Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

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 time. But wait! You could […]

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 (system wide) or $HOME/.wgetrc (user […]

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 second one came naturally buggy)
On […]

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) by doing:

1 [ 2 * […]

Are you Japanese? Do you have a bachelor degree? Do you speak some French? Do you want to come study for one year in Paris for free in the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications? We teach computer science, electronics, embedded systems, robotics, optical communications and many other things.
If you answered yes to all those […]

I am in search for the perfect non-intrusive personal email ticket tracker system. Many people send me email which require me to do some things before I can either answer them or provide them with a definite solution. Right now, I put those emails in a “avoir” (”to see” in French) folder which grows continously […]

At ENST, a French engineering school and research institute located in Paris, France, we currently have two internship proposals to work on XWiki, a Free Software wiki. European candidates may apply. Interns will receive 800€/month. Contact me if you need more information.
We also have fixed-term positions available (up to 18 months) on similar subjects (working […]

Some days ago, I was trying to get in touch with a friend of mine. I checked my instant messaging client and noted that he was online. I sent him a “Hi” and immediately received an offer to download a large .zip file with a business-related name.
The explanation? He was doing a drag-n-drop operation on […]

Today, a friend of mine told me that he was writing a Sudoku solver in Haskell. I could not resist and also wrote a brute-force one. The code is ugly (I was trying to generate as short a program as possible), but it led me to interesting thoughts.
First, here is the code. Beware, you are […]

This Firefox extension called “It’s All Text!” might be the best thing since sliced bread: it adds an “Edit” button to any textarea component which, when clicked, opens your favourite text editor.
(found through this post)