http://www.colino.net/wordpress news for few, stuff no-one cares about Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:14:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en English version below. Aujourd'hui 15 otages des FARC ont été libérés par l'armée colombienne. Je me réjouis pour eux, et je suis complètement impressionné par la méthode employée. Au lieu de s'aplatir et d'échanger une otage contre un certain nombre de guerilleros, la Colombie a planifié une opération militaire et l'a ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/07/03/social-engineering-ftw/ 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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/06/17/ripping-off-audiophools-500-at-a-time/ Je viens de me rendre compte que mon chat Crapule fait un blog dans mon dos. C'est plutôt incroyable ! http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/06/16/mon-chat-blogue/ "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! http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/06/05/the-grumpy-editor-reviews-claws-mail/ Deux photos, de nous et de Clo, prises par Maman ce week-end. Et il y a aussi quelques nouvelles sur le blog de Clo :-) http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/06/02/deux-photos/ 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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/05/21/how-to-change-dells-bios-settings-from-a-linux-command-line/ 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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/05/13/lazily-testing-memory/ Encore une fois aujourd'hui, j'ai entendu quelqu'un expliquer que ne pas respecter le code de la route à vélo, ça fait perdre des points sur son permis. Comme ça commence à m'agacer, je l'écris: Conformément à une circulaire du 23 novembre 1992, il ne peut y avoir retrait de points ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/05/11/infractions-sans-voiture/ 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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/05/03/en-2008-comment-declarer-ses-impots-en-ligne/ I recently experimented with ads on the blog. Ten days later, I'm now sure they're not worth the inconvenience/uglyness. They brought me a grand total of $0.16, which means $0.016 per day, approximately €0.010. Bye ads :-) http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/04/24/ads-bye/ ...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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/04/17/claws-mails-imap-implementation/ 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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/04/16/ipod-back-up/ I'm experimenting with ads on the blog; they should be FOSS-oriented and not too intrusive... I'll see in a few weeks whether that's interesting to keep or not. http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/04/14/ads/ 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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/04/07/damn-moving-parts/ 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, ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/04/06/saine-paranoia-partie-iv-pourquoi-les-laisse-ton-faire/ 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, ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/04/06/saine-paranoia-partie-iii-les-arnaques-ciblees/ En français - Saine paranoia, partie II : les arnaqueurs à large spectre Les spammeurs sont agaçants, certes, mais pas bien dangereux. Nous allons voir que l'on peut trouver bien pire qu'eux : des arnaqueurs qui en veulent à : votre porte-monnaie votre identité Parmi ceux-ci, il y a deux types ; les arnaqueurs ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/04/02/saine-paranoia-partie-ii-les-arnaqueurs-a-large-spectre/ En français - Saine paranoia, partie I : les spammeurs Je le répète à beaucoup de gens, spécifiquement les nouveaux internautes autour de moi : Internet, c'est sympa, plein de ressources intéressantes, on y découvre des communautés de gens sympathiques, etc. Mais très vite, on y découvre des tas de pièges, ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/04/01/saine-paranoia-partie-i-les-spammeurs/ 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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/03/29/clo-has-a-blog/ 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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/03/28/debugging-easier-than-it-used-to-be/ 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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/03/22/claws-mail-and-the-huge-folder/ Which one do you prefer, and should be the default view for vCalendar? Poll is here! http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/03/13/vcalendars-views-poll/ 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! http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/03/06/new-calendar-view-in-vcalendar/ 