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Woaaa, I didn’t publish a single blog post since the end of April! I somehow feel the need to justify myself now The explanation is quite simple: work, work, work. It has been very busy at dayjob(s) since a couple … Continue reading →

I’m using VirtualBox since a couple of years to run Windows on top of my Linux boxes. After a while, the virtual disk size may increase to unreasonable sizes and I was searching for an option to “compact” it like … Continue reading →

Today, we received a bunch of Android-based phones at work, amongst them a Motorola Droid/Milestone. I quickly tried to connect it to my Fedora 12 box and fired up Banshee. As you can see on the screenshot below, it was … Continue reading →

Ok, this is a pure rage rant. I’m really sick of companies paper launching products that are totally unavailable to customers for months. Last November I made a blogpost about the Nokia N900, which I finally ordered. On the paper … Continue reading →

To backup MySQL databases, there is the well known and handy executable called mysqldump. It has one big shortcoming though, you can either backup one database to a file or all databases to one giant file with the “–all-databases” option … Continue reading →

RequestTracker is a widely used tool in many companies as it allows one to implement an effective workflow to handle any kind of events: customer requests, bug resolution etc…the requests are all filed as tickets to be resolved and put … Continue reading →

Until recently, I couldn’t care less about shiny new mobile phones. When mine broke or it was time to change to a new one due to my mobile operator contract ending, I simply went for the “free” phones that were … Continue reading →

Today I had to search quite a long time how to use Apache’s mod_rewrite to create a “maintenance” page for a web server. The goal was to: Redirect all URLs usually going to http://foo/go/bar to http://foo/maintenance-light.html Redirect all other URLs … Continue reading →

Good news! Quake Live is available for Linux and OSX since yesterday. For those who don’t know what it is, imagine Quake III playable in your browser with a simple Firefox/Safari plugin. Oh, and it’s free too. http://www.quakelive.com

Étant MJ pour le jeu de rôles “Cthulhu” publié par le 7ème cercle, j’ai profité d’un moment perdu pour mettre à jour mon générateur de fiches de personnages. Il s’agit d’une interface web toute simple permettant de rapidement créer une … Continue reading →