As my current contrat will soon come to end, I’m open for a new challenge. I have done UNIX and Linux since a very long time, I even got a Solaris certification a few years ago. I know stuff like Apache, reverse-proxies, NMS (Network Management Systems) aka OSS (Operation Support Systems). I have experience with tools like CA eHealth, NerveCenter, Cacti, Zenoss, Nagios, NetFlow anf friends, I can code in Perl, PHP and the usual shell languages.
Ideally, the region should be around Bern / Solothurn / Neuchâtel / Lausanne, but I’m open for other locations if tele-commuting is OK. My CV is available on request.
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Posted 21 March 2010
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Cher Eric,
quand fin 2009 tu attaquais la Suisse en utilisant les données confidentielles volées à une de nos banques, je me disais que tu en avais une grosse paire dans le pantalon. S’attaquer à ce genre d’établissement peut coûter cher, et je supposais que tu avais été assez malin pour assurer tes arrières.
Six mois plus tard, je dois constater que non seulement tu as été malhonnête avec les gens qui ont voté pour la Sarkozie, mais en plus tu as été assez con pour laisser perdurer moults conflits d’intérêts tout en t’attaquant à plus gros que toi. En plus, avec tes maladresses, tu va mettre en difficulté ton propre chef.
Là, mon pauvre, après ta démission, il ne te restera qu’à acheter une villa aux îles Caïman : tu ne pourras pas planquer tes pots de vins et ceux de ta douce en Suisse, nos banques ne voudront pas de vous.
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Posted 06 July 2010
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My multi-function Brother DCP-540CN announced error 46, meaning it could not clean it’s print head anymore. Somewhere on the web, I found the following procedure (french) :
- Allumer la machine.
- Appuyer, successivement, sur ‘Menu’ , ‘Marche Mono’ , et appuyer 4 fois sur la flèche du haut en moins de 5 secondes, pour entre dans le mode maintenance.
- Avec les touches haut (▲) ou bas (▼), faire afficher “80″ et valider avec “Menu/confirme”
- Appuyer sur la touche ‘Marche Mono’ plusieurs fois jusqu’au compteur de purge.
- Pour remettre le compteur à “00000″ , il faut entrer la valeur “2783″ : afficher successivement les chiffres 2,7,8 et 3 avec les touches (▲) ou (▼) et en validant par la touche ‘Confirme’ à chaque fois.
- Pour quitter, touche ‘Arrêt/Sortie’.
- Entrer les chiffres 9, 9 avec les flèches pour sortir du mode maintenance.
Then, I had to replace the ink absorber box, which goes by the part number LP5186001. I asked Brother and they sent me one within 2 days. I don’t know its price yet, I haven’t got any bill so far.
Dismounting the DCP-540CN is hard. Many screws, plastic clips and cables to disconnect. I broke a few plastics clips, mainly because Brother doesn’t publish any service manual.
The disassembled printer with the new and old ink absorbers.
Long story short, I managed to replace the ink absorber box (while getting a lot of ink on the table, ground, my T-shirt and my hands).
And the most amazing : it still print (even if my T-shirt goes to the waste basket).
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Posted 30 June 2010
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I waited for a few days after iOS4 public availability to upgrade my 2-years old iPhone 3G. Having a need for some applications only available for jailbreaked phones, I used PwnageTool 4.01 to upgrade and jailbreak at the same time.
The restore of my custom IPS image in DFU mode failed with error 1600. To fix it, I had to create an “expert” image in PwnageTool and use 1000 Mb size for the root filesystem (tip from some forum). After this, the DFU restore worked. After reboot, no Swisscom GSM/3G service at all, I had to install Ultrasn0w from Cydia. Now it seem everything is working again.
Apple still doesn’t provide a week-view in their calendar. I impatiently wait for the CalDAV-enabled version of PocketInformant to get this feature.
Les gars de Sea Shepherd amènent le Steve Irwin en Mediterrannée pour sauver le thon rouge. Soutenez-les avec un don, et arrêtez de manger du thon rouge de suite. Dans les restaurants, ne vous contentez pas d’éviter d’en commander, mais en plus faites part de votre désaccord au patron. Quand cette espèce sera éteinte, ce sera trop tard d’être désolé.
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Posted 13 May 2010
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A few people describe their own experience online. Might help Kusi in his latest goal. This one has got a rich father who needed a captain.
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Posted 12 May 2010
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Kusi asked me how to become a captain. The main goal is to get a life-lasting, sexy nickname : “capitan kusi”. On this new serie, I will focus on a few methods to achieve this goal.
Not only boats have their captain, spaceships do as well. So we begin with the most famous one : James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). To get there, you need to be clean of vertigo, be a womanizer and learn to fly spaceships.
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Posted 11 May 2010
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I have been bitten by the buggy iconv provided by Sun many times. A few years ago with Samba on Solaris 9, now again with FreeTDS on top of Solaris 10. It is amazing how bad Sun has been about providing software on top of Solaris. The OS itself might be cool, and ZFS is amazing. However, if you want to do something on this OS, you will quickly need to compile software yourselve.
All Linux distributions are providing ten of thousands of packages, installed with a simple command. On Solaris, expect to spend hours running ./configure and make in iterative mode until you get something running. And then you start again because you forgot to add some “-L -R” and it is now complaining about a missing library. And don’t talk to me about the dreadful Blastwave and OpenCSW. The rule is simple : if you want to build something above Solaris, be ready to become a SVR4 packager.
No wonder why Solaris is dying. The purchase by Oracle wasn’t really needed to kill it. The suicide was written all over the wall long before Oracle even thought about it.
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Posted 22 April 2010
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I was subscriber of Solnet ADSL since a few years. Solnet was a good ISP, but they didn’t offer interesting upgrades to high bandwidth DSL for my place. After studying the market a bit, I stumbled upon the VDSL offer of green.ch. I’m paying about the same price as before, but I have now 16’000/1’000 speed. The new speed is OK, even if I had no direct usage for it. For remote engineering, the fast upstream speed is especially nice.
The migration took some time to sort out, but the link appear to be stable. Green.ch provide the Zyxel 2802 VDSL router, which I configured as bridge, behind my D-Link router. After having migrated DNS and friends, all is set.
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Posted 14 April 2010
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In NMS world, the reload of network devices could renumber the indexes of network interfaces in awkward ways. To avoid this renumbering, configure your IOS devices with these commands :
- snmp-server ifindex persist
- snmp mib persist cbqos
- snmp ifmib ifalias long
Or is this shall better be called “Persistent SNMP indices” ? Well, now that both versions are listed here, big-brother Google will index the two of them.
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Posted 27 March 2010
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