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 ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/03/05/stuff-that-happens-to-sysadmins-2/ 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- | file: Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I (2008) | size: 67,342,352 (64.2 M) | dest: ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/03/04/nine-inch-nails/ There are still, on this planet, some unboxed Apple //c. And I don't have one. That's profoundly unjust. of course, it works. (via Planète Béranger, photo Kathryn Yu) http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/02/27/raw-jealousy/ Elise Forgue et Nicolas Lussier (la cousine de Clo et l'un de mes meilleurs amis) se marient le 31 octobre, et ils ont ouvert un blog pour relater leur préparation. Elise et Nicolas, Bonne chance et pas trop de stress pour toutes ces choses qui vous attendent! Encore un dernier pour ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/02/08/le-mariage-delise-et-nicolas/ Clo et moi avons finalement réuni toute la motivation nécessaire au tri de nos photos depuis août 2007, et nous avons enfin ajouté quelques galeries: Elyos, notre premier neveu, Un week-end jardinage (celui où on a planté la Mazda), Une journée tranquille avec des amis et leurs enfants, L'anniv' de ma petite soeur Fanny, Noël ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/02/06/nouvelles-galeries-photos/ Take one 3U server from SuperMicro, fitted with an Adaptec 31605 SATA RAID controller and 16 one-terabyte disks. Create a RAID 0+1 array for data storage, with 14 of these 16 disks. You get: #available storage [root@sam119 ~]# df -h /data Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 6.3T 941M 6.0T 1% /data #write ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/01/22/geek-pr0n-again/ When porting an SDL game or application to Maemo, if you wonder why the app doesn't show up in the Task Navigator (at the bottom left-hand corner of the screen), you need to do two things. Example with Biloba: Match the SDL window's WM_CLASS and the .desktop StartupWMClass, the easiest being: biloba.desktop: Exec=/usr/bin/biloba.sh StartupWMClass=biloba /usr/bin/biloba.sh: #!/bin/sh export ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/01/17/sdl-applications-and-maemos-task-navigator/ Biloba is a little board game that I wrote a while ago for Guillaume Demougeot, its inventor. It's free software, thanks to Guillaume's willingness, and as such I'm glad to work on it from time to time... I just finished the porting of that game to Nokia's Internet Tablets (770, n800, ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2008/01/09/biloba-ported-to-nokias-internet-tablets/ Bonjour à tous qui aimez bien Apple... Je voulais juste vous dire un mot à propos de leur nouveau gadget, l'iPhone, et des raisons pour lesquelles vous ne devriez pas en acheter :-) http://www.apple.com/fr/iphone/ L'iPhone est beau, il est classe, shiny, fashion, et tous les trucs cools qui font que ça va être un best-seller comme ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/12/06/liphone-ou-le-vendor-locking/ Thanks! It seems the missing quotes issue in STATUS replies has been fixed: 4 STATUS "[Gmail]/All Mail" (MESSAGES UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) * STATUS "[Gmail]/All Mail" (MESSAGES 18740 UIDNEXT 19300 UIDVALIDITY 1 UNSEEN 4210) Nice to see them react! http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/11/15/dear-gmail-again/ I crashed my car friday. No one got hurt, but it was an impressive experience: I lost control on the motorway after avoiding an animal, my car's lights went out, and we had to leave it on the left lane and take cover behind the barriers. By the time the cops ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/11/04/old-and-busted/ Dear Gmail, You suck. 11 STATUS "[Gmail]/Sent Mail" (MESSAGES UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) * STATUS [Gmail]/Sent Mail (MESSAGES 35 UIDNEXT 36 UIDVALIDITY 4 UNSEEN 1) Please quote folder names containing spaces in your replies. http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/10/25/dear-gmail/ Actually, this is not RPM Hell but rather crappy packaging hell: [root@sam70 ~]# rpmbuild --rebuild xen-3.1.0-10.fc8.src.rpm Installing xen-3.1.0-10.fc8.src.rpm error: Failed build dependencies: transfig is needed by xen-3.1.0-10.x86_64 libidn-devel is needed by xen-3.1.0-10.x86_64 texi2html is needed by xen-3.1.0-10.x86_64 SDL-devel is needed by xen-3.1.0-10.x86_64 curl-devel is needed by xen-3.1.0-10.x86_64 libX11-devel is needed by xen-3.1.0-10.x86_64 python-devel is needed by xen-3.1.0-10.x86_64 ghostscript is needed by ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/10/15/rpm-hell/ It looks like both of Thunderbird's core developers, Scott MacGregor and David Bienvenu, leave the Mozilla Corporation just after the creation of the new Thunderbird Mail Corporation. This is strange, and I don't