| Shadow series |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 15th of July 2010 09:53:52 AM |
| I upped a new serie where I mostly focused on shadows of whatever I found yesterday morning... Here they are. |
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| Git |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 09th of July 2010 23:23:39 PM |
| I installed a git server on ratonland, and tried to put my projects on it. I also added a cgit web interface to browse the repositories... |
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| auto* tools |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 09th of July 2010 09:51:34 AM |
| An article summing up what we're quite a lot to think about auto* tools: here. |
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| Trip to Japan gallery complete |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 20th of May 2010 15:26:28 PM |
| Finally, Yes, I know it took me a while, but I finally managed to get all the pictures from Japan sorted out and uploaded to the gallery. |
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| Avis aux utilisateurs de ratonland |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 12th of April 2010 00:56:32 AM |
| Oyé Oyé, gentils utilisateurs ! J'ai fait pas mal de modifs au niveau du serveur web de ratonland, normalement tout devrait marcher comme avant. Seul hic probable pour les utilisateurs du https, vous allez devoir revalider le certificat vu qu'il est nouveau. Rien de bien méchant. Bien entendu j'ai fait des tests, mais ai pu rater quelquechose, si jamais vous voyez un problème n'hésitez pas a me prévenir a tout moment (mail, msn, irc, sms, tout est bon), j'essaierais de rétablir au plus vite. Pour information, la galerie nouveau cru est arrivée, et je compte bien essayer d'y mettre les photos du japon au fur et a mesure |
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| Git tools |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 23rd of March 2010 16:52:12 PM |
| Some time ago, a colleague showed me the egg-mode for emacs. Which is obviously extremely achieved emacs mode to play around with git. But as I'm not using emacs, I searched for something to cope with the lack of something like this and I came across git-cola. It is indee a good and very uselful tool, but is GUI based, which isn't the best solution when you're almost only using shells all day long. I used it for a while, but today I've been pointed to tig and fell in love, very powerfull tool in ncurses, lovely. |
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| Linux Open Source Radeon driver |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 21st of May 2009 12:21:31 PM |
| For those of you who are just interested in the explanation and configuration just jump to the next part :) Last month, ATI released their 9.4 catalyst drivers with one new thing for me: they dropped the support for most card up to radeon 1950. This means no new drivers for these cards, the 9.3 is the legacy support. Sad thing in this story ? Xorg is constantly changing, the kernel too, changing APIs between releases, thus the new Xorg server isn't compatible with older releases. Of course all new distribution are switching to this Xorg version. Ubuntu (which I'm running on my main computer) switched to it in 9.04, therefore to update my linux and keep something running I had 3 possibilities: - Use vesa driver - Change my video card - Switch to open source driver Of course vesa isn't a solution at the resolution I'm using the display will be reaaaaaaaally slow. I already spent enough money lately not to feel like changing graphic card (well, of course I had a look and was thinking about it, but I'd rather not). So the only option left was to get rid of the fglrx (ati proprietary driver), and use the open source one. That's where it became tricky. Switching from fgrlx to radeon(4). Unfortunatelly I fiddled quite a bit to make this happen and didn't write down every steps I did, but I'll try to write down as many information as I can. One main problem I encountered is that all tutorial to do this out there are assuming you're using fglrx packages from your distribution. I've never done this, got used to build it myself from ATI installer and that's it. So first things first, you can't have loaded the fglrx kernel module at any time, otherwise the radeon driver won't get you accel. Therefore you need to make sure that every single place in /etc/modules /etc/modprobe.d aren't loading fglrx at boot time (check /etc/rc.conf in Arch, modules section may load it too). I actually blacklisted it in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. The next problem is that the libGL.so used is the one from the fglrx driver. Some people are saying you can just remove those in /usr/lib/xorg and this will do, unfortunately, it didn't for me, those in /usr/lib were also from fglrx. Note that this may be coming from older installation, the original installation of this ubuntu goes back 3 years, and I've always installed fglrx manually, one can hope this won't be needed for most people. To resolve this issue, I have to reinstall mesa packages to be sure it would overwrite this file, now that everything is find I can use dpkg to find out where this is coming from: bleader ~ % locate libGL.so /usr/lib/FGL.renamed.libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 bleader ~ % sudo dpkg -S /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 libgl1-mesa-glx: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 In order to reinstall this I issued: sudo aptitude reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx To check that things are working just issue: glxinfo | grep -i direct If you get a No, you can run: LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo And try to debug it for yourself, that's how I found that libGL.so was trying to load unknown symbols, meaning in my case that it was fglrx version. At this point patience, luck and google are your best friends to get around this issue. This being done you can change your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, by replacing: Driver "fglrx" By: Driver "radeon" Now for the options of the radeon(4) driver, I played around a bit and ended up with these: Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "ColorTiling" Option "EXAVSync" Using theses let me get Xv video smooth without tearing, even with 1080p in fullscreen. While reading around the web about the configuration I also saw people advertising these options: # Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" # Option "AccelDFS" "off" # Option "EnablePageFlip" I cannot recall exactly all details, but AccelDPS off was getting my X some kind of laggish rendering, like switching from one window to another was actually done as usual, but the visual feedback that it happened was taking some time, and one or both of the other was making my Xv video playing horribly slow. That's why I left the # in front of the line to avoid. Well I hope this little piece may someday help someone switching to radeon(4) too! |
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| Sound strangeness |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 08th of March 2009 18:31:03 PM |
| A few "tags" if I can call them like this so google index help people with this kind of trouble finding this post: alsa raw decode no sound fix asound.state iec958 -- I don't use it very often on my main computer, but sometimes, to watch DVD when I have trouble with mplayer crashing, or want to use the menu, I use XBMC. As my sound system is able to decode AC3 and DTS sound stream, I switch XBMC to raw output so the sound system will decode the stream itself. The main problem is that XBMC isn't stable at all here, and it does crash most of the time when playing around with DVD (which I should try to remember for next time, no use in trying something that won't work anyway). The main problem here, is that XBMC does change something in my ALSA settings and when it crashes, I end up with no sound because music, online videos and such are not in these formats, and should be encoded before being sent to the sound system... It seems that these settings are NOT all possible to change using the tools to configure your sound card, and it then become impossible to get sound except if I can overwrite alsa's sound states with a backup that I do have at hand... The main point of this post is for myself to have a place to find out where this file is on ubuntu: /var/lib/alsa/asound.state I always end up searching for .conf files, or *alsa* and so on and spend half an hour pulling my hairs out searching "how did I fix this last time it happened?" And maybe this can be handy to someone getting in the same kind of troubles as me. |
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| PV: Pipe Viewer |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 31st of January 2009 11:14:53 AM |
| When you're copying a file on a network share for example, it tends to be slow, you'd sometimes like to know where you are. Well even if the basic idea is just to monitor the speed of writing to a pipe in shell, you can actually use it to copy a file and monitor it's progress. It's quite nice and will avoid me to start Midnight Commander just to be able to see the speed of a copy. pv source > /mnt/srv/destination PV's homepage. Note for my dad: No, this has nothing to do with what you're thinking about... Unfortunately. |
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| Random I am |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 22nd of January 2009 16:56:58 PM |
| Named after the Millecolin song, this post is about avoiding to make decisions by yourself and let a random number generator do it for you... So now when you'll be wondering "what shall I eat this evening ?" you can just type "choose pizza kebab guiness^W steack paella chilli" and just go for the one randomly chosen. The funny part with this is that you'll quickly realize that the "random" choice you make yourself in this kind of situation, are absolutely not random but well chosen based on your feeling, and you'll end up choosing something else than what the script felt on. It comes in 3 flavors! Perl: #!/usr/bin/perl my $choice = int(rand(scalar(@ARGV))); print("$ARGV[$choice]\n"); Python (thanks to JP for this one): #!/usr/bin/python import random import sys print random.choice(sys.argv[1:]) Shell: #!/bin/sh choice=$RANDOM let "choice %= $#" args=("$@") echo ${args[$choice]} |
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| Setting up the server |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 20th of December 2008 13:05:44 PM |
| Now that's I've moved in with Kraken, we obviously needed a server to store data in a centralized place and avoid duplicating thing everywhere across our computers. We already had most of the parts we needed for this box, we just had to buy a mother board and hard drives. Unfortunately we took the best price/features ratio we found quickly (w0rst was parked outside of and waiting for us). And that's where things are getting fun. 1- IDE chipset We had a harddrive for the system, with an arch linux already installed, but it wasn't booting up, unable to find rootfs. Arch live CD wasn't starting. Yes that's true: we managed to buy the one motherboard that wasn't working at all with the OS we had all setup before... An older ubuntu CD was booting ok, and after some research we found out that linux kernels from 2.6.25 up to 2.6.27 have a regression and that the IDE chipset isn't working... So we built a custom kernel 2.6.28-rc8 and finally got it to boot. I've speed up the explanation because this step was really an annoying one and took a while... 2- Fglrx kernel module We've bought ourselves a nice Full HD TV, and this computer in addition to be a server will be used as a mediabox too, so we had to setup Xorg properly to watch movies and eventuelly play a few games (Frets on Fire and Mame). I had the bright idea to compile the linux kernel in an unconventionnal place, therefore the build script of ATI wasn't able to build the kernel module. I didn't see the error message being too busy ranting about everything not working and me being pissed off... The bad point is that Xorg and the fglrx driver didn't even warn about this, X was simply freezing at boot time, no warning no nothing. On a hinch I checked if the module was loaded and found the problem. The fix itself was a quick one. 3- Black borders We spent a large amount of our evening trying to find out why the hell we had a black border around the screen instead of being completely fullscreen. The problem wasn't showing with radeonhd driver, but we had other troubles with it so we stayed focused on fglrx fix. I played with modelines and tried a lot of things. It happens to be that the problem is only present when connected through a dvi->hdmi adapter, the driver place the screen at some strange position. I found the solution over at phoronix
