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Busy times!
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
Compact VirtualBox disk images
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
Motorola Droid/Milestone works on Fedora
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
I’m fed up of companies not delivering products (yes, you Nokia!)
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
Bash script to backup every MySQL database to separate files
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
Send an SMS when hitting a certain priority level in RequestTracker
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
Maemo or Android, N900 versus Hero
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
Catchall maintenance page with Apache
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
Quake Live available for Linux and OSX
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
Générateur de persos pour le JDR Cthulhu
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