Ever wondered whether you are missing a functionality of a program because some Recommended package is missing on your system, because at some point it was not useful? With the Recommends now being installed by default, but not always, apt-get and
Geeky things
Packages and origins
Sometimes, I want to check where my packages come from. apt-show-versions already does a good job, but it tells you from which archive, and not from which site you pulled the package. Moreover, I wanted to tell in which order the distributions matter
My xorg.conf
Springtime cleaning for my /etc/X11/xorg.conf, here in full: Section "Device" Identifier "nVidia Corporation NVIDIA Default Card" Driver "nvidia" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Option "RandRRotation"
Logitech Elite Keyboard and evdev support
First things first: the keycodes The first problem of this keyboard is that it is not supported fully by the kernel. When in console, most keys are fine, but some of the special keys are unknown at the kernel level and are not translated in anything.
Blocage de site pour HADOPI
D’après une interview de la Fédération française des télécoms (FFT): Il n’est pas question ici de blocage ? Non, ça c’est pour les sites hébergés en France, pour lesquels des mesures existent déjà. Le blocage ne concerne que les sites hébergés à
A native 64bit java plugin java from Sun
A bit of context You may remember the first advertisings for the Java language; for me, it was undeniablely linked to the applets, these small applications that I used to be able to run in my NCSA Mosaic browser (or in HotJava) (especially Duke doing
German pictures under a free license
Recently, Wikimedia Commons (a cousin site of Wikipedia) received as a donation from the German Federal Archives a batch of 100,000 photos free of charge and reusable. After the availability (but here only for consultation, not free pictures) of the
Why do I prefer Acrobat Reader to other free PDF readers?
I prefer to use free applications, as much as possible. But technical value is sometimes a strong enough incentive to switch to proprietary software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Of course, I will give examples to support my claims (pictures down
Openssl bug specific to Debian.
Following the security problem on openssl/openssh specific to Debian (apparently, a lack of randomness in the generation of the keys for the whole OpenSSL library), it is time to renew your SSL certificates and SSH keys (a bit of cleaning). Why not
Taxes declaration under Debian: utter failure
I started with a small advance: I already had a valid certificate till 2010, recognized at first try. I could then fill my tax form (the certificate is in PKCS 12 format, so I could later use it on the Mac to finish the declaration). The downfall was
John Howe expose son travail
John Howe, né canadien, vit en Suisse (francophone) et a été formé à Strasbourg. Il parle excellement bien le français (une voix avec un mélange subtil d’accent américain, alsacien et suisse). Il nous a exposé ses méthodes de travail (beaucoup
Installing a Roundcube webmail in less than 30 minutes
The menu : The day before, prepare a specific hostname for the webmail (I quite like one name = one service) (e.g. webmail.mondomaine.fr). Let it infuse one whole night. Create a virtual host. Over time, I came to make a script that does most of the
Bicentenaire d'Eylau
Je suis passé le dimanche, et c’est le jour où la partie était la prise d’Eylau. Avec le nombre massif d’artilleries, peu de mouvements, et la plupart des parties se limitaient à 2 tours de jeu (la partie se fait en temps limité, et on compte les
Old time-style beep with pulseaudio
The default sample is referenced (in Debian) in /etc/pulse/default.pa (near line 87) with a line looking like load-sample x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav. The default volume is the one set in the X11 properties. Alas, it is not
Self-signed certificate with aliases for the canonical name
So here is the script. Just run it with the main name for the server in first place, and the other names after it. Do not hesitate to change the default values in the auxiliary and mandatory openssl-conf.cnf file. If you need to get a certificate for
Lightning 0.7 for Icedove
I detail again the whole procedure. I presume you have a functional installation of pbuilder following unstable: pbuilder update; pbuilder login Modify /etc/apt/sources.list to have the source repository available apt-get update; apt-get install
Enfin un aquarium à baleines chez moi...
Depuis longtemps, on peut utiliser plusieurs « écrans » sous Linux. On les considère souvent rangés à côté les uns des autres. On peut même imaginer que le premier est à nouveau à droite du dernier, faisant un anneau. On laisse ses fenêtres de
Emacs with xft support for Debian
The method was easy at work, in i386 architecture. Ubuntu (or one of its user: Alexandre Vassalotti) has some packages for emacs-snapshot that use the emacs-unicode-2 branche of development. Recompiling was no problem. At home, I use the amd64
Adobe on amd64 without a chroot: Acrobat and Flash
Choice of the model: chroot or biarch? The first choice was to eliminate the chroot method for its multiple defects: A 32 bits chroot needs to be updated like a real system. Fine for a personal desktop machine, not for a whole bunch. It is
Lightning 0.5 for icedove
I will hereby give a few details about the recompilation (I assume that pbuilder is installed, tracks unstable and works ok): pbuilder update; pbuilder login Modify /etc/apt/sources.list to make the source repository available apt-get update; apt-get
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