4- Bluetooth We were planning on playing Frets on Fire with the wii guitar hero 3 controller, which obviously is using the bluetooth to connect. Of course we lacked the kernel module for this... I built it, installed it and... nothing I had no clue why the hell we weren't getting the device, the driver was there, loaded and all I could see it in another computer with the same driver, but no, nothing. /etc/rc.d/dbus start and we were ready to go. That's quite frustrating. 5- XPad We were willing to play in two player mod too, as we have only one wii gh3 guitar, we needed my playstation 2 gh2 guitar. with the adapter, of course once again we were missing the driver, but this one was painless to install. So we finally have something almost working straight away, there's still the issue of wminput (the userland driver to get the wiimote to be recognized), the main problem is as long as the wiimote is within range it will stay sync, given the battery consumption of the wiimote this can be quite a problem... But things start to get in shape and I'm confident that it will be working as we expect it to in a little while either this weekend or the next one. Incoming fun: - lvm stripping test (with the 2 brand new sata2 hard drives), to have a look at performances. - samba and nfs - ftp - switching to gigabit network And that's should be it. Let's hope these steps will go smoothly. |
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| Update |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 20th of December 2008 12:38:48 PM |
| I battled quite a bit with the server we're setting up here, but before talking about this, I may as well define "here" and take some time to update people that may know me and are not aware of the latest changes. Get ready for the blog time. Well, first I got back from UK early october, then I started searching for a job, which went pretty well and within a short span of time I ended up working at 6WIND, and I'm really happy about it. Given the commute time it was from home, I recently (beginning of december) moved in with Kraken, in Boulogne, and I think that's about it about my life. I'm just missing my mom's food, but I like to cook, so that's fine. I'll stop here and jump to the next topic in another post. |
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| Software Freedom Day |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 20th of September 2008 13:17:36 PM |
| Happy Software Freedom Day everyone ! More info on wikipedia. 101010 |
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| Denmark pictures |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 31st of August 2008 15:49:13 PM |
| I uploaded the pictures at the beginning of the week and completely forgot to post the links here, so here we go: Copenhagen, the weather was awful, but the trip very nice anyway. But because of the light the pictures are really not great... Helsingør and Helsibörg, a nice little trip in Sweden, nice weather, nice place, a suprising unplanned car show in the middle. The picture are ok thanks to the light, but I was too lazy to process them properly, should be better than this with some cropping and improvement. Anyway enjoy ! |
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| Wow orange! |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 23rd of August 2008 10:55:37 AM |
| As you may or may not know if you're not french, orange is what was previously France Telecom, merge in mutliple section, mobile phone, internet provider etc... So in addition to borke my connection for no reason an taking 3 days to repair their mistake, here we go: - Paying people to line up for the release of the iPhone in Poland Wow. - Filtering outgoing mails (and you cannot escape it easily as they refuse connection to others SMTP servers): Only with orange ! They're overdoing themselves these days. |
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| Ratonland's down time |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 23rd of August 2008 13:33:12 PM |
| In french (this is addressed to my users): Bien, comme vous avez pu le constater, tout ratonland.org est tombé mardi matin vers 9h30, étant au boulot j'ai attendu le soir pour pouvoir contacter free, un technicien est venu a la maison le lendemain en début d'après midi, et a conclu que France Telecom était fautif et avait inversé notre ligne free adsl avec celle de quelqu'un d'autre. Du coup plus rien ne pouvait marcher. Ceci était donc mercredi vers 14h30, il a ensuite fait une demande a FT pour réparer ça et l'a spécifié urgent (oui les serveurs mails sans connexion c'est pas super pratique), et ça refonctionne donc depuis ce matin. 3 jours pour fixer un problème urgent donc, l'efficacité légendaire de FT... Désolé pour la gène occasionnée. Short English version: My broadband connection went down because of France Telecom's contractors doing crap and inverting DSL lines... Sorry for the inconvenience. |
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| Some pictures |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 10th of August 2008 11:44:49 AM |
| Yesterday evening after finally managing to fix our problem at work, we had some time to find a restaurant and walk around Hillerød. There is a very nice lake with a castle on the other side, and that with the sunset was quite nice. Unfortunately the pictures are far from being as nice as the view was... But that's all I was able to do. Gallery. |
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| Raccoon in Denmark |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 04th of August 2008 20:12:35 PM |
Since yesterday I'm in Denmark for work, I'm staying in Hillerød, but landed in Copenhagen, and went out when waiting for my train: I hope I'll be able to go around the place and take some more picture of the area. |
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| Go out a little... or maybe not. |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 06th of July 2008 15:19:07 PM |
I was planning on going out for a walk, maybe take the train to Bath or Frome to visit. And I then had a look outside to see the weather: --  Finally, I'll probably watch some series in bed. Another one of the landscape from my window, but with a better weather:  |
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| News in pictures |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 02nd of June 2008 01:16:04 AM |
So to start, some times ago, I was sleeping with an open window, when it was time to get up, I was gonna close the window and go to work, and the view from my window was so nice I had to take a picture. Some days later, I went to the office's kitchen to grab a drink, and there were rabbits, right outside in the field, like a few meters away.   After this I decided to take a little walk and saw the tree I had already taken earlier, but quite more lively, I therefore made a little comparative picture:  And finally while eating with the window wide open, I saw this in the backyard:  After this we went geo-caching with the russian guy who was staying with me the past two months (he left the house yesterday evening, as the other room will now be rented to an idian guy working here in Bruton). For thoses of you who are wondering whan geo-caching is, you can either have a look here, or read on for a small explanation. The principle is quite simple, people take some rubbish stuff, a box, a notepad and a pen, hide this away in some place, and take the coordinates with their GPS, go back home and put the coordinates on the website with some instruction if needed. You can then take the coordinates, a GPS and search for the cache, exchange one of the thing in the box with another one, or take nothing and just fill the log with your name and a comment. That's all there is to it, except that most of the time, the main goal is to lead you to some nice high point with a great view, or to visit some nice place. We actually went for 3 walks, the first one was a multi-cache where you get to one point, get information, determine new coordinates based on the indication plus the information you got, and go on. The fact is, we needed to get to a point that was closed because some construction going on. We therefore tried to guess coordinates, with plausible values. We walked quite a lot, but we're pretty sure we were at the right place but didn't find anything. The information on the website was talking about stopping by the shop to say hi, but the shop is now closed, so maybe the guy isn't able to maintain his cache anymore. Was a nice walk of around 6.5km, which was quite tiresome. For the second one, we went to two caches, one really close to our place, and in addition, someone found it soon before us, and they searched a lot it seems, therefore it was quite easy. Then we went for another one, way farther, with a huge hill to climb. After climbing the view was quite refreshing we found the cache and went back by another way for the fun of it. This one was 8km long. The final one I was a little tired, we decided to get a "small" walk, it was supposed to be about 5km, unfortunately we took a wrong way, climbed a lot, went back by another way, and ended up with a 9.5km walk in our legs! But it was worth it, there's only one picture I kept from this walk, but it's a nice one I think. I let two version in the gallery: - full size - reduced (so you can see everything in one go without scrolling, or not too much at least) Pictures And that's it, hope you'll enjoy the pictures, there are some I really like in there. |
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| Gvim and colorscheme |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 10th of May 2008 12:44:37 PM |
| Today I was wondering either to stay with vim in command line, or switch to gvim. By default gvim comes up with a eye killing white background, and I was willing to use the koehler colorscheme, so I naturally added: colorshceme koehler to my .vimrc file. Nut this was kind of broken, the text had the right colors applies but not the background, which was the main purpose of this modification. I found out that you can have a .gvimrc for the graphical version, putting this line in this new file, it's working just fine. What surprised me a little is that I didn't even knew there was a possibility to use an rc file for gvim, and I didn't find much occurence of it while browsing the web about this problem. But well, it's working now, but I think that I'll use the command line version in the end, because the UI is quite slow (probably related to X slowness on this lappy, I'll have to investigate this further someday). |
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| Urxvt mouseless |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 08th of May 2008 09:20:27 AM |
| I found this morning a nice tool to replace the default url handler in urxvt, this one let's you copy or even open links that are found in the current terminal window with your keyboad. That's nice even if I wasn't able to find how to use the yank mode that seems to be planned to let you select a part of the term. Everything's here. Enjoy! |
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| Speakers stangeness |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 04th of May 2008 10:36:12 AM |
| This morning I got annoyed by the sound of my headphones, those I use while I sleep are old sony in ear plugs. Nothing fancy, still they tend to have a little to much bass (to please common people with loud bass and therefore strike them as great headphone I assume), but I was feeling like bass were lacking, like really nothing was below some frequency. As I didn't encountered this problem before I thought that may come from the speakers where I plug them, and it actually is. It seems that these speakers (Sony SRS D21) don't redirect the full signal to the headphone plug, but only what's sent to the satellite speakers, therefore lacking the whole low frequency spectrum. They're 20£ speakers, so I wasn't expecting much, but the sound with the subwoofer and speakers is quite nice for this price range, but a stupidity like this was hitting me as not likely, still demik (school's friend) pointed out that he already encoutered this kind of stupid behavior with their auto radio... Way to go Sony! My laptop is the last thing I really appreciate coming from your brand... |
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| Dual head mania |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 26th of April 2008 16:47:34 PM |
| As I don't have much to do around here when I don't go to work, I spend most of my time watching movies or series, and then 10.6" screen of my laptop is a little small. So I had planned for quite some time to get an LCD monitor a little bigger. In the first place I was looking at some 19" samsung and LG, but well, by lowering a little my standards in quality I found an acer 22" for the same price... Now, I don't always use my laptop where I setup the sceen (next to the bed of course), and I need to switch from dual head to single monitor quite often. I'm not using any fancy gnome or kde with various tools you have to search for half an hour for an option to try to add or remove one monitor, I was a little scared that I'll end up having to use two X configuration file and restart it every time I want to switch. But actually xrandr is quite handy for this. To list the varioud heads and resolution supported: % xrandr To add a monitor: % xrandr --output VGA --auto --right-of LVDS And that's it, I'll just have to restart ratpoison (that takes about 2 seconds) for it to take into account the second screen and I'm up and running. To disable it: % xrandr --ouput VGA --off I can also make a key binding doing this and a ratpoison restart for both cases, and that's one key combination and like a 2 seconds wait. Note that restarting ratpoison isn't like restarting X, I won't loose the running applications, it's just a matter of rescanning for screens and running windows on the display. I'd like to see how fast this can be done through the various menus of a modern desktop manager. The only drawback in this is the fact that X is running a xinerama, and therefore this 2 screens aren't really separated like I would like, but that way faster so I'm still happy with this.  |
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| Oxford |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 18th of April 2008 21:50:02 PM |
| Last sunday we went to visit Oxford, it took me quite some time to go through the pictures I took, but I finally managed to do it. Here we go |
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| Rabbits ! |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 10th of April 2008 09:39:35 AM |
As I didn't really took the time (or had it in fact) to get around other places to take pictures, I've taken a few more around work. There's not much more to say, so here it goes: --  --  -- And that's it for now. |
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| French and proud of it. |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 30th of March 2008 19:51:51 PM |
Some toast with brie cheese on it, that's what I call a good tea time. |
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| Around work |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 29th of March 2008 16:40:47 PM |
Here are some pictures I took around work at some point where it wasn't raining. --  --  |
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| Woohoo ! |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 23rd of March 2008 15:34:39 PM |
| Yesterday evening, I went to the pub a bit higher on the street. What I had heard is damn right, there is a real pub culture here, there was every age, some playing pool (or any version they're playing around here), big TVs diffusing sports, and lots of people meeting down there, as far as I can tell, as every friday night. I had a vodka-redbull. Redbull, for those who don't know, is a energetic beverage. I've drinked some before, but it was probably some kind of "light" redbull for France, or maybe I was busy afterward and didn't realized it, but as I got home afterward with not much to do, I felt that I wasn't really gonna sleep anytime soon... Therefore I've switched my phone to my french sim card, and went online for some irc. But it's pretty "expensive" to go online abroad from my french sim. I say "expensive" because, I don't pay for it, it's just deduced from my account (which is blocked at 20€ anyway). So I thought it would be better to be able to connect with my uk sim, but I had no luck making it working while trying some random settings. I asked Kraken to go on the orange uk website, and have a look at the configuration. It's at this point that things went kinda funny. Those of you who have used the french orange website know it: it's awful and hard to use. It happens that the uk website is WORSE. As I was thinking, you cannot have the orange world configuration until you're logged on, but I didn't registered, and at the rate of uk->fr it was out of question to do it from my phone, so Kraken did it for me, but you need a short code that is sent by sms when you take your account, of course this sms was stored on the sim rather on the phone, so I had to switch sim and forward the sms to Kraken. I put back the french sim, get back on irc, but they send an sms with another code, I reswitched, forward the second sms, return to irc, you have to select two personnal question in case you loose your password. He was finally able to log on, searched for the settings, but you have to say what phone you have, of course the f700 isn't in the list as it's only distributed by vodafone in europe. He chose a random phone: Orange world isn't available for this phone, another phone: Select the Orange World icon... Finally he found out the settings in the FAQ, and it worked. This morning I connected for like a minute or two, and my SSH client told me I used 55KB, and my account was down of something like 0.25£. No need to say that this is pretty expensive. I then went to do some shopping (mom: I took some laundry soap, I'll be able to wash some clothes here), and I added money to my phone, and requested the activation of the orange world 1 day extra, giving unlimited browsing. After a little test it happens that when I ssh with it, it's also on the extra. Therefore today I have unlimited access to the internet via my phone for 1£. There is the same option for 5£ a week, I'll probably take this later. Additionnally I was able to use the DUN (Dial-Up Network) bluetooth interface so I can use it on my laptop. It's not very fast as I'm only receiving in gprs (no edge or 3G signal here). From my tests, it's about 5KB/s. But it's sufficient to read my emails, do some irc and browse the web a little. If there is no limitation like one time a month for these extras, I think I've solved my web problem here. Just for those interested in the comparison: - British telecom land-line: + 12 months contracts + 145£ setup fee + 10.50£ a month for the less expensive line Most adsl providers either have 12 months contracts with fair-use policies, or something like 20£ a month for 3GB quota... It's quite a shock when coming from the 30€ a month unlimited adsl2+ connection with Free (where you can avoid paying a landline to France Telecom). Well it's not fast, but at least I've got an access, I'm pretty happy. |
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| So british! |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 11th of March 2008 21:54:36 PM |
| Sunday, the weather was changing every five minutes. In the morning I went to get some coke and batteries for my camera, it was sunny when I left and when I got out of the shop, it started raining like crazy... In the early afternoon the owner's brothers came and finally gave me my bed! I was quite happy, but bringin it upstairs was quite hard. As a bonus, here is a picture of my backyard:  After this, as I finally had some batteries for my camera, I waited for the weather to fix on sunny for sometimes and I went for a walk. Click on the picture below to see the pictures I've taken this day.  |
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| My place |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 08th of March 2008 15:57:54 PM |
| Finally, I've made a little something to show what does my place looks like. It's a pretty simple system, on the left is a map of the floor we're on with a blue arrow showing the camera point of view. On the right is the corresponding picture. Click here to start the tour. Also Friday evening, I took some food home from work, and I cooked my first meal at my place. Simply pasta and a nice piece of beef.  Well I've forgotten to take picture with me at work, I'll post it later :p Unfortunatelly I hadn't checked and I didn't had nor a fork neither a plate. So I used a cooking tray, and a wood spoon to eat (but I knew I had a knive). That's it for now, I hope to have some free time on a sunny day to take a walk and take some pictures of the town, but today's weather is pretty much covered/gray, maybe some other time. |
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| Not much... |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 06th of March 2008 21:58:25 PM |
| Finally what I planned to post today isn't ready, mostly because I was too lazy to do it yesterday evening when I got home. I'd like to make a small "virtual" visit of my (empty) place. But I still don't know how to make it easily, so I've decided to watch some family guy episodes instead. As I told I've found the boiler and it's warmer in there, so I feel better. It's still lacks a real bed, a mirror in the bathroom, but I start to settle down. As of work, I'm a bit overwhelm, there is plenty to learn and understand, but I think I'm doing good, and it's interesting, so it's pretty cool. |
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| Net, sweet net |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 05th of March 2008 20:51:15 PM |
| I can finally access the web from time to time at work, so I take advantage of it to make a quick post. I got to work yesterday in the morning, we mainly discussed what had to be done and various details about the work itself. At lunch time we went to Morrisson, a supermarket where I bought some food and discoverd, in live, the cost of life in UK. I has to admit that food is pretty expensive, but I think it will be alright. As of afternoon, I totally dived into documentation experiencing with softwares, following tutorial, trying to get a grip on the beast. The work itself is very exciting and I'm really looking forward to really work on it. At the end of the day I got home with my boss, but the suprise wasn't quite exciting as I hoped for. The appartement was totally empty, lacking a fridge, almost no furnitures and it was cold. very cold. The owner had put a bed of fortune until he have the time to make a new bed delivered, but no sheets or nothing. Happilly the boss asked his wife to lend me some and a pillow. the bed was too short for me so I was kinda cold everytime I moved, but as I sleep pretty much still it was okay. This morning I found the boiler and successfully had hot water and turned the heaters on. There's no heater in the room, but I think that with the door open it may be sufficient to heat the room up. As you can imagine I started by running around the appartment with my laptop and a wifi scanner, but I only saw 2 access point with a very low signal, and protected. I had a walk and bought some food, then get to bed as I was really tired with the short night at the hotel. Finally I'm living here at least that's what google maps said. I think it's a bit higher on the high street. Also I work here. Today I kept trying to understand everything and experimenting, and I opened a Lloyds account in the early afternoon. That's it for now, I'll think I'll try to do something cool tonight to post here tomorrow. |
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| Finally ! |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 04th of March 2008 02:23:21 AM |
| First, hello dad and mom, I know you'll probably have a look at this tomorrow in the morning, I'm alive and well, and I have my hotel room. Now let's go with some details of what happened. When I talked earlier about a veeeery long wait, I had no idea what was coming ... Some minutes after the post where I was talking about the long wait, they announced that our plane wasn't there, ans they weren't aware of when it'll be here. Like half an hour after this, we saw a plane coming to the area... but followed by something like 10 firemen cars and trucks. That wasn't a good sign. The flight was announced to be delayed for 3 hours, but it was supposed to take off at 18h30, and the boarding was now announced for 21h30, and take off at 22h. After this boarding started ... but we were taken to buses, which bring us back to the opposite side of the terminal, we should just have waiting the other way around... well. That's when an hostess came to tell us we were gonna have to wait some minutes. The fact is we stayed in buses waiting for one more hour. Finally we landed at 23h18, GMT, meaning 00h18 in french time. During theses hours of waiting, I finally had my hirer on phone, he was waiting for me at the airport, I explained and he told me he'll call back. Which he did, telling me to take a cab and go to an hotel where he had booked a room for me. Of course first thing I did was looking if there was any wifi access point from the bed :)  As you can see the room is very big and stylish. Actually I think I could almost sleep in the closet behind the door on the left of this picture.  Tomorrow, I'll take my breakfast at the hotel, and I'll have to go to the station and take a train, either to Bath or Bruton. So that's it for tonight, I'm going to have a look at google maps to see where I am and where the station is, good night folks. |
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| Still no plane |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 03rd of March 2008 19:24:48 PM |
| No, unfortunatelly, I'm not joking. The plane has been delayed for 3 hours, and I don't have any other number than the office number to call, so my ride will also have to wait... That sucks but I can't do anything about it. |
