20 03 | 2013

Future planète auto-hébergement

Written by Tanguy

Classified in : Homepage, Auto-hébergement, Debian-FR, Libre, April, Pirate-FR

Planète

Remplacement du Planet auto-hébergement

Vous connaissez peut-être le Planet auto-hébergement. Comme il ne fonctionne pas bien, je vais le remplacer par un logiciel plus simple, Planet Venus, sur mon propre serveur.

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06 03 | 2013

Il est temps de ressortir l'emblème hacker du placard

Written by Tanguy

Classified in : Homepage, Divers, Auto-hébergement, Debian-FR, Libre, April, Pirate-FR

Geek ?

Avez-vous déjà été agacé par une affirmation de ce genre : « Lui c'est un vrai geek, toujours sur son smartphone » ? Entre les fanboys pommés et les anciens premiers ministres, tout le monde se dit geek, surtout des gens qui ne savent pas grand chose en informatique à part consommer du jus de droit d'auteur sur écran tactile et foncer acheter le dernier gadget à la mode le jour de sa sortie.

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05 03 | 2013

Suspend your computer from a non-mainstream desktop environment

Written by Tanguy

Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line, To remember

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UPower for regular users

Major desktop environments usually provide a user-friendly menu to suspend your computer. Internally, if seems to use something called UPower, which uses something called PolicyKit, which in turn may or may not use another piece called ConsoleKit (do not ask me what all these pieces are and how they relate to each other, I do not know and I do not want to know). For the regular user, the result is the following: when they click on that button, it suspends their computer.

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21 02 | 2013

One archiver to rule them all: bsdtar

Written by Tanguy

Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line

Package icon

Sometimes, you have to use ZIP archives, or worse, RAR archives (curse them!), with one significant annoyance: zip, unzip, rar and unrar use a rather uncommon command line convention, compared to the usual tar, cpio and pax.

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15 02 | 2013

.diff or .patch?

Written by Tanguy

Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line

Silly question: when you use diff(1) to produce a file to be applied with patch(1), do you call the result a diff or a patch? Do you name it foo.diff or foo.patch?

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