L'Anarcarnet - The Anarblog

Okay, this is way too much.

About a kilometer of mouse movement, 100 kilobytes of data pushed into the machine (not counting unicode here), is insane. It's not good for your body, even if it's fun for your mind. I need a break.

Here's an excerpt of a second RMA request I have just filed with NCIX. I strongly recommend anyone looking for a netbook to not buy this machine, especially since it barely runs Debian.

Now that's a spectacular failure:

Don't get me wrong: I love firebug. I think it's a great tool for webdevelopers, sysadmins and curious people alike. It's just that... how am I supposed to read those release notes *while I'm starting my browser*?!

So here I am, on a sunday night playing with various open source projects instead of having a proper non-geek life like I'm apparently supposed to be doing in our modern society.

I tried upgrading this blog to Drupal 7 today during the Koumbit/Montreal D7 code sprint today, which lead me to work on the D6 to D7 upgrade path and submit two patches that fixed update.php enough so I got through the upgrade. The results aren't as satisfying as they could (the site is basically broken) but at least it bootstraps. :)

Vous aurez probablement remarqué que j'ai changé le "look" graphique de ce site. Suite à une mise à jour automatisée (grâce à aegir) de mon blog par l'excellente équipe de Koumbit, il s'est avéré que le thème que j'utilisais auparavant ("Zen classic", un sous-thème de Zen) est maintenant périmé. Qu'à cela ne tienne!

Someone pointed to me this pretty good article about password hashing and HMAC. I must admit that before reading the article, I was barely familiar with HMAC. I am, however, familiar enough with one-way hash functions to comment a bit on the article, and since I feel there are incorrect conclusions in this article, I also feel I should try to correct those.

So I started experimenting with Diigo recently, as an alternative to Delicious, thanks to Robin. It seems to have a lot more bells and whistles, but I'm still unsure about the service, for various reasons. But what brought me there was the possibility of bridging my bookmark posts with Identica (as opposed to Twitter, which I only mirror to).

The CRTC just announced the results of their consulting process, and it's not pretty.

Donc voilà, les positions sont plus claires maintenant: [http://techno.branchez-vous.com/actualite/2009/02/la_riposte_graduee_au_canada.html Quebecor Media réclame au CRTC le droit d'instaurer un système de riposte graduée pour punir les internautes qui téléchargent illégalement du contenu].