Remember a few posts ago when I mentioned the cooperative bug isolation research project?
I was thrilled because it sounded like it has much potential, but still I was expecting the disappointment of discovering an empty box with buzzwords sticked all around it. So I gave a try and read some of their papers : [1] […]
Sometimes I stumble upon so good unknown movies that I want to share them here. The last one is called “A man from Earth” (2007). It is unique in several ways : first, all the movie takes place in one room. Second, you see teachers colleagues discussing the whole movie. Looks nice, right? But yes, […]
Yay, I finally did it! The ike package (a VPN client) is up on the Ubuntu hardy Universe repository! Making a debian package for Ubuntu is not as easy as one may think…
I will now explain the process to create one.
First find something to package Easy task, just pick one on this list at […]
While cruising randomly on the Internet during this recess week, I found an very interesting research project : the cooperative bug isolation project.
My rough summary : This is a project that aims at collecting a large amount of behavioral data from application, and extracting useful informations for debugging. To do this, the source code is […]
When you work full time on a piece of software, you get accustomed to it. You know its UI by heart, you know what and where to look for and that’s the problem! Because you loose track of all these small defects that strike newcomers.
So when you get an extensive GUI overview of Ubuntu by […]
The other day when I saw Wal-Mart launching their ubuntu-based PCs, I basically froze. Whoah, the first live experiment will begin.
Yeah the first. Because until now, Dell and others manufacturers were explicitly Linux branded, and were distributed on selected areas (e.g. Linux pages). Here it is mainstream on hypermarkets, and it is branded under the […]
With the release of OS X Leopard, we saw a lot of interest arise at its Time Machine software, basically a backup system with really nice 3D graphics effects. Personally I have never used it, but I found this great review at Ars Technica as usual. I quote the main idea : “Put simply, Time […]
Have you ever been frustrated by these never-ending discussions on a simple issue in a mailing list or forum? Like this flamewar on the ubuntu-discuss-devel mailing list about whether or not put back the backspace keyboard shortcut to go back in history in Firefox? Probably often. People keep fighting over and over, repeating the same […]
I remember some time ago, when we were discussing about a potential Ideastorm-like website for FOSS, someone I don’t remember came up with the idea of cumulative bounties: I put a five-euros bounty of a idea, someone else put 10 dollars on the same idea, and so on, and we end with great prizes for […]
Going to Japan is my dream. I think a strong interest in japanese culture and anime has something to do with it. And since I’m in Singapore for the semester, it is probably my last opportunity before long to explore this country. So yesteday I bought a flight to Japan and 7 nights in a […]