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Member since: 2002-01-07 18:00:09
Last Login: 2008-05-08 18:02:28
Homepage: http://perso.hirlimann.net/~ludo/
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I've been using computer for more than 15 years
Started with an Apple II, on which I learned assembly and basic. Then we trade up the Apple II for a Macintosh LC with 2mb Ram and 40 Mb HD - I upgraded the ram to 6MB, bought Think Pascal (should have bought Think C) and filled the disk :-).I then got an Atari Falcon030 and started C, but did mostly assembly. Followed a bebox, I did some BeOS development for some time in C++, and felt betrayed by Be Inc. when they shifted to x86. I've used Linux and OS/2 too, I don't use OS/2 nor linux, I prefer the BSD philosophy. Now I play with MacOS X.
I
work for Joost as a QA engineer, we are building an IPTV
product .
My GnuPG public
key is available here
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I'ma available on those Instant messaging networks:
XP SP3
Just installed windows XP SP3, besides the fact that the install process was long , I liked the fact that after the reboot the first thing I was prompted for was to turn automatic updates ON.
House for Sale
A friend of mine sells his house in leiden the netherlands. Details available on his website at :http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/huis
Auth issues with twittering from jabber
For the last two week twitter@twitter.com has been "offline" in AdiumX. It looks grey - but you can send IM messages to it and that will update your twitts (I'm lhirlimann on twitter; gosh I need to update my foaf file), but you don't get any twitts from people you are following, and you need to log into the twitter website to see them. For a normal user , it looks like the jabber twittering gateway is offline and does not work anymore.This issues just made twitter unusable for me.
Looking around I found this interesting thread : http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/not_receiving_notifications_in_jabber_or_gtalk, with mostly peopel trying to delete the IM interface on twitter and readding it. I tried that a few times - but twitter stayed offline. While trying to get more information I found out that the account was waiting for an auth request - that seemed to never get through.
This morning I booted a machine where PSI was setup and found out that twitter@twitter.com did not appear in PSI's buddy list. So I started the whole add an IM device to your twitter account - and much to my surprised it worked ! So there is an issue somewhere in libpurple - because I also treid to do the same thing from within ichat (which to my knowledge uses libpurple). Issues is I have no idea on how I should properly report the issue to libpurple developers.
Getting rid of IE 7 and getting back to version 6
So you've got a brand new computer with Windows XP installed and you just patch it up to the latest level. When it's done you realize that what you need on your machine is not version 7 of internet explorer but version 6 and you want to revert - or go back to version 6 without screwing your all machine. There is a simple solution but I'm not sure if it works on all installations. if you are lucky enough to have the following file : C:\WINDOWS\ie7\spuninst\spuninst.exe on your machine, you are saved.
Just double click on it and you will be prompted about the fact that IE7 is going to be removed and that a few patches have been applied on top of it. Just tell the machine that you are sure of yourself. IE7 is going to get properly removed from your machine and you will end up in a "clean" install with IE6.
Note that the best way to achieve a nice Internet explorer 6 machine is to reinstall and handy pick the updates that you want to apply on top of service pack two, and make sure you refuse to install version seven of IE.
Apachecon Europe 2008
Yesterday I attended the last day of Apachecon Europe 2008. I listened to a few talks on Hadoop but to my dismay did not learn much at these talks - I would have liked more technical oreinted presentations getting into the guts of using Map/Reduce and HDFS efficiently.
Then I went to the APR presentation prepared at the last minute by Colmmac - because the person that was supose to give the presentation was "missing".
Any how it was a nice days and I had a few conversation with people - and that was really nice. I'll try to attend again next year.
My pictures of the events are here
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