I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of geeks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Ce soir, à minuit, Google va arrêter le service google reader. Des centaines de milliers de geeks à travers le monde seront désemparés et se jetteront sur les diverses solutions de remplacement en train d'être développées autour du monde.
Perso, j'hésite entre newsblur , feedly et the old reader. Les 3 ont leurs avantages et leurs inconvénients, the old reader ne supporte pas encore d'appli android mais ça ne saurait tarder vu que leur API vient de sortir, et leur layout est mon préféré, mais j'attends mon compte gratuit de newsblur pour me faire une opinion définitive.
La fin du monde approche, bonne chance à tous.
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lundi 1 juillet 2013
jeudi 14 mars 2013
Wake up, Blog
Oulà, ça fait longtemps que je ne suis pas passé par ici...
Juste pour vous faire part d'une bien triste nouvelle, le décès annoncé pour le 1er juillet de Google Reader, le service sans lequel je ne me sens plus rien...
Bon, bah va falloir trouver un remplaçant valable, et vite.
Plein d'autres choses à dire (sports, films, livres, etc) mais ça attendra des posts ultérieurs (moins de 6 mois d'attente cette fois-ci, promis)
Juste pour vous faire part d'une bien triste nouvelle, le décès annoncé pour le 1er juillet de Google Reader, le service sans lequel je ne me sens plus rien...
Bon, bah va falloir trouver un remplaçant valable, et vite.
Plein d'autres choses à dire (sports, films, livres, etc) mais ça attendra des posts ultérieurs (moins de 6 mois d'attente cette fois-ci, promis)
mercredi 17 octobre 2012
Sound of Cylons (et autres)
Pour tous les fans de BSG, excellentissime. Merci à cafzone pour ce petit bijou. (et pour tous les autres, attention c'est bourré de spoilers, donc vous êtes forcés de regarder Battlestar Galactica avant et donc de devenir fan)
Sinon, je m'aperçois que ça fait quelques mois que je n'ai pas posté ici. Question de motivation principalement.
En bref, l'été et les vacances sont finies, Game of Thrones, True Blood et Mad Men aussi, par contre c'est le retour du Mentalist, de TBBT et de HIMYM (et de Gossip Girl, mais ça je n'admettrai le regarder que sous la torture), donc j'arrive à survivre. Moins drôle, c'est aussi le retour de la grisaille, mais bon, depuis 12 ans que je suis en région parisienne, on finit par s'habituer....plus ou moins. Heureusement qu'en cette saison le tir à l'arc se fait en intérieur, sinon ce serait vraiment la lose.
Derniers films vus : The dark knight rises (excellent, Christopher Nolan quoi), The Avengers (pareil, on sent la patte Josh Whedon ici), Sherlock Holmes : a game of shadows (divertissement moyen, vaut principalement par la présence de Robert Downey Jr), le dernier Underworld (complètement nul, même avec la présence de Kate Beckinsale, c'est dire), et Hunger Games. Sur ce dernier, avis mitigé, Jennifer Lawrence porte le film à elle seule (bah vi, une archère sexy et intelligente, je ne pouvais que craquer :P), la critique de la société est assez intéressante (quoique ça ne va pas chercher très loin), mais comparé à Battle Royale, il y a un coté sucré qui passe assez mal., on sent que la cible principale sont les ados / jeunes adultes. Ça reste regardable, mais je me garderai de commentaires assassins ou dithyrambiques comme j'ai pu en lire à droite ou à gauche.
Derniers livres lus : Le trone de fer (a Song of fire and ice) fini, enfin pour ce qui est des tomes traduits en français, j'ai aussi relu le début de l'Assassin Royal, et en ce moment je lis Cyteen en anglais (quoique au rythme de 2 pages par jour, j'en ai encore pour "un certain temps").
vendredi 2 mars 2012
My new keyboard
I bought a few weeks ago a mechanical keyboard, the QPAD MK-85.
And well, it rocks. It's the ideal tool to type text or to play any kind of video game. Cherry MX Red switches are ideal for me, light and without the tactile point that annoyed me so much the past 10 years, even if I didn't know it :)
And it looks nice, especially in the dark with the backlighting :)
So, if your work makes you use your keyboard a lot, either because you're a pro-gamer (lucky you) or because you're a writer or a coder, don't hesitate to get your hands on one, even if they are a bit expensive : it will change your life, no kidding.
