Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Colorizing an old (or recent) black-and-white photography can be a tedious process. With the colorize plugin for Gimp, this is now much easier. Let’s take an example.

Once in a while, I find a very good plugin for GIMP (the GNU image manipulation program). The last one I stumbled upon was the resynthesizer plugin.
With this plugin, you can create tileable textures, remap textures or remove objects from an image in a very easy way.
I have tested the latest feature (removing objects from [...]

A few weeks ago, I noticed that some people were getting my RSS feed once every minute. The load on the WWW server was already high and I found a much cheaper solution on my side: redirect them to the RSScache service through an Apache redirection.
This morning, I read that Daniel Glazman [had the same [...]

Tout à l’heure aura lieu l’inauguration en grandes pompes de l’École Ouverte Francophone, une association d’enseignement à distance, axée sur les logiciels libres, avec des logiciels libres, utilisant des supports de cours libres. Longue vie à l’Éof, l’école des possibles.

Une présentation plus longue est disponible chez Jean-Philippe.

When doing some heavy 3D rendering with Blender, I realized that one of my animation was going to take 53 hours to render. Existing distributed rendering systems such as DrQueue were fine but require that some software other than Blender or basic interpreters (such as Python or Perl) is installed on the contributing machines.
So I [...]

When a FreeBSD committer named after two first names gets angry, here is the result.

I feel quite ashamed of the pun on the name and the logo of my new Forth compiler…

My washing machine died hard a few days ago. A sad death, I could not bring it back to life, the main component, the hardest to find, is defective.
To replace it, I went to the Darty web site with my favorite Firefox web browser. While looking for availability of my newly elected choice in nearby [...]

I have just released the new version of recoverjpeg (1.1), a software allowing you to retrieve pictures from corrupted digital media. This version adds two output file name formatting options, thanks to Pierre Beyssac for his contribution.

Several people asked me to describe my home PBX installation, based on the Asterisk Open Source PBX in order to build their own.
Infrastructure
My home network is made of several devices; only those related to VoIP (voice over IP) are represented here: