Archive for July, 2006
DADVSI : le pire du pire ?
Friday, July 28th, 2006Le conseil constitutionnel a rendu sa décision concernant la loi DADVSI, et on ne peut pas en être content. Pour plus d’infos, voir ce billet d’Eolas. Mais le pire du pire, ce sont les commentaires qu’on va avoir un peu partout dans les blogs, sur la dictature mise en place par le conseil constitutionnel, sur [...]
Ruby during breakfast !
Thursday, July 20th, 2006(Thanks Thomas !)
XMPP4R 0.3 Released !
Thursday, July 20th, 2006Stephan Maka announced that XMPP4R 0.3, the new version of the XMPP/Jabber library for Ruby, was released very early this morning. From the announcement : XMPP4R is a Ruby library for the Jabber/XMPP instant messaging protocol. Version 0.3 brings a lot of new features and fixes. The release has been delayed by a redesign process, [...]
Switching from Firefox to Epiphany
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006More and more, I have problems dealing with Firefox’s bloat. I gave epiphany a try as a replacement for a week, to see if it’s actually a valid replacement. Part 0: installing On Debian/Ubuntu, don’t forget to install epiphany-extensions as well. Part 1: making the switch System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications : select epiphany [...]
Vidéo de ma présentation sur XMPP/Jabber aux RMLL
Monday, July 17th, 2006La vidéo de ma présentation aux RMLL est disponible sur cette page (lien direct). Si vous voulez suivre avec les slides pendant que vous la regardez, elles sont dispo ici. Quelques remarques en vrac : Dommage que le son soit celui de l’amphi, et pas celui du micro. Comme j’ai tendance à parler un peu [...]
How I got my Internet access back (or: How much does Tele2 suck ?)
Wednesday, July 12th, 2006After being offline for 2.5 weeks at home, I finally took the decision to investigate the issue myself, because I don’t think that Tele2 can be trusted about this. So, I googled for a while, started to understand the details of PPPoE (RFC 2516), and discovered that the error I was encountering (Windows reports it [...]
Ruby-feedparser hacking
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006It’s amazing how efficient you can be when you are forced to work offline. So, thanks to Tele2, I’ve been offline at home for 16 days now, which caused major improvements to Ruby-feedparser. It now outputs the list of enclosures in the text and html outputs. This means that feed2imap will automatically support podcasting if [...]
Video recording your desktop
Sunday, July 9th, 2006While preparing one of my two RMLL talks, I wanted to create a video demo of something happening on my screen, to avoid the evil demo effect. I first tried using vncrec, and then transcode to convert to a video. But the video conversion phase took A LOT of time, because it seems that it [...]
Merges countdown
Sunday, July 9th, 2006I’ve been generating a daily graph showing the number of merges/syncs which still have to be done (as well as other info such as the number of “missing” packages in Ubuntu, that is, packages in Debian which haven’t landed yet in Ubuntu). The graph is available here. We may have a problem if we still [...]
Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2006
Saturday, July 8th, 2006Je suis de retour des rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre, qui avaient lieu à Vandoeuvre-les-nancy cette semaine. Random thoughts : Je trouve le format des RMLL définitivement inadapté. 5 jours, c’est vraiment long. D’ailleurs beaucoup de personnes viennent pour 2 jours (jeudi/vendredi) uniquement. J’ai un peu de mal à comprendre les objectifs des responsables du [...]