Du 9 au 12 juillet se tenait à Liège la 4° édition des Ardentes, un festival électro-rock. L'occasion de voir pas mal d'artistes, avec une bonne moitié que je ne connaissais pour ainsi dire pas.
Sunday, July 19 2009
Not by Orwell
By Xr on Sunday, July 19 2009, 13:00 - General
William Gibson has just discovered that a reasonably known George Orwell quote had actually nothing to do with Orwell.
In my opinion, it looked more like something an Orwell character would have said than a quote by Orwell himself anyway.
Wednesday, July 15 2009
P2P File Sharing for P2P Computing
By Xr on Wednesday, July 15 2009, 10:41 - General
Yay, "my" article got published. Man does it take a while for these things to be printed.
Saturday, June 13 2009
Demyo 1.3 released
By Xr on Saturday, June 13 2009, 13:50 - Demyo
Something like 4 months after 1.2, here is Demyo 1.3 Blaze.
For a developer standpoint, the main thing for this release was performance.
Tuesday, June 2 2009
Zenoss as a replacement for Nagios
By Xr on Tuesday, June 2 2009, 17:47 - Open Source
At work, i'm responsible of maintaining something like 60 desktop computers up and running. To keep track of their state, I use Nagios. It's not a bad tool, but its interface is ugly and quite unintuitive, and it lacks some features.
Last month, a new version of Zenoss was released. Zenoss is a full monitoring suite based on SNMP. It is rumored to scale well, track the hosts' states with more accuracy and be visually more appealing. It looked like a nice alternative, so I tried to set it up to replace Nagios.
Saturday, May 9 2009
"It was a good day" flowchart
By Xr on Saturday, May 9 2009, 15:17 - General
Found this on a dev blog (go figure) : Ice Cube's "It was a good day" flowchart (watch the video on youtube at the same time).
Wednesday, May 6 2009
Hash MD5 et SHA1 pour Windows 7 RC x86
By Xr on Wednesday, May 6 2009, 14:16 - General
Tout le monde le sait déjà, Microsoft a mis en téléchargement la RC de Windows 7 hier. Si vous n'étiez pas au courant, vous n'en avez sans doute rien à faire.
Toujours est-il que l'applet permettant de choper l'ISO est un peu tatillonne et a tendance à planter avant de dire que tout va bien (que tout aille bien ou pas). Du coup, pour savoir si le téléchargement s'est bien passé, il faudrait autre chose (des hashs). Sauf que j'en ai pas trouvé sur le net.
Voilà donc les miens, basés sur une iso que l'applet a déclarée conforme sans planter :
- MD5 :
76ed90e8772fcb9935b5dd5c4cf90183 7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_fr-fr_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_fr_dvd.iso
- SHA-1 :
a3ea834da3e35d18a8c08ce4092cce31d4b5d98a 7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_fr-fr_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_fr_dvd.iso
Note : il s'agit du hash de la version 32bit, pas de la 64.
Wednesday, April 1 2009
Coyote sues Acme
By Xr on Wednesday, April 1 2009, 13:37 - General
This is apparently quite old, but I just found it. It seems like Coyote has sued Acme. I don't know if an agreement was reached.
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