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Dear Gnome developers,
I have been a good boy all year long. What I really wish to get for Christmas is the following. As you all know, we already have this nice feature available:
Could we have this one too? It seems logical to have both, especially since there’s very little work remaining - the widget already [...]
Wine
I got a bottle of south-african wine in the mail, as promised at gapingvoid.com. This is a marketing experimentation: provide samples to bloggers and let word-of-mouth advertise your product. Nice idea, I have to say, especially since the wine tasted good!
Car
Trying to get my rear brakes changed. Not as easy as it sounds, as [...]
Lu sur l’article Wikipedia traitant des émeutes actuelles en banlieue parisienne:
Le journal de Munich SÌddeutsche Zeitung (centre-gauche) s’en prend à Nicolas Sarkozy, “devenu un visage de haine pour tous ceux qui sont sans espoir dans les banlieues”. “Sarkozy a jeté de l’huile sur le feu” en déclarant qu’il fallait “nettoyer” les banlieues et lorsqu’il a [...]
Wow. First time since I have my new 1.5GHz laptop, with 512MB of RAM and a 24x CD/DVD drive, that I try to rip one of my CDs to mp3:
Beautiful !
And no, it’s not a DMA problem:
[colin@jack ~]$ sudo hdparm /dev/cdrom
Password:
/dev/cdrom:
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 1 [...]
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 [...]
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 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, [...]
I’m off for a full week of holidays. Yay! I’m just crossing fingers about the network and servers at work (please don’t break while I’m away), and also about Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13, which Paul just released (please don’t find bugs, users).
On the other hand, I’m going there:
So, it’s very possible that I just forget about it [...]
Londres
Il y a eu des attentats hier à Londres, avec un bilan de plus de 30 morts… J’hallucine! Qu’est-ce qu’ils croient résoudre par ce genre d’action ? En quoi cela peut-il aider leur cause ? Quelle cause, d’ailleurs ?… Aucune revendication claire n’a été faite !
Toutes mes pensées aux Londoniens. Je ne sais pas trop [...]