colin@colino.net

  • l’iPhone ou le « Vendor-locking »

    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…

    06/12/2007 Lire la suite...

  • One less dependancy in Claws Mail

    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 added a new API, GtkPrintOperation…

    22/09/2007 Lire la suite...

  • Stuff that happens to sysadmins

    Lose one hour thinking this RAID controller driver must be buggy because « mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 » errors out with « No such device ». After this hour, figure out from man 2 mount that ENODEV means « filesystemtype not configured in the kernel. » instead. Duh. Accept the fact that some gigabit switches from an anonymous vendor that has…

    13/12/2006 Lire la suite...

  • Dotsrc.org rocks

    Finally fed up with SF.net’s multiple downtimes and « hardware problems » that brought down anoncvs for a month, dev cvs for a week, and mailing-list lagging for multiples days without even an announcement… We moved CVS and mailing-lists to dotsrc.org. The change went really smoothly, apart a little glitch, where I forgot to manually remove the…

    16/05/2006 Lire la suite...