log:dju`

I’ve just commited Trac 0.9 to CVS. Since 0.9_beta2, I’ve added a hard dependency on app-text/pytextile, a Python version of Dean Allen’s Human Text Generator. This way, the textile word processor can be used in wiki pages. The downside is that I had to remove ~amd64, ~ppc and ~sparc keywords from the Trac ebuild because I couldn’t test pytextile on these archs. However, I hope it will be fixed quickly, so this great Trac release will be available for as many users as possible!

In the “Done Quick” series, initiated by the famous Quake Done Quick, other runs have been made and videos are stored at the Speed Demos Archive. The Super Mario Bros. rush (in 5:06!) is crazy! See also how to finish Morrowind (TES3) with level 1 and 10000 points of Intelligence… Thanks to dge`.

My faithful gateway is now up and running, as I received an Asus A7V600-X motherboard yesterday evening. Sure, this isn’t the most powerful motherboard out of the market, but it is cheap (45€) and, above all, it is nearly the only remaining Asus or Abit Socket A motherboard in the online shops. However, I have some issues left: one of my hard drive isn’t recognized (making the kernel hangs for 20 seconds at boot), the embedded LAN controller hasn’t got a Linux driver (Realtek 82something), and I don’t really know if there is any support for the VIA KT600 chipset. But at least I have my Internet access back, and I can read the 379 waiting emails. Well, I still have to investigate tonight!

By trying to remove the dying northbrigde chipset cooler of my motherboard and replace it by a Zalman fanless northbridge cooler, I cut two or three tracks around the hole. F*ck. So I don’t have any Internet access at home until I get a new motherboard.

Yesterday night I commited Trac 0.9_beta2 to CVS. This ebuild introduce the new 0.9 Trac series (see the exciting ChangeLog), and makes use of new USE flags to better handle package dependencies. You can now choose between enscript, silvercity, both (but you have to choose one per project) or none for syntax highlighting support. For the database backend, you have the choice between sqlite and postgresql, or both (again, one only will be used per project). Warning: sqlite-3 is now used over sqlite-2, thus a manual upgrade of the existing database files is needed as the APIs are incompatible. You can use cgi and/or fastcgi to make trac.cgi and trac.fcgi available through webapp-config. But these flags doesn’t bring any dependency in, because neither virtual/httpd-cgi nor virtual/httpd-fastcgi exist yet. That’s why you have to emerge the webserver (and the possible related modules) of your choice. This is also true for mod_python (no virtual/httpd-python). Note that in every case, tracd is always installed so that Trac can run without any webserver.

Please test it! And of course, fill bugs if you find something broken.

I’m also thinking about making macros and plugins available to Gentoo via a trac-plugins ebuild. Any recommandation about which ones you would like to see included will be welcome.

The official X-Chat Windows version was made shareware (with a 30 days trial period) some time ago, but people started to provide their own build of this famous open-source IRC client. This one includes support for IPv6, encrypted connections via OpenSSL, and provides shared libraries for GTK+, making theming possible. I like it!

I think I’ll stop bumping dju-sources ebuilds as I don’t use them anymore. Indeed, inotify has been included into mainline since 2.6.13, as well as the ALPS touchpad driver some time before. And I really can do without vesafb-tng, that’s why I have returned to the holy -ck patchset.

I also had strange NFS issues while upgrading from 2.6.12 to 2.6.13: I’m sharing the Portage tree over NFS, and emerge hanged before src_unpack() on my clients (RPC: error 5 connecting to server, lockd: couldn't create RPC handle). I had never experienced this with previous kernels. Weird! I had to add nolock to the NFS mount options in order to solve the problem. My NFS mount options now look like rw,hard,intr,nolock,tcp,rsize=8192,wsize=8192, and I hope there won’t be any additional locking problems (I do have the distlocks FEATURE enabled, and I do have added portmap and nfsmount - not netmount - to the concerned runlevel).

I bougth them two weeks ago, and now I can say I’m rather happy with. For the price (370€, and yes I might have found cheaper on some German website), the sound really rocks. The spectrum is almost flat, excepted a little drop in the mediums. And the dynamic is amazing! Too bad it isn’t not so good at low volumes. Anyway, it makes my turntables sound a lot better than the old JVC hi-fi system I was using before… Next step: an Ecler mixer, perhaps the HAK360 but most probably the NUO3 with the incredible ETERNAL crossfader. Fresh!

«C’est le bouc émissaire idéal, on se croirait au Moyen Age».

Hey folks, I’m back again! Actually I spent some days away last week, for some wonderful and sunny holidays.

I started by visiting my dear friend Maïwenn in Strasbourg. It’s good to see her, it’s been a long time (since Christmas) and I missed her a lot. She is renting a great apartment in Neudorf! We went to a nice restaurant, where fried camemberts and sauerkraut are legion, not to forget about the local beer. Delicious! Maï, congrats for the non-wedding. Think about Paris, you owe me a favour!

I took the advantage of being there to visit Dominique, son of one of my parents’ colleagues; I haven’t seen him for years and years. He showed me round the city all the afternoon: the tour was very pleasant, as he has all the historical (he is an historian PhD student) and city planning background needed. Strasbourg is really a lovely city, with its neat buildings, green parks, wide streets and its odd but splendid one-spire cathedral. I like the contrast between old buildings which have style, and modern elements like the futuristic streetcar or buildings of glass and shiny metal. However, the (extreme) right tendency in the area restrains my wish to live there.

He introduced me to his friends as his little cousin, and I was very touched. I didn’t expect that much from him. Now I see him differently and I promise myself to visit his sister and brothers (namely Rachèle, Michael and Paulo) real soon.

Then, I moved to Saarbrücken, Germany where I met Sophie and her friends. Again, it was a heartwarming stay. I haven’t seen Sophie since Christmas too, though we regularly exchanged messages all along the year. She has a nice apartment downtown, not far from the famous “Garage” night club we went to, with Adélaïde, Laurent and Carla (they’re damn cool!). We spent quite much time together, which was fine cause I really like her much. We also went for a walk in the forest on the banks of the Saar, at a place where the river almost makes a loop.

In short: great holidays, full of emotions.

And I also missed the famous BlogDay 2005 but, as I haven’t linked any website yet, I can’t make up for it this year, sorry Ozh :) Anyway ffs m8, thanks a lot for the advertising, I was very touched by your post. I never thought you paid attention to my uninteresting thoughts, that’s why this post is dedicated to you (you were expecting personal stuff, right?)