After reinstalling from scratch on the SSD, I had some issues to get Picasa 3.9 up again:
Library mscms.dll (which is needed by LC:\\Program Files\\Picasa3\\Picasa3.exe) not found
Picasa on Debian testing
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Category Archives: Linux
Installing ubuntu on a lenovo U410
The other day, I was helping my brother install Ubuntu on his brand new laptop (Lenovo ideapad). Since I’ve installed linux for the first time things have improved quite a bit (that was on a pentium 75 after printing 100 of pages of documentation as at that time, I had only one computer and no Internet). So I wasn’t expecting any surprises.
Load solved!
Finally, I solved an issue that had been pestering me for months. Regularly, when casually browsing, my computer would slow down dramatically for 1-2 min before continuing as if nothing happened. That was particularly irritating and I couldn’t fix this until I found a good way to reproduce it. This half broken bugs are the harder to fix because the incentive to sit down and fix it is much weaker than when everything is broken.
Sort tsv
A syntax that I’ve been looking up far too many times over the past few days:
sort -rnk2 -t $'\t'
Increasing disk performances
With all the recent multicore CPU, the bottleneck of processing is increasingly the IO from the disk. When compiling a bit project (especially linking), when processing gigabyte of data (now that loading up 4 GB in RAM is not a problem)…
Complex system
OTB is a complex system, if you don’t believe it, look at the image here (click on it for a full view):
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Fixing rectangular touchpad with square coordinates
Finally I gave in to the netbook trend and got a Lenovo S10-2. I couldn’t get a linux version, but sure enough Debian was running on it few hours after unpacking.
Migrating: from Pocket PC to Android
I don’t usually follow the latest gadgets and tend to skip a few generations of products before getting a new one. That’s what happened recently when I switched from my Pocket PC staring Windows Mobile 2003 to the HTC Dream (aka G1) with Android. That’s a 6 years gap between technologies and involved some workaround to migrate the contact data.
Hacking stories (part 1)
Web server are not easy beast to handle: you want to make the stuff work but at the same time for security, you want to have as little stuff as possible to be opened.
Distributed version control system
Few months ago, I moved from Toulouse to Singapore. As I continue to play with satellite images, I wanted to keep an access to the OTB repository and still participate to this open source project. It was also a good opportunity to move to a distributed source control system: sometimes, when you’re stranded in a plane/train/meeting, you really wish to have access to a full repository to do some clean work. Also, if the repository is behind a triple firewall with no possible outside access, this is not a really good way to encourage contributions…