Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category

XMPP notification for irssi running in a screen on a remote host

Like a lot of people I have my irssi on a server in a screen. This has
been working great so far but my only concerns are the notifications
on the desktop when something happening.
Over the time I have found some different solution with mitigated
results for me :
- Use fanotify script with the libnotify-bin and SSH like [...]

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Looking for a flat to rent in Paris?

I have a Friend renting a nice flat  in the center of Paris for short and middle term since I have a lot of friends/colleagues asking me about the best and the cheapest place  to stay in Paris I thought to reference her ads here :
CHARMING APARTMENT TO RENT IN LE MARAIS – BEAUBOURG
Located [...]

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Netapp sue Sun

This is fun, theses two CEO of theses big companies are dog fighting each others :
Dave post:
http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/netapp-sues-sun.html
Johanthan answer:
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/on_patent_trolling
but the real (fake) truth about that post is here :
http://fakeschwartz.blogspot.com/2007/09/bring-it-cowboy.html
I tend to believe more NetAPP in this case, just because i don’t know how many time i have sweared on that bloody ps -aux [...]

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OpenSource Jokes

Funny website that you should checkout :
http://opensourcejokes.com/
i wish theses guys were not putting some stupids google ads on the site. But well i know them it’s a day to day full time job to be the funny guys of the place

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I am a user of the Bagdhad Musem Wiki

Ah i just discovered that the Bagdhad Musem have fetched my wikipedia page and i am on it now :
http://www.baghdadmuseum.org/ref/?title=User:Chmouel
I feel greatly honored (yeah whatever).

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chmouel.com is moved.

I have finally changed chmouel.com over a new provider. The new
provider is called WebHost and i got a VPS with 50GB of
bandwith and 2GB of storage for 10US$ a month.
My first task was to compile python2.4 on that box which look like
it’s based on RH7.3 with heavy customization. Hopefully python really can compile everywhere.
I would [...]

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Jabber/Asterisk and Gajim notification

At work we are using Asterisk and Jabber and i am using Gajim as my client. I did a quick patch to have a notification on my desktop when someone call me and i get my big headphones (not that i like the phone very much but well), here is the patch for people who [...]

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X86_64

On X86_64 VM Emulation works way better with Xen 3.0 than with Vmware. Xen is pretty awesome compared to Vmware for my use. The only thing i have to figure out is how to get rpmstrap get it workin on Debian base system.

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