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| Wait for boarding |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 03rd of March 2008 18:06:57 PM |
After a veeeeery long wait to check-in my luggage and an unchecked backpack at the security check, I'm waiting to get in the plane which is not here yet. The plane you can see on the picture is for newcastle I think. |
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| At the airport |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 03rd of March 2008 15:16:29 PM |
We've arrived at the airport, one hour early, but that's better than late! Some more waiting before check-in which is starting in about 40 minutes :) |
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| On my way |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 04th of March 2008 01:36:50 AM |
Here we go, some minutes ago, I put my lugages in my mother's car trunk and we are on our way to Roissy. |
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| More information |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 02nd of March 2008 22:28:21 PM |
| I've just got a call from my hirer, things are getting a bit clearer now. So I'll be staying in Bruton, he founds me a flat there, with everything close by, and a train station so I'll be able to move on weekends ! That's pretty cool. I'll have a orange uk phone number soon too, and I'll probably open a bank account to avoid my bank taxes each time I'll want to withdraw money. I feel quite relieved that I have a place to stay already, that's great, I'll try to cover the departure live from my phone tomorrow, stay tuned... |
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| Conkeror, a browser for keyboard users |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 29th of February 2008 19:42:14 PM |
| For quite some times now I've been using Conkeror as my web browser. At the beginning it was a firefox extension, using an hint system with numbered links, but the numbers where introduced directly into the rendering of the page, this had two main problems: first the page layout was often broken, mostly on pages with tables and div. The second problem was time, doing this needed to parse the full page and insert all numbers, on sites like wikipedia with lots of links, this was sometimes really slow even on a good computer. Now conkeror has evolved, it's now a xulrunner application, the hint system was rewritten and is much more efficient. Hints aren't always activated and are calculated on the fly on only the visible links, and numbers are show in overlay on top of the text, links gets highlighted, you can filter the numbered links by typing relevant text. I personally find this pretty efficient and neat. As it's pretty hard to explain in a correct way, I've made a small screencast showing the basic use of conkeror, it's hosted on my home dsl connexion, so bear with it, I only have 110-120KBps upload :) My little screencast |
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| Leaving Lille |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 29th of February 2008 10:52:43 AM |
| Yes, that's it. After some months going to Lille every week, I'm in the TGV bringing me back to Paris for the last time. Well, at least for a "work" reason as I hope to see blemish again. I didn't find a way to upload the picture I've taken of the TGV window, you know, to put in the mood. So it will only be this brief note from my phone :) |
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| Tourcoing's dead zone |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 28th of February 2008 11:00:34 AM |
| As planned, I went for a walk yesterday to take some pictures of in Tourcoing, but in the area where there is mostly ruined buildings. Pictures aren't as good as I could have done (considering my camera), but that's life, sorry for rahziel and other that will find this crappy :p Note that all pictures are link to a bigger version, also you can click here to see all the pictures I took this day. For starters, here is a building very close to the workplace:  Unfortunatelly, I didn't took batteries with me, and as every time I want to take pictures I ran out of batteries... But I kept on going and took some more pictures with my phone, as it was pretty sunny, some are not that bad. I walked along a close road and ended up in a field with lots of waste on the floor, and a burned car. All the buildings in the background are closed and deserted.  I then decided to take a closer look at this deserted buildings, and my camera's batteries were willing to play along, I could take one more with the camera:  I then headed back to work, and in the evening when going home, I took a last one with nice sunset on Tourcoing :)  And that's it, be sure to check all pictures if you want to, but sorry, I cannot make a gallery here, I'll need to sort this out to be able to make some galleries even when I'm not at home... |
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| Packing up |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 28th of February 2008 15:33:26 PM |
So I think that from now on this site will be a bit more of a blog than before. As some of you may already know, as of next monday (that is 3rd march 2008), I'll go for my final work internship in Maperton (UK). As I'll once again spend this week in Lille, I've already started packing up to be able relax and see the last people I haven't seen before I leave. On a side note, I've been told that there are some ruined buildings close to the place I work in Tourcoing, I'll try to see where it is exactly and go there to take some pictures. If the weather let me do so I'll post the resulting pictures here. |
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| gruick. |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 28th of February 2008 10:59:45 AM |
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| MC with a transparent background |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 16th of February 2008 19:18:52 PM |
| I had this a long time ago, and hadn't found it back for a while (of course I had no memory of how I did it). And I finally found it back, while searching for the bind to see the jobs in background (C-x j). I found it here. And here is what you must add to you ~/.mc/ini file if you're too lazy to click the link: [Colors] base_color=normal=,default:selected=,: marked=,default: markselect=,: menu=,: menuhot=,: menusel=,: menuhotsel=,: dnormal=,: dfocus=,: dhotnormal=,: dhotfocus=,: input=,: reverse=,: executable=,default: directory=,default: link=,default: device=,default: special=,: core=,: helpnormal=,: helplink=,: helpslink=,: At the next start your midnight command should have it's transparent background. mmm sexy <3 NOTE: Note that it seems MC write its configuration file when quitting, therefore be sure to quit all instances if you don't want you changes to be overwritten. EDIT: This long line totally broke my page, I've added space after each ':' copying it this way should work fine, but you can get rid of the spaces too if you want :) |
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| Wiki raton |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 14th of February 2008 19:20:03 PM |
| Today, on the first page of the french wikipedia, there is a link to the raccoon page \o/ I don't know how long it will last, but it's cool, raccoon rocks. |
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| Ratonland down |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 02nd of February 2008 11:48:56 AM |
| Yesterday, at 4 in the morning the ratonland gateway crashed, actually it simply shut down. For you information it was actually the cpu fan that failed, and was in short-circuit putting the power suply unit in protection mode. As I wasn't home at this time, it took quite some time: I got up at 9, tried to connect at home, phone mom to ask for some test and a modem reboot, and finally caught a train and get back in paris to fix this. After this the power supply fan wasn't motivated enough to get running, therefore the psu burned after like 30minutes, I had to change it and got another small downtime. This power supply sucks and it's fan is noisy as hell, I'll have to do this again to change this. On a final note, as I've lost my biggest uptime, I may do some software upgrades too, I'll try to do this at night to avoid any kind of problems. Sorry for the inconvenience. |
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| My new toy |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 29th of December 2007 13:43:09 PM |
It was time for some change, I've been using a qtek 9100 for a bit more than a year now, windows mobile was driving me crazy and the phone itself was starting to give up. A picture of the beast running an ssh client with my irssi My new samsung f700 is pretty nice, it's not a smartphone (no multitasking) but it can still do a lot, and nicely too :) On a little comparison note here are some samples scenarios (note that the problems are not from the qtek itself but from windows mobile) : - Phone running out of battery + Qtek: vibrate 10 seconds, and will vibrate again every two minutes to remind you that your battery is low and getting lower (yes, vibration need some power too it seems, odd hu?). + f700: beep, show a message battery low and reduce screen backlight. - Wanna get on irc (ssh at home and get my screen back) + Qtek: Launch a browser for it to etablish the data connexion, you're free to choose, opera takes 30-40 seconds to launch, internet explorer is instant, but closing it when running magic button will crash your phone. Then launch putty and connect at home + f700: Launch ssh client, connect at home, will establish data connexion itself. Adding to this all the crashes of the qtek, the boot time of 2 minutes (no, I'm note kidding it really takes 2 full minutes to get asked for your pin code). It really seems more useable than the windows mobile. Of course I'm only using it since yesterday, and I was also very happy with the qtek at first. Let's hope the f700 won't disappoint me later like the qtek did :) Anyway it's fracking sexy <3 |
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| Slim cube theme |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 25th of December 2007 19:48:36 PM |
| Some time ago I came across a thread were someone(hamst3r) made a Weighted Companion Cube wallpaper. I used it for quite some times on my laptop but recently my laptop's hard drive died. Since then I've been trying to reconfigure my laptop as before, or better if possible and decided to make simple theme for the slim login manager. Here is a picture of my laptop screen (haven't found a way to take a screenshot of the login manager yet :<)  The theme itself can be found here. |
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| New racoon |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 25th of December 2007 19:29:38 PM |
Here is a picture of my latest racoon, and for once it's not a plush. Note the posture with paws over his belly, ready to rub it to ask for food :) |
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| Little clarification |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 22nd of December 2007 01:05:35 AM |
| No. This racoon isn't running vista, he's only seeking food. |
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| Food \o/ |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 12th of December 2007 21:17:52 PM |
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| Study Finds Film Enjoyment Is Contagious |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 09th of December 2007 14:00:23 PM |
| No shit ?! And a study also seems to show that dicks get smaller when it's cold ! I really think that I should change my line of work. Stating the obvious with some numbers seems to be a nice way to make a living in this world. Thinking that people get paid to make this kind of observation on a handfull sample of people and writing it down as some "study" simply makes me sick. The fact that this kind of news gets published on websites like slashdot is even worse. "News for nerds Stuff that matters" ? Where the hell does this fucking shit matters ? |
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| No bench :( |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 09th of December 2007 14:15:26 PM |
| Sorry about this, I have been planning to do this bench I was talking about in my previous post, but really, I get way too much bugs/crash with 8.42/8.41, I rather do some bug report than a bench right now. Also I have a little article coming, but on another subject. |
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| *Zen* |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 21st of October 2007 14:21:07 PM |