And well, it rocks. It's the ideal tool to type text or to play any kind of video game. Cherry MX Red switches are ideal for me, light and without the tactile point that annoyed me so much the past 10 years, even if I didn't know it :)
And it looks nice, especially in the dark with the backlighting :)
So, if your work makes you use your keyboard a lot, either because you're a pro-gamer (lucky you) or because you're a writer or a coder, don't hesitate to get your hands on one, even if they are a bit expensive : it will change your life, no kidding.
mercredi 18 janvier 2012
Wikipedia blackout
Today...
I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of articles suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
I felt a great disturbance in the Internet, as if millions of articles suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
And to remind you what life without wikipedia would be...(thanks xkcd !)
mardi 6 décembre 2011
mercredi 23 novembre 2011
Le tir à l'arc
Lors d'une formation à NAF, j'ai pris connaissance par l'animateur de l’existence d'un outil de création de cartes heuristiques gratuit sur android (thinking space), plus communément connu sous le nom anglais d'outil de mind mapping. Je suis d'habitude assez circonspect face à ce genre d'applications, mais je n'ai pas pu résister à l'essayer sur mon galaxy s2, et finalement, c'est assez intuitif et plutôt intéressant. Et c'est comme ça qu'on arrive en quelques minutes au graphe improbable suivant, censé modéliser l'approche du tir à l'arc par moi-même :
Ou comment mélanger, tir à l'arc, android, concepts heuristiques et framework d'architecture système dans un seul article de blog. Ca doit être une première mondiale.
En passant, je suis bien conscient que ce blog est plus ou moins en phase d'hibernation, mais que voulez-vous, Winter comes...(très bonne lecture soit dit en passant).
En passant, je suis bien conscient que ce blog est plus ou moins en phase d'hibernation, mais que voulez-vous, Winter comes...(très bonne lecture soit dit en passant).
lundi 24 octobre 2011
La physique, c'est fantastique ! (bis)
La lévitation, c'est une passion de rêveur, magicien ou...physicien ! (ce qui n'est pas forcément incompatible d'ailleurs :))
Et pour mieux comprendre :
Merci à cafzone pour les vidéos :)
jeudi 22 septembre 2011
My new computer
As well as my new screen, my old computer and my old screen.
Desk is as clean as it will ever be, so I'm taking some pictures, to remember how it was in a few years ^^
Pretty geeky setup, you would think. Maybe, but it's also very efficient :
- there is a KVM you barely see on the top of the left tower to switch between the 2 computers. The old one controls the screen on the left, the new one controls both screens. Not like I often boot the old computer nowadays anyway.
- The hard drive you see on the right is connected to the freebox server and adds 1 To to the NAS server hosted by the freebox. To come, a true RAID1 NAS server. No idea where I'll put it though, maybe against the wall.
- The glasses come from the NVIDIA 3D vision kit. I was happily surprised by the rendered quality in some games (HL2, Dragon's Age, WoW), so I don't regret the buy.
All in one, I'm actually proud of myself on this one :)
Installation of the new computer went well, around 2 hours from receiving the (heavy) packages to finishing the install of Windows 7, all drivers included. Everything works well, or so it looks like. Maybe some issues with USB3.0, but not really game breaking at the time being. It'll wait until I actually have a USB3.0 device to plug in.
I've no idea what I'll do with 2 To of RAID0 space, time will tell I guess. The SSD drive works amazingly well, Windows boots in no time - not the system, the BIOS startup is actually quite long, with the RAID0 and the big GFX card - and once booted everything goes superfast.
Now I won't have to change computer for well, at least 2 years ! Okay, maybe 3 or 4...
Desk is as clean as it will ever be, so I'm taking some pictures, to remember how it was in a few years ^^
Pretty geeky setup, you would think. Maybe, but it's also very efficient :
- there is a KVM you barely see on the top of the left tower to switch between the 2 computers. The old one controls the screen on the left, the new one controls both screens. Not like I often boot the old computer nowadays anyway.
- The hard drive you see on the right is connected to the freebox server and adds 1 To to the NAS server hosted by the freebox. To come, a true RAID1 NAS server. No idea where I'll put it though, maybe against the wall.
- The glasses come from the NVIDIA 3D vision kit. I was happily surprised by the rendered quality in some games (HL2, Dragon's Age, WoW), so I don't regret the buy.
