I've read this morning on toolinux 1 that it seems that Dell is proposing Linux on laptops that you cannot buy anymore with Vista, those are on newer models. Only on one model people has the possibility to choose between both OS. Of course the Linux version is 27€ cheaper but on the Micro$oft version the transport (29€) is free... so you can have a Dell with Linux for 2€ cheaper than one giving you matter for the burning licenses party ;)
As requested by sdog, this is how I modify all my pictures in a row using the command line :
I use the mogrify command that comes with ImageMagick.
First I copy all my original pics on a new folder and then I type the following command line :
$ mogrify -resize 1024x768 *
This keeps image ratio ! ;)
Of course you can define any size you want.
That is the question !
Since M$ replaces Google has advertisement exclusive provider for Digg, I wonder if I will keep "digging" some articles there...
But if I start like that, it means that I'm becoming an OpenSource extremist.... So ok, I give up my first idea and I still will "digg"... but of course no without having learned to my adds and banner blocker :-)
I just hope that the really interesting articles about OpenSource won't disappear.
Hehe, I discussed yesterday on the phone with arrfab how nice is ldapvi to manage openldap directory via an ssh connection remotely.
Arrfab then posted on his rpm repo (see his blog entry) an rpm for Centos 5.
As I don't have any repo, you can download the rpms I build for fedora 7 from arrfab's src.rpm bellow :
For some reason I had to connect to some VPN provided by a Check Point and since I migrate to Fedora 7 this fails with the following message from the SSL VPN Portal : initialization failed.
My colleague, Den Raf, had the same trouble and pointed me to the segmentation fault of the snx binary :(
Installing compat-libstdc++-296 and using the library provided in that package solved the fault :
Since long time I was wishing to have a full ssh access through the Web.
I did some research long time ago and sodg pointed me to java applet (shell-in-a-box) but I didn't really like it but it was better than nothing.
Finally I took some time (5mins) to search for a new solution and I found what makes me so happy : ajaxterm !!
Ajaxterm is a python script running on a remote server where you can configure optionally an apache (or using a reverse proxy) to access it.
I definitely advise to use an SSL layer and to use a web authentication. If you run ajaxterm from root the login command will be started but you can always specify another one.
As you can see I'll be able to follow my irc chats everywhere ;)
I don't know if remember, but long time ago I was looking for an opensource project that could index all the files that are stored on cd's or dvd's (see this old post).
It seems somebody coded it, the name of that project is DiskSearch and it's written in Python.
and even more a free fonero...
I finally found time to hack my La Fonera (www.fon.com), of course I don't want/plan to replace the firmware of my La Fonera, it would be an injustice to install a relgular OpenWRT firmware on it, I had to do it because I'd modify the dns search of the lan and the dns provided by the dhcp from this small box.
Hello,
I received my external usb/firewire (400/800) drive, it's quiet nice not very thin but seems robust enough with some rubber protection around it and this is a good point as it's my daily work external drive !
When I plugged it in the first time I got his :
My colleague Toi received also the same disk and I saw the same icon when I plugged it in.
and the future is Open Source !!
Today I installed eyeOS for the first time, just because I was curious about this project and my first impression (that's still there now) is : THIS IS AMAZING and this is the future !
Of course some improvements should be done on the applications parts, writing some more in fact like an ssh client (I know I'm a geek), a jabber client, an irc client... but the current work is already very nice !
And all this into a tgz of 746K !
There is already a nice community around this project it seems : http://www.eyeos.org/community
I hope to find some time to test writing some applications for this web based os.
I followed during this last days many talks (10), mainly in Developer Track. I really enjoyed the talks of Gerald Carter (Jerry) on Winbind's New and Improved IDMap * Nssinfo Interface. The openchange demo was really impressive and received many applauses from the audience.
Some other talks were not so nice, some speakers should improve their speeching skill, btw I know that's not easy.
In conclusion, I was very happy to attend to this Zamba :-P conference where I've learn a lot and where I met some members of the Samba Team.
Samba 3.0.25 will be a very important release I guess.
Some pictures of the social event where we boozed with the some members of the Samba Team :
As you can see those guys are really nerds, they even code during the social event at the restaurant :-P
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