| Ok, maybe I was a bit angry in my last post, I have to admit that the 8.41 ati drivers, even if pretty unstable, give really an incredible performance boost. When they won't crash, ETQW seems pretty playable. I may try to make a little benchmark if I can, make some fancy graphs and post this here. I still have a strange behavior when using terminals transparency on the second monitor and can't figure out why. This bug wasn't present in previous drivers, but as they've rewrite a whole bunch of the driver code that should be *normal*. I'm waiting for the 8.42 that should be out before the end of the month and should offer more reliability and AIGLX support for the compiz-fusion fans out there (and all thoses peoples switching to ubuntu 7.10). I think I'll try to find out some way to make a neat benchmark and post this here between 8.40 8.41 and 8.42 when they'll be out. Stay tuned. |
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| ATI just don't care |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 14th of October 2007 15:15:09 PM |
| I've been a ATI user for around five years now, mostly under Linux with what we can clearly call "crapy drivers". Every release brings it's bunch of disappointement and bugs. From my little memory I can recall some things: - Not being able to play doom3 or quake4 because of theses drivers - Cedega CVS not detecting 3D hardware - Drivers that won't work with some random kernel (ok, mostly newer kernel, that can happens when it's kernel drivers, let them get away with this) - Random crash with dual-head activated - Anti-alias activated whenever you got your Xorg config telling otherwise... That's right, now there is a control center for linux too, and it stores its options in /etc/ati/. Still there's nothing about AA or relevant options in it... Removing this directory worked in the past, but now you'll get the watermark by doing so... nice. - With recent drivers XV only works on one head (I had it on both since like 2002... pretty neat hu?) Anyway, I stay true to ATI because I like the fact they seem more interested image quality and fidelity than Nvidia. As I haven't used windows for quite some times, I thought the drivers were ok now... Huge mistake. I bought a x1959xtx some times before Bioshock was released, I was really willing to play it. First test of bioshock -> crash, on Kraken's advice I switched to omega drivers, the game works pretty well with them. Under linux I had XV playback (still working on only one head), very choppy as mentionned in previous post. There seems to be a strange double buffering problem... Then the 8.41 drivers for Linux were released, they are aimed at HD2x00 series, therefore I tried them knowing there should be some troubles. It finally seems that performances are getting better, but still I get some strange lag in the 2d display, like things aren't refresh in time, and my buffering problem on XV video playback was still there. I switched back to 8.40 Then an the 11th ATI released the 7.10 catalyst for windows (no simultaneous release for Linux this time...). As I bought the orange box to test Portal (which is pretty nice by the way), I spent some times under windows and decided to try them out. Here we go. As I'm no fan of the control center I started by getting only the drivers, install them, reboot.... blue screen of death, I won't bother explain the safe mode and so on to remove these drivers. Now I download the full version with the control center I was hoping to avoid launch the installation: - It starts installing VC8 (visual C 8 runtimes I presume ?) but cannot find some file and ask me to insert the disk... which one ? what are you talking about ?  I cancelled this it's stopped the installation of this part and go on the next steps, installed everything... reboot... and it works. Except I was not in dual head anymore, I activate the second screen in the CCC, switched it to 1600x1200 and got 60Hz. It hurts. I don't recall everything I did, but I know I forced it to 100Hz and it switched to 640x480 on a virtual viewport (when you can move around where you look at the desktop when bring the mouse to the edges), and after like 10minutes I got it working in 1600@100Hz. So userfriendly. And last but not least, I was hoping to try this h264 hardware decoding, but ATI doesn't seems to be ok with this. I found out you can only use this with h264 player enabled, like Nero or zome Cyberlink product. Yes no way to get this for free, and from an interview I've found here ATI is totally cool with it. I've downloaded a trial for a cyberlink thing that put the support for h264 hardware decoding in windows media player, but when I launched my video file with it it switch to some other codecs and still was decoding in software... So I presume it's only for people willing to watch the exact file format they've choosed to support. Awesome isn't it ? That's it for now, but really, I'm getting tired of the need to fight for each little thing you want. >:@ |
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| FGLRX and XVideo problem |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 05th of October 2007 14:01:18 PM |
| Since I bought my x1950xtx, the playback of video and movies where extremly choppy and shaking when using XVideo output. I started using the GL and GL2 module, but when trying to watch some 720p video I saw it was a bit too slow. I found a workaround for vlc and mplayer: -mplayer Use the -nodouble option (thanks to Maz to help me find this one) You can also put "nodouble = 1" in your mplayer config file to avoid typing it everytime -vlc Go to Settings->Preferences Check the "advanced options" checkbox at the bottom right of the window Go to Video->Output Modules->XVideo Uncheck the "Use Shared Memory" checkbox That should do the tricks for now, hope that won't create other troubles elsewhere, I'm using it for some days now and everything seems fine. |
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| Bioshock |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 06th of September 2007 13:12:40 PM |
| For a shock, it's a pretty good shock. With all the stories around it's protection, I was wondering if I was gonna buy it or not. But when I saw it on the shelf, I just took it without thinking... and I don't regret that. Even with a pretty simple gameplay, a simple bestiary, bioshock is really a great game, Not perfect actually there are some minor things that can be annoying from time to time, but even with this it was a real good experience. The atmosphere is really immersing, you feel like you're really there, you care for the surroundings, the sounds, the graphics, everything is finely tuned to get you into the game. The story is not fully plain, there are changing matters and thing evolve. In addition the gameplay is really smooth, it's been a long time since I got a feeling like this (quake I think). You can easily (with some time to get used to it) escape a rushing attack of a big daddy, turn back hit him while he strikes the wall. Finally, it's quite long, I think I played around 30hours to finish it. Of course you can do it far quicker without searching every extra room, but I like to avoid leave unvisited rooms when I can. I've finished it and can happilly say: It was great. |
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| Phoenix Wright + 300 |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 27th of August 2007 19:49:40 PM |
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| xcalib 0.8 |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 27th of August 2007 13:10:06 PM |
| xcalib 0.8 has been released and stefan took the time to integrate my patch to let you use dual-head with fglrx \o/ I hope this can be useful to someone else than me :) |
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| FreeBSD + ZFS |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 22nd of August 2007 19:17:02 PM |
| Little page that sums up the ZFS features and how they work in FreeBSD, simple, clear, impressive. Here. FreeBSD jails and ZFS Tune ZFS Thanks to twisla for the links :) |
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| Ads |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 16th of August 2007 15:23:26 PM |
| Yeah, I've deceided to sell my soul to google a bit more, and slipped into adding a small ad at the bottom of the menu. Ai it's easy to configure I made it white on black and hope it will not be too annoying for people visiting the site. Mostly I was curious to see how much I can earn with it, and the FAQ at AdSense answer that it's hard to tell as it depends on a lots factors, and they encourage you to try it by yourself, I think I could easily give it a try and here we go. |
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| Website |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 15th of August 2007 15:41:54 PM |
| I made some slight modification, like justifying text of the posts, some little modifications to the CSS, still I cannot succeed in getting the titles links being black :( And finally I've put the comments back with a false, small, useless and annoying anti bots, you'll have to write __raton_land at the beginning of your comment for it to be posted, otherwise nothing will happens. I hope that will prevent some spams at least :) |
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| vsftpd + freebsd 6.0 |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 15th of August 2007 14:20:52 PM |
| I know FreeBSD 6.0 is out of date. But a friend was downloading a file larger than 4GiB on my ftp, and it happens to cut, and the client wouldn't resume. At first I thought that was once again a NAT, active/passive problem as I seems to have a lot of trouble with this. I then tested to download the same file from my LAN, and it happens to do the same, at a given size. After searching what was the problem, khali on the #gcu channel made me realized that it was exactly when there was 4GiB remaining to download. I then uploaded a large file and everything was ok. I then reviewed vsftpd code, to see where this should come from. I saw that it was using sendfile Linux have a sendfile64 but not freebsd. I discovered that vsftpd has an option to disable the use of sendfile: use_sendfile=NO With this option the download was working. This morning I wrote a little program sending a file to a netcat-like server using sendfile. Sending the same file stopped at exactly the same level, therefore it wasn't coming from vsftpd implementation, but from the freebsd sendfile. I then tested on a freebsd 6.2, this doesn't happen. You probably think that I would have saved myself a lot of hassle by simply upgrading my freebsd, but I like to know what was wrong and why it is fixed, and I found out where it came from, and I'm happy for this. I have to thank jMCg for his time and help on #vsftpd :) |
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| Back |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 09th of August 2007 15:54:38 PM |
| After some days off for little holidays with members of my school team, here I am o/ I've deceided to finally get started on the remake of the m00h game and I'm currently writing some documentation about what the game should be and contains. As I got bored with the ineffectiveness of word processors available, I decided to learn how to use LaTeX. I was a bit worried at the beginning that it was a bit too long to learn to be efficient but it happen to be easy to learn the basics, and in like one hour I was able to produce documents that meets my needs. I'm currently writing the "m00h specifications book" in a little gvim and it's damn faster than trying to make a document that looks good on most word processor I've used the past years, not to mention that the table of content and the number of the various sections are automatically inserted, that's simple and efficient. I really like it. That's it for now, I'll try to find some things to say on a more regular basis :) |
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| No more m6 and w9 on freebox multipost |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 19th of July 2007 12:16:53 PM |
| As tf1 before them, the company asked free to remove their channels from being possible to watch on your computer... That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. When it was tf1 who cares ? There's nothing interesting on it anyway, but at least m6 and w9 had the simpsons, kaamelott, and some other nice series making me watch TV from time to time, now it's definitely out of my life :) I hope it will be the same for a large number of people, that won't be enough to lower their listener count and therefore have an effect, but maybe some day. Finally if they really think this will prevend people to record their programs and release it on internet, they're probably making a huge mistake, or maybe they are just to stupid... |
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| Gallery |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 19th of July 2007 01:53:57 AM |
| Finally, after more than a year of directory listing galleries for showing pictures to my friend, I've deceided to add a gallery. As I really don't feel like doing some php at this time, I've used bins to generate a gallery from my pictures directory. hop \o/ |
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| New item acquired ! |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 07th of July 2007 00:12:41 AM |
