dams: July 2008 Archives

2 days ago I went doing some indoor ice climbing at the London Ice Wall in Covent Garden

That was part of the preparation for our upcoming trip in Chamonix (mainly rock climbing, and maybe a bit of easy ice climbing). That was the first time I ever did ice climbing, and it is really great Ice climbing is all about holding yourself to an ice wall that could break at any moment, with very very sharp tools in your hands and on your feet. Falling is basically not an option. I think the first rule of ice climbing is humility.

As part of the trip preparation, I also got new shoes and crampons, as pictured. These scarpa shoes are really nice. They are considered as the "classic" shoes for summer mountaineering. My last shoes were very old, bulky and pretty "old school". These new shoes are lighter, smarter, and hurt less. Plus they have an incredible style :)

Some time ago I played with Omnigraffle because they were offering free beta licenses. I draw the electronic installation diagram of my living room, check it out.

Marrant, ratp.fr a un nouveau "Plan Interactif Chiant à Utiliser Par Design".

Quand j'ai vu les nouvelles fontionnalité, j'ai tout de suite pensé (comme un con) : "Ah tiens, ils ont mis des hotspot videolan ?". Je sais, je suis pas très futé !

I just discovered that it is possible to have multiple identity on one account in Mail. Just add more than one email adress seperated by comas, in the personal email field :

I'm sure all of you Mac users know that, but I just found that out and I'm really happy about it :)

I have just released a new build of Claws Mail for Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). Despite the fact that this release is to be considered beta, I'm quite excited about it. Why?

Up to now, the builds required an X11 server to be installed (usually Apple's X11.App ). Indeed, Claws Mail is a Gtk+ software, originally built for Linux. And until recently, running Gtk+ on Mac OS X required to compile and link against X11.

However, a project finally achieved to port Gtk+ to Mac OS X natively. I'm talking about Imendio's project .

Although I had played with this Gtk+ port in the past (the default demo application ran quite well), I waited for the Port to be a bit more mature.

When I decided to try to build Claws Mail on top of this native Gtk+ port, it took me only one night to do it. The Gtk+ port compiled flawlessly, all I got to do is resolve the usual Mac / Claws compilation issues, as well as the packaging.

So anyway, I'm proud to present the first native Mac OS X version of Claws Mail, available as a nice dmg image here .

Beware, although it works quite well (I'm using it currently), this is to be considere beta. Some bugs and glitches will be addressed soon.

Enjoy.

As some of you may know, I built some versions of Claws Mail for Mac OS X. However I didn't keep them up-to-date with the latest Claws version, nor the latest Mac OS X versions, shame on me !

However I had good reasons, and when you'll see the next version that I'm currently trying to build, you'll see why...

So stay tuned !

At last !

I found a nice and easy howto describing how to enable RSS feed per category in Movable Type version 4.x.
Here it is

This blog entry describes how to create a new template (RSS category), map it to the categories, and change the main category widget to link to it. I did the similar steps to create an atom feed for each categories.

So now you can see a small feed icon near each category name, on the main page of my blog index page.

I spent 2 hours banging my head against the wall regarding Apache RewriteRule. What I wanted was simple :

• Redirect every http:// URLs to https://
• Except if it's the atom or RSS URL
• Redirect the https://.*atom.xml or rss URL to http://

And I failed. I couldn't make a pattern that says : "that doesn't end with atom.xml" or similar...

So I ended up with a compromise : only redirect /cgi-bin/mt URLs to https://. It works but I'm not quite satisfied. I'll give it another try later

It's been a long time since my last commit in the gentoo tree ! I had lost motivation and interest. But now I'm back with one simple goal for now : just maintain my ebuilds, don't get involved in any discussion, and take it easy :)

So I'm happy to celebrate my comeback with the much awaited ebuild for the new version of booh : 0.9.1.

This new version (well actually 0.9.0) brings a lot of new features and programs : album2booh booh-classifier booh-fix-whitebalance booh-gamma-correction webalbum2booh

Enjoy!

The server I'm paying for (dedibox) crashed for unknown reason, I had to reinstall it. Luckilly enough I could boot in rescue mode and archive my important data, it helped to get everything up and running again, or at least the important bits (gentoo, apache, this blog, postgresql)

The newest addition on this server :

• squid to act as proxy
• backup-manager as a backup solution

backup-manager is not very powerful, but it's small, light and simple to install and configure. All you need is Perl and gettext :) It'll do until I migrate to bacula.