vous l’avez sans doute remarqué : dans le domaine des assurances ou des banques, il est toujours beaucoup plus facile de souscrire un contrat que d’en résilier un, tout comme il est beaucoup plus facile de payer que de se faire rembourser après un sinistre…
Eh bien, la MAAF ne déroge pas à cette règle ! [...]
6.30 pm - baby eating
7.00 pm - father and mother start eating dinner while baby’s calm
7.10 pm - baby starts crying, parents postpone dinner
7.30 pm - baby eating
8.00 pm - finish dinner hastily while baby cries in the background
9.00 pm - baby still cries
10.00 pm - baby stopped crying, thanks to having his mouth full [...]