| *insert zelda sound here* I had it before, but it's durability was worn out. Great Earphones of peace. +10 against annoying people When wearing the "Great Earphones of peace" the player is isolated from the the noise surrounding him, this way he can calmly get to his workplace without being bothered by dumbasses listening to music with their phone speakers, girls speaking loudly on the phone, child crying and screaming and much more. Thanks Shure. I mean it. |
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| Update to feisty fawn |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 20th of June 2007 15:44:37 PM |
| I've finally updated my ubuntu to 7.04, even if I had some fear about ATI drivers, everything is working well... Or almost everything. I have been using ion since 2003, but I never took the time for updating my config. It worked pretty well until recent versions, I was aware of this and I thought it was kind of time to give other WM a try. WMII: It's pretty nice, but not working very well with dual head setup. In addition to this I think I had something broken somewhere, the behavior was a bit strange with tagging. As I needed something working pretty well with dual head I skipped to something else. Others: ------- PWM3: Like ion floating desktops, not what I wanted. TRSWM: Not updated for a long time, didn't tried it in the end. IceWM: Way too windows like, but nicely usable by keyboard. Finally, I settled for ratpoison, I already use it on a mediabox in my bedroom, and choosed to try to configure it to my needs. I didn't know it supported dual head well, but it's clean and working :) The fact is that ratpoison is even more keyboard only than ion, and I therefore felt like firefox was annoying with it's mouse use (I know there are quite some binds, but I really don't feel confortable with them). I found conkeror and tested it. The idea is to have a fully keyboard driven firefox, with buffers and binds like emacs. The main problem is that it's not very well documented and can be a bit frustrating at first. If you test it, be sure to have some time, take your time and learn the basics :) I'm currently using the vi bindings in it, and that's even less documented, I've found some things, and I'll watch to the source file and write a little documentation here, or on their wiki :) Actually I can finally do almost everything without touching the mouse \o/ If you're a keyboard lover, try conkeror it's worth the effort. |
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| No comment. |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 20th of June 2007 15:26:25 PM |
| I've decided to suppress the comment system as it is mainly used by spammer and I'm bored with supressing their posts. Therefore I'll update the About section to give better way to contact me. Any question, advice, etc should therefore be sent by e-mail or by contacting me via IRC/jabber/(insert other IM here). Edit: The about page has been updated, you should be able to understand how to contact me now. If not, too sad for you but I don't care. |
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| Some news (bl0rg, my life, whatever) |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 07th of April 2007 00:35:56 AM |
| It's been more than a month since I last posted so let's make a quick summary of what happened to me lately. I bought an alpha (api cs20), you can have a little look at it here. Actully running under gentoo as openbsd was having some trouble with the chipset and I was too lazy to search why. I then bought a 24port nortel switch, with 4 fiber ports, but I'm still unable to log on it to administrate the it. I hadn't shaved in one year, and deceided to shave everything on the 27th march. I feel naked. My internship at Mekensleep unfortunately ended, but I'll stay in touch with the team to follow the evolution of the project. And I hope I'll be able to announce that the game is in store here around the planned dates. Keep up the good work guys! I'm currently working with a friend on a paper on enhancing ClamAV's signatures' database, or more accuratly how to improve some existing signatures. This paper will be published on sabre-security's website. We will be making a presentation at epitech somewhere in june. People interested in coming could contact me for more information I'll try to post date later. Finally some planning for the future: - StormAV: It's an Open Source antivirus library using ClamAV signatures' database. It aimed at being natively portable, and more embbed-friendly than is actually ClamAV. We are going to start the real effective work on this project pretty soon and there should be some beta version available around june (maybe earlier). The homepage is pretty much empty for now. - DWARF: I'm hoping to be able to make a little library that should appear a bit more easy to use than the libdwarf some day. - m00h: I would like to do a new version of my game more complete, GPL, and with a level editor. And that's it, you're now up to date with my life, in case you're one of the rare reader of this page that isn't on irc and already knows all this :) |
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| Downtime ? |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 21st of February 2007 01:23:34 AM |
| My dad is making a new eletric installation, if everything go according to plan, servers here may not suffer from it, otherwise there may be downtimes. To keep a little mark I'll write down the uptimes in this post. Moyeux : 487 days Atuin : 168 days Ook : 66 days Roc : 42 days Death : 4 days Veterini : 3 days They are all going down except the two first, that will stay on my ups, I'll cross fingers to keep them up, as they are hosting all of the services :) EDIT: Everything went well, moyeux and atuin are still running fine, and there was no service interruption. |
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| Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiii |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 08th of December 2006 09:30:59 AM |
| And wiiiiiiiiiii.... I got it !  I won't have time to play until this evening anyway... But at least she's mine >:D bwahahah. |
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| Look, shiny ! |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 05th of December 2006 17:49:40 PM |
| A fun site collect sales number for the next gen consoles and show them here. With cool updated pics letting me do this :    Except it is done for white backgrounds, it's fun. At the time I'm writting this numbers are : - xbox360 8,004,922 - ps3 375,695 - wii 1,182,448 I write them down mainly for being able to see the evolution. |
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| Vive la France |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 29th of November 2006 13:12:54 PM |
| Fear. >> Link |
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| Switched to ubuntu |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 24th of November 2006 11:55:47 AM |
| Yep, my gentoo 64bits finally explode in an emerge --update world (mainly X), and I didn't searched how to fix it. 64bits linux is just a plain pain in the ass. It would have been wonderfull if everything was released as sources, but that's not the case and a lot of drivers and applications are provided as binaries. The compatibility with 32bits binaries work pretty fine, but most of the time need tweaks and it become more and more boring as you realised you'll have to tweak thing everytime. So X explode in my face yesterday morning, I was thinking about reinstalling my box for quite some time and thought it was the right time. First I had to choose a distro, I give a thought to *BSD, but reminded that no ati drivers + no 5.1 sound out of my live 5.1 would make me angy. I was choosing in two opposite distro... slackware and ubuntu. Last year when coding our web server we've seen the great difference between gcc 3.x and gcc 4.x, as slackware is still using gcc 3 in the base system and I felt lazy enough to use apt for installing my softwares, I choosed ubuntu, let the adventure begin... Step 1: I decided to let a little win install as I would like to try out neverwinter night 2 someday... Seems that the partition was too large, neither grub nor lilo were able to boot. Step 2: I had to redo my partitions, putting a little /boot at start to avoid this kind of annoyment. Next I decided to do a "command line system install" to have a minimal system, that was a good idea, no gnome and so on, unfortunately, it seems that one of the apt mirrors hate me. Almost all my downloads where stalling at random percentage, followed by a timeout, if I retry like 3-4 times that would finally download... strange. I was wondering if it was my LAN, on even my internet connection, but no, other download where working, ssh was working like a charm... Step 3: Let the whining begin, the real one, I was just warming up until now. Binary ati drivers: - They installed gcc-3.3-base (I already had, 4 installed), and libstdc++5 (I already had 6 installed) - They aren't working, not even loading. Mutt: - Installs postfix !? I can understand that it needs a sendmail command to be able to sendmail... but Hell, I want to be able to choose my smtp for this. Am I the only one finding that postfix on a workstation is way too overkill ? msmtp is perfectly suited for this and I don't want to have postfix on my system. Ion3: Ion is broken. Not really, but simply it has no configuration, no menus, most bind are missing compared to manually compiled version. Using my configuration every thing went fine. NFS: Everything *seems* setup for NFS to be working, but it lacks quite some tools needed, and mounting a nfs share is long, and fill dmesg with errors. I find this strange to let a system set to be able to mount NFS but missing some tools. At first I thought it was because I had made this minimal install but googling the matter shows I'm not the only one in this case. -dev: Dev packages are sometimes hard to find, for example I was trying to compile my old m00h game, and I was missing some opengl libs/headers, the package was mesa-common-dev. Ok mesa is the basic opengl implementation, but without knowing it already nothing indicates that it's in there... /*************** ** Conclusion ** ***************/ Even everything is not directly ubuntu related, but I had some trouble making my linux like I was hoping to. Ubuntu is pretty good and fast to setup as long as you make a default install (gnome/kde/xfce version, I personnally don't like any of them), but if you want to avoid having too much things that are useless for you, it's not that simple. I think it would have taken me the same amount of time with a slackware for this matter. Still, I'll be able to try some big dependancy whore applications faster with this, but it seems to me that some dependacies are a bit... strange ? :x |
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| Nachos ! |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 23rd of November 2006 13:34:31 PM |
| You like nachos ? You like zelda ? So you've probably done it before too :) >> picture sorry. |
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| Website modification |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 23rd of November 2006 12:47:15 PM |
| I've changed the main page when coming directly to the base address, instead of showing all the news, it will only display the last 10 entry, but not only news, that will prevent me from posting a news about an article or a new project, they will simply show up on the main page. Now I'll have to do things that may be posted in arcticles or in projects :) |
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| Strange... |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 21st of November 2006 12:49:50 PM |
| bleader@bagage:~$ scp death:.gtkrc-2.0 . bash: scp: command not found bleader@bagage:~$ scp usage: scp [-1246BCpqrv] [-c cipher] [-F ssh_config] [-i identity_file] [-l limit] [-o ssh_option] [-P port] [-S program] [[user@]host1:]file1 [...] [[user@]host2:]file2 bleader@bagage:~$ scp death:.gtkrc-2.0 . Password: .gtkrc-2.0 100% 41 0.0KB/s 00:00 bleader@bagage:~$ scp death:.gtkrc-2.0 . bash: scp: command not found Anyone got a clue ? PS: boxes names are after discworld characters, so death stand for DEATH, my favorite one, and it's my main box. |
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| Little EA story |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 04th of November 2006 09:18:33 AM |
| Interesting reading >> read it. |
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| OpenOffice strange behavior ? |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 31st of October 2006 22:59:39 PM |
