I spotted a Google car on the E42/A15 highway while driving from Namur to Liège this morning around 9AM.
The cameras were covered.
Click on the thumbnails to enlarge :
I’m hopeful Google Street View will become available soon for us..
Today I connected a MacBook Unibody (13″ and 2,4 Ghz CPU) into a 40″ LCD HDTV (Sony Bravia KDL40L4000) using a MiniDisplay Port to DVI connector, a DVI to HDMI converter and a 5 meter long HDMI cable.
I ran into an “overscan” problem. Overscan means edges of the image are not viewable on the HDTV, which is pretty bad when you maximize a window.
Found the answer online here :
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1113758.html
Basically :
On the Bravia I selected MENU > Settings > Setup > Screen Settings > Display Area
It was set to NORMAL
I changed it to FULL PIXEL
Done !
And for those doubting (you know who you are 
), the MacBook can play full HD (1080p) videos on the LCD without troubles (the MacBook comes with a Nvidia 9400M 256MB).
First of all, enable POP on your gmail account :
- settings
- Forwarding and POP/IMAP
- Enable POP for all mail (even mail that’s already been downloaded)
Then, the configuration for fetchmail and procmail :
You need to use procmail in order to be able to store the mails in maildir format (1 file per mail, mbox format is 1 big file for all emails)
/home/USER/.fetchmailrc :
poll pop.gmail.com
protocol pop3
username "ACCOUNT@gmail.com" password "PASSWORD"
keep ssl
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -m /home/USER/.procmailrc"
We are using the pop3 protocol, we keep messages on the server and use the SSL server to retrieve our emails from.
/home/USER/.procmailrc :
MAILDIR=/home/USER/
VERBOSE=on
:0
Mail/Initial retrieval :
The first time, you’ll need to run fetchmail in USER’s session manually to retrieve your mailbox. Indeed, after a while fetchmail will stop retrieving emails, so you need to run it again a couple of times before it’s done. I guess gmail limits the number of emails you can retrieve in a session. You should set up a regular cronjob to retrieve emails automatically, you shouldn’t wait too long between two retrievals to avoid missing emails due to the restriction.
Setting up a cron job in the USER’s session to run the backup every night :
crontab -e
0 1 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null 2> /home/USER/Mail/fetchmail.log
I set up mutt to read my backup emails from the CLI :
/home/USER/.muttrc :
set mbox_type=Maildir
set folder="~/Mail"
set mask="!^\\.[^.]"
set mbox="~/Mail"
set record="+.Sent"
set postponed="+.Drafts"
set spoolfile="~/Mail"
My wife had some problems today sending her resume in PDF to some companies.
She used the web interface of Gmail.
Some people reported they were unable to open the file.
We’ve made some tests. She tried to send an email with the PDF attachment to these recipients (carbon copy, not separate emails) :
- HER Gmail address configured in Thunderbird using IMAP
- MY Gmail address using the web interface
- MY work address configured in Thunderbird using IMAP (courier-imap server)
I was able to open the file on my home and work addresses while she was not able to open the file in Thunderbird.
I fetched the corrupted attachment on her side and compared both versions :
-rw-r–r– 1 sw sw 138052 2007-11-12 19:55 cv_ok.pdf
-rwxr–r– 1 sw sw 136198 2007-11-12 19:56 cv_not_ok.pdf
cv_ok.pdf is the file I received..
cv_not_ok.pdf is the file she received..
Apparently the file gets corrupted at the Gmail IMAP level.
Indeed, if she tries to open the PDF using the web interface it works fine.
Now, we still need to figure out why some people were not able to open the file. I’m sure they don’t use Gmail IMAP.
She has been sending that copy of her resume for months and she never had any issue until today.
I found this link, which confirms there are issues with PDF in Gmail :
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-POP-and-Forwarding/browse_thread/thread/6d831984edf6a1ac/a62973111852bc82?lnk=raot
Any idea is welcomed !
As you may have read, I had some troubles with my Linksys ADSL Wireless router a while ago.. see here for the story
At the end of this journey, I was still believing Linksys was a good company making good products.
Read on.
I bought a Linksys wireless DSL gateway on Ebay in May. It was still under warranty as Linksys products are covered for 3 years.
According to the seller, the unit was brand new and had never been used, as it was a unit that was sent to him from a RMA procedure. In the meantime, he had bought another router.
The exact model I got was a WAG54G-E2 (hardware version 2) with firmware 1.00.43.
The WAG54G-E2 v2 looked like this
The problems
When I tried to change the DDNS settings (for DynDNS), I was getting an error “Strange server response, are you connecting to the right server?”
After googling the error out, I found out this error was fixed in a later release of the firmware.
I find this useful as I’m getting used to Gmail threaded view
Users of Mozilla Thunderbird, may have noticed that if you are viewing messages in threaded view, clicking on a column name (other than the thread column) will turn off threaded view.
What if you want to keep threaded view on? Go to Tools–>Options–>Advanced–>General, and click on “Config Editor“.
In the Config Editor, search for the preference mailnews.thread_pane_column_unthreads. Double-click on it, which should change the value to false.
From : http://ilias.ca/blog/2007/04/keeping-threaded-view-in-thunderbird/
I got my DS-101 (discontinued product) today and I’m so excited about it I want to tell the world ASAP 
The Synology DS-101 is a Network Attached Storage unit.
By default, it allows FTP and SMB connectivity.
Dear Sebastien Wains:
The results of your RHCE Certification Exam are reported below. The
RHCE Certification Exam allows candidates to qualify for the
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and Red Hat Certified Technician
(RHCT) certificates. Please note that the RHCE designation is
understood to both include and supersede the RHCT designation.
SECTION I: TROUBLESHOOTING AND SYSTEM MAINTENANCE
RHCE requirements: completion of compulsory items (50 points)
overall section score of 80 or higher
RHCT requirements: completion of compulsory items (50 points)
Compulsory Section I score: 50.0
Non-compulsory Section I score: 50.0
Overall Section I score: 100
SECTION II: INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
RHCE requirements: score of 70 or higher on RHCT components (100 points)
score of 70 or higher on RHCE components (100 points)
RHCT requirement: score of 70 or higher on RHCT components (100 points)
RHCT components score: 81.8
RHCE components score: 96.4
RHCE Certification: PASS
Congratulations — you are now certified as a Red Hat Certified
Engineer! Your RHCE Certificate number is 804007797825578.
Your RHCE number should be available for verification at Red Hat
Certification Central:
If you draw 100 W / hour on average
100W x (8760 hours per year) / 1000 = 876 kWh
Thus :
1 kWh = 0.114155 W on average
1 W on average = 8.76 kWh
The power here costs 0.1429 € per kWh.
876 kWh * 0.1429 = €125.18
Leaving something on drawing 100W in average costs €125 per year.
