Il y a eu les chaînes de lettres par courrier postal, auxquelles ont naturellement succédé les chaînes de lettres par courriel. À ces dernières s’est cependant greffé une nouvelle catégorie, soit celle des hoaxes, ou canulars, qui véhiculent toutes sortes d’histoires abracadabrantes exploitant l’ignorance et la naïveté des gens pour leur faire peur et les […]
To produce any character in Linux the same way you do it in Windows with ALT key codes, press SHIFT-CTRL-U, then hold SHIFT-CTRL and enter a two characters Unicode code. For example, to produce an é, you’ll enter E9.
I installed Easy Peasy 1.0 on my Asus Eee PC 701 some weeks ago and everything was fine till today when I applied updates (I’m on Intreprid repositaries) and my wi-fi stopped working although the wi-fi LED was on. I was on the ath5k module, and it was loaded. However, some googling taught me that […]
Cette page que j’ai créée explique pourquoi l’utilisation des documents aux format MS-Office n’est pas recommandable en général.
>Signez vos courriels! Qu’est-ce qu’une signature? L’article 2827 du Code civil du Québec définit légalement la signature de la façon suivante: La signature consiste dans l’apposition qu’une personne fait à un acte de son nom ou d’une marque qui lui est personnelle et qu’elle utilise de façon courante, pour manifester son consentement. De manière générale, […]
>Bottom line: on Mandriva 2009.0, use AMD automounter + those corrective instructions to automount jungledisk I use Amazon S3 for remote storage of backups. A very simple and cost-effective way to do so is through Jungle Disk (there exists open source solutions, but they are not as practical and painless as Jungle Disk, which is […]
>Bottom line: firmware v1.04.06 doesn’t work under Linux; v1.06.01 does. I purchased a Creative Zen Mozaic media player for my wife’s birthday. Even though we run Linux at home, I wasn’t afraid of the player being MTP-only since MTP is supported on Linux. However, I was in for a shock: « dmesg » was returning errors when […]
As many physicists, I have always wondered how strange quantum physics was. One of the numerous things in this theory that make me scratch my head is how come time and space could be discrete instead of continuous. For those not familiar with quantum physics, the space being discrete means that there exists a minimal […]
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