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After more than a month of frustrating access problems with free.fr, I’ve finally decided to move to wordpress.com:
http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/
It’s still under work, I’m still updating the links on the right panel (grr.. they are in the blogroll but do not show up) and fixing things here and there. But all is functional.
This new place will be […]

Depuis plus d’un mois, j’ai de nombreux problèmes d’accès à free.fr. C’est tellement frustrant que j’ai décidé de déménager sur wordpress.com:
http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/
C’est toujours en travaux, j’actualise la liste des liens dans la barre de droite (grr.. ils sont dans la
« blogroll » mais n’aparaissent pas sur le blog) et arrange quelques trucs ici et là. Mais […]

I am userbase, as basic as you can ever imagine. I do not code, I do not perform fancy fixes on bugs, I use my ubuntu desktop for what it is: a desktop. No eye-candy killer machine, no extreme gaming zone, no kernel compiler, no network and hacking gear.
I barely maintain a blog, I do […]

You can help a new project started by bmartin on UF. From PMs we exchanged and the Dev-Link thread he created, the idea is to come up with a universal WiFi installer, that will automatically detect and install wireless drivers for a variety of wireless cards. They are currently building up a database of wireless […]

All the word-number-picture games on UF have their own sub-forum now: Community Cafe Games. This will help not having the game threads cluttering the Cafe, and allow to have more fun going on. Some of the Cafe and Backyard discussions can be heavy, controversial and heated. This area is for fun stuff only, thanks u-g […]

An O’Reilly series of articles on women in Tech, written by women, during the month of September. Looking forward to reading them. I’ll link them here as they come.
Thanks Liz for sharing this on a LinuxChix mailing list :)

Social Engineering by Leslie Hawthorne
A Fifty Year Wave of Change by Maria Klawe
Be a Part of Influencing […]

Comme l’année passée, ce sera dans la Salle des Spectacles de Carpiquet, et sans aucun doute tout aussi sympa. Alors si vous passez en Normandie le samedi 29 septembre 2007 entre 9h00 et 18h00, réservez vos agendas. J’essaierai de ne pas manquer la démo robotique cette fois ^^ (l’année dernière, les problèmes de surchauffe de […]

Unofficial Extensions were already available for Epiphany. Third Party Extensions are now available. One that was not present in the Unofficial Extensions page and that I’m going to test: Confirm Window Close.
Enjoy!
Reference
Epiphany Blog

“No, I Need Mr. Caitlyn”Sometimes, I wonder in what kind of world I’m living. Thanks Stemp for emailing me with this link.
How not to be an asshole: a guide for menThis one, I got some time ago from Sarah Hobbs in a ubuntu-marketing mailing list discussion.

So, watcha think?

I cannot code a single line. So I’m always amazed by certain (sometimes heated) discussions going on in the Programming Talk section on UF.
Here is a real fun thread: “Hello Ubuntu” in every programming language.
Enjoy and contribute, just for the fun of it!

Xfce long-time users may already know the Xfce Goodies Project, but I just came across it looking for some plugins. Browse through the panel plugins, lots of interesting stuff to get. I installed xfce4-cpufreq-plugin, xfce4-sensors-plugin and xfce4-weather-plugin with aptitude, they are in the Ubuntu repositories, some in universe. All the other items are in the […]

I was looking for the number of people registered in Launchpad the other day. Quite impressive!

When I’m at it, LP has a blog: http://news.launchpad.net/

Voici le second aticle sur les alternatives à Automatix (voir la liste ici). Cet article traite de la seconde section de la liste de paquets installables par Automatix, les clients de messagerie instantannée. Il y a de nombreux clients de « chat » et, comme pour l’article précédent, la plupart des applications sont disponibles dans […]

Comme mentionné ici, cette série d’articles est la traduction des tutoriels de Christer Edwards. Les indications concernent feisty et les versions suivantes.

Brasero (utilitaire de gravure de CD avancé et facile d’utilisation pour Gnome) : nécessite les dépôts universe
sudo aptitude install brasero
(ou Applications > Ajouter/Enlever > Rechercher Brasero)

Gnomebaker (logiciels en GTK2 de gravure de CD/DVD) […]

Après la revue du Technical Board d’Ubuntu, détaillée par Matthew Garrett, Christer Edwards a commencé une série très constructive d’articles présentant les alternatives à l’utilisation d’Automatix. Toutes les applications installables par Automatix seront passées en revue. Il décrira les diverses solutions supportées par la communauté et m’a donné l’autorisation de traduire ses articles.
J’ajouterai ici le […]