AdaSockets 1.8.7 has been released

I just released AdaSockets 1.8.7. This is a maintenance release only, to adapt to the upcoming GCC 4.5.0 new Ada style warnings.

recoverjpeg 2.0 has been released

The new release of recoverjpeg is out! This new release can not only recover lost JPEG pictures from a memory card, but also MOV movies, thanks to the work of Jan Funke.

You can get recoverjpeg 2.0 and its cryptographic signature.

Urbi is going open-source

Gostai just announced that its implementation of the Urbiscript programming language is going to be open-sourced in May 2010. Urbiscript is a prototype-based interpreted language inspired from a mix of Lua, Smalltalk, Ruby and Javascript amongst others with many features dedicated to parallel programming.

I spent the whole 2008 year working on Urbiscript at Gostai with [...]

Small is beautiful

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 dichotomy by hand or with [...]

Using IPv6 by default with wget

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 [...]

Strange keyboard problem

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 [...]

Looking for a non-intrusive personal email ticket tracker

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 [...]

Want to work on Free Software? Positions and internships available!

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 [...]

L’introduction des logiciels libres à l’ENST : une histoire vécue

Je suis, depuis 1999, enseignant-chercheur en informatique à l’École nationale supérieure des télécommunications (ENST). Auparavant, de 1991 à 1994, j’étais moi-même à la place de ceux qui sont aujourd’hui mes élèves.

Ce faisant, j’ai suivi et souvent participé à la mise en place des logiciels libres dans l’école. En 1991, en utilisant Perl sur les machines [...]

It’s All Text!

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)