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Looks like everything at epita is unreachable. I asked someone there, and there is a power failure, so everything is down :) Quite funny (it's much more funny when it happens to others).
The good thing is that I'll probably receive a lot less spam today.

defcon 13 in Las Vegas, July 29-31. Or What The Hack in The Netherlands, July 28-31.
The Netherlands is the nearest from France I think.

Today I found this weblog with some very good pictures from Japan. For exemple, -1- -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7- -8- ...

Tiens, en lisant ce message, j'apprend qu'il est interdit de diffuser "tout message ayant le caractère de propagande électorale", "à partir de la veille du scrutin" donc aujourd'hui. Par exemple, si on ecrit VOTEZ NON, c'est illegal.

De Villiers : "Hier Chirac a dit que le poids de la France allait soi-disant doubler si elle integrait l'Europe"
Qqn : "Non, il n'a pas dit une telle chose"
De Villiers :"Si ! Il l'a dit a la television !"
Qqn :"Augmenter de 50%, ca ne veut pas dire doubler M. De Villiers..."

C'est marrant de creer des chain mails par ce qu'on peut recevoir des versions modifiees plusieurs annees apres. Mais voila la version originale :

GAGNEZ 100 000F rien qu'en envoyant ce message à 5 000 000 *10²² personnes de votre entourage !!!!

Cette chaîne a été commencée en 1825 par un moine passionné d'informatique de la paroisse de St Paul Martin au Portugal dans le but de sauver une petite fille gravement malade! Ne brisez pas cette chaîne !
Un petite fille est atteinte du cancer, du sida, de la lèpre, d'un rhume, du tétanos, de la varicelle, de la connerie, et de nouvelles maladies encore inconnues des chercheurs les plus performants !! De plus elle s'est fait bouffé une jambe par un ours ! Alors renvoyez s'il vous plait ce message à tout votre entourage !
En plus cela vous portera grande chance ceci n'est pas une blague ! Ne gardez pas ce message sur votre ordinateur plus de 96 heures sans quoi le mal sera porté sur vous pendant des milliers d'année lumières !
- Un officier de la gendarmerie nationale hongroise reçu ce message et le renvoya à tout son entourage! Quatre jours plus tard il devint champion de boxe et gagna 700 milliards de dollars !
- Un américain très con et peu intelligent reçu ce message dans sa boite aux lettres! Il le renvoya à des centaines de millions de personnes de son entourage. Quelques jours plus tard il crée une société qu'il appela Microsoft et devient milliardaire !
- Un ouvrier d'une scierie d'Italie reçu ce message mais ne le renvoya pas pensant qu'il s'agissait d'une blague ! Quatre jours plus tard il fut déchiqueté dans un broyeur.
- Le directeur d'une boucherie Canadienne reçu ce message, étant très affamé il le mangea et ne pu donc pas le renvoyer à son entourage. Quelques jours après, un de ses employés le confondit avec un porc et le coupa en tranches avec une tronçonneuse !
- Il y a plus de 2000 ans, un homme reçu ce message ! Il le mis au feu et ne le renvoya à personne. Quatre jours plus tard il mourut les bras cloués sur une croix !
Ce message a fait le tour du monde 759 fois, ne brisez pas la chaîne ! Si vous envoyez ce message à votre entourage vous recevrez automatiquement la somme de 30 000$$* (sans compter ce que vous gagnerez avec la chance) dans votre boite au lettre la semaine suivante, et ceci grâce à un système de détection par satellite d'envoi de messages mis au point pas Toshiba, Sony, Aol, Disneyland Paris et Leader Price!
RENVOYEZ CE MESSAGE LE PLUS RAPIDEMENT POSSIBLE !!!!

*hors frais de notaire

Des fois il y a des gens qui font des blagues :
Et si tu cloques le swap sur le disque virtuel créé en RAM, cela ira à la vitesse de l'électronique et non à la vitesse du disque sur lequel est logé le swap.

Mettre le swap dans la ram, c'est quand meme une tres bonne idee, sachant qu'il est fait pour etre utilise quand il n'y a plus de ram :)

I added a new link in the weblogs, it's Jesus's weblog (in french).

Penser a voter non le 29 Mai.

In this article, we can see that A Minnesota appeals court has ruled that the presence of encryption software on a computer may be viewed as evidence of criminal intent. I probably have a lot of criminal intents as I (like a lot of people) use that kind of software everyday.

