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The Second World War, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill

Beginning Linux Programming (Programmer to Programmer) by Richard Stones and Neil Matthew



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Male/31-35. Lives in Canada/Ontario/Ottawa/Manor Park, speaks French and English. Spends 80% of daytime online. Uses a Faster (1M+) connection. And likes Cooking/Reading.
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Canada, Ontario, Ottawa, manor Park, French, English, Male, 31-35, Cooking, Reading.


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3 décembre 2007


Another of my DLT tapes drives passed away this morning. The lights on the left side of the unit are all on, the ones on the right side bling from top to bottom. Looks like it is a motor problem. I put an ad on Craig's list to find two new used ones. If you are in Ottawa and you have two DLT80 for sale, let me know.
7:22:24 PM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Hardware  Trackback: trackback []

26 juin 2007

KTorrent is unstable on my main machine, it crashes randomly. I wrote a little Bash script, I put in my crontab, to check if it runs and restart it when it doesn't:

let numproc=$(ps aux | grep -e "ktorrent$" | wc -l)

if [ $numproc -eq 0 ];

then

ktorrent

else

let numerr=$(ps aux | grep -e "--appname ktorrent" | grep -e "drkonqi" | wc -l)

if [ $numerr -eq 1 ];

then

let numproc=$(ps aux | grep -e "--appname ktorrent" | grep -e "drkonqi" | awk '{print $2}')

kill -KILL $numproc

ktorrent

fi

fi

So far so good...
8:50:07 PM Google It!    comment []   Trackback: trackback []


12 février 2007

Listening to Tom Waits "Mule Variations" while hacking in Scheme. Not a good mix... Enya would make a better mix.
11:05:36 AM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Programming  Trackback: trackback []

1 février 2007

I had to reboot a VMWare virtual machine yesterday. But surprise: The boot root partition on Reiserfs is corrupted. If it was a physical system, I would boot it with a Knoppix LiveCD to repair it using reiserfsck. But here I don't know what to do. Suggestions?
6:42:50 AM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Gentoo Linux  Trackback: trackback []

9 janvier 2007

To learn: Haskell, Lisp, Java, awk, functional programming
To improve: Perl, Ruby, sed
To master: SQL, Bash

6:22:22 AM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Programming  Trackback: trackback []

31 octobre 2006


Je n'ai pas trouvé d'API qui permet de retrouver le symbole d'une compagnie à la bourse de Toronto. J'ai donc écris un petit script pour faire celà. On procède en deux étapes. Premièrement on doit envoyer à Yahoo! Finance le nom de la compagnie pour laquelle on veut le symbole. En Ruby, ce la donne:

Ensuite, on parse cette page (hdoc) avec cette expression régulière:

Voila, c'est simple!
P.S.: Désolé pour le format bizarre de ce post, ni Radio Userland ni Blogger ne laissent poster de code HTML à l'intérieur d'un post sans l'interpréter. Peut-être devraient-ils avoir un style qui pourrait être appliqué à du code pour qu'il soit formatté correctement. Si vous ne parvenez pas à lire le code dans les images, dites-le moi dans un commentaire et je vous l'enverrez par courriel.
7:44:38 AM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Programming  Trackback: trackback []

12 octobre 2006


I am working on a cool project at work and I need an API or a web service that would return back a stock ticker when given a canadian company name. The program calling that web service is written in Ruby. I do not need an API to get stock quotes, I already found one. If you find what I need, send me an e-mail. Thanks!
7:45:51 AM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Programming  Trackback: trackback []

4 octobre 2006

I finally posted my HOWTO on how to replace a disk in a LVM volume. It is there. Enjoy!
5:37:49 PM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Hardware  Trackback: trackback []

30 septembre 2006


Woke up this morning to find one of the drives in my back-up array dead. Called my dealer who advised me to go to the Western Digital site to start an RMA process. Went there, filled the form and got an e-mail saying they can't process my credit card. This is weird, I didn't have any problem using it to buy my wife a laptop yesterday night. I guess I should wait on Monday to call VISA and/or Western Digital. The volume of postings on this blog is going down. It is not that I stopped blogging, it is just that I have another blog. i prefer to use blog on this one as it is accessible to me anywhere while I can blog with Radio only when I am home.
3:09:04 PM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Hardware  Trackback: trackback []

6 septembre 2006


I have a new blog(and its Atom feed is here). But I won't give up this one.
I just needed a blog I can post to anywhere. This new blog will be more spontaneous, updated more frequently. And it will be mostly in French.
I'll post technical stuff mostly here and ramdom thought there.
7:42:24 AM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Personal  Trackback: trackback []

9 juin 2006


I never had outstanding performance from my Linux file server under NFS. I did some adjustment today that gave me a great performance boost:
  1. Export the directories with async instead of sync
  2. Mount them with rsize=32768,wsize=32768 instead of rsize=8192,wsize=8192
  3. Start 16 instances of nfsd instead of 8
My server servces files under nfs about 6 times faster than before. And even better, the CPU usage still hovers around 0%.
Now I should tune my cifs mount...
7:02:00 PM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Linux  Trackback: trackback []

6 juin 2006


Orange Pekoe tea and Grand Marnier: What a delight! I am going to bed now...
11:30:17 PM Google It!    comment []   - See Also:  Personal  Trackback: trackback []

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