A Wonderful Life in a Magical Tux

Ever wanted to become a terrorist, you can achieve that easily by going to Guantanamo. You can choose your employer, and a nice high-salary job.

Ranging from suicide bomber to suicide plane pilot, staying there will make sure you have something to do once you get out.

No wonder so many people who get out from Guantanamo fall back to terrorism, even if you didn’t belong to this world in the first place.

USA want to stop Guantanamo (at least form what the BBC says).

Anyway you can probably still enter there by pretending being a bad guy. You won’t have to pretend anymore after that.

For those who already know, I got to see a lot of policemen who opened my computers to analyze data found on those but as far as today, nothing really interesting was found.

More than that, I just don’t have any news anymore.

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Finally, starting tommorow evening (if we’re lucky the new server will be ready by this time), pinetd2 will go in production mode on ooKoo.org

This is a big step toward debugging, and will help me to kill most existing but yet unknown bugs in pinetd2.

Remember that pinetd2 is multicompatible. When updating, tables structures will be updated, but if downgrading they will be reverted to their original state.

Have you ever heard someone say this ?

“We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web.”

Our old pal Steve Ballmer said that a couple of years ago. And yeah, we can see that Microsoft tried to go in this direction. Initially planning to leave the Web « as-is » by not updating Microsoft Internet Explorer, they had to resume development as soon as Firefox 1.0 was out, on november 9th, 2004. Development was resumed, and MSIE 7.0 announced…

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As you may know, I’m currently rewritting the whole pinetd project to a new project called pinetd2.

Right now, we finally have partially reached the functionnality level of pinetd (being able to receive mails, and check them with pop), and now IMAP4 is also working (you can receive mails via imap, but not yet search and do nice stuff imap allows).

pinetd2 is still missing a MTA (this should be a matter of days) and more imap4rev1 functions (this is a matter of one or two weeks). Once this is done and once PHP 5.3 is released, pinetd will be officially OBSOLETE, and pinetd2 will become the new officially supported version. Please note that extra attention has been ported to make pinetd2 compatible with pinetd, without even having to run an update tool. Just extract pinetd2 to a new directory, copy your config file from pinetd, and run it. Your config file will merged in the XML config used by pinetd2, and you’ll have to check it a last time before running the daemon for real.

Pinetd on ohloh results in something like that :

If you are lucky enough to live in France, you will be able this friday evening near 22h50 on channel “Canal +” to watch a documentary about geeks called « Suck my Geek ».

And yeah, I’ll be in this documentary. You’ll see me speaking about various aspects of « being a computer geek », including living with a computer, playing games, watching anime and going on anime conventions, and of course about porn too (yeah, porn is something recurrent on Internet, you should know about that by now, it’s just like viagra).

Anyway that’s the first time for me to appear on a national channel. Wish me good luck!

For now, maybe you’ll want to see an interview of the people who did SuckMyGeek. A little tip : I appear near 4:10 in this video.

By the way you can also check the official Suck my Geek website for the official trailer (I’m not in this one).

I have the regret to announce today the death of Marie-Therese Karpeles known as Mark Karpeles, my grandmother, who died on monday 19 november 2007 near 18h30 (France hours).

The funeral happened today at 14h30 in Dijon.

The strike currently happening in Paris’s metro is slowly stopping, as more and more trains are running… still, it remains really hard to manage to get onboard, and to stay onboard when people trying to get in try to get you out of their way (of course it doesn’t work with me).

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I just got bored, that’s ENOUGH of all the spam overflowing from many places to my blog, so I decided to get rid of DotClear, and make my own blog engine.

This is probably going to take a bit of time (understand « a while », if I ever really start writing it) and it’ll probably require at least the latest version of PHP (understand PHP 5.3.0, or not).

This new stuff will provide a new system for trackbacks (they will be signed using an SSL key, and if someone trackbacks with a new - unknown - key, you’ll have to approve that key before), better comment management (ban a user/ip and all its posts will disappear, also spam detector included, and finally a few spam-detection and annoy-the-spammers systems).

Anyway stay tuned.

Btw if anyone can provide me with design, it’ll be welcome.