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I found this blog from a french guy living in Atlanta, with some butiful picture from Georgia. For example here, here, and his albums here.

There is also this one from Tokyo.

A few days ago I was walking in "La Defense" near Paris. So I took a few photos.

Tiens, on dirait que Olivier Meunier, le principal developeur de dotclear a decide d'arreter d'etre un geek.

This is not very usefull, but this program looks funny :
http://xdesktopwaves.sourceforge.net/
I'll try that at school where I have a faster computer than my Celeron600 avaible :)

... Microsoft !
Ouais, ils se sont apercus qu'ils n'avaient plus besoin de passer par SCO, alors ils font tout eux meme maintenant.

Dans cet article on apprend que Steve Ballmer menace les gouvernements asiatiques qui sont passés à Linux ou prévoient de le faire de plaintes, car selon lui, Linux violerait plus de 228 brevets.

Dans cet autre article, Gael Duval (MandrakeSoft) explique que les gouvernemants utilisants Windows ont autants de risques d'etre poursuivis pour les memes raisons (puisque Microsoft est en ce moment en procès pour violations de brevets) et accuse Steve Ballmer de voulloir faire peur et de faire du FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt: raconter des trucs pas tout à fait vrais aux gens pour leur faire peur). Bruce Lowry de Novell explique qu'il n'y a pas plus de risques de problèmes de brevets avec les logiciels open source qu'avec les logiciels propriétaires et qu'a l'heure actuelle il n'y a eu aucune plainte contre un logiciel open source concernant un brevet.

Enfin c'est Steve Ballmer quoi. Faut lire quelques uns de ses articles pour voir l'énorme mauvaise fois de ce type.

When I read that and the comments, I'm a little scared :
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/16/1846207&tid=134

Look at this :
http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/

Read and reload a few times :)

I see while reading spreadfirefox.com that is has been downloaded more than 2,5 millions times since november 9th. That's a lot !
It even has its own page on google :
http://www.google.com/firefox

Bon, le dernier weekend de 3 jours (du vendredi soir au lundi 1er novembre) j'ai ete en vacances chez mes grands parents. C'etait bien, comme souvent.
Je me suis amuse a prendre quelques photos.
Des photos des chats par exemple :



Ou en allant au grenier pour regarder par la fenetre :


En allant se promener pas tres loin au moment ou le soleil se couche :


En allant chercher des champignons (ils sont pas bons ceux la):


En essayant d'aller visiter des chateaux (bon, pas de chance les 2 etaient fermes) :




Enfin, c'est bien les vacances quand meme, dommage que ca soit aussi court.

Tiens, voila une interview d'un ancien rédacteur de la presse jeux vidéo.
La presse jeux video c'est deprecated.

The MarsAttacks wiki is openned !
It's still a little empty for the moment, but when I want to write something interesting, I'll add it on this wiki now :)
However I have a lot of work now and for the next month, and will not have a lot of time for that.

Quoted from a CNET article :
"Because IE is ubiquitous, you hear a lot more about it, but I don't think that Internet Explorer is any less secure than any other browser out there," English said.

Anyone reading a security list can see that IE is full of holes. This is not because there are a lot of users, this is because the program has a very bad design.

Vamos said that although he has heard other people mention the competitive threat posed by Firefox, he doesn't see it as a problem.

"I'm not sure that that is the reality. I have seen comments around that, but there is nothing I can refer to that really supports that," he said. Instead, Vamos said, consumers need to be educated about all the features already offered by Microsoft's browser.

"We probably need to do a bit of work to communicate the features that are in IE," he said.

Vamos, who admitted he has never used Firefox, said there is a lot of hype surrounding the open-source movement and that if Microsoft's customers wanted new features, they would have told the company about it.

How can we take seriously what he is saying if he didn't even take time to run Firefox one time, and see what features are avaible ? Does he really wants us to believe that people are happy with popups openning on some website ? Does he really think we will beleive that the problem is that users don't know what features are avaible in IE ?
This is MS and they are still lying.

If you're able to reboot the computer and boot on a floppy disk or CDROM, that's quite easy (but that's easy on almost any operating system on a PC). You just have to use the bootdisk or program avaible on this website :
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
You boot on the floppy disk, then you'll be able to reset the password for any account.
An other solution if you don't want to reset the admin passwd, is to write down on a paper the password hash for the account. Then you can use this webpage to get the password from the hash in a few seconds :
http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/~oechslin/projects/ophcrack/
By the way, while you're on this webpage, you can read this article (or this one in french) about rainbow tables and how they used them to pre-calculate most windows passwords, it's quite interesting :)

Hmm, I just looked at the date, and I see that today is the 5th of november. That means that tomorrow I'm 23. Wow, I'm getting old !

I found something quite funny, it's blog3 generator. You enter a few words, then it gives you a random text about this topic.

Some photos from Trocy en Multien (near meaux) :
http://invaders.mars-attacks.org/~boklm/browse/photos/2004/200409xx_trocy_en_multien/