• Spamassassin is well-trained.

    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…

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  • OpenOffice « performance »

    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….

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  • Biloba freed

    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…

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  • What the hell

    The default install of WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 4, when you choose a server profile, comes with X and gnome. WhiteBox is a de-branded RedHat Enterprise Linux distribution, so I suppose RHEL does the same. Hey, RedHat, where did you learn installing servers? During a Microsoft Windows NT meeting?…

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