• The Grumpy Editor reviews Claws Mail

    « 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!…

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  • How to change Dell’s BIOS settings from a Linux command-line

    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…

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  • Lazily testing memory

    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…

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  • En 2008, comment déclarer ses impôts en ligne

    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…

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  • Claws Mail’s IMAP implementation…

    …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...

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