| Lately I've been writing my activity report, of course I used OpenOffice to do this. But as I still had to go to my internship, I only had my travel time and the evening to do i. Therefore I used an usb key to store my work and write it a bit at home a bit on the train... The fact is that once finished on my home computer I had 38 pages with a page setting I liked. When switching to my laptop it became 42 pages and everything was broken. I was a bit surprised so I made some tests: - on my gentoo 38 pages - on my laptop running ubuntu 42 pages - on my mother's computer running an ubuntu too 44 pages - on my work computer running windows 40 pages Between linux and windows I can understand that font may differ a bit, even between my gentoo and ubuntu I can accept that my ubuntu have everything with antialiasing, but between two ubuntu boxes ? I hope that from two windows boxes documents end up looking the same, otherwise the french admistrations are going to have quite some fun. I think that this should be researched a bit to find out why this happens and how to solve it if we ever hope that linux desktop can become usable to anyone... |
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| Sncf... |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 25th of October 2006 00:28:27 AM |
| It seems that everytime we hit fall and it's start raining again, the sncf (French National Railway Company) starts to suck again. Of course incident are not (always) their fault, but strikes are. Actually they are pretty calm those days, but I fear they'll start again soon, as every year at the same period, when it's getting cold and people are freezing outside, waiting in vain hope of a train... Or when there is much more people christmas is coming and they want to buy presents and so on. What make me angry recently against them is probably not something they could have done something for. On the 13th october, there was an incident and almost no train the whole day to get to Paris, the next monday, the train I was waiting for was suppressed. Since this day, I had 3 trains suppressed, 2 trains made direct and not stopping at my station without reasons (yeah they told it before, so I was able to get off the train and take another one), and this morning without further explanations, the train became terminus 3 station before I was planning to get off (and something like 20 station earlier than excpected). This was announced just when the train hit the station and I had to get off with my laptop at hand, grabbing my usb key without unmounting it... Hopefully I saved before and everything was written before I had to unplug it, kernel buffered writes had pity on me. But this kind of situation tend to became a daily routine and I start being REALLY angry. GREUH. At leat that's out. |
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| 1 year \o/ |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 21st of October 2006 12:22:59 PM |
| moyeux, my gateway at home has passed 1 year uptime today ! That's my first one year uptime at home, I'm pretty happy :p Running FreeBSD the box is an AMD k6-2 450 running at 400 to avoid heating, after lots of crash and ton of tests of the different parts it seems to finally be reliable :) |
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| Real World DRM |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 03rd of October 2006 17:36:32 PM |
| A little video nicely showing what would be the world with DRM for everything. Thanks loops for the link. >> Video Update: Another one on trusted computing >> Video Yet another update: Since Kraken remind me of the existence of Jamendo, a website with free and legal music to download. Website is in french, but it's pretty cool :) >> Jamendo |
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| Kraken's gift |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 01st of October 2006 00:30:25 AM |
| _\|o|/_ My great old octopus has given me my birthday present yesterday when we finally see each other :) >> Pictures /me tentacule kraken |
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| RSS |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 29th of September 2006 12:49:59 PM |
| As asked by Lordjim, there is now a rss feed for ratonland. You can find it here for now, I'll add a cute link with a little rss icon under the menu later :) Update: The page has now the right section in header so that browser now that the site is rss compliant, and there is a direct link to the rss with an icon on the left (ok you can't miss it :p) |
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| I'm on my way |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 27th of September 2006 13:58:27 PM |
| As I was on my way to work I decided not to take the subway but to go to Saint Michel notre Dame and walk to work from there. After grabbing some food (BMT at subway, not the station, the fast food :p) I walked along the Seine and realized that the lighting was great on Notre Dame at this time of the day. So I stopped prepared my camera and too some pictures. Unfortunately I'm a bit dumb and took all pics in 200 ISO mode. That was a bit too high and I had to do some brightness/constrast adjustment, and I'm no expert so the result is far from being good :) >> Pictures Yeah I know I sould code this damn gallery system. |
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| Simple Rip v0.1 |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 27th of September 2006 00:27:52 AM |
| I've made a little tool to help encoding with mencoder. It's far from perfect and need some modification even to meet the needs that made me do it, but it's quite useful already I think. I hope it may be useful to someone else than me someday :) Project page |
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| gruick ! |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 24th of September 2006 20:11:13 PM |
| A sunday afternoon with worst and here is the result... :) |
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| Black and white hats explanation |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 23rd of September 2006 19:33:14 PM |
| All explained in images. Simple. I found this cute seen like this :p |
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| New racoon |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 22nd of September 2006 09:09:30 AM |
| When I got home yesterday, there was someone in front of my computer. Have a look. |
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| Boolean was enough |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 22nd of September 2006 00:01:17 AM |
| Yep in fact a boolean was far enough, I finally added the if in the code... unfortunatelly it was set to false. |
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| Yeah whatever... |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 09th of September 2006 12:48:17 PM |
| I was wondering to what scale I should be workig with on this case, that needed reflexion. At the beginning I started planning it with an int but 32bits for this matter seemed a bit overkill. At least for what I had to deal with for now. Maybe a char ? That could be cool let some latitude of variation. But what if I ever need to get higher than 127 or lower that -128 ? At this rate I realized that a short was probably the best way to go. Then when I was searching in my head about how to implement a solution to the problem I found out that I was forced to do a special test just for this and that a bool should be sufficient. Bah whatever I didn't made the test in the code. No if is better right ? I'll probably never do and will just let go with the flow. |
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| Kernel Panic. |
| Posted by bleader -- Tuesday 05th of September 2006 09:12:32 AM |
| Today at 6, one of the two servers I use for the services hosted at ratonland.org has crashed. FreeBSD made a nice kernel panic before rebooting. The box wasn't down for long, but inetd that I only use for bitlbee didn't restart. That is to say that bitlbee was down from 6 to 8h45. As only rahziel is using it and that he mainly don't step on irc before going to work... who cares ? Me. Sort of, and that make some news since I don't really have the will nor the time to make the nice arcticles I wanna write. Have a good day fellas, this one is gonna be long for me... I think :) |
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| Week-End at Rahziel's place |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 13th of August 2006 21:15:21 PM |
| This week-end kraken and I have spent most of our time at rahziel's place, with laptops and DSs. We played a lot of tetris, where they were harassing me in 2 vs 1 to train me, I need to be able to beat Omar. As I'm talking about him, he have finally released his gba homebrew game Space Tapper. If you have your hands on a m3 for your DS, or an emulator, you should try it. It's damn hard, but really fun (IMHO). Rahziel have made some photos of both kraken and myself with his fisheye objective. I like them, they are cool, and the fisheye add a caricatural factor to the pictures :) |
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| Slashdot poll |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 07th of August 2006 16:39:09 PM |
| Current slashdot poll is asking for the prefered power up in mario. And who's leading ? racoon/tanuki of course \o/ Racoons are the best, yeah simply the best :>  |
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| New camera |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 06th of August 2006 13:31:27 PM |
| Yesterday I got my new camera, a canon powershot a700. I had a old sony that was really ... old, and made very noisy photos. I'm pretty happy with my a700, manual mode, lots of setting, really fast. That's great. Here are some tests I made yesterday and this morning. |
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| Free hotline by chat |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 04th of August 2006 11:13:37 AM |
| A colleague has some problems with free... His ADSL line get syncrhonised, but he can't get access to anything, he tried to contact the free hotline by chat to avoid the overtaxed phone number. Here is the result (in french). That a nice way to be paid doing nothing :) |
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| News from hairy beast |
| Posted by bleader -- Sunday 13th of August 2006 21:29:57 PM |
| As I've told in an earlier post, I'll do a little sum up, where am I and where am I going. Work: I'm still in internship at Mekensleep. It's really interesting. Actually I'm coding the sound part of the game. I had to read quite some documentation about the way sound works on DS, test example codes, and implement a basic version in the game we're working on. After this, we searched how we can optimize memory consumption, and have some dynamic allocation for music. For now, I'm trying to ease the way we will be able to integrate sounds in the game, how we will choose which sample to play etc. I'll do the same with music and make possible to add a sound source in the game editor. Everything's going well even if we are a little late, as we fixed some deadlines for the TGS in september. School: Ok, it's not that much *school* as we're not going back to school until the end of our internship period. By the way this is related to what we are planning to do for our end of studies project. If everything keep on this way, we will try to release an open source antivirus. This idea was inspired by the problems that are currently meeting clamAV developers and contributors (from what I've heard, I may be mistaken, don't flame me for this :) - Code is hard to maintain - Heavy - Monolithic What we want to do in the absolute, is to realise an AV of the same kind as clamAV but : - with clean code, library based to enable the use of the core part outside of the program - Lightweight to ease the eventuallity of embed AV in hardware firewall/routers - Module based, to be extensible As PFE (End of studies Project) are meant to be cross platform at epitech, we will probably made it both on windows for daily use (as most AV programs), and on Linux/*BSD either for a daily use too (but who will need this ? :p) or for server purpose, with plugins for servers (we were thinking about apache and postfix). That's a great idea IMHO, and I'll be glad to participate to this project :) Personnal: No I'm not gonna talk about *life* or anything like that :) Actually for myself I had a look at the libns and devkitpro for homebrew on NDS. When I first try when I got my M3 some times ago, I was totally lost and feeled totally overwhelmed by the samples codes I read at the time. I don't really know if it was because we had project for school at this time, or if the libnds really has progressed, or even if I became smarter since then (I don't think so), but I must admit that this time I feel a little more confortable with all this. I was planning on coding a little game idea that blemish joked about on irc, but got stuck on some view problems in 3D, and stopped for a while... As I've sold my NDS to my sister with the M3, I don't have my M3 anymore... And still haven't order for a new one :) I'll do that after this post then. I haven't coded anything else than thoses little 3D test on NDS homebrew since I left school, but I really would like to be able to make this little idea, I'll try to do some more when my new M3 will arrive. For the website, I have actually 2 articles incoming, at least in my brain, I'll need some motivation to write them for real. A first one on comparing some web browsers I've tried. The second about the *SOOOOOOOOOOOO* closed source in the game industry, mostly only my opinion about it.Maybe a little third about making your X desktop more usable without the mouse, who knows... That's it. PS: Viag's wearing red underwear today, yep he told me ! |
