April!
After waiting and turning impatient, that's it!
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.
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