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…
28/03/2008 Lire la suite...-
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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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vCalendar’s views: poll!
Which one do you prefer, and should be the default view for vCalendar? Poll is here!…
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New calendar view in vCalendar!
A picture is worth thousand words: I hope you will like it! Edit: By the way, most of the GUI code of that calendar comes from the excellent XFCE Orage clock and calendar application. Thanks to Juha!…
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Stuff that happens to sysadmins
Buy one 1U server from $supplier, specifically ask for a pair of rails, learn that « Of course it comes with rails! ». Two weeks later. Buy a 42U rack, and eight 1U servers, all of these from the same $supplier, and at the same time. Receive your rack and 8 servers, without rails. Inquire by…
05/03/2008 Lire la suite...
