Archive for April, 2008

(Wordpress) Updating feeds after blogger articles import

Maybe you have noticed that feeds may not be up-to-date after an import from a blogger account. The following simple thing seems to fix all : post another article.

If you don’t know what to post, just create an article with the subject and body containing “test” and delete it just after having verified the feed and it should be ok…

Using an Operating System not designed to annoy you

Although I’m not here to criticize Microsoft (there are more constructive things to do), reading the news may seem to be little funny. I say seem because for many people, after thinking of all efficiency lost, this is not funny at all.

According to an article from ars technica, David Cross from Microsoft has just said about UAC (User Account Control), a Vista’s feature : “The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I’m serious,”

I suppose you wouldn’t be surprised if I say I don’t feel having the same values as Microsoft for designing software…

Happy to use another operating system!

(USTL Lille 1) Réunion Campux le Lundi 21 avril 11h30-12h30

La description est disponible sur l’article sur le site de Chtinux.

Ci dessous une copie, pas forcément à jour, au cas où le site de Chtinux planterait (ça arrive…):

Campux (GULL de Lille 1 faisant partie de Chtinux) vous invite à participer à la réunion le lundi 21 avril, de 11h30 à 12h30 (arrivez quand vous pourrez), dans notre local à la Maison Des Étudiant.

Cette réunion est destinée aux étudiants mais ouverte à tous. L’ordre du jour contient l’organisation de l’Install Party lors de Mix’Cité, l’Open Discussion Day…
Vous pourrez proposer vos idées d’évènements sur le campus et y discuter de logiciels libres.

Le local est dans la salle 7 de la MDE, près de l’espace culture. Des sandwichs et boissons sont en vente à la cafétéria au rez-de-chaussée pour ceux qui auront faim.

Distributed flood on the ubuntu planet?

Not really, but it seems that the following command has been contagious across many planets:

history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head

Will resist to the temptation of posting results too ;)

Slashdot: "HP Admits Selling Infected Flash-Floppy Drives"

Here is a news from slashdot about the problem of already infected at the selling USB Devices, in case you care about malware…

ktsolver version 0.03 released

ktsolver version 0.03 (alpha) was just released.
It is a Knight’s Tour problem solver, designed with the problem of efficiency in mind.

To get more information about ktsolver, please go to the project home page (at http://ktsolver.sourceforge.net/ , this page was just updated too).

sourceforge.net strange rules in robots.txt

After having a look (being quite curious) on the robots.txt file on sourceforge.net, I discovered some quite strange rules like:

Disallow: /forum

If you have forums on sf.net for a project and don’t understand why the same questions come again and again, here may be an indication… Maybe you’d find it a strong opinion but I think such behaviour is clearly a bad thing.

Else, sourceforge.net’s services are still useful if you want to host your free software/open source project and get relevant tools (cvs, subversion, etc…).

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