colin@colino.net

Wow. First time since I have my new 1.5GHz laptop, with 512MB of RAM and a 24x CD/DVD drive, that I try to rip one of my CDs to mp3: Beautiful ! And no, it’s not a DMA problem: [colin@jack ~]$ sudo hdparm /dev/cdrom Password: /dev/cdrom: IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 1 (on) using_dma…

Various french news sites report that Nicolas Sarkozy (french minister and head of the right-wing UMP party) is in the process of spamming french citizens with his crap propaganda. Strangely enough, I didn’t get his mail, although my mail address is probably in every spammer’s database… So I found a copy of the spam on…

Finally, I know why OpenOffice loads as fast as a mammoth runs. According to this interview, this is mainly because the kernel I/O schedulers and readahead algorithm suck, and also because of g++ which sucks at linking. Pardon, mais LOL….

Biloba is a board game that I wrote for Guillaume Demougeot, and which he open-sourced last week. After the initial release, we had a few comments in the Linuxfr news I posted, and I released version 0.3 to address most of the remarks we got. I’m really happy about this opening :-) Give that game…

I’m off for a full week of holidays. Yay! I’m just crossing fingers about the network and servers at work (please don’t break while I’m away), and also about Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13, which Paul just released (please don’t find bugs, users). On the other hand, I’m going there: So, it’s very possible that I just…