Today, at 9h00 in Paris, France, for the first time in its short history, 五OS has been started on a real piece of hardware.
This is an important step for an OS that has been only written using emulators like QEmu and VirtualBox.
During the week, the 五OS project has been resumed. This project is aimed at creating an OS for end-users with a really fast boot by including all vital parts in the kernel.
Also, in order to make easier for the users, there will be no need to deal with things such as shells, etc… to get the OS installed.
I’ve taken over the USB driver developpement, while BombStrike will work on the process scheduler in order to fix a few glitches that were reported.
While this happens, I’m still working on TuxTelecom althrough the service is now owned by Mutum Sigillum LLC. I get to play with the central while real service will be initiated soon.
The final service will of course include regular phone calls, but it will also include ability to send SMS to the world, and maybe to receive those too (in order to receive SMS you’ll need a special plan. Everyone with credit on their accounts will be able to send messages).
Finally, a new non-open source project I’m working on : libthor (threaded torrent library). This cross-platform library will allow anyone to build applications handling torrents (load a torrent, seed it, etc).
Well, that’s basically everything to this week’s news. See you next week !
Yeah, another birthday happened, and it helped me reminding some very old stuff.
Back in 2004, a Friend, Kiddo, sent me a nice image for birthday. The image was posted on 2004-05-31 at 23:54, and I’ve kept it all this time 
Now it’s time for me to share it with you.
While browsing the web, I found someone who posted about the service I created, SiteShot.
Well, they didn’t know what to say as the service’s page is really light. At least they saw that the screenshot are also saved in PDF.
Anyway I added a forum link on the website to allow people to access the forum, and ask questions. Dunno if it’ll help much, but well, who knows?
By the way a new design for the page is on its way, and will be available soon.
You remember, I left Eurocenter in june ‘05. Things weren’t good, and I left because I felt it was my best option.
Today, we’re soon in june ‘08, and I feel it was the right choice. It caused a whole lot of problems (and trust me, a lot means a lot), things are better, I earn a real salary (when you live near Paris, a salary under 2000€/month is far from being enough) and I don’t get any news anymore.
However today, while searching « MagicalTux » on google as I usually do (I like to see where people talk about me), I found this page.
Yeah, in ‘07, two years after I left, people still wish me an happy birthday. I’ll wait a bit to see what happens in ‘08, they may forget me this time, but it feels warm inside to see people who still care about those who are not around anymore.
I’ll be starting PHP lessons for free in a few weeks.
It’ll be limited to 10 people, and the 3 best will get some special prize, I’ll see with them what they want and what I can give them. They will get a SVN repository and a webhosting connected to this repository in order to be able to answer to the subjects.
If you want to participate, I’ll have to talk to you and evaluate your level in order to adjust to everyone’s level and avoid making subjects too boring for you.
As subjects will be made public on this blog, you are also free to participate on your own.
Subjects will be issued in English and in French.
June 1st is the deadline for people who wish to participate directly. First subject will be issued a few days later, once all participants are ready.
After a while on our new server Mu, Shigoto has finally been setup as we initially expected.
…
So we’re going back to Shigoto (Shigoto means « work » in Japanese).
Right now all the websites, mails, ftp, and other subsystems were moved from Mu to Shigoto. Success rate is 100%. The only problem which has occured is the new MySQL server which didn’t support InnoDB (and yeah, there are people using InnoDB on the websites I host).
Anyway the only remaining thing is the most troublesome one : the DNS. It’s troublesome, but it’s also not that urgent as the system will do well even with only two dns servers.
Finally, I didn’t write a new blog engine as I initially intended (no time in this world for that), however I switched from DotClear to Wordpress.
This choice was made after I used Wordpress for a while on Porchoman. Anyway stay tuned for more soon !
TuxTelecom, a French VoIP service, is opening back after a few months being down.
The service currently only allows to call between registered users, but we’re currently under negociations to allow people to make calls to external lines. Also, calling from external lines via a common PSTN number (09xxxxxxxx) will be possible too.
Last bit of special info : the service initially existed in French and English, the new one will also have Japanese voices, we found a seiyū company in Japan specialized in PABX voices, and negociation are in progress.
With now the ability to create screenshots, I decided to open a new service to let everyone have a screenshot of whatever website they want.
So, for this website (yeah, my blog) :
I’ll use this from times to times on my posts to talk about some websites, just adding a screenshot on my blog posts without having to really do a screenshot.
Oh and what’s more cool? The screenshots are updated every 10 days. If the load is low enough, I’ll change that to everyday
So, the website:
