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 with his move. Lots…
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Geek pr0n
I can’t resist sharing a few pictures of my lab at work: Total: 100 nodes……
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Cool stuff
Xfce’s bug 2712 has been marked RESOLVED/FIXED. This Enhancement bug had been opened by me, the goal was to have Orage, the Xfce clock & calendar, able to « subscribe » to other ical files. Now that it’s done, and in a very nice way, it means that future versions of Orage will display Claws Mail’s…
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Stuff that happens to cluster sysadmins
Suddenly getting 60% packet loss between the LAN and the cluster, just because kernel: ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet. Fix the problem by raising the limit from 65536 to 2097152 slots. If this limit is reached, that’ll eat 700MB of memory, ouch….
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Xubuntu’s default email client
I’ve recently been dragged into a sterile discussion about Xubuntu’s default email client, which is currently Thunderbird. Apparently, some people would prefer to have Claws Mail instead, as it’s more lightweight. Feature-wise, Claws Mail has, in my opinion, nothing to envy to Thunderbird. However, from this discussion, which took place both on Xubuntu’s forum and…
02/02/2007 Lire la suite...