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| Self titled is evil. |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 21st of July 2006 16:15:04 PM |
| I heard a song in my playlist, pretty cool and thought to myself I'll listen to it again after my code will be working so that I'll be able to listen to it more carefully. I had recognized the song as the main part is singed on the title that also happen to be the name of the band (narcissism anybody ?). Once this code was working properly I decided it was time to listen to this song again... The sad joke is, how am I supposed to find the self titled song in my playlist within the full discography of the band ? Each song contain this fucking string and any search of any player will return all the songs :/ Bleh I had to search manually one by one... |
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| Anxiety |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 20th of July 2006 15:57:19 PM |
| Today while I was melting at work, I've been trying to cool down keeping calm, switching from code to irc to see if anybody has talked. At this time I realized that nobody has talked for something like 10minutes. No windows hilighted telling me to watch. Not even one ! That made me anguish, I started wondering if I was still connected, but as my irc is in an ssh session, it most likely was, as I was still able to switch between channels... Who said addicted ? Mmm ? I heard it, come in front of the audience now. Ho there's no audience, whatever :) By the way I'll made a little sum up of my internship work, what's up and so on soon (maybe tonight) |
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| Sacem pow. |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 17th of July 2006 12:14:23 PM |
| Sacem (french "Society of authors, compositors and editors of music) asked a french school to pay a 75 euros fee because the children sang a song without asking for the permission... To sum up quickly the story, three teachers were leaving the school after this year. The children learned the song "Au revoir monsieur le professeur" (litterally goodbye mister teacher), and sang it at the end of the End of Year party. Some days later the sacem send a letter asking for the 75e fee... Full Story here (in french) |
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| Where is the french internet heading ? |
| Posted by bleader -- Monday 17th of July 2006 13:59:56 PM |
| Since I'm using internet, I've heard that France was really late in the internet area. In fact that was mainly referring to the acces side of the problem, and since Free made great advance, (and other ISP too as they need the money :p) this is not an issue anymore. We have pretty good access, enough bandwith (ok I'd like a litlle more in upload... but that's already pretty good.) and stable enough connexions. What I want to talk about here is the interconnexion and servers side of that problem. As I'm running mostly linux and *BSD boxes, I download iso, packages, sources and so on often enough to know that, if you have the ability to choose for your mirror, you'd better choose a .uk, .be, .se, .ie (those are juste example) than use the frenchs one, because you're almost sure that they will be faster than the french ones. Actually I've not been able to download a source tarball from sourceforge on the ovh mirrors for some months now... Recently the french agency IGN, was about to launch their geoportail a googleearth or googlemap clone, I can't tell the site has been down since the launch... Why is that ? This projects was very expensive, how come that we can't handle hosting of such an important project ? I think that point out to an underlying problem on the internet in France. That's not the only problem of this kind and nobody seems to care about this... Why ? And how can this be resolved ? :/ |
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| StopDRM |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 10th of June 2006 02:41:09 AM |
| The past two days, Richard M. Stallman was at my work, having some interviews about what's bad about DRM. He has gone to Matignon to give the EUCD.info Petition against DRM. (165 000 people signed it) He also participate actively to a march where more than a hundred people have taken over (in a peaceful manner) a music superstore in Paris. Security wasn't enough to be able to blow them out, and people working there were happy with it and told them to come back tomorrow as there will be more people (saturday). Pictures of the event showing RMS in action :) |
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| First article |
| Posted by bleader -- Saturday 10th of June 2006 02:15:47 AM |
| Here comes my first article It's about DWARF 2 debugging information. As I've spent quite some time on this while working on the ftrace project, we've seen that this miss some third party documentation. The only documentation about this seems to be the official PDF that is around 108 pages of texte and defines, even if it is pretty much complete, it is really hard to understand. At first I was willing to do a documentation for the day we had to be examined for the ftrace, unfortunately I was only able to spend something like 2 or 3 hours on my documentation, on the night before the D-day. I finally deceided that I'll have to do it better some time later and here it is. It took me quite some times, I tried to do my best to avoid unbearable english. My best hope is that it will be useful to someone... someday... |
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| but WHY ? |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 31st of May 2006 22:21:21 PM |
| Why do people always need to have one thing, that was made for ONE simple thing, doing everything. I was about to watch "Pirates of the Caribebean : Dead man's chest", and of course once again, you need thousand plugin whatever version you want to watch, to have it in your fucking browser... See ? It's a browser, made to browse over internet, using HTTP protocol. Why the hell does it have to get overloaded with plugins everywhere to make it able to watch movies embed in a webpage ? That's not its purpose for fuck sake. We should be able to download the videos we're about to watch if we want to, or even watch it in streaming with a software made for this. But NO, not in my browser, I'm tired of this. That said, I haven't seen the trailer, so it's somewhat hard to find any interest for the movie. I won't see it theater, neither will I buy it, plus I won't tell my friends what is the movie like, and so on. Doesn't that seems like a freaking mistake here ? Bah... Who cares? People are happy with this shit. Standards must be for retards no one respect them anymore. |
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| Here we are... |
| Posted by bleader -- Wednesday 31st of May 2006 02:05:49 AM |
| Ok I wasn't planning about telling about my life here, but I don't have much to say at the moment, so here are some little informations :p The results of google summer of code are out, me too... I believe that the fact I haven't lied and told that I have an internship beside the projects I could have done may have been part of the reason I haven't been choosen for any of the asked projects... That's a bit sad, but that will let me do other projects for me instead, if I found enough motivation to do them :) Since monday the 15th I've started working at Mekensleep for my third year internship. So far I'm pretty happy the team is cool, the project is awesome and I believe that what I'll have to do may be able to make it even a bit better. Great time ahead \o/ |
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| Website update |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 25th of May 2006 18:32:38 PM |
| So this won't be anything we can see, but as I was thinking about getting something new to the website, I remembered something I should have done before. Each post was passed in the nl2br() php function. That way the post were not collapsed into one line... But I was storing this in the database, that was making the edit less clean, and you had to add the brs yourself (a new call to nl2br() would have added blank like and so on). To fix this I have dumped the database remove all occurences of and restore the new one, calling nl2br() when displaying the text instead of when I was storing it. That means a bit more of cpu usage when viewing pages, but it's not like I'll be overloading the box running this server with my traffic :) While I was at it, I had a look at my code and realized I was missing some security checks. Fixed them, that's better, although I doubt it's perfect. |
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| Vimcommander and Filer |
| Posted by bleader -- Friday 05th of May 2006 22:17:41 PM |
| vimcommander is commander like interface for vim, just like mc. Two panel, switch from panel with tab, f5 f6 f7 f8 with the right functionnality, tagging, all that in your vim :) Of course it's missing some functionnality like archive browsing, ftp, and more, but it's pretty fun, and may comme in handy. Filer is a commander too, but may be set to show files like an explorer. It's written in perl/gtk2 if I'm not mistaken. and is pretty light and efficient. I was suprised to find a commander under unix, being quick, not overloaded on the interface, with only usefull features. To list some of the capabilities I've seen so far: - mass select with the middle mouse button (selecting while dragging) - all the good binds - open .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and .zip files (no rar) - search by typing the name. that always have been the only thing I liked about win32 explorer, type b and it go to the first file beginning by b, here you can search on the name, seems it doesnt count in the extension, I don't like this but this is probably a choice of the developper. - nice file association settings with priority of application. Really a nice commander, since something like 3 years I'm looking for a commander under linux I found one that actually meets almost all my needs. I think I will have a look at the code see if an ftp implementation would be possible :) |
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| Going live |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 04th of May 2006 21:11:50 PM |
| Here we go, the site is almost finished so I'll put in online now, There are some missing features, but they are mostly for admin purpose, I'll handle those tasks manually until I complete the site. |
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| First Post ! |
| Posted by bleader -- Thursday 04th of May 2006 16:59:29 PM |
| Yes, not really first post as it's used commonly online :) But this will be the first post i'll made from my little home made website. So this is the brand new ratonland, hosted at home, with a shiny raid5 to backup datas. Yup I'm a little proud. By the way the website is not finished yet, but news, comments, and most other categories, even if empty right know, should be up and ready to roll. That took me some time but it's finally there. There were three main reasons why I made this new site: - The past one used to be in php with xml storage, fully deployed from a nice package from la news factory. It was cool, but had some counter parts, as it was ready to work, it was pretty hard to tune for adding a side menu like here. So I had to use a cheap framing system, pretty ugly :) -I wasn't really aware of the inner working of the website, even if that doesn't really matters, it was somewhat bothering me. -I was willing to have a better looking and more functionnal website, while switching it to english even if I already knew I'll get some hard time writing some posts. Some little informations about the site: - Web server : apache 2 - written in php - backuped by a postgresql server - Host system : FreeBSD 6.0 - A login system with users is almost complete, but is not really usefull except if I want to give some friends permissions to post, erase comments, modify posts... - Comments, or even post, will be tagged with a name, but even if users may have some information like mail, or website, there won't be any link to those on the website. There are two reasons for this, first I don't want people to bother me if they get some more news spams. Secondly, I don't want people to come here just to post comments to put in place their little url to their blog, I have a links sections, people I think are worth it will have a link there. It's seems fair enough to me. *gruick* |
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