• Saine paranoia, partie I : les spammeurs

    En français – Saine paranoia, partie I : les spammeurs Je le répète à beaucoup de gens, spécifiquement les nouveaux internautes autour de moi : Internet, c’est sympa, plein de ressources intéressantes, on y découvre des communautés de gens sympathiques, etc. Mais très vite, on y découvre des tas de pièges, placés là par des gens mal…

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  • Clo has a blog!

    As the title says… Clo (my wife) has a blog! There’s some cool stuff on it, you should give a look :-) Picture from CloBlog ;-) EDIT: because most of my readers don’t read french fluently, yes, that means I’ll be a dad in about 6 months ! (and Clo wi…

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  • Debugging: easier than it used to be!

    I just realised that, since I started doing free software development, debugging has become much easier than it used to be. At first, I didn’t even knew gdb, and debugged with printf()s. Totally impractical, slow, prone to error (as it moves corruptions to other places or even completely hide them), requires recompilation and a…

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  • Claws Mail and the huge folder

    A coworker of mine noticed after cleaning up his IMAP folders, that he managed to fill INBOX.Trash with 313.924 mails, and Thunderbird failed utterly at managing that folder. He then tried to open it with Claws Mail, which succeeded at the second attempt (a wifi disconnect ruining it at 70% the first time – and…

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