Chez Benj

I'm working today for a customer from one of his desktop stations. I'm not really used to this Gnome desktop since I use {@w9wm} and {@emacs} quite extensively as my desktop system. To tell the truth, I do almost everything with emacs : reading mail, trolling on IRC, uploading files to my FTP or editing via scp ... and of course editing text.

I was working today for a customer that works in an French administration when something strange happened. We were fixing bugs when someone who was probably the head of the administration entered and asked everybody to come with him in the hall to observe a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the tsunami. He said that it wasn't his idea but national directives from president Chirac, as if he was excusing from a weird idea that wasn't his.

We have finally released {@Grisbi} version 0.5.2. It mostly features bug fixes, but also a German translation, {@Gnucash} native import and CVS export. The good news, several people offered to make a translation of Grisbi (into Spanish, Rumanian, Swedish, ...) and we have more and more contributors. The bad news ... I haven't advanced in the UI redesign.

Battling with freeswan, I finally succeeded in bringing a VPN tunnel between a server and a client behind a NAT gateway. It was not that easy because x509 and nat traversal patches are somewhat conflicting. I ended up in installing superswan, which is a heavily patched freeswan version (I'd advise kids NOT googling for superswan ). I'm so happy it eventually work I can't resist posting this micro howto here (moreover, backups are for wimps, real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it).

Last tome of the comic book Sanctuaire, from Christophe Bec and Xavier Dorison, is due in next week, closing a very exciting story.

Back in Paris, but definitively too much mails to read to have a normal geeky activity ... I think simply deleting incoming mailboxes will solve the problem. ;-)

Cette semaine a été marquée principalement par la stabilisation de la version 0.5.1 de {@Grisbi}. J'ai corrigé pas mal de bugs et ajouté une fonctionnalité assez demandée : l'export en HTML des états. Normalement, comme les paquets sont déjà compilés pour les distributions les plus courantes, on devrait sortir officiellement la 0.5.1 ce lundi ... à suivre.

Depuis jeudi je m'amuse avec ma nouvelle radeon à faire un peu de 3D:

De retour des RMLL, après trois jours de conférences et de rencontres avec des développeurs du libre. C'était amusant de rencontrer des gens qu'on ne connaît que par IRC ou par mail et de les voir en chair et en os.

Après 3/4 d'heure d'attente aux guichets, ça y est, j'ai mes billets de train pour les RMLL. Le plus cool est que j'y vais dans le même train que Tony et RV, les cartes vont fumer. :-)