Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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)

I may be the happiest computer-science teacher in the world: in less than three months, I will start teaching a whole new class called “non-classical paradigms and languages”. The goal is to let students pursuing their masters degree discover and manipulate concepts that they haven’t had a chance to play with when using mainstream languages […]

Tomorrow, Windows Vista will be available in stores. According to press reviews, this operating system will have IPv6 enabled by default with support for automatic Teredo when native IPv6 is not available.
Teredo tunnels allows a computer plugged to a IPv4-only network to efficiently talk with computers using IPv6 addresses. IPv6 proponents such as myself […]

As you may already know, I’m a big fan of stack-based languages such as Forth, functional languages such as Haskell and reflexive languages such as Smalltalk. You can imagine how happy I was when I discovered Factor a few days ago: it combines all those aspects.
Today, a friend sent me someone email signature and asked […]

Starting tomorrow December 31st 2006, reading a DVD protected with CSS (as most DVD are) is illegal in France when it is done with a software allowing to circumvent the protection, such as VLC or mplayer which can both use the libdvdcss library. Today’s Journal Officiel (where laws and executive orders are published) says that […]