Recent changes in Blog

After 10 years of neglect, it is time for a new start of this site, because: I am going to retire in early 2021 (in 6 months), and I will have now time to properl...

I have been retired for one year now, and what happened? Well... I basically stopped coding and reading about anything computer related for eight months. I didn't...

Warning: on 2024 10 24, my Facebook account was hacked. Alas, Facebook did not allow me to get back my account, or even report it, so I had to create a new one. S...

Attention : le 2024 10 24, mon compte Facebook a été piraté. Hélas, Facebook ne m'a pas permis de récupérer mon compte, ni même de le signaler, et j'ai donc dû en...

I am a knowledge addict, and always has been. I was reading as many books as possible, and the advent of the web has been a marvelous gift for me. But I soon real...

At last, I am now retired! I ceased all activity on 2021 02 17, and my work account will be destroyed on 2021 02 28. A new era of full time surfing, coding and pl...

A big change is planned for this site in 2021: I am going to abandon the Foswiki engine for it, to pursue my recent goal of going back to the web roots. Basically...

At last, I found the motivation to work again on this site that I have left dormant since 2009. And I start with a long deserved migration of the engine from the ...

I know, I know, it is easy to nitpick on other people design, but this morning I tried to pay my phone bill online, and... failed. I had to retry many times, beca...

As most of you must know by now, Google suffered an outage on Jan 31, 2009 that was caused by a simple mistake: the search Goliath depended for its results on a s...

Rsync incr has been updated to version 1.7. It is a small bugfix version for a bug that could happen if you started it, and restarted another in the same minute. ...

Today, we celebrate the first release of Foswiki. It is quite exhilarating, as since the TWiki community was kicked out brutally by the founder Peter Thoeny in Oc...

Rsync incr has been updated to version 1.6. New in this version: * old backup removal was not working if the destination was on NFS, fixed. Note that backuping...

Well, it has finally happened, the dual faced Janus what makes both the beauty of Open Source projects, and its Dark side, have come to visit the twiki Project. T...

I stumbled upon the blog post "Is it important to write good code?" the other day, and became more and more ill at ease as I realized that I thought that I prefer...

I use scanbuttond v0.2.3, a nice linux daemon to trigger actions (shell scripts) on presses on scanner buttons, but after a motherboard upgrade, if failed with a ...

Rsync incr is a linux wrapper shell (bash) script around rsync to perform automated, unattended, incremental, disk to disk backups, automatically removing old bac...

For some time now, I have seen the light and I switched to the new wave of the Distributed Source Control management systems. Linus famous video of his Google tal...

At last, I decided myself to redo my old website, which was a collection of static html and was based on many of the various tools I made in these past years. As ...