Category Archives: technology

Buy me ! Upgrade me ! Register me !

Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 by

Since when nagging screens have become cricket for bought wares ? Continue reading →

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In a Flash

Posted on Thursday, August 11, 2011 by

What is happening to the Firefox Flash plugin, those days ? The critter has created a life of its own. Nowadays, it’s always the same story: I am minding my own business, and all of the sudden the CPU fans … Continue reading →

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Good ad, creepy ad

Posted on Thursday, July 7, 2011 by

When does effective ad sense falls right into the uncanny valley and becomes ultra creepy ad sense ? Like, when I visit a (not that popular) website, type another URL a few minutes later and get an ad from the … Continue reading →

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No easy answers

Posted on Monday, June 6, 2011 by

Barely a few months (6, 7 ?) since using Mac OS X and my system has got basically unusable: MacPorts has died and gone to hell, root certificates get systematically rejected by Safari, the system is sssoooo ssssllllloooowwww that using … Continue reading →

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For better and for worse

Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2011 by

Apparently the new Xcode has broken MacPorts so completely the thing is now essentially useless. More and more, for better and for worse, MacOS is the new Windows.

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Must everything be so difficult ? (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, April 4, 2011 by

Installing Ubuntu Netbook Edition in and old(-ish) HP Mini 1000 (model: 1030NR) has proved more difficult than I’ve anticipated, with the need to make the Broadcom wireless card working, with no backup ethernet connection. Continue reading →

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And now for a word…

Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 by

Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t see why people should put up with advertisement in products they are paying the full price for. Like movies for example, or DVDs. Or… software. Advertisement in web and free (as in beer) software is disruptive enough, but then you are getting what you’ve paid for.

But in this age of information petaoverload what is one ad less one ad more ? Continue reading →

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Shout me your secrets…

Posted on Friday, February 18, 2011 by

(…) few people seem to realize that, while using most of today’s networks you are basically thrusting your juicy dirty secrets across the whole segment, making the delight of all Eves and Trudies in the area. The effect is, of course, compounded if the network is wireless, because the concept of “area” becomes much fuzzier (…) Continue reading →

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I can haz SciPy !!1!1!

Posted on Sunday, February 6, 2011 by

My SciPy installation on Mac finally works — Well, at least it looks like so (the self-test does not smoke anymore). I will try to reconstruct a walkthrough, but bear in mind that I have installed, uninstalled and reinstalled so much stuff in my Mac that the reproducibility of this recipe should be taken with a grain of salt. If you try it and it works, I would be thankful if you’d leave a note describing exactly what you did. Continue reading →

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Then you just have to add another dependence…

Posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by

This short version of the story does not include all the comings and goings — installing Python 2.7 and discovering very late in the process its incompatibility with Ccipy for Mac, finding out that the concept of automatic uninstallation simply does not exist in Mac OS X, it has been lots of fun ! It feels just like UNIX, only worse — I have fallen in the rabbit hole and I am waiting for the floor to arrive. Continue reading →

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