Diary for gilbou
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1 Apr 2004 (updated 1 Apr 2004) »
a company called tegram is selling a product called viguard. a molecular biology researcher, famous for being an investigative studier of steganography and false claims of security, is under attack by this company. this is not the first time a company uses courts and justice means to have a researcher shut up because it shows the false or erroneous claims of security of companies. here is an article in french and here is a page in english explaining guillermito's position. this company has went as far as attacking his work in advertisements in the press and calling him a "terrorist". this says a lot of this company. this is not acceptable and i invite everyone to propagate this story so we can reveal to all what their inner motives are. check facts, news and please help put this censorship attempt to have another security researcher fail.
bought from a usa based site dvorak stickers for my ibm thinkpad x30 : joy !! :) also earned 60 euro for installing and configuring my neighbor's adsl (under xp though). well, a very nice day indeed.
edp : modified the jazz's link. i'm a big fan of joshua redman (got all albums except first one) and recently i listened to : kurt elling, rachelle ferell, crusaders (they put out a singles/best of album with a few guests like clapton). rose murphy is nice too, with her birdies sounds ;) and i got several albums from coltrane, favorite one being "coltrane for lovers" (more a compilation) and the excellent africa brass sessions. good stuff. i've not bought any jazz since monthes now. i'll go for another rachelle one probably.
edp : to identify a track i would suggest hashing. the result hash has a fixed size. select an input size big enough (there's always some blank so make it wide enough) and hash it using MD5 for example. if you are extracting sound from a cd, hash the first 30 seconds or minute of the first track or a hash of 10 seconds of a few tracks and use that. using several tracks will allow you to detect songs in compilations (if you just use first track you might end with information from the album that track came from...). hashes should give you nice results, and not only because of their fixed-size hash but the high variance of result on entry's input, even one bit.
19 Mar 2004 (updated 19 Mar 2004) »
been watching saving private ryan. it's the third time i see it but every time, i cry at the end. well, it's not really like crying but tears just come over and blur my sight. i like this movie. not far from my home there's a graveyard of american soldiers, near the mt valerien. perhaps it's time to get there and visit all those that died. must be strange for their descendance in the US to know they're here, in france, an ocean across with no one to come and think about them. but in the end, i understand they have been left here so we know the price paid in blood to our liberty, and so we remember. i know why our government didn't want to involve itself in iraq but i felt it wrong. sadly, we will only understand when we will have been striked too, like US or recently spain have been. shame on us.
cdlu :(__) moooooooo ! (oo) / /-------\/ / / | || * ||----|| ^^ ^^15 Mar 2004 (updated 15 Mar 2004) »
waiting for the next joshua's redman album. some of the finest jazzmen there will include sam yahel (he's just incredible on "yaya3"), jeff ballard, brian blade and guests like eric krasno, jeff parkerm stefon harris or jurt rosenwinkle :)
on a more personal stance, i feel like i'm gonna move from bass to guitar. i already switched from 4 to 5 strings bass and everything i've put on paper music recently is using higher-strings and it's more suited to guitar than bass. i am very interested by the fender reissue of the 1952 telecaster. simple and pure beauty i would sell my soul for (sadly, the bsd daemon already bought mine). doo doo ti da wap doo !
[ created the jazz project - please check :) ]
we have a problem in france. with internet. and it is not internet but our government. a law is being prepared and will put france on the same level to internet as iran or china, where censorship reigns all over.
emails which are protected as "written correspondance" will no longer be protected because they can be used to exchange.. say.. mp3 files. so because a few can do copyright infrigement, i will be able to catch your emails and law won't even let you complain or sue me because it won't be protected against interception or anything.
and now our government has a better idea : tax uploads. i am not kidding. they want to have all french people pay a tax so the more you upload, the more you have to pay, which is rather fun when you know that we pay very high prices for relatively poor bandwidth compared to our european neighbours. forget about using your dsl for playing games, download anything because the more you download, the more your computer does upload ACK and other information, forget about using CVS or even hosting your web pages, forget about calling your grandma to use that webcam to talk to her.
what is the next french government move ? it will probably be to forbid any french user accessing any web site outside france.
i think it is now time for the us military to invade france. bomb us. invade us. save us from our government which has gone mad ! help !
patches to fix pagedaemon deadlocks have been now incorporated into netbsd-current. overloaded system with concurrent and over 400 mb disk/memory tasks and it went all fine. pr 24443 seems a to be closed-bug :)
10 Mar 2004 (updated 10 Mar 2004) »
fascinating. using newer sources and applying patches to kill the pagedaemon deadlocks i get the machine going swap-trashing rather than getting stuck. someone else has also the same problem : told him about the patches and he has the same result. while he thinks it's a crash i would rather bet on swap-trashing (especially since i was still able to drop in kernel ddb anytime). the system no longer gets stuck but it becomes so overloaded it "trashes" around and network is no longer taken care of and machine goes totally unresponsive, looking like it crashed :)
it's like going after a bug into the ground, just to turn the lamp on and be face to face with mother-bug saying "i am the bug mom and we gotta talk now" :o)