I see that this website has been updated. More scary pictures of Chernobyl with more details (but I didn't really look at it yet, I'll do that at home). I don't know if everything is true on this website (some people say it's fake), but visiting Chernobyl now must be fun, even if a little dangerous.

Hmm, so I did nothing special this weekend (at least, nothing worth mentionning here, or that I should remember), except this afternoon. I had nothing to do, so I drove a little in the forrest taking pictures, and thoses 3 small videos : 1 2 3













Then back in Grants Pass ...



This afternoon I also spent some time looking at old pictures I had taken before. And found thoses (I put them back online) that I took last year when driving to Athis Mons last year. It's been a long time since I didn't take this road (or any road like that). And also thoses pictures which I find quite funny. And now I'm listenning to Asia - The Smile Has Left Your Eyes before going to sleep.
This week I have to work on the report I have to do for school for my intership (and abstract and xml document for the end of next week).

I just found this website. It looks like (it's in japanese so I don't know) that they visit abandoned places, and take pictures. This remind me Infiltration, going places you're not supposed to go.

After seeing this page, I'm not sure I'll want to eat again at in-n-out :)

I'm back home, and it's 2:50am, I have to go sleep. I was with Tiffany tonight, and I hope I'll see her again very soon.

Everytime Steve Ballmer says something he's lying trying to make his competitors look bad. That's impressive ! This time, it's about google, which is destined to perish in less than five years ...

Quand on repond au message d'une personne qui propose quelques millions de dollars en cadeau si on accepte de l'aider un peu (par exemple en lui prettant la modique somme de 1000 Euros pour payer des frais de justice pour recuperer les 5 millions), on peut recevoir des trucs comme ca. Le trucage avec photoshop (ou gimp bien sur) est a peine voyant :) Juste un tout petit peu. On dirait une pub de la redoute ...

You go to this page, enter your name and generate a random CS research paper, get the pdf, then send it to a friend asking if he can help you correct the errors in this paper you're going to publish soon ...

I just saw that Magic Radio is back online and that's good ! Here is the ogg stream. That's one of the best frennch webradio I know.
For other good webradios there is also sky.fm, Digitally Imported, and DeepMix. Radio404 is good too because it's only free music. That's what I listen to when I don't know what to download, or don't want to spend time choosing music :)

I was talking with someone about AVAST AntiVirus. I never used that kind of software, but heard about it from someone :)

