Something you don't see very often!

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Via Delle Bocchette: 29/6 -2/7 2007

La Montagne de Tous les Etés

Notre Parcours de l'Etang Bleu!

Parcours de tous les jours

En été, nous faisons ce parcours tous les jours!

La vie est belle au 21e siecle.

Du nouveau dans le sud?

Enfin, il y a du nouveau! Oui! Roquesérière a son blog! Il y a un lien à gauche qui y pointe, allez-y!
A+b.

Plongée : Du Nouveau !

Amis plongeurs ! Je viens de poster un guide de Briefing de Chef de Palanqué sur mon site http://gratefulfrog.net. Il est surtout utile pour les plongeurs en formation au Corail diving Club ou dans un autre club belge. Pour l'obtenir, il suffit de suivre le lien en bas de ma Home Page ou l'autre ci-dessus. Toutes vos remarques sont bienvenues!
GF.

Some new old things

Well are you interested in geometry? Do you remember all those proofs of triangles being congruent? Well if you check out my home page you'll find a demonstration of Euclid's Great Secret Theorem which just might surprise you! But I'm not telling what the surprise may be...

If you're interested, just follow the link at the bottom of the Gratefulfrog Home Page.

Heros return

After weeks of battle, the heroic Sea Shepherd Crews are returning to Civilization, or at least to Australia where one of their ships may be confiscated after the British (well known for their courageous war against Terrorism with Mr. Bush and his America - yeah, right...) canceled its registration because the Japanese barked! Woof Woof and the Brits use their most famous talent Bureaucracy to hinder the only people on the planet who are actually trying to save the seas! What more to say...

Just take a look at the Sea Shepherd site, and their blogs and pictures from the Antarctic campaign.

Then send some money, or go and do something with them!

Get out there and do it!

Today the whales have a defender!

At last the Sea Shepherd ships have hunted down the Japanese whale killers! Hopefully they'll be able to save a few whales down there in the Antarctic, while there are still whales to save!

Any Japanese, Norwegian, Icelandic, or Danish person reading this should do something *NOW* to prevent his or her government from continuing to senselessly hunt marine mammals for pure profit or for whatever justification they come up with.

And the same goes for any Asians regarding the hunting of sharks, and in particular whale sharks, for shark fins soup!

All the rest of you, send money to Sea Shepherd while there is still life in the sea to save!

There is no justification for the destruction of endangered species in the 21st century! So get with it!

News, at last, news

Yo! It's time to say something, again.

That's why I've decided to say that Life is Good!

Orca Days

Once upon a time, we went for an orca adventure...
For a description of the trip look at Lofotdykk

And that made all the difference...

listen...

Surprised? Well I am! This is just to see how webcam capture works!

More on Breezy and updates!

Well there's been another update of the xorg and the 64bit fglrx drivers are dead again. Looks like I've got to update backwards to the libdri.a found http://mail3.mpr.org/mlomker/libdri.a.gz

Now, there's a load of help at this site, too:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Breezy_Installation_Guide.

Hia Haya Dohr!

Hello there, y'all!

This is just to say that I'm now linking to my good friend Haya Dohr and his blog full of Art Photos!

Be sure to check it out!

See ya round here real soon!
GF.

Bloggy Day

Well, Internet world out there, things are still good. A great 2 week break in the South and all is fine. Of course, there is still work to be managed, alas. Funny how a break has taken my focus off the Literate Programming that I was doing. But there's no new focus, yet.

I will keep you posted with posts.

News, at last...

This is just to say: Life is Good! Free software is great!

The Spirit of Open Software: Ubuntu Breezy

Well, recovering from minor surgery, and pushed by accumulating bugs on my obsolete Ubuntu 5.04 Linux, I finally decided to upgrade to 5.10 Breezy on my AMD64 machine.

Yes, this was in many ways a crazy thing to do, but you probably know me by now...

So, after downloading for an hour, I began the long apt-get dist-upgrade. Here are the issues I encountered and the responses I brought.

1. ialibs could not install: to get by this, first remove xorg-driver-fglrx, then install ialibs, then re-install xorg-driver-fglrx.
2. X would not start: as one might expect the fglrx driver needed massive re-configuring, in particular I had to first start with a vanilla /etc/X11/xorg.conf, then explore loads of proposed solutions. Of course it is not absolutely necessary to use the fglrx drivers for the ATI graphics cards, but if you don't use them you don't get 3D graphics acceleration - it's as simple as that. To debug X problems, it is very important to check the start-up log for X's error messages at /var/log/Xorg.0.log. All in all this problem was much harder to fix than expected mainly due to my own lack of knowledge, but finally this link provided the solution. Thanks to Ubuntu forums!
3. Skype kept locking up the microphone: This problem would appear to be caused by skype's use of the obsolete OSS sound system. I finally managed to get a workaround on a 32bit chroot by following this advice and also this site. If you want to know about dchroot, check here. Indeed, many 64bit issues can be worked around by use of a 32bit dchroot environment to simulate 32bit while still running the 64bit kernel (this is particularly useful to get access to flash and macromedia players under firefox - those proprietary for money only tools :-( aren't available in 64bit compatible form).
   

If anyone out there wants to try this upgrade, I suggest using the command line version, i.e. apt-get, rather than synaptic since this allows better handling of errors. Considering the size of the upgrade, I'd say it went pretty well - but I doubt that most people would be willing to put in that much effort every 6 months just to keep up with Linux releases - which don't bring much visibly improved functionality and can even make some things slower or impossible!

In any event, the Ubuntu team (bug reporting and followup), wiki and forums are constantly available to provide information, and support. Those people are really helpful!

They really follow the Ubuntu spirit: "Humanity to others: I am what I am because of who we all are." This is really what I feel separates the open software world from those other people who are just out there for themselves.

Boomerang - Dada

So much to say about those 2 subjects, yet so little time so litte ti... In the meantime, be that Greenwich or other, check out these sources while I'm typing out another Blog entry!

• Boomerangs
• Dada

Enjoy!
GF