colin@colino.net

At the beginning of this month, Larry McVoy of Bitmover fame stated that his company was going to phase out the free (as in beer) Bitkeeper client that a number of Linux developers use. As a result of this, Linus Torvalds took a week to figure out alternatives to Bitkeeper, and finally, not finding anything…

Yesterday my girlfriend and I decided to rent a bike to have a little trip, as it was sunny there. We went to the bike renting station, which is a service from the local collectivity with attractive prices (1 € for the afternoon). I saw that the software they use runs on some kind…

Looks like the free-as-in-beer Bitkeeper will soon disappear. You probably read about it all over the internet so I don’t have to explain the causes and consequences of this Bitmover decision. I personnally don’t care very much, as I don’t hack on Linux quite enough to need such a solution. A few scripts to handle…

After trying to upgrade gnome on my iBook running gentoo, I found myself waiting a few hours for it to compile everything. And then, when reopening my session, nothing worked anymore (nautilus dying, applets dying, …). As the only other Linux PPC CD I have at home is a really out of date Debian…

There’s a new driver in 2.6.12-rc1, for the zd1201 chipset found in some USB wifi sticks. As I have one, I tried it. I had to patch a Makefile to get it to build. The driver works really well, I found only two glitches: monitor mode wouldn’t work. I finally found out why. This is…