We are Rotten Flesh™

According to their own self-description on Reddit, openSUSE is for open minds. A good way to demonstrate that open-mindedness, dear fellow boiling frog, is to call political opponents bigots, hateful and rotten flesh. Faced with this, I can only pray "Lord, have mercy on them, they are just clueless". Also, a good time to re-read …

Going paperless

This time of year is often used to do various cleanup chores. Today is "get rid of old paperwork day". And I decided to try and go paperless. One thing I learned how to do today is to use Tesseract and Ghostscript to archive searchable PDFs from scans. Scanning documents is the easy part. The …

Upgrading to kernel 4.9+

I upgraded to kernel 4.9. It apparently fixed the Wi-Fi issues. I still have occasional display glitches, but they also go away while on battery power. Kernel upgrade I upgraded to kernel 4.9+ (i.e. Linus Torvald's master branch as of today). While I ranted two days ago about some changes in how you install software, …

Second time is a charm

After rendering my Mac Book unbootable installing Fedora 25, I decided to try again, changing as little as I could to see where the previous installation went wrong. I'm happy to report that the second time worked perfectly. It just works™ I now have, as I wanted, a Mac Book Pro that dual boots Fedora 25 …

mac is back

As I explained in yesterday's post, I rendered the Mac Book Pro that Red Hat sent me unbootable in OSX. So I spent some time trying to restore OSX on that machine. In the end, I was forced to wipe the disk clean and start over. Before I did that, here are some things I tried …

Goodbye DxO, hello Red Hat

After one year and a half at DxO working on the DxO ONE, a diminutive, yet highly capable camera that fits in your pocket and connects to an iPhone, I've decided to move on and join Red Hat to work on Spice, focusing on 3D acceleration for virtual machines. Free software, virtualization and 3D together, and working …

Connecting Mavericks to a Freebox: Oh the pain!

I'm very frustrated. Today, I wasted basically two or three hours fighting unreliable software implementing one of the most basic features in the world of networking, namely file sharing. I ought to be simple, it used to work, but if my experience is representative, it's complexly broken nowadays. Grenouille bouillie. What I tried to do …

Paul Graham recommends doing things that don’t scale

As usual, Paul Graham writes an interesting piece about startups. He recommends doing things that don't scale. Thinking like a big company is a sure way to fail. It's a reassuring piece for the startup creator that I am, because at Taodyne, we are indeed in this phase where you do everything yourself and you'd …

Optimize!

Is it normal to wait for your computer? Why should I wait 5 seconds when I click on a menu? Why does it sometimes take half a minute to open a new document? Developers, optimize your code, if only as a matter of public service! What about making it a New Year resolution? Why is …

Stereoscopy: What works, what doesn’t

In the past months, we have been looking for a relatively cheap way to present the output of a 3D application using stereoscopy. Our objective was to see how an application could generate stereoscopic output using commercially-available low-cost hardware. Our expectation was that a budget 3D laptop and a budget 3D projector would make for …