Published by manu on 24 February 2010 at 4:03 PM
Category: etc

You might have already heard about distributed research, projects like Seti@home and Folding@home, you install some software and your computer works for science. It's a way of passively helping out.

I recently found out about this very nice project called Galaxy Zoo which is a bit the same except that the participants act as active researchers. It seems that with all these new telescopes and probes and things like that, the amount of information that needs to be analyzed is enormous. The idea is to sen... .. .

Published by manu on 23 February 2010 at 3:31 PM
Categories: GNU-Linux consumeriste

After many discussions with many people over many years concerning the Open Source "problem", things are becoming clearer. Some have said that it will just die off as there is no way of making any money out of it and hence no way of surviving in today's economic system.

About a week ago Symbian has switched to Open Source, they have about 50% of the mobile market according to this article but I'm sure they have started to lose some points to i-phone and maybe a bit

Published by manu on 23 February 2010 at 1:21 AM
Category: consumeriste

I always thought of CDs and DVDs as an unpractical medium for storage and use, so I avoid using them as much as possible. They are fragile:

• you mustn't touch 50% of the object
• it can break or scratch very very easily
• to hot or to cold and it can break
• it's extremely voluminous (compared to hard drive, SD cards, etc)

Today I was reminded something that I had completely forgotten as I so rarely get to watch DVDs, (I own 2 DVDs, one bought in 2000, and one gift still plasti-wrapped).

I am glad I haven't spent money on anything like this be... .. .

Published by manu on 21 February 2010 at 5:35 PM
Category: etc

This website is now using HTML5, normally this shouldn't change much, well all except for one thing important to me is the video tag that allows me to publish video content in such a simpler manner.

I re-encoded all my photo/video montages in OGV "format" and it seems the quality is better (this could be just an impression) and mostly it's now using open formats. There should still be a Flash fallback for older browsers for now, however I just noticed IE is broken, any Safari feedback would be nice too although I'm not sure I... .. .

Published by manu on 07 February 2010 at 2:05 AM
Categories: WTF GNU-Linux global warning

You know those lists that determine what IPs should be blocked from mail servers ? Well, maybe the idea at one point was interesting (maybe not)... . I realized today that I'm again on a couple of lists, nothing major, I realized this because an email I tried to send was blocked. After investigation it appears that these would be the among the different reasons:

• Dynamic IP (which is not true of course)
• Someone on the same netblock sent a "bad" email .... in November !!!
• A server on my netblock bounced an email
• I bought a can of SPAM and I'm sure they know about it

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Published by manu on 18 January 2010 at 6:44 PM
Categories: GNU-Linux consumeriste global warning

Icky on the inside ?

I noticed chrome is available for Debian/GNU Linux among others.. They have also been putting up ads around town that are impossible to miss. Some people think this is good, probably because Google is already their start page for many people, some even type the URL of the page they want to see on Google !

Some have told me to stop seeing evil everywhere and just bend over and. ... well, while I do think that the Google search engine is unquestionably good I don't think that I want to see one entity have so much control over the Internet, because the Internet belongs to everyone.. .well, things are ... .. .

Published by manu on 18 January 2010 at 12:45 AM
Category: WTF

LOLOMG !FAIL.. I'm sure this door was put there because it was cheaper than a window...

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Published by manu on 09 January 2010 at 2:36 AM
Categories: WTF GNU-Linux

I just read about this project to "save mysql" from the dirty hands of Oracle.. At first I thought "oh a cute little lolcat site" but then I thought "how is it that Oracle can buy out MySQL ?"

So I go to Monty's blog and go through a bunch of explanations and such, I almost cried a bit. I mean the guy has spent the last 27 years working on this database server.. To be honest since I saw the URL "helpmysql.org" I sensed something I don't like.

So I finally made it to this very good question on Monty's blog... .. .

Published by manu on 08 January 2010 at 3:01 PM
Category: Photography

Wow, snow. We are not used to it anymore, nowadays when it snows everybody get's all excited, the news talks only about that. It reminds of the hype with hurricane Gloria back when I was a bit younger

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Published by manu on 06 January 2010 at 3:23 AM
Category: Photography

This should be part one of an idea that one day got stuck in my head... something about liking light trails on night photos and the frustration of not seeing any flying cars even though we are officially ten years into the future... ..

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Published by manu on 04 January 2010 at 2:28 AM
Category: Photography

So I went for a walk today and took these pictures, this is what 2010 looks like.

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