Pourquoi reprendre des études?

Voici une mini-présentation que j'ai donnée aux étudiantx de BAC à l'UCL sur les raisons de mon retour à l'univ et l'utilité d'étudier l'informatique.

You must like the song before you hear it!

How can I like a song even before I heard it? That's what I was asked to do on this facebook page:

Installing Mozart/Oz on a 64 bits Ubuntu

It's not that hard, and is based on information gathered on the net ( here and on the mailing list).

First, install emacs and libc6-i386

sudo apt-get install emacs libc6-i386

Then download the binary tarball from the mozart website, and decompress it in /usr/local:

<br />wget -O /tmp/mozart-1.4.0.tar.gz http://www.mozart-oz.org/download/mozart-ftp/store/1.4.0-2008-07-02-tar/mozart-1.4.0.20080704-linux-i486.tar.gz<br />(cd /usr/local && sudo tar zxvf /tmp/mozart-1.4.0.tar.gz && rm /tmp/mozart-1.4.0.tar.gz)<br />

You can now setup you PATH so that the oz executable is found immediately:

echo 'PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/mozart/bin' >> ~/.profile
. ~/.profile

And here comes something I didn't find on the net: you should call the oz exectuable by telling it it's running on another architecture (see man setarch). That is done here by prepending the oz command by linux32:

linux32 oz

You can of course ease this by creating an alias:

echo 'alias oz="linux32 oz"' >> ~/.bash_aliases
. ~/.bash_aliases

Now you show be able to start oz and Browse some data.

There's also a directory /usr/local/mozart/lib and you might need to add it to /etc/ld.so.conf , but that was not needed for me, but I'm still a beginner in Mozart :-)

Overclocking with liquid Nitrogen

Some pics from crazy the overclockers using Nitrogen to overclock their system. They nearly double the speed of a high end cpu!
Check the thermometer on the last pic, I saw it go down to -100°C.

Bande annonce de l'Éveil

Voici la bande annonce de L'Éveil, un chouette livre fantasy écrit par une jeune auteure. Encouragez-la et partagez cette video autour de vous! De plus, le livre est écrit avec Lyx ;)

fault tolerant loading of js with yui

Just when I decided to use geoplugin for myowndb it's already down..... Luckily it's easy to correct with YUI, which is a library I like more and more. Check it out here.

Parking in Brussels

Here's how they do it:




This was taken in Sint-Agatha-Berchem on monday 22 feb 2010 at about 21:35. If someone know what happened, please explain in the comments. I cant figure out an explanation, as these cars are on the parking lane!