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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted 28 June 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted 27 March 2010
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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 [...]
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Posted 21 March 2010
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My Macbook Pro was getting slower and unresponsive. Then, Quicksilver started to crash. Thanks to some other blog, I found the clipboard module was trying to store huge clipboard data, resulting in a 930 Mb file. To fix it, stop Quicksilver, remove ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Shelves/QSPasteboardHistory.qsshelf and restart Quicksilver. My MBP is now fast again.
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Posted 08 March 2010
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I recently published a server-side script to backup all calendars stored in a Davical server. On request and idea of Bruno Friedmann, here is a script to save your own calendars from the client. It’s not very elegant (eg it doesn’t discover your calendars but need a static list) but basically works. #!/bin/sh # # [...]
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Posted 04 February 2010
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Blogpress is an iPhone app to post blog entries. With BTstack, a Bluetooth keyboard and a jailbroken iPhone, it’s quite usable for posting on the go.
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Posted 24 January 2010
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I’m sure someone will complain about the non-patched status of this server and tell me I’m a loosy admin.
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Posted 24 January 2010
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