All in one, I'm actually proud of myself on this one :)
Installation of the new computer went well, around 2 hours from receiving the (heavy) packages to finishing the install of Windows 7, all drivers included. Everything works well, or so it looks like. Maybe some issues with USB3.0, but not really game breaking at the time being. It'll wait until I actually have a USB3.0 device to plug in.
I've no idea what I'll do with 2 To of RAID0 space, time will tell I guess. The SSD drive works amazingly well, Windows boots in no time - not the system, the BIOS startup is actually quite long, with the RAID0 and the big GFX card - and once booted everything goes superfast.
Now I won't have to change computer for well, at least 2 years ! Okay, maybe 3 or 4...
mercredi 7 septembre 2011
I has new computer
Well soon anyway, it was shipped one hour ago and should be home tomorrow.
Intel Core i7 2600K processor on an Asus P8P67 Deluxe Rev 3.0 motherboard
2 x 4 Go of DDR3 RAM Corsair PCI12800 CAS 8
1 Club 3D Geforce GTX 580 1586 Mo RAM graphic card
1 OCZ Verex 3 - 120 Go SSD to host the system and a few applications
2 Seagate Baraccuda SATA Revision 3.0 - 1 To HDDs mounted in Raid 0
1 Asus VG236H - 3D screen with Nvidia 3D Kit System
And some other cool stuff like a Corsair Obsidian 650D tower or an Antec TruePower 750W 80+ Bronze alim.
It's going to be legend...wait or it...DARY !
More as soon as I have received and installed it. And yes, I'm kind of excited, it has been a long time I wanted to try the Nvidia 3D system, and this piece of hardware should be able to deliver some flawless gaming experience :-)
Intel Core i7 2600K processor on an Asus P8P67 Deluxe Rev 3.0 motherboard
2 x 4 Go of DDR3 RAM Corsair PCI12800 CAS 8
1 Club 3D Geforce GTX 580 1586 Mo RAM graphic card
1 OCZ Verex 3 - 120 Go SSD to host the system and a few applications
2 Seagate Baraccuda SATA Revision 3.0 - 1 To HDDs mounted in Raid 0
1 Asus VG236H - 3D screen with Nvidia 3D Kit System
And some other cool stuff like a Corsair Obsidian 650D tower or an Antec TruePower 750W 80+ Bronze alim.
It's going to be legend...wait or it...DARY !
More as soon as I have received and installed it. And yes, I'm kind of excited, it has been a long time I wanted to try the Nvidia 3D system, and this piece of hardware should be able to deliver some flawless gaming experience :-)
dimanche 3 juillet 2011
Android stories
During the last month I decided to renew my geek license, so I bought a pad (Asus Transformer, android 3.1) and a new smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S2, android 2.3.3).
All in one both products have been very satisfying, with a special mention to the Galaxy S2 screen, which is amazing, both in picture quality and reactivity. The funny thing is that both products work perfectly on their own, but are (almost) unable to properly communicate ! A bit frustrating considering both use android (though different versions).
The whole story : I wanted to share the 3G+ connection of my smartphone with the pad, so I decided to use bluetooth PAN tethering as I did between my old WM6 smartphone and my Asus Transformer. First surprise : Android 2.3.3 doesn't support bluetooth PAN as server unless the phone is rooted. The Galaxy S2 being brandly new, I decided to wait a bit before tempting the devil and to use bluetooth DUN instead (less efficient, but oh well). Second surprise : Android 3.1 doesn't support bluetooth DUN tethering as client ! I
was starting to be a bit nervous at this point, until I remembered the USB tethering option offered by the Galaxy...Third surprise (you saw it coming), Android doesn't support it on the client side either ! I was on my way to the window to throw all this junk away when I noticed android 2.3 could make a wifi hotspot off my phone. Eureka, it works ! And it drains the battery in a few hours, but who cares, as long as the phone is plugged to the Asus dock :-)
Next step is to have bluetooth PAN working, either via Galaxy S2 rooting or via android
2.3 update. More about it later.
About the Asus Transformer, I can say I am very satisfied with the product : even if theOS is rather young, it's quite stable and the lack of applications in the android market is less and less noticable every day. I'm pretty confident it will catch up with the apple market in the next few months. About the hardware, the dock is a stroke of genius : to be able to transform a pad into a netbook in two seconds is unvaluable, and so are the
6 hours of battery life added. The gorilla glass screen is very pleasant to use as well, altough it suffers from two small issues : a few light bleeds here and there that are quite noticable in the dark, even if they don't really alter the user experience (most of AT suffer from this problem), and in my care TWO DEAD PIXELS ! hardly noticable except with a black screen, and who uses a pad to stare at a black screen ?!)
