• Stuff that happens to sysadmins

    Lose one hour thinking this RAID controller driver must be buggy because « mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 » errors out with « No such device ». After this hour, figure out from man 2 mount that ENODEV means « filesystemtype not configured in the kernel. » instead. Duh. Accept the fact that some gigabit switches from an anonymous vendor that has…

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  • Lack of time…

    Wow, it’s been quite hard to find a few minutes with nothing else to do than open this Write Post page… So, I’ve been doing lots of things since Nov 13… Spent two weeks in Guadeloupe with Clo, this was our wedding gift, so many thanks to everyone! We had a great time, nice hot…

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  • « Bloody fanatics »

    Dear various people I’ve had the pleasure to read on various mailing-lists, forums, and blogs, about Firefox® versus Iceweasel. If the fanatic named Richard Stallman hadn’t been a « fanatic » when he struggled with his printer, Free Software may not exist[1]. If the fanatics building our distributions weren’t « fanatics », we’d still be using XFree86…

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  • The Sylpheed-Claws meeting!

    The Sylpheed-Claws meeting finally happened this week-end! It’s been really nice to meet these people I work with since such a long time, and to put faces on names. It wasn’t a technical meeting at all, these ones can be done via email or IRC, just a meeting involving food, drinks and chatting; but we’ve…

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