Enlève tes doigts d'ici gamin!
Gamin has been recently patched on FreeBSD. This may change dramaticaly the way you use USB sticks, so here is a quick tutorial (for those who don't speak french, the title says put your fingers away kid
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We can haz Nouveau on FreeBSD!
Nouveau is a project which aims at producing Open Source 3D drivers for nVidia cards
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As a good resolution for new year 2008, I wanted to have an IPv6 network and switch to 64bit. Unfortunately I have a nVidia video card and two screens, making it impossible to use the free/libre nv video driver. For this reason, I was stuck with the proprietary, bugged and 32bit only nvidia video driver, which was the only non-FLOSS package on my system. This sucked!
mencoder switches I am always looking for
Each time I want to use mencoder, I have to search the man page at least 10 minutes to find-out the options I am looking for. But each time, I wonder why I am always searching for the very same options... This bores me, so let's list switches I should learn by heart:
March
Last month, I wrote to the TypeMatrix guys asking for skins availability. They hopped to have some by February, unfortunatelly, no TypeMatrix skins are available yet :'(.
February!
According to the answer I got for an e-mail sent earlier this year to the guys at TypeMatrix, the TypeMatrix 2030 skins will be available this month…
Meta-note-taking with Tomboy
Just wrote a Tomboy add-in allowing the user to keep notes in Tomboy notes. The idea? If just like me you rely a lot on short tags such as TODO or FIXME, you find it convenient to have the editor highlight them. It is exactly what the add-in has been designed for.
TeXLive architecture dependent files
I am having fun with TeXLive under FreeBSD, and while trying to understand what is utterly needed in the 5229 packages provided by the distribution, I discovered a funny thing…
Why you should not use old-style PGP encrypted / signed messages
Just received another mail signed in the the old-style way:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
make mayonnaise
Today was the second time I tried to make mayonnaise.
Writting consistent tests
I recently encountered a somewhat funny problem when porting Labyrinth to FreeBSD, python complaining about some locale.bindtextdomain that does not exist.
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