Testers you can now update your cooker and report bugs ( bugs = migration bugs because missing functionnality must go on upstream bugzilla ).

This was my first visa and I was worried about the needed paperwork (insurance, hosting certificate, ...), and then the registration after arriving. Getting the visa was not easy as you need to go to the embassy on Monday, Tuesday or Thursday between 9:00 and 12:00 and spend some time there (queuing 3 times...). Then you can chose to get the visa as soon as it is ready (the same day) for 70 euros, or wait 7 days before picking it up and only pay 35 euros...

At the airport I was welcomed with huge queues for passport checks (I think I spent about 30 minutes there) and then by Ирнина which was better :)

Apart from usual buildings and museums (I admit I haven't visited some major ones), I visited a great bar/club on the first evening, which I enjoyed even if I had not slept the night before (We went there again the next day and it was much better :) ).

I can now pronounce most letters (not all) and often understand the word when it sounds like French or English (or other, like CYШИ for sushi) but reading letter by letter is so slow... And I can't manage to read anything hand written :(

I hope I'll have the opportunity to go there again!

Photos are already online!

As a result, I’ve been putting a few packages into current contrib so that with Mandriva 2009 you’ll be able to (easily) run supervised services with my Annvix run scripts (using execline so there is an extremely small memory footprint).

Too bad Mandriva’s dietlibc is so broken that runit has to be built static with glibc, making it far larger than it should have to be. =(

So I get all the stuff home and realize the motherboard I bought only has two SATA ports, but I need four. D’oh. Back to the store (different one, actually) to pick up a PCI SATA controller card. SATA controller card doesn’t work. Double d’oh. Back to the original store to buy a DIFFERENT card. About to break screen when boot up with new card and find it reporting a PCI ID that does not exist. Fortunately, switching PCI slots makes it behave. Finally, all hardware is working. Frankly I think this combination of hardware is also teetering on the brink of my 380W power supply’s capabilities, but it seems to be holding up so far. So now the system is checking for bad blocks on the newly created RAID array. 1.5TB of bad block checks takes…a while. I’m estimating five hours at the moment…

Voilà une intéressante nouvelle : la Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring pourrait bénéficier prochainement du support de l’UDF 2.50 (aussi appelé format universel de disque). L’UDF est censé être le successeur du fameux ISO 9660, format tant utilisé pour graver les CD, mais comportant tant de limitations (qui sont partiellement comblées par les extensions : Joliet, El Torito et RockRidge).

L’UDF 2.5 permet notamment l’accès aux disques Blu-ray, impossible autrement. Il permet aussi la gravure au format UDF, qui offre un mécanisme de contrôle des erreurs et est plus économique en terme de place lorsque l’on effectue des sauvegardes.

Ce support sera disponible dans une prochaine version du noyau Mandriva-Turbolinux (et oui, maintenant, il est commun à ces deux distributions) : il s’appelera probablement “2.6.24.5-1mnb”, après avoir été testé par la communauté. D’ailleurs, si vous désirez le tester, on peut le trouver sur le site de Thomas Backlund (mais attention, ce noyau n’est pas supporté pour l’instant ! à vos risques et péril !).

L’excellentissime gestionnaire de bureau Xfce auquel je donnerais volontiers le surnom de “bureau qui a ce qu’il faut là où il faut” a le vent en poupe. Tant et si bien qu’une réelle communauté Xfce sévit désormais au sein de Mandriva et de Cooker. Et son travail est généralement apprécié, voire beaucoup apprécié.

Bon, tout cela pour déclarer que vous pouvez désormais télécharger une version One de Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring comprenant Xfce comme bureau. Il faut pour cela, aller dans le sous-répertoire correspondant à votre architecture, puis votre groupe de langue (pour le français, c’est “int”, pour les autres, la liste des langues est disponible sur la page wiki de la Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring).

(defvar ruby-program-name "ruby")
(defun ruby-module-path(module)
    (shell-command-to-string 
     (concat 
      ruby-program-name " -e " 
      "\"ret='()';$LOAD_PATH.each{|p| " 
      "x=p+'/'+ARGV[0].gsub('.rb', '')+'.rb';" 
      "ret=File.expand_path(x)" 
      "if(File.exist?(x))};printf ret\" " 
      module)))
 
(eval-after-load "ffap"
  '(push '(ruby-mode . ruby-module-path) ffap-alist))

When you do ffap (i bind it to C-x f) near a require ‘PP’ for example it will find it in your ruby path.

Petit à petit, les applications kde3 vont être remplacées par leur équivalent kde4, et de ce fait les applications kde4-* vont disparaître par exemple kde4-ktorrent va être renommer en ktorrent etc.

La prochaine étape de mon travail va etre de réintégrer certains patches important de kde3 tel que le support de la compression lzma dans le kioslave man:/

The winner will be the first person to guess which game it is, based upon the slowly revealing image on http://competition.linuxgamepublishing.com/.

The chance to know what new game is coming out for Linux and the chance to win the first copy of it produced. Yay :).

If you want Linux games already released, head to TuxGames. (Yes that’s my referral link ;)

The release focused primarily on fixes and cleanups. A bunch of minor bugs were fixed, and I rewrote most of the iCalendar back-end. It should be faster now and preserves files better than it used to.

This release includes a dummy maemo interface. It can currently fully display a Day Planner calendar, and has a UI quite similar to the desktop edition. However, it can not edit or add any events, and is as such not as useful as it might have been. The plan is for the maemo port to be ready for 0.11.

0.10 will (among other things) feature a new HTML exporting module (which has been in the works for quite a while), a cleaner, object-oriented version of the add/edit event windows (to simplify their use and maintainance. The current code that handles it is a bit ugly).

The major user-facing change will be the addition of a GUI for calendar subscriptions. 0.9 includes support for them (though it isn’t really announced because the feature isn’t ready), but one has to manually edit the config file.

Computerarcheologie op de vrijmarkt
Vandaag heb ik nog wat rondgekeken op de vrijmarkt in Rotterdam. Onder de opvallende zaken die uitgestald stonden waren onder andere een Commodore Datasette-taperecorder (oh nostalgie!), pakketjes installatiediskettes voor Windows 95 en een Epson Styus 800-printer (mijn eerste zwart-wit inkjet).

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