There is no official build for PS3 Media Server since a long time (however it seems it will soon be stories of the past). After following the easy steps mentioned in Otmanix Blog, I build the latest trunk version (release 589). You can dowload it here:
PS3 Media Server 1.22.589
May 24th, 2011Always have a nice print template on the web
March 30th, 2011I just found Printfriendly that allow me to have just the print template I want: with or without comments, with or without images, without the annoying side bar and so much more.
Check yourself on your favorite website. Look at what you get on a fairly complex site like arstechnica.com.
As I also just remark that this blog is far from perfect when it comes to printing, I have installed the printfriendly plugin. If you click on a specific post, you will now see on the bottom left a print button.
How to use a proxy and force fetching the latest data
November 22nd, 2010I just recently had a problem using a Java URLConnection behind a proxy and forcing the connection to get the latest available data on the server and not the one cached by the proxy. The following code snippet demonstrate how to do that.
10 11 12 13 | URL metarUrl = new URL("ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov:21/data/observations/metar/stations/LSGG.TXT"); Proxy myProxy = new Proxy(Proxy.Type.HTTP, new InetSocketAddress("www.myproxy.ch", 8080)); URLConnection metarConnection = metarUrl.openConnection(myProxy); metarConnection.setDefaultUseCaches(false); |
Word Backup
January 23rd, 2010A little bit of history (Word 5.1 1992)
With Microsoft Word 5 there was a small little option that allows you to tell Word to save every open document at a regular time interval (15 minutes for example). How this functionality was implemented was trivial. It only performed a regular “Save” or “Save As…” at the parameterized time interval. This worked nicely and everything was in order.
With such an implementation two goals where reached:
- If the Word crashed, you will have, in the worst case, lost 15 minutes of work
- If you made a mistake and forget to save your work, you will have, in the worst case, lost 15 minutes of work
Current time (Word 2008)
Somewhere in-between Word 5.1 and Word 2008 (I cannot say more precisely, because here, at home, we had such an upgrade path), this functionality didn’t disappear but the implementation changed. Now this functionality has been splited in two parts.
- The first one being fairly useless and called “Always create a backup copy” which as the name says only create a “Backup Copy of <your_document_name>” file for every document you created.
- The second one being “Save AutoRecovery info every:”. This option allows Microsoft Word to recover a file after a crash.
Everything seems to be in order, except that now we don’t have a protection against the user who quit Word without saving his whole day work (Yes it can happen, believe me).
Word Backup
Having recognized the problem and noticed that there is no “ready-to-use” solution, I decided to create a palliative solution. The provided piece of software reintroduces the old behavior of Word 5 with the newest version of it. An additional benefit of this script, when run on Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6, is that you not only have access to the latest backup version but also to the history of it thanks to Time Machine.
Download
[update]The new version provided, logs the saved documents’ name under /Library/Logs/WordBackup.log[/update]
Paralles Desktop 4
June 23rd, 2009The software that I’ll definitively not recommend you. The question is why? Because:
- With version 3 and 4, I were not able to use it easily with my bootcamp partition (see here).
- The support was with version 3 non existant (an email posted on 8 july 2007 is still unanswered) and with version 4 still have no clue, after more than 6 months of availability, of basic problems.
- The company does not seems to improve its product but to add as much as possible features even if still in “beta” stage.
- The software engineers still don’t know to programm an application that is location independant.
- The software engineers aren’t able to write meaningfull error messages
What do you think that such a message can be meaning. Of course that the location of your currently installed application is not ok.
In any case I would recommend you to use VMWare that works a lot better (according to my test) or VirtualBox.
Virtual box is becoming definitively an interesting alternative. It’s free, it works without hitch with Windows 7 and Open Solaris. The only point is that you cannot move the application away from the /Application directory (yes it’s one reason because I dismissed Parallels, but VirtualBox is free and comes from Unix System).
Bol d’or 2009
June 13th, 2009
Quelque photos du bol d’or 2009.
Online or Offline ?
May 7th, 2009
Genève Zürich par le Jura
May 3rd, 2009
- Genève
- Col de la Faucille
- La Cure
- Le Sentier
- Le Pont
- Vallorbe
- Pontarlier
- La Brévine
- Le Locle
- La Chaux-de-Fonds
- St-Imier
- Tavannes
- Moutier
- Balstahl
- Zofingen
- Sursee
- Beromünster
- Muri
- Affoltern am Albis
- Zürich
Total: 356 Km parcourus en l’espace de 9h environ avec une bonne heure de pause à midi.
Un ordinateur portable vraiment écolo
April 28th, 2009Pourquoi la finance va mal
April 22nd, 2009
Tiré du magasine reflex, numéro 7, avril 2009, p37.
Si même les professeur de l’EPFZ se mettent à nous raconter des sornettes… En tout cas on sait pourquoi cette personne n’est pas allée enseigner dans un institut francophone, son sérieux aurait pu ête mis en doute.