General

What’s wrong with Facebook ?

Is there something wrong going on with Facebook at the time I publish this post? The website behaves abnormally slow and I had to click 2-3 time on some buttons until the changes were applied. If somebody received from me 2 (or more) invitations to connect, sorry… it is from this strange effect. Initially I […]

General

No spam, please !

Have a look at this picture taken today. I live there and those are the post boxes of all the inhabitants of that building. My box is in the middle (see the notes). That sticker does the job 🙂 I never received a commercial … NEVER !!! Can you believe this ? My neighbor has […]

Spam & Phishing

Why is it worth fighting against SPAM ?

I received a post from my friend John Graham-Cumming (www.jgc.org) where he announced that he retires from the antispam industry. I even asked him if this is a joke. No, it is not. John, I am sorry to see you leave, I wish you good luck in your future activity, whatever that might be. Now, […]

General

Flickr is having a massage

Which means … it is offline. Maybe it has to do with the post on February 19 where the caching servers went down … I don’t know…. We’ll see and I’ll post results here.

General

The quest of cross compiling

I own a Dreambox 500S which is in fact a box with a 250 Mhz PPC processor. It runs, of course, Linux, kernel 2.6.9. Because it is so small, so power efficient, I plan to use it to make some cron jobs 😉 So, here I start with some links: http://penguinppc.org/embedded/#toolchain http://kegel.com/crosstool/ http://kegel.com/crosstool/crosstool-0.43/doc/crosstool-howto.html I’ll post […]

General

Bye, bye, Blogger!

Finally I decided to remove all the old posts from the blog hosted Blogger and link them to this one. However, I had a problem … Until January 2006, I had all the files hosted by Blogger and from January, I moved them to this blog. Then, in a futile attempt to retrieve the old […]