01:40 -!- Irssi: Starting query in localhost2 with shopsuey_
01:40 <boklm> NEVER use Kazaa as it will bring tons of virus on your system !!!
01:40 <shopsuey_> LOOOOOL
01:40 <shopsuey_> yeas
01:41 <shopsuey_> avast rock
01:41 <boklm> AVAST !
01:41 <shopsuey_> AVAST !
01:41 <shopsuey_> it's free !
01:41 <shopsuey_> as I said , i t is t he b e s t
01:41 <boklm> it keep itself uptodate !!
01:41 <shopsuey_> 10 days and you only have to register !
01:41 <shopsuey_> just one loggin !
01:41 <shopsuey_> it is the BEST !
01:41 <boklm> THE BEST OF THE BEST !
01:42 <shopsuey_> norton and mac affe is shit !
01:42 <shopsuey_> the cd burn software is scanned to !
01:42 <boklm> it's free but it has all the basics stuff !
01:42 <boklm> AVAST is the BEST !
01:43 <shopsuey_> I love avast
01:43 <shopsuey_> it is my wife !
01:43 <boklm> AVAST is ALL MY LIFE !
01:43 <shopsuey_> my wife uses avast to wash the clothes !
01:43 <boklm> I dream every nights about AVAST !
01:44 <shopsuey_> avast cointains Vitamine C, help kids to grow !
01:44 <boklm> AVAST is BY FAR the BEST OF ALL ANTIVIRUS !!!
01:44 <shopsuey_> 12 times!
01:45 <shopsuey_> just one installation !
01:45 <boklm> AVAST is 64Bits !!!
01:45 <shopsuey_> Avast also runs on linux !
01:45 <boklm> !!
01:45 <shopsuey_> we use avast on our mail server !
01:45 <shopsuey_> it kills the spam !
01:45 <boklm> AVAST is FLAT FAST !!
01:45 <shopsuey_> in fact avast is our mail server !
01:45 <shopsuey_> avast do billing to !
01:45 <boklm> AVAST is everything !
01:46 <shopsuey_> look at me, I have a tattoo :" Avast" !
01:46 <boklm> AVAST is the ONLY program you should use !
01:46 <boklm> AVAST is my HOBBIE
01:46 <boklm> Everyday when I come back home, I play AVAST
01:46 <boklm> a fight virus with avast !
01:46 <boklm> Playing AVAST is more entertainnig than hunting !
01:47 <shopsuey_> avast drive my car !
01:47 <shopsuey_> avast updates windows !
01:47 <boklm> Mc Affie is for dummies
01:48 <shopsuey_> Norton is developped by newbies
01:48 <boklm> AVAST will increase your productivity !
01:48 <boklm> Norton is for blondes !
01:48 <shopsuey_> avast beats viagra !
01:48 <boklm> AVAST is the TECHNOLOGY of THE FUTUR !
01:49 <boklm> AVAST never fail !
01:49 <boklm> AVAST is FAST !
01:49 <boklm> AVAST is POWERFULL !
01:49 <shopsuey_> AVAST killed the dinosaure !
01:49 <shopsuey_> AVAST ANTIVIRUS tested the operating system by scaning the memory , and the trojan can not get into
01:49 <shopsuey_> and it always work !
01:49 <boklm> AVAST protect you from EVERYTHING !
01:50 <shopsuey_> sometimes it will tell you "hello my name is avast"
01:50 <boklm> You know that your'e safe when you're runnig AVAST !
01:50 <shopsuey_> "you are the best"
01:50 <boklm> Winners use AVAST !
01:50 <shopsuey_> "hackers can not get trought AVAST !
01:50 <boklm> Real Proffessionals use AVAST !
01:52 <shopsuey_> norton and mac affe are craps !
01:52 <shopsuey_> but put avast on your system
01:53 <shopsuey_> and you have free result
01:54 <boklm> AVAST is worth its price !
01:54 <boklm> AVAST is FREE !

rom an other blog, Reading this article on slashdot, we can read this interesting comment about what they're trying to do with DRM :
All this DRM technology will fail its intended purpose because the MPAA companies are trying to protect a 20th century marketplace that is fading ever more each day.

20th century film marketing was based on the pay-per-view model where a central facility (the movie theater) charged each person a fixed fee (the box office admission) for each showing of the film. It didn't matter which film was showing; customers paid the same entry fee. Unpopular product would not collect as many fees as a more-popular title.

In this model there is no price flexibility for the consumer. It's strictly take-it-or-leave-it. This model works when there is a limited number of viewing openings available (the seats in the theater) and limited product (one print of the film per theater and only a dozen copies of the film in the metro area).

This model fails when there is nearly unlimited product (all film titles from the past 50 years) on DVD or unlimited view openings. What happens in this type of market is that the consumers get to bid on what they will pay and the terms that they will pay for the product. The new technology has changed the marketplace by removing most of the previous restrictions. The new technology is not going away.

DRM is an attempt to force the previous market conditions onto the new business environment. The MPAA companies (the film studios) want to have the highly profitable previous marketplace conditions with the greatly expanded marketplace made available by DVD. Beaucoup bucks if you can make it happen.

But it won't work. What will happen if the MPAA companies actually get DRM to work is that the market for film product will shrink to a small percentage of what it is today.

Successfully integrating DRM into film industry product is not going to bring back the old way of presenting film entertainment product. It's just going to drive the current film consuming public into some other form of entertainment.

One of the reasons that parents are encouraged to read fairy tales to their children is that it is an effective way to get the collective wisdom of the ages passed on to the adults of the modern age who are too vain to listen to good advice coming from any other source. The fairy tale that the MPAA should pay attention to the story of the goose that laid golden eggs. This goose would lay one egg a day of pure gold. The villagers got greedy and decided to kill the goose, cut it open and get all the golden eggs that must be inside. This they did. And they found no gold inside. And they never got any more golden eggs.

Like the villagers, the film studios don't understand the new film market. Adding DRM to the product that is providing their golder eggs will be like killing the goose.

Témoignage d'un revenu du Oui.

Which one is the last page of the internet ?
this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, or this one ?

