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Ah ! at last i received my new laptop ! my previous was half-dead since it had no keyboard (i had to plug a regular keyboard) and had 3 minutes of battery... Well, yet another install party began this morning. I tested Mandriva Discovery (given with the laptop) and debian Ubuntu. That's really cool : people in the distros world have made good efforts to make installation process smarter and easier than Microsoft's OS installation. My new laptop is a HP/compaq nx9105 with eth10/100, wlan 802-11g, and a 56k modem; plus irDa, and USB etc.. etc... but no more floppy. Everything works under linux 2.6.8 with options 'nolapic' and 'noapic' given to the kernel. I had to install ndiswrapper to support my wifi chip, then the nvidia 2D/3D accellerator drivers for my videocard. Gnome 2.8 (given in ubuntu) is really impressive and sober. Good work linuxmen !

I'm looking for someone in this place who patched mod_virgule years ago and made an ornithology website with mod_virgule. Actually, i met a french ornithologist and i have to make a website for him. I would like to include in his links page an 'href' to your site. Please, if you recognise yourself, mail me. Thx a lot ! -- NOW : OK I FOUND YOU ! :)

Last year, i wondered how i could store widgets together in order to have a quick access to them thru a fuzzy query. Here is a little text that describe the power of graphs to help managing content, such as sounds, or words (graphs of synonyms) or everything you want. I think i will use it for my artificial minded bot to generate correct analog sentences of written french. Comments are welcome on my e-mail.

I'm a heavy user of the WindowMaker wm, and i like it because it is the only wm that handles X classes instead of application window. But since yesterday, i installed KDE 3.2 and began to... like it! Hey, KDE begins to be a good UI : DnD works correctly, Contextual menus are smart, and well.. everything is easier than Windo$ XP ! That's all folks..

Looking for an algorithm to compute a distance between two trees (graphs), i found a very cool search engine based on the bibTeX bibliography format to retrieve scientifical articles. Here is the url: CiteSeer.ist.psu.edu . It contains a huge amount of links to free downloadable articles.

She called me

She left

Fly me to the m00n
and
Let me play among the st4rs

Let me see what spr1ng
is like
On Jupiter and M4rs

In other w0rds...
h0ld my h4nd

In other w0rds...
D4rling k1ss me !

(Bart Howard)

Yesterday, was in pain.
But the sky heard my flame
And he gave me the wind
That i breathed as it came
And the child and the king
Gave me life and She came

Yesterday, i came to the huge library of the Beaubourg Center (Paris) and read the Kaufmann books called introduction to fuzzy sets. It pointed out exacly where i had a lack of knowledge for my fuzzy search engine. Fuzzy sets are , like discrete sets, very simple to palp. Hence, i envisage to return next week-end to this library to learn the application of fuzzy sets to the ambiguous grammars.