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le 25 January
Optical Fiber in France: How it work? Free vs Orange

In France, since 2007, big network operators are installing optical fiber in big cities. This new technology allow a very high speed Internet access, and new services

Since the beginning of the fiber deployment, Orange and Free, the 2 biggest French operators, are using two different technologies to provide us with fiber-based Internet access. What are those technologies ? What are each technology pro & cons ?

Let’s explain this, with some drawings too ! ...

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le 25 January
ACTA vs the world

In the next few days (between January 26 and 29) at Mexico, the ACTA negociations will continue ...

But what all of this is about ? ...

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le 6 January
All games for Arduino & Lol-Shield : Pong, Shoot them up, Tetris

Finally, since coucouf, aka Aurélien, sent me the source code of its tetris, I decided to produce a last video summing-up all what we coded for Arduino and LolShield from Jimmie P Rodgers during 26C3 in Berlin... Starting with the graphic library of Alex Wenger, we created some programs and other liibraries : an enhanced version of the Charlieplexing library from Alex, a figure drawing library (Figure.cpp) and text drawing one (Text.cpp), with a minimal font. Jimmie just opened a Google (...)

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le 5 January
Google, Akamai, At&T : We are only dumb meat

In July 2004, Patrick Le Lay, who where at this time CEO of TF1 (the first privately owned television in France), was sentenced to a mediatic death because he says a plain thing, which was, at this time, taken out of its context, but which made him notoriously famous :

"What we sell to Coca-Cola, it’s available human brain time. " (cf wikipedia)

Today, I have a far better inappropriate expression to tell you about, an expression that has been totally unnoticed, but that really deserves your attention.

Guess what funny name Internet access providers and Internet content providers gave to Internet Users ?

Let me tell you a little story...

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le 30 December 2009
26c3. Day 4 : The LOL Shield, last post : SPACE INVADER !

This is the last article on LOL Shield for Arduino before a while (I guess), this fantastic circuit from Jimmie P Rodgers : We where glad to obtain this wednesday morning a library, (under LGPL license, perfect :) ) created by Alex Wenger, from the ArduinoBuch Blog, which is no less than a graphic driver for the LOL Shield !

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le 29 December 2009
26c3. Day 2 : A Microntroller-based led panel from Jimmie

During that second day at the 26th Chaos Communication Congres at Berlin, I choose to make it a manual and active day : Jimmi P Rodgers, a friend of Mitch (the inventor of the TVBGone) brought an electronic kit called "LOL Shield for Arduino". It’s a 14x9 led panel, either green or red, driven by an Arduino, a microcontroller board with an Atmel 328, and a USB/Serial converter, which make it very easily programmable.

Let’s go for a small demo, source and video ...

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le 27 December 2009
26C3, Day1 : a kit to make a 3D Printer

During this first day at the 26e Chaos Communication Congress, I made a small video on a printer which can do 3D plastic objects !

What does it looks like, how does it work and how those objects looks like ? ...

A 3D Printer ...

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le 16 April 2007
named zone sonntag.eu.org: refused notify from non-master

The trick & tips of the moment : we recently upgrade the secondary dns server of Lautre.Net. We are now using bind 9.3.

We has the following error message for all the hosted domains :

Apr 16 00:34:38 ns2 named[4586]: client 212.85.137.31#1293: received notify for zone 'sonntag.eu.org'
Apr 16 00:34:38 ns2 named[4586]: zone taous.net/IN: refused notify from non-master: 212.85.137.31#1293

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le 25 January 2006
AlternC 0.9.3.1 is out !

Yesterday, a new version of AlternC was published. AlternC is a hosting control panel software suite I created some years ago with friends. Antoine, aka anarcat was payes by Koumbit to correct bugs and security issues in the previous version of the AlternC core. You can download it now for i386, amd64 and PowerPC. The Changelog file will give you relevant informations about this project’s news, corrected bugs (...)

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le 25 January 2006
Postgrey crashed, Database lost ?

This morning, the web site was down, certainly due to a ram issue. However, it is now back online. After the reboot, postgrey, an anti-spam daemon using an automagically filled whitelist database refused to start with the following error in syslog: ERROR: can’t create DB environment: No such file or directory I found that the greylisting database in /var/lib/postgrey was corrupted. When I strace postgrey start script with strace -f /etc/init.d/postgrey start I saw misc error messages such (...)

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