The Galaxy S2 is even more awesome, as Android 2.3 is a lot more mature than Android 3.1, and the hardware is just brillant as you can see if you look at the different tests made on the internet. There is one drawback, battery life is around one day or two, even less (8 / 10 hours) if you play with your toy all day long (GPS, screen use and wifi hotspot drain the power a the speed of light - no kidding...-). However, I got told this problem is common among the new generation of smartphones, so it shouldn't prevent you to join the
ranks of the Samsung fashion victims :D
About Android, I've been playing a lot with it lately, more about it later when I find the time to make a list of all the good apps I've found around the internet (last to date : PSX and SNES emulators ^^)
All in one both products have been very satisfying, with a special mention to the Galaxy S2 screen, which is amazing, both in picture quality and reactivity. The funny thing is that both products work perfectly on their own, but are (almost) unable to properly communicate ! A bit frustrating considering both use android (though different versions).
The whole story : I wanted to share the 3G+ connection of my smartphone with the pad, so I decided to use bluetooth PAN tethering as I did between my old WM6 smartphone and my Asus Transformer. First surprise : Android 2.3.3 doesn't support bluetooth PAN as server unless the phone is rooted. The Galaxy S2 being brandly new, I decided to wait a bit before tempting the devil and to use bluetooth DUN instead (less efficient, but oh well). Second surprise : Android 3.1 doesn't support bluetooth DUN tethering as client ! I
was starting to be a bit nervous at this point, until I remembered the USB tethering option offered by the Galaxy...Third surprise (you saw it coming), Android doesn't support it on the client side either ! I was on my way to the window to throw all this junk away when I noticed android 2.3 could make a wifi hotspot off my phone. Eureka, it works ! And it drains the battery in a few hours, but who cares, as long as the phone is plugged to the Asus dock :-)
Next step is to have bluetooth PAN working, either via Galaxy S2 rooting or via android
2.3 update. More about it later.
About the Asus Transformer, I can say I am very satisfied with the product : even if theOS is rather young, it's quite stable and the lack of applications in the android market is less and less noticable every day. I'm pretty confident it will catch up with the apple market in the next few months. About the hardware, the dock is a stroke of genius : to be able to transform a pad into a netbook in two seconds is unvaluable, and so are the
6 hours of battery life added. The gorilla glass screen is very pleasant to use as well, altough it suffers from two small issues : a few light bleeds here and there that are quite noticable in the dark, even if they don't really alter the user experience (most of AT suffer from this problem), and in my care TWO DEAD PIXELS ! hardly noticable except with a black screen, and who uses a pad to stare at a black screen ?!)
The Galaxy S2 is even more awesome, as Android 2.3 is a lot more mature than Android 3.1, and the hardware is just brillant as you can see if you look at the different tests made on the internet. There is one drawback, battery life is around one day or two, even less (8 / 10 hours) if you play with your toy all day long (GPS, screen use and wifi hotspot drain the power a the speed of light - no kidding...-). However, I got told this problem is common among the new generation of smartphones, so it shouldn't prevent you to join the
ranks of the Samsung fashion victims :D
About Android, I've been playing a lot with it lately, more about it later when I find the time to make a list of all the good apps I've found around the internet (last to date : PSX and SNES emulators ^^)
vendredi 27 mai 2011
mercredi 27 avril 2011
Slytherin pole dancing
I rarely find interesting videos on youtube, but this one is really well made (and really nice to watch...)
Android on HTC Touch HD
And it works ! Quite nicely I must add. Many thanks to xda developpers.
Now I can use funny apps like Angry birds (lagging like hell) or whatsapp (hi Mags !)
There are a few drawbacks of course, it's a bit slow, battery is going down fast and there are a few things that don't work very well, but all in one it's usable and makes me want to buy a real android phone (maybe the new galaxy in a few months ?)
I had to buy a new MicroSD card as well to make it work, my old 8 Go Transcend card wasn't compatible.
Now I can use funny apps like Angry birds (lagging like hell) or whatsapp (hi Mags !)
There are a few drawbacks of course, it's a bit slow, battery is going down fast and there are a few things that don't work very well, but all in one it's usable and makes me want to buy a real android phone (maybe the new galaxy in a few months ?)
I had to buy a new MicroSD card as well to make it work, my old 8 Go Transcend card wasn't compatible.
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