The Sea Shepherd team has won over Japan : no more whale killing for this season. Great job, shepherds, go ahead !
Even after many removal tentatives, Mrs Candice Miller continues to spams me with undesired bullshit. Even Viagra ads are more entertaining. Here is the message I sent to try to stop her spamming the world :
Dear Mrs Miller,
Using your government resources to send millions of spams mails worldwide is most probably a criminal offense (if not a felony) in your country.
If you don’t want to be exposed to public shame or worse, be asked how you use your tax money in front of a court, I respectfully recommend you to stop spamming people outside America. Twice in a row, you have send me undesired emails about you and your work, even after I asked for removal from your distribution lists. If you continue harassing me, be sure a lot of people around and above you will be informed about your methods.
Your respectfully,
Charles Bueche, citizen of Switzerland
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Posted 20 January 2011
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Comme en 2008, 2009 et 2010, voici le calendrier des jours fériés 2011 en Suisse pour iCal en format ics.
Mode d’emploi :
- télécharger sur votre Mac
- dézipper
- démarrer iCal
- importer le fichier .ics dans votre calendrier
feries_2011_suisse_ics.zip
Corrections et compléments bienvenus, mon email se trouve dans la page “About me”, ou alors sous forme de commentaire.
Pour ceux qui désirent le calendrier des numéros de semaines, cherchez le freeware NumSemaine.
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Posted 22 October 2010
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In some organizations, the IT administrators are somewhat paranoid. I have got a Windows 7 laptop with a non-editable screen saver timeout of 15 minutes. As I only use this laptop for the terminally-broken Outlook, it has the tendency to be locked-up all the time.
To avoid this syndrome, I tried to hack the registry. It worked until the next reboot, where the deployed policy broke my hack and returned the timeout to 15 minutes.
I then found out a nice solution in the form of caffeine. Put it in your auto-start folder and forget about the problem. And for the ones thinking I’m breaking the company policy, they are wrong. When I leave my place, I always lock my two screens manually. And yes, even to go to the printer. This is IMHO a much better way of ensuring the security of the servers and networks I can access from my machines than waiting 15 minutes until the screen saver starts.
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Posted 08 September 2010
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US-CERT just released TA10-238A. Excerpts :
Due to the way Microsoft Windows loads dynamically linked libraries (DLLs), an application may load an attacker-supplied DLL instead of the legitimate one, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
OK, I suppose an attacker must have administrator rights to plant a hostile DLL ? Or maybe not ?
… Windows uses several different search algorithms to find DLL files. The interaction between the application and Windows can result in a DLL file being loaded from the current working directory … The current working directory could be the desktop, a removable storage device such as a USB key, a Windows file share, or a WebDAV location.
Well, it appears Windows will load DLLs from just about anywhere they are, even on remote systems. What a nice, well-thought feature. What were they smoking when they designed this OS ?
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Posted 27 August 2010
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At a customer site, they decomissioned a Google Mini Appliance. The message was clear : throw it away. I decided to check what I could do with it instead.
I didn’t even try to use the onboard Google indexing features or data. I was given the box in condition of erasing the internal disk, so I simply had to install another OS on it. Simple mission, isn’t it ? Continue Reading »
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Posted 06 August 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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