Category Archives: software
Yahoo Pipes is web ETL
Lately I discovered Yahoo Pipes. I was actually looking for a tool to union all my feeds from twitter, this blog and flickr and make one feed. I found Atomisator, written in Python, but I needed to install it on … Continue reading
First steps as a webmaster
I have been a member of my current tennis club for about 3 years. 2 and a half years ago, another member and I decided that the website needed a little fresh air. We needed something to communicate with the … Continue reading
Lltag: Interactive command line mp3 tagging
I am trying to build a personal music warehouse from various sources, my CDs, borrowed CDs, collected mp3s and so on. This project, once achieved, will make my life sound much better as I’ll have my music available to my … Continue reading
Backup solutions for a Linux PC
Which is the “best” backup solution for my laptop? That’s what occupied my mind until very late last night. It seems like a very classical question, as old as the homo numericus. So you would assume that the answer as been disussed … Continue reading
Founders at Work: great book
I am currently reading an excellent book about entrepreneurs in the hardware and software industry. The book is called founders at work, it is a collection of interviews of the people who built and are still building what we now … Continue reading
This site is openID enabled
is THE authentication protocol on the rise. Software is moving to the cloud, zillions of web apps out there can do everything from photo editing to money management, everybody is on facebook, you can do spreadsheets in google. All you … Continue reading
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How I take advantage of a low perf proc to perform tasks in background. This software is just awesome: simple, straightforward, practical. This is how I use it: I have a small box (kurobox) with little power, little memory, little … Continue reading
vlc 0.8.6x on ppc 603e as of December, 11th 207
Plot: I am running a machine with a powerpc processor MPC8241 derived from the ppc 603e and managed to get vlc 0.8.6c running as a daemon on it. This way, I am able to stream my mp3s off my little … Continue reading
