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The DPL game 15 Feb 2013 | 09:11 pm
Following the DPL game call for players, here are my nominations for the fantastic four (in alphabetical order) : Luca Falavigna Tollef Fog Heen Yves-Alexis Perez Christian Perrier These are four...
Syslinux 7 Feb 2013 | 04:33 pm
So(lusOS) I herd U liek mudslingingz? 25 Jan 2013 | 10:22 pm
After this announcement about the future of GNOME in Debian, I received several requests to look at SolusOS and their Consort fork of GNOME. On the paper, this doesn’t look like a too bad idea, since...
GNOME in Debian after wheezy 22 Jan 2013 | 07:31 pm
GNOME 3.4 for Debian wheezy is shaping up quite well. A handful of bugs remain to be fixed, but we are now in a polishing phase, as expected given the freeze status. With upstream introducing heavy c...
Shameless self-advertisement 30 Nov 2012 | 04:48 pm
Have you ever wondered one of those? How does this plumbing behind GNOME actually work? What are all these processes on my system here for? How can I manage user permissions for system actions? Ho...
Fun with automated translations 22 Nov 2012 | 03:51 pm
Today I tried to translate a German sentence posted by mistake on an English IRC channel. For that, I used Google translation. I think there is a message here about what country KDE comes from…
This is not a giant root exploit, this is a feature 5 Nov 2011 | 05:03 am
So, there is some history of organisations doing a poor job at managing security bugs. We saw the “This is not really a security hole” jokes just to avoid having bad statistics in the front page. We ...
The lies of Merkozy 4 Nov 2011 | 07:05 am
When George Papandreou announced its will to submit the European “help“ program to the approbation of the Greek people, I don’t know whether he wanted to scare people, but man, he really achieved some...
A message to liberals 11 Oct 2011 | 06:39 pm
This morning, when turning on TV, my ears have been yet another time hurt by the stupidity of a self-appointed economist, trying to intoxicate people with his fantasies about economy being able to reg...
Google Apps knows better what browser you can use 3 Jun 2011 | 10:46 pm
So I just read that Google will only support “modern browsers” starting 2 months from now. As of August 1st, we will discontinue support for the following browsers and their predecessors: Firefox 3.5...