Less than a month now to write my internship report. I'll have to be fast ... but that should be ok I hope.

Something funny to do when you have time to waste is searching on google for inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode=" or inurl:view/view.shtml. You can see what people are doing on other parts of the world ...
this one is an airport. this one is in danemark, and we see people moving. this one seems to be in russia. this one somewhere near china. this one is a street somewhere in japan. a other one somewhere in japan. an other one.

In less than 2 months my internship will be finished :/ That's bad (because I'll have to come back in france, and I like beeing here) but that's also good (because I also like beeing in france, and see the people I know in France). So I'll have to find something else to do after that. Or maybe come back here if ever I can ? I don't really know. I didn't write a lot of code thoses last 6 months (except scripts and that kind of stuff), and I miss that a little. I think my next job should be half writting code, and half system administration. But I should avoid as much as possible thoses big Java programs, or php scripts, because it's not fun :) I don't like to write thousands of lines that do nothing complexe, that's really boring.
What would be great would be kernel programming ... but I have to find that (and first, start looking).

I need to run on a server a program that has to stay always alive. I could just add that to /etc/inittab. Or use something like daemontools which I'm aldready using on this server here. As with most programs from D. J. Bernstein that's working fine, with some excellent ideas, but for a few reasons it's actually not a really good choice :

• It's not free
• He doesn't support anymore his programs and it's not free so we can't do it for him. (actually it's possible like some people do for qmail, but you're only allowed to distribute patch, and no modified versions, so that sucks a little)
• It's not free so it's not very well integrated in a distribution such as Debian. You have to compile it yourself, or use unofficial binay packages (which are maybe not even legal).
• djb uses a strange Filesystem hierarchy for his programs, completly differement from what most people do. That's not the biggest problem, but I don't really like having a /command and /service directory :)

However this kind of program is really usefull, and much more clean than what is done with SysV-init scripts.
So I remembered runit, and now I wonder what I didn't use that before.
Something like daemontools, but without the bad points. And there's even a debian package for sarge :)

A lot of comments posted on slashdot are really funny. This *BSD Is Dying troll was really good.
Yesterday I found this page talking about it. They also talk about it on wikipedia :)

What's that website ?
Maybe I should add that to a h4x0rZ websites directory and see how many people send me an email :)

Hehe, I read some posts from epita newsgroups I had saved, and found that. I replaced the names of the posters by XXX, in case they don't want their name on google :)

...
> Je sais pas si c'est son cas, mais ça en a un peu l'air quand même,
> là, comme ça, à première vue.  Enfin bon, s'il demande malloc, c'est
> qu'au moins il sait ce que c'est qu'un compilo (j'ai vu des mecs taper
> "gcc *.c" dans un emacs, appuyer sur entrée et ne pas comprendre
> pourquoi ça ne fait rien malgré des heures d'explications
> personnalisées par 5 ACU différents...  tu fais quoi dans ce cas ?)

Il faut utiliser un autre vocabulaire.

S'il n'a pas compris :
 - Mais non, faut pas taper ça dans emacs, faut le taper dans ton shell.

D'abord utiliser des mots français :
 - Mais non, il ne faut pas dactylographier ceci dans l'éditeur de texte mais
   dans le coquillage.

Si ca ne marche toujours pas, utiliser un langage imagé.
 - Mais non, il ne faut pas écrire "gcc *.c" dans la fenêtre où il y a écrit
   "File Edit Options Buffers Tools Help" mais dans la fenêtre où la dernière
   ligne finis par le symbole monétaire américain.

S'il a des problèmes de vue, ou qu'il est simplement con, dire le contraire de
ce qu'il doit faire, au cas où :
 - Oui continue à faire comme ça. Ca va marcher au bout d'un moment.

S'il est habillé en lacoste, alors il a un problème de langue :
 - Ziva boufon, tas péta la gneli de commande dans cette baltringue d'emacs !
   Faut foutre ça dans ton shell, boufon !

S'il a un maillot RCL :
 - Eh tizote, tas eud eul cire dans eut norelles ? J'to deja dit qu'fallait
   ecrire cha su'che f'netre !

Si enfin rien à marché :
 - Ecoute Gilbert, je suis pas payé à garder des gosses.

