Chez Benj

Ce soir je serai parti pour une dizaine de jours au soleil de Cahors. Loin du clavier et de mes mails, donc ne me spammez pas trop en mon absence. :-)

Après quelques semaines de vacances, je me remets doucement à {@Grisbi}, qui était resté un peu à l'abandon pendant les vacances.

• Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:47:00 UTC: finishing my {@grisbi} package, ready for g++ transition.
• Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:50:00 UTC: typing "dupload" and last mail check before actual upload.
• Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:50:10 UTC: receiving and reading #322908.
• Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:50:30 UTC: mumbling something, cursing and updating debian/changelog and recompiling package.
• Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:51:00 UTC: coffee time.
• Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:12:58 UTC: uploading package.
• Sat, 13 Aug 2005 14:18:31 UTC: package accepted in archive.

Just received on an upstream mailing-list :

LSM2005 was great even if there were some organization issues, like not knowing if you would have a room to sleep during night. A friend even proposed me to sleep on the floor in her sleeping bag! Fortunately, it was not a serious issue but with more information, additional stress would have been avoided.

"Software patents directive has been rejected by 648 votes against 14."

Happy happy joy joy !

Now, if Paris doesn't get the 2012 games, it will be a perfect day.

Oh wait, if I can meet the woman of my life today, THAT would be a perfect day. :-)

Sure Eric, Free Software has no foes or even if it has, they won't attack us, right?

To my great surprise, our DSL line is now functional at our new flat!.

Tomorrow, I'm to move to a new place. Thanks to our phone operator, my flatmates and I are unlikely to obtain an internet access before at least two weeks. No packaging, no flaming, no trolling, no blogging, no mooing on IRC ... life is going to be cruel during next weeks. :-)

As every wiki admin, I had to deal with spam. Speaking about it with my friend Mathieu, he told me about a simple but very efficient idea using captchas to block spam bots from altering the wiki. Captchas are randomly-generated images that display a string user has to type in to make sure she is a human. As a computer cannot easily decipher semi-obfuscated text printed on an image, it is easy to block programs ... and then spam bots.