log:dju`

Being bored of my previous shit, I bought a wonderful Nokia 6021 mobile phone two weeks ago. Wow, it really rocks !!!11, and perfectly fits to my needs. No useless things like radio, poor VGA camera or support for dumb AAC files. Rock solid, 88g light and rather good-looking. Heavily designed for connectivity (email & web access, and above all: GPRS over Bluetooth to connect my laptop to the Internet, weeeee!) and ergonomy (no need to tell that Nokia has a great ability in this domain and far surpasses that of Sagem). In a word: excellent.

I still have to go into synchronization in depth, especially for contacts, calendar and messages: there is no Nokia PC Suite (the software used to connect the phone to the PC, which works exclusively under Windows) for the Linux platform and I didn’t have the time to try gnokii, gammu or wammu yet. I just don’t want to write all my contacts down again when I buy my next Nokia!

Oh, I also need to buy a wireless headset. Very handy for working and driving.

Hi peep! Weeee \o/ I’m back home at last! Paris was great, but I’m rather pleased to see my housemates again.

Today, I spent some time to investigate why mod_rewrite didn’t work with my OVH account subdomain. Hopefully, I found rather quickly that it was a bug in their shitty mod_rewrite hack. Physical htdocs directory for subdomain websites can’t be more than one step deep from the root directory. OVH’s R&D rocks.

At the same time, I took the opportunity to upgrade Wordpress to 1.5.2.

I’ve just bumped the -dju Linux kernel patchset to follow 2.6.12-ck6.

Cool, I really have to try the new Gentoo Linux Installer, which has just been released as 0.1. It has a dialog frontend for remote installations, as well as a graphical (GTK2) frontend. They both look great! Good work guys!
GLI makes our distribution a little more accessible to new Linux users, and this is a Good Thing™. People who could have been afraid by the manual installation steps might want to test the experimental LiveCD that is going to hit the mirrors under /experimental soon, at the same time as the 2005.1 release. Really soon.

Update: in less than 48h.

Time to relax! A new release of the -dju kernel patchset, based on 2.6.12-ck5, is available as an ebuild for Gentoo Linux. Sorry to have skipped -ck4.

L’autre jour je suis tombé sur ça, et j’ai bien rigolé.

Update: cet article a disparu, dommage. Quelqu’un l’aurait-il sauvegardé?

I’m away from July, 18th to August, 19th. I have accepted a mission to Paris for my company, and I’ll live there during the week. That’s why I’ll be offline most of the time, or maybe I’ll have a limited connectivity (checking emails…). I might be still available on the week ends because I’ll come back home, but I’m afraid I won’t have the time to work a lot. So later, friends.

A new release of the -dju kernel patchset, based on 2.6.12-ck3, is available as an ebuild for Gentoo Linux. I’m now exclusively using patches from genpatches to bring inotify and vesafb-tng. It looks like fbsplash doesn’t apply as is, but I’ll try to include it for the next release.

A new release of the -dju kernel patchset, based on 2.6.12-ck2, is available as an ebuild for Gentoo Linux.

I’m now part of the official Gentoo Linux development team; mentored by kloeri. I’ll try to do my best in maintaining web-apps ebuilds, starting with Trac. You can find me as dju` on the Freenode IRC network, idling (as usual) on #gentoo-dev, #gentoo-apache and #gentoo-web.