Dear readers, I’ll stop renewing one of the domain names I have, geekounet.org, because I don’t use it enough. It expires on April 12th. If someone there is interested by this domain name, just tell me, I’d rather transfer it to someone I appreciate than to let the domain squatters get hold of it. Update…
13/03/2009 Lire la suite...-
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RAID1 array enlarging
Here’s a quick recipe to easily enlarge a RAID1 array with the least possible downtime, using linux 2.6 and mdadm. We’ll start with a two-disk setup, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, containing two arrays, /dev/md0 and /dev/md1. /dev/md0 is mounted on / and /dev/md1 is mounted on /backup. We want to grow /dev/md1 from 230GB to 898G…
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0.30 defect/KLOC
I’ve had Claws-Mail added to Coverity’s scanner. The first result is : 0.30 report per 1000 lines of code. This is quite good I think, although these metrics aren’t a holy graal and static checking doesn’t catch everything. There are 91 reports to look at, which I’ll start doing tomorrow evening – I’ll be alone at…
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Some news – at last!
Hello, dear abandoned readers, and happy new year! I’ve not been very verbose on my blog this last month… Let’s try to fix that! I’ve been pretty busy, first with holidays, where we drove over two tousand kilometers to Clo’s father’s place, then to my parents’, then back to Clo’s father’s. These were great holidays…
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Funny pdf
When converting a rather broken PDF (ugly fonts) to PS, pdf2ps told me: **** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded. The following fonts were not embedded: OptimaLT **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored. **** The file was produced by: **** >>>> Adobe Photoshop for Windows…
17/01/2009 Lire la suite...
