mardi 28 décembre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le mardi 28 décembre 2004, 10:00
Oh, I realize that I haven't moved a lot. Even if I have visited most
of western Europe, there are still some places I don't even remotely
know. Any Japanese Debian developer willing to host a fellow
developer for some weeks? ;-)
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lundi 27 décembre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le lundi 27 décembre 2004, 10:00
I'm working today on the new {@grisbi} 0.5.4 release. This is mainly
a bug fixes release, but support for the new {@libofx} library has
been added and a new unit test feature has been developed by Alain
Portal.
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vendredi 10 décembre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le vendredi 10 décembre 2004, 10:00
I'm to hack daily on {@phpldapadmin} this month for my job, which is
really good news! We have a customer that needs a LDAP administration
console with some extra features and that is very sensible to free
software. So we proposed him to modify {@phpldapadmin} to suit his
needs and to give our changes back to the community.
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jeudi 2 décembre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le jeudi 2 décembre 2004, 10:00
Bored? Oh yeah, I know how you can occupy yourself, just start a new
flame war on debian-devel. It is easy, indeed.
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lundi 15 novembre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le lundi 15 novembre 2004, 10:00
I'm back from a short trip with Nathalie to Brussels. We had a good
time visiting the city, improving our knowledge of Belgian beers (we
even tasted a fresh {@primus}!), bringing back some obligatory
chocolates to our families ... and of course, staying away from geeky
activities!
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mercredi 10 novembre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le mercredi 10 novembre 2004, 10:00
Adam
Kessel recently wrote about {@Gnucash} and its
un-userfriendliness. As one of the authors of {@Grisbi}, I can't
resist pointing him at {@Grisbi}, which is a finance program aiming at
simplicity.
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lundi 8 novembre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le lundi 8 novembre 2004, 10:00
Oh nice, this was the last day of this firewall installation, which is
to be delivered and checked on today. Part of my job was to make a
bootable {@mkcdrec} rescue CD-ROM for my server. Of course, when
everything was ready and after two hours lost trying to write the ISO
image from a windows machine, the only machine that had a CD-ROM
burner (funny how you can spend time on OS you don't know and don't
want to know!), it was time for testing.
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dimanche 31 octobre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le dimanche 31 octobre 2004, 10:00
Today, while fixing the heel of one of my dear's shoes that she was to
throw away, I just realized how geeks just love to fix hardware. Last
time it was my hair clipper that I fixed and it is just an example of
hardware I opened and fixed instead of just disposing it. And the
vast majority of my geek friends do love opening various devices too,
understanding how they work and finding an elegant solution (or gory
kludge) to fix them.
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mardi 12 octobre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le mardi 12 octobre 2004, 10:00
Today I'm working on a Debian training that the company I work for
will deliver to its customers. Thought this training was originally
written by {@yann}, I'm adding a lot of topics and I'm learning quite
a few Debian tricks about commands I don't use that often.
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samedi 9 octobre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le samedi 9 octobre 2004, 10:00
If you are involved in the development or in the packaging of a
program, sooner or later you'll get bug reports. Every bug report is
unique, but most of them fall into one category. Based on my Debian
or upstream experience, here are the most common families of bug
submitters I had to deal with.
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vendredi 8 octobre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le vendredi 8 octobre 2004, 10:00
Looking at {@Planet Debian}, you could say many debian developers
don't get holidays or spend the whole day kept out from sun.
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jeudi 7 octobre 2004
Par Benjamin Drieu le jeudi 7 octobre 2004, 10:00
Yesterday, {@kult} and I have spent nearly the whole afternoon trying
to install woody on a server with an Adaptec 2120S raid controller.
Of course, the 2.4.18 Linux kernel shipped with boot floppies does not
recognize it. Of course, we had no Internet access at this time so
we've tried several options, grepped kernel sources, eventually got the
Internet, googled, found an outdated site with hints, tried a modified
version of the boot floppies with a redhat kernel (of course, it did
not work) and googled to find we need to use a 2.4.21 kernel (at
last!).
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mardi 30 novembre 1999
Par Benjamin Drieu le mardi 30 novembre 1999, 10:00
real men just upload their data to a public server and let the
Internet mirror them. Back in 2001, I made some admonition graphics
for DocBook, because those used were quite ugly. Today, I needed them
for another project and of course, four years later, these files have
of course disappeared from my hard drive.
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Par Benjamin Drieu le mardi 30 novembre 1999, 10:00
OMG, my homepage is 66% evil! I can't believe it.
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Par Benjamin Drieu le mardi 30 novembre 1999, 10:00
A hackergotchi is like a tamagotchi, if you don't look after him, it
depresses and then dies. Tonight I was bored and in a Gimp mood, so
instead of fixing my bugs I took a better photo of my face and did a
better hackergotchi.
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Par Benjamin Drieu le mardi 30 novembre 1999, 10:00
I recently installed a {@fedora} in my dad's office. Oh, well, I must
admit I advocated Debian first (and indeed, we already installed it on
another computer, an old world powermac with a somewhat unsupported
graphic card). But as my dad knows {@fedora}, I ended in installing
one for him so that he can administrate it.
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