Archive for August, 2006

Sometimes, I feel like a geek

August 28th, 2006 by Samuel Tardieu

When I laugh at this joke while I’ve seen it at least a dozen times already, I wonder if I’m not a little bit geeky.

Running GNU/Linux on a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S7110

August 24th, 2006 by Samuel Tardieu

I just setup a page explaining what works under Gentoo GNU/Linux on the Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S7110 laptop. Please let comments here for questions, remarks or enhancements.

Wiping unused space in a file system

August 23rd, 2006 by Samuel Tardieu

A perverse hacker friend of mine has written a clever yet scaring Windows utility. Each time a USB key is inserted into his computer, the whole content of the key is silently dumped and stored on the machine. It doesn’t copy the existing files; it makes an image of the key.
After that, when the unsuspecting […]

À quand l’étoile jaune ?

August 13th, 2006 by Samuel Tardieu

D’après un récent sondage, « 39% des américains [des USA] pensent que les musulmans devraient porter une carte d’identité spéciale ».

Spread the word (and the software)

August 2nd, 2006 by Samuel Tardieu

I have a friend who knew nothing about Free Software three years ago. When she acquired a laptop, Microsoft Windows came with it, and she used it. After some time, it became slower and slower and felt very slugish, at a point where watching DVDs on it was as pleasant as looking at the TV […]

ICFP Ada virtual machine

August 1st, 2006 by Samuel Tardieu

The ICFP contest of this year starts with the implementation of a virtual machine. While I didn’t participate to the contest itself, I wrote one in Python and rewrote another one in Ada for performance reasons. Here is its code, released in the public domain.


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