http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/ Samuel Tardieu's dual-sided blog Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:27:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A friend of mine challenged me today to the number game. This is a classical one, where you have to guess a number between 0 and 999, and the computer will tell you whether you were right on or if you were above or below the chosen number. Instead of doing ... http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2009/04/26/small-is-beautiful/ Beware: trying to move your Jabber (XMPP) server from one host to another may result in your users not being able to reliably talk to users using Google Talk or Gmail chat. It looks like one way or the other Google caches the SRV records of your Jabber server and ... http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2008/11/20/the-google-xmpp-mess/ Il y a maintenant trois ans je prévenais, ainsi que beaucoup d'autres, du danger de la loi sur le droit d'auteur de droits voisins dans la société de l'information, plus connue sous le petit nom de DADVSI. Un amendement, surnommé par les ... http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2008/11/18/dadvsi-en-arriere-la-musique/ My LG Flatron L1915S monitor decided that it was tired of working so hard: the backlight now turns off after a fraction of second. Of course, it happened right after the warranty period expired, so it is unlikely that I can get it fixed. A fair number of users [seem ... http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2008/09/21/silent-death-of-a-lg-flatron-monitor/ Back in 9th grade. My science teacher was explaining to the class why carbon monoxide (CO) inhalation was dangerous: carbon monoxide molecules attach themselves to the hemoglobin, preventing dioxygen molecules (O2) to do so. The carbone monoxide doesn't dissociate from hemoglobin under normal pressure, making it a long-term problem (ok, ... http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2008/08/06/20-years-later-im-proud-of-myself/ Am I the only one who would have loved to see a second season of Battle Programmer Shirase coming? http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2008/08/04/battle-programme-shirase/ First I hoped I had misread the web page. Then I realized I had not. Networked disks are very useful. At home, they allow you to access your data from any computer on your local network without needing to keep a machine acting as a file server turned on all the ... http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2007/12/07/the-crazyness-of-drm/ I was surprised to see that wget chose to use IPv4 over IPv6 when downloading a file. It looks like it is on purpose (I would call it a bad design choice). You can tell wget to prefer IPv6 over IPv4 by putting the following line prefer-family = IPv6 in either /etc/wgetrc ... http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2007/10/31/using-ipv6-by-default-with-wget/ Since about a week, I started to notice that I had been making a lot of typos in some commands I use frequently. For example, I became unable to type correctly cd /usr/src/linux which always resulted in cd /usr/src:linux (incidentally, when typing the above strings, I had to fix the first one and the ... http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2007/10/19/strange-keyboard-problem/ Tonight, I was willing to create a while construct in Factor taking two items on the stack: a quotation to execute when the test is true a test quotation For example, I wanted to be able to find the smallest power of two greater than or equal to an arbitrary number (here 34098) ... http://www.rfc1149.net/blog/2007/10/11/recursion-and-while-loops-in-factor/