I’ve seen this mentioned in a few geek news outlets, the Denon AKDL1 Dedicated Link Cable. 1.5 meters of CAT5 cable for $500 — but then your music will sound so much better than with $1.5 cables !
The Amazon reviews are mostly hilarious. I wonder how large the target market can be for this, which [...]
“These developers seem to have their priorities in the right place.”
Jonathan Corbet of LWN published last week a review of Claws Mail. I’m quite happy about what he says, his review is quite positive and, as I like his work a lot, I’m pleased!
To be able to change BIOS settings from the command-line on a Dell Poweredge, you need the syscfg utility. It’s very useful when you want to change a configuration on, for example, 32 nodes at once, without having to plug screen, plug keyboard, reboot, change setting, reboot 32 times. Here is how I installed it [...]
I had, until recently, a problem when it came to test memory on the nodes in my lab. Until now, I was able to PXE boot memtest+, but had to go down to the lab and plug a screen to check the output. Multiple annoyances: first I had to move my ass to the lab [...]
Hier, j’ai essayé de déclarer mes impôts en ligne sur www.impots.gouv.fr. Jusqu’ici, ça marchait impeccablement depuis 2003 pour moi. Hier, j’ai eu des soucis:
Avec Firefox 3 beta 5, ça plante dès le début avec une zone d’applet grisée et “Applet signview bail” dans la barre d’état du navigateur. Qu’à celà ne tienne!
sudo apt-get install firefox-2
Avec [...]
…rocks.
A user told us on the mailing list that he got a crash. It was SIGXFSZ, File size limit exceeded… Due to the protocol log file growing too much, probably 2 or 4 gigabytes…
The end of his log reads:
IMAP4< 8918737 OK Status completed.
The number at the left is the transaction id of the IMAP protocol, [...]
A few days ago I was annoyed at hard disks, after the little one in my iPod died. I considered buying a brand new iPod, but I didn’t really want to spend 250 euros on a shiny new mp3 player that has a color screen, whereas my scratched old mp3 player with its black and [...]
Hard disks are fragile. I know it since a while, and I’m prepared: I have good, up to date backups made automatically every night or week, depending on the data’s importance. OK, I know it! but I’m getting tired of it: Saturday, smartd reports read errors on my server’s /dev/hdc. I order two IDE [...]
En français - Saine paranoia, partie IV : pourquoi les laisse-t’on faire ?
“Mais que fait la police”, vous demandez-vous… Il paraît surprenant que ce genre d’activités reste impunies. En effet ! Les responsables et bénéficiaires de ce genre d’arnaques sont en général recherchés, et parfois arrêtés. Cela reste, hélas, rare, car ils sont souvent suffisamment [...]
En français - Saine paranoia, partie III : les arnaques ciblées
Les précédents comptaient bien vous avoir. Leur technique, qui fonctionne, requiert tout de même du courage. Il en faut, pour correspondre avec une centaine de pigeons en parallèle, leur extorquer le maximum par la persuasion, continuer avec la dizaine restante, les presser jusqu’à la moëlle, [...]