Tired of looking for core files in your whole $HOME (because apps do chdir, and cores are by default in $PWD)? mkdir /cores; chmod go+w /cores; echo « /cores/%e.%p.core » > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern And voilà, you’ll find your cores easily in /cores. Much easier than find ~ -mtime 0 -name ‘core*’ !…
26/11/2008 Lire la suite...-
-
Dell’s Ubuntu offering
Yesterday I received my new laptop, a Dell XPS m1330. I bought it to replace Clo’s aging laptop (the right hinge is broken, the battery is dead, and the DVD drive is so utterly broken I had to physically remove it because the stream of errors logged to syslogd made the laptop slow…) with my…
25/11/2008 Lire la suite... -
Registar switch
Back in may 2001, I grabbed my first domain name, colino.net. I wanted to stop switching URL each time I switched the hosting. At the time I had…
25/11/2008 Lire la suite... -
Police TV series and the lowering of privacy expectations
Clo and I are following a few TV series, mainly police-related ones like C.S.I Las Vegas. While these series provide a rather entertaining way to spend one hour, I’m increasingly having a gripe about them. They surreptitiously instill a few dangerous equations in one’s mind. Watch closely, and you’ll notice that only culprits ask for…
12/10/2008 Lire la suite... -
The 3.6.0 release was painful
Paul released 3.6.0 on last Friday, with a bit of pain which could have been avoided by two things: checked translations with msgfmt -c (which translators seem to often forget), and a better Sourceforge.net interface (which is a long-standing problem). Then I’ve started to package it and then, the problems started: It crashed hard…
06/10/2008 Lire la suite...