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olivier xxx  a ecrit
dans <41E6F7F3.6020309@epita.fr>:
>  Denis xxx wrote:
> > Oyez, oyez,
> > 
> > J'invite tous les decus des notes d'Assembleur (0/20) a venir
> > me rejoindre dans la cour pasteur le vendredi 14 Janvier a 17h00,
> > afin de nous federer massivement pour aller voir Mr Testemale et
> > lui montrer notre enervement face a ces notes injustifiees et certainement
> > pas a la hauteur du travail que nous avons fourni.
> > Plus nous seront nombreux, plus notre parole aura du poids aux oreilles
> > de Mr Testemale.
> > J'invite egalement les delegues, que certains disent vendus a l'ADM, de
> > nous prouver le contraire en soutenant notre action.
> > 
> > Au plaisir de vous voir, vendredi 14 Janvier, a 17h00 dans la cour pasteur.
> > 
> > Merci de votre attention.
> > 
>  
>  Je me joins totalement a ce mouvement et me propose meme de l'amplifier. 
>  Ainsi, je propose de nous donner rendez-vous non pas dans la cours 
>  pasteur mais directement dans celle de l'elysee. Nous pourrons ainsi 
>  agir directement au plus haut niveau de l'etat pour ces notes en 
>  assembleur vraiment intolerables.
>  
>  De plus, je vous fais savoir que suite a ces notes, j'ai porte plainte 
>  devant le tribunal penal international de La Haye pour atteinte a la 
>  diginite humaine contre Sun, car c'est bien eux les responsables, 
>  inventeurs de cette archi affreuse. De plus l'inventeur d'unix et des 
>  fameux droits sur les fichiers est lui aussi vise par cette meme 
>  plainte. Monsieur Neumann est aussi sur la selette pour ses idees a la 
>  con sur les ordinateurs et le reste...
>  
>  J'espere bien-sur un soutien sans faille des delegues que j'invite a me 
>  rejoindre devant l'elysee le 30 fevrier prochain.
>  
>  Plus serieusement, merci Denis pour tes posts qui a defaut d'etre utiles 
>  sont veritablement marrants.

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xxx  écrivait:

> >> 1) Unix c'est noir et blanc et c'est moche (par defaut)
> >
> > Par défaut ? Mais tu vis dans quel espace-temps ?
>
> Je crois qu'il vit dans l'espace-temps Windows.  Tu sais, celui qui
> t'as dit il y a 1h qu'il ne restait plus que 5min à attendre.

Moi j'aime pas trop windows, parce que :
 
1. il peut pas monter au-dessus de 800x600 16 couleurs
2. il gère pas le réseau alors tu peux pas aller sur le net
3. il gère pas la molette de la souris
4. on peut même pas brancher un disque de plus de 2 Go
 
Franchement c'est nul, linux c'est beaucoup plus utilisable.

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xxx@gmail.com (De Nazareth, Jesus) ecrivait (04/04/05) :

> xxx  writes:
> 
> > De Nazareth, Jesus wrote:
> > > xxx  writes:
> > >
> > >>xxx wrote:
> > >>
> > >>Tu fais la morale a quelqu'un à propos de quelquechose que tu
> > >>n'applique pas ... tu trouve pas ça un peu gonflé ? ;)
> > >
> > > Comment peut-on faire de l'informatique en étant aussi illogique ?
> > >
> > 
> > Je ne vois pas le rapport avec l informatique ;)
> 
> C'est bien ce que je disais.

I found this thread on google groups (from someone who posted the link in the epita newsgroups) about Epita and the people talking about what they don't know :)

zathoth a écrit dans le message <394D6200.52229...@club-internet.fr>...

>Sameh Ghane a écrit :

>> Rakotomalala Renaud  a écrit :

>> [Epita]
>> > de plus il faut savoir qu'ils n'ont pas ll'agregation INGENIEUR donc
>> > le diplome fournit est un DESS

>> Ca n'est plus le cas depuis 2 ans.

>Oui j'ai entendu qu'il y'avait eu gruge et qu'on leurs avaient retiré
>leurs équivalence non ?

En fait la raison exacte c'est pour haute trahison et crime contre
l'humanité. Il parait même qu'à l'Epita ils couchent avec des enfants
morts...

James W. 

I'm back from Holiday (actually one week ago). With my parents and my sister we have been travelling in Oregon, California, Nevada ...
And I'm uploading the photos :)