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Month: September 2006

Firefox 2 RC1 !

September 28, 2006 Software Leave a comment

The Mozilla Firefox browser Release Candidate 2 is available!

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Dress code

September 20, 2006 Fun Leave a comment

Do you sometimes attend to video-conference calls? If like me your dress code is t-shirt/jeans, then the “half-suit” is for you!

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mysqld got signal 11

September 19, 2006 Grrrr!, Software Leave a comment

Today I found this nice mysql “feature”: mysql> set password for user@host = old_password(“foobar”); ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query This command generated a nice log: mysqld got signal 11; This could be because you hit a bug. It is also possible that this binary or

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Happy Birthday /dev/hda, /dev/c0t0d0 !

September 14, 2006 Hardware Leave a comment

This week, the harddisk is 50 years old! The RAMAC 305 was the first disks developed by IBM: 5MB for $7000!

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Bigbrother is listening to you!

September 13, 2006 Net Leave a comment

I read this article on The Register today: Google developing eavesdropping software. Google plans to “listen” to your direct environment and push advertisements according to your current activities. Watching tv? Why not rent a DVD? etc… Soon, Google will be banned from my environment! :-[

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Provider-1 training live from London

September 12, 2006 Business One comment

Live from the training room… 😉 My 2-days training on Provider-1 will start soon… Stay tuned!

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MySQL 5 on OpenBSD 3.9

September 11, 2006 OpenBSD, Software Leave a comment

This is a hot topic on openbsd-msic for a few days. It seems that lot of admins complaint about the MySQL stability. To be honest, I’m also facing issues since I reinstalled my box… 🙁 There is a dedicated page about this problem on openbsdsupport.com. Let’s test it!

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When it’s time to go!

September 8, 2006 Humor Leave a comment

C:\\Documents and Settings\\xmertens>man route ‘man’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\\Documents and Settings\\xmertens>

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Back to shool for children, new job for me!

September 5, 2006 People / Places Leave a comment

September is “hot”! My daughters are back to school and I started my new job. Since yesterday, I’m working for C-Cure as Security Consultant. More later…

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