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ajv: my contribution to your thumbnail generator problem is a dirty shell script called genethumb.sh. It does not create links for subdirectories, but it may be easily adapted.

hoffman: I think you need to be certified at least as an apprentice in order to add yourself to a project.

Mulad: the progress bar is coming... later. We're just no GUI guys, so it's not really a priority for us, code stability is more important actually, sorry about that. You can still use dd and read /dev/stdin, like real men :)

Got the flu. Guess I'm not going to Bruxelles after all, since my train is in 4 hours and I still didn't manage to sleep. And I slept 2 hours last night. And 3 hours the night before. And 2 hours the night even before. Zzzzzz.

I can't believe it. The director signed the paper allowing us to release our code under the GPL. We all got sloshed for the occasion.

The LinuxExpo in Paris was really cool. I took a few pictures of our home-made booth. Another cool thing is that vlc was used to retransmit the FSF Awards at LinuxWorld, NY. Unfortunately, the quality was absolutely awful due to the bad encoder.

Grrr. The Paris metro drivers are on strike. Since I have no car, there is no way to reach our booth at the Linux Expo. fux0rZ.

Decided to got to OSDEM this weekend, it's not that far and quite a few interesting people are going there as well.

School: Grrr. One of the school's lawyer is a real moron. He wants us to register every available domain (videolan.tm.fr, videolan.com, videolan.net, videolan.com.fr), to buy the trademark, and to register the source code at a notary. He is also considering suing the other videolan trademark owners, and looking for possible patents for our software. Absolute bullshit. I think people like him are really perverting our legal system.

Fuck, fuck, FUCK ! Can't he understand we are doing a research job, that we want to publish it as free software, show it, share it, instead of preventing people from using it or even pronouncing its bloody name ? The craziest of all is that they'd prefer to have the project die in a corner (which is what it's virtually been doing for more than two years) than to take the risk that someone claims property on its name. Just the fucking name ! Next Badvogato plan: kill all lawyers.

Linux Expo: it starts on wednesday and I still haven't seen many people volunteering to stay at the Debian booth at LE-Paris (I won't be able to, since we already have a booth). I have a bad feeling about this...

Geek stuff: got my geek frog yesterday. It's so cool.

I didn't see Antitrust. Really.

Hacking: things are going pretty well for vlc ; the new module stuff works, dynamic libraries get unloaded after a while when unused, and get automagically reopened when any part of the program needs it. Stef works on raw DVD access, Meuuh is coding a new 64bits-compliant bitstream which will also work for these darn Sparc aligned reads, 2nd year students are doing some work as well, and I am still designing the new interface structure.

It seems that many people are doing Gtk/SDL applications with gtk_main() doing calls to SDL, or the contrary (SDL calling gtk functions) in different threads. I wonder if they ever cared about possible unexpected async replies under X. I really don't know how to prevent this.

Humor: someone quoted Linus on IRC today, with his famous "Software is like sex, it's better when it's free", and I found an, erm, interesting follow-up: "If you need it and can't afford it, do it yourself". /me runs :-)

Studies: got an exam on thursday, one on tuesday, and one on next wednesday, and if everything goes well they'll be the last ones of the year.

Been tracking a heap corruption bug for far too long. I'm fed up with this. It's not even my code, but I need this part to work before I may continue what I planned to do.

Personal: Corrected my online CV thanks to dirtyrat's advice. My geek code probably needs some update as well, the current one was done about 3 years ago.

Hacking: still happily hacking on vlc, doing cool stuff, fixing bugs. The whole day.

Something ubercool: the VideoLAN project is going to have a booth at the Linux Expo in Paris, right in front of the FSF, and near the KDE, Debian, OpenBSD and O'Reilly ones. I'm really thrilled, we'll have cool stuff to show.

Wow, snow. Lots of snow.