really see them abandoning their "baby". I smell a non-corporate-backed fork soon, bringing in fresh blood to our ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/10/08/thunderbird-leaders-leave/ Claws Mail's Printing support is implemented, optionally, via libgnomeprint. Output looks rather good, but it has the drawback of requiring an extra library. It was still better than the old 'lpr' support :) Anyway, we now had the possibility to remove this dependancy without removing the feature, as the GTK developers ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/09/22/one-less-dependancy-in-claws-mail/ I just realize that no-one blogged about it. As the mailing-lists are down too, here's a bit of info: our CVS and mailing-lists provider, dotsrc.org, had an hardware problem on the server at the beginning of the week-end. They managed to reboot the server on Monday, but suffered from data ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/09/13/claws-mails-cvs-is-down/ I know, it's not nice to mock others. But GNOME's 2.20 draft release notes just made me laugh a little bit :) Notification icon - Trayicon since March 2003, plus the Notification plugin since March 2006 Missing attachment warning - Since Attachwarner, November 2006 "Magic Space Bar" - ! ... Since the start ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/09/05/grinning/ We reached 3.0 today :) GPL3, tags, some little new features (like LDAP write-support for attributes), speed optimisations, lots of improvements for the Maemo platforms, important fixes for Windows, and much more... Try it :) http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/09/03/three-point-zero/ Go to bed late, scratch your cat's back, watch it jump off the bed, think it's been a while since you played with him, fall asleep. Surprinsingly enough, the next morning you make it to the kitchen without your cat in your feet as usual, and ten minutes later as it's ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/08/06/dont-take-nice-things-for-granted/ Finally, I've been able to upload our photos of my sister Fanny and William's wedding. Here they are, patiently Gimped by Clo to make them better :) http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/07/27/fannette-and-wils-wedding-pictures/ I'm happy to say "Welcome" to Elyos, my new (and first) nephew, from Clo's brother and his girlfriend :-) Congratulations to Laure and Antoine! http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/07/23/new-in-the-family/ I received my new laptop, a Sony Vaio N21S. I chose this one because it had an Intel video card, which means free drivers... After installing Ubuntu 7.04, I'm glad to say that most of the things work: CPU scaling, video (DRI and XV), sound (although the controls are weird, pluging headphones doesn't cut ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/07/13/sony-vaio-vgn-n21sw-well-supported/ A few rapid things :) 10 days ago I've been to Anne and Erwan's wedding. Long trip, but great time, I was happy to share this moment with them and to meet half of #mandrivafr in the process :-) last week, holidays at Clo's parents' new place, where I helped her father ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/07/04/time-passes-too-fast/ I can't resist sharing a few pictures of my lab at work: Total: 100 nodes... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/06/19/geek-pr0n/ Three weeks ago Clo and I moved... Three weeks later, after spending three week-ends nailing, sawing, screwing, drilling and much more of these, we're done and live in a nice new place! We managed to be without Internet access for only one week, thanks to Nerim, and the place is ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/06/03/moved/ Voici un petit bilan partiel (et sans nul doute partial) de Nicolas Sarkozy, sur certains sujets qui m'importent. Expulsion de réfugiés politiques malencontreuses: http://www.educationsansfrontieres.org/spip.php?article4833 Big brother awards 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006: http://bigbrotherawards.eu.org/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=sarkozy en particulier: Loi sur la sécurité intérieure: fichage ADN généralisé: http://www.liberation.fr/actualite/societe/216680.FR.php http://bigbrotherawards.eu.org/Nicolas-Sarkozy-ministre-de-l.html?var_recherche=sarkozy Interdiction de diffusion d'images de violence par un non-journaliste: http://www.odebi.org/new2/?p=231 Rapports Amnesty International sur la France ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/05/03/bilan-de-mr-sarkozy/ Ok, while annoying my sister who doesn't post enough, I realised I didn't post anything since a month. So, here are some things. I'm disgusted by the presidential election's results in the first round; which means I'll be disgusted, whatever happens, by the final result. Crap like that tend to happen ... http://www.colino.net/wordpress/archives/2007/04/27/things/