Tuesday, November 11 2008
La citation du jour nous vient de Bruno Kerouanton (excellent blog sur la sécurité informatique):
"La sécurité, tout le monde s’en fout :
- Au boulot, c’est le problème de l’employeur, pas de l’employé.
- A la maison, c’est comme les chiottes. Il y a un PC par maison, toute la famille s’en sert à tour de rôle pour y faire ses besoins quotidiens, et lorsque c’est sale, c’est le dernier qui est passé dessus qui nettoie."
Pas de commentaire.
Wednesday, October 4 2006
More and more software are distributed on ISO images and to install them, you must burn CDs, and launch the installation. While it is great if you like to store tons of CDs, or even if you are using a rewritable medium, it is a bit clumsy and totally avoidable. Here is how.
For illustration purpose, I will use the example of the MSDN Library. The library is available for download under three ISO images. Once the three images are downloaded, you have to burn three CDs in order to install the library. Eh, wait a minute !!! Don't do that !!! What about a virtual CD drive ?
In fact, Microsoft has release a small tool called Windows XP Virtual CD Control Panel. This small tool allows to define one or more virtual drive, and to mount ISO, CDFS, Joliet, and UDF images. Once the image is mounted, it appears as a loaded drive that is recognized like any other physical drive.
Let's get back to my example. I create a drive and mount the first image of the install. When the installer requires the second disk, I unmount the first image and mount the second. The image swap last less than ten seconds.
Believe me, it's a valuable trick that can save you a lot of time : no more burning and lengthy disk swapping.
Saturday, July 15 2006
I have recently installed Firefox 2.0 on my computer and really appreciated its speed. Apart from some crashes after extensions upgrade, I noticed a clear enhancement in the browsing.
As I was reading a blog, I wanted to subscribe to its RSS feed. As I am using the Google Reader, I usually copy the link and then subscribe to it. With Firefox 2.0, just click on the RSS link and Firefox 2.0 will offer the option to add the feed directly to your favorite RSS reader. Very nice !!!
Friday, February 24 2006
Suite à une vague de spam sur les blogs, j'ai quand même eu quatre commentaires sur une entrée relative au jeu du sablier de la fin des blogs. Et quatre commentaires sur entrée, c'est un record sur ce blog !!!
Plus sérieusement, j'ai appliqué sur ce blog une astuce assez simple qui à mon avis peut aider à juguler une partie du spam postés sur les blogs. Ce n'est pas LE test de Turing, mais ça permet de stopper les robots les plus simples...
Update : Pour les petits plaisantins qui voudraient tester l'efficacité du système, je rappelle qu'aucun système anti-spam n'est fiable à 100%. Mais la combinaison Spamplemousse et pré-visualisation des commentaires permet d'atteindre un taux assez élevé de filtrage. C'est déjà pas si mal.
Monday, January 30 2006
A couple of days ago, I bought a brand new UMTS phone. It is a Samsung SGH-Z500V model which provides everything you execpt from a phone. The two major points about this phone are : it can play MP3 files and it is Bluetooth enable.
MP3 support is important to me because I make my ringtones myself. I like to grab a music title from a CD, cut it to obtain a 20 seconds extract, convert it to MP3 at 48kbps and put it on the phone. The quality is far above the ringtones you can purchase from your operator.
Bluetooth is equally important because I have a Mac and phones are usally shipped with PC cables and softwares. So if you want to use a phone with a Mac, well, it must have a Bluetooth support.
And the last point about this phone is that it makes an excellent wireless modem. My UMTS carrier announces 384kbps for UTMS data connections, and my tests show a download speed at 40ko/s. Really amazing !!!
Monday, November 14 2005
After nearly three years on JRoller, I have decided to move my blog. I am now running it on DotClear, which is a nice blog software.
My articles will follow as soon as I have finished the layout.
Friday, July 29 2005
When you are developpping Web applications that must run on various browsers, how can you test it on a single machine ?
An answer is emulation. As I am developping on a Windows machine, I have installed the PearPC emulator and MacOS X 10.3. So now, I am able to test Web applications on three different browsers : Internet Explorer 6.0, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and Apple Safari 1.3, on a single machine.
NB : PearPC needs a really good machine to run smoothly. I recommend P4 3GHz processor at least.