A Wonderful Life in a Magical Tux

Just looking at this picture should be enough

It caused two metro lines to be closed.

We had troubles here because of a few mice, this is now fixed thanks to this emitter !

Today, at 9h00 in Paris, France, for the first time in its short history, 五OS has been started on a real piece of hardware.

This is an important step for an OS that has been only written using emulators like QEmu and VirtualBox.

If you visit this blog and own an IPv6-enabled internet connection, you may in fact have accessed this website using IPv6 !

Starting today, all websites hosted by me are IPv6 enabled. This is probably going to be some troubles if you scan IPs, or do something like that, but if not, you’ll be happy to see that.

If you want to see your IP as seen by the server, you can use my IP service : What is my IP. If it shows an IPv6, it means you are connected via IPv6

During the week, the 五OS project has been resumed. This project is aimed at creating an OS for end-users with a really fast boot by including all vital parts in the kernel.

Also, in order to make easier for the users, there will be no need to deal with things such as shells, etc… to get the OS installed.

I’ve taken over the USB driver developpement, while BombStrike will work on the process scheduler in order to fix a few glitches that were reported.

While this happens, I’m still working on TuxTelecom althrough the service is now owned by Mutum Sigillum LLC. I get to play with the central while real service will be initiated soon.
The final service will of course include regular phone calls, but it will also include ability to send SMS to the world, and maybe to receive those too (in order to receive SMS you’ll need a special plan. Everyone with credit on their accounts will be able to send messages).

Finally, a new non-open source project I’m working on : libthor (threaded torrent library). This cross-platform library will allow anyone to build applications handling torrents (load a torrent, seed it, etc).

Well, that’s basically everything to this week’s news. See you next week !

• Never write code someone else can understand.
• Make the simplest line of code appear complex. Use long counter intuitive names. Don’t ever code “a=b”, rather do something like: AlphaNodeSemaphore=*(int)(&(unsigned long)(BetaFrameNodeFarm));
• Type fast, think slow.
• Never use direct references. Bury everything in macros. Bury macros in include files. Reference those include files indirectly from other include files. Use macros to reference those include files.
• Never include a comment that will help someone else understand your code. If they understand it, they don’t need you.
• Never generate new sources. Always ifdef the old ones. Every binary in the world should be generated from the same sources.
• Never archive all the sources necessary to build a binary. Always hide on your own disk. If they can build your binary, they don’t need you.
• Never code a function to return a value. All functions must return a pointer to a structure which contains a pointer to a value.
• Always speak in abstract. If they understand, they don’t need you.
• Never complete a project on time.
• When someone stops by your office to ask a question, talk forever.
• Load all sentences either written or spoken with alphabet soup. When someone asks you out to lunch, reply:
  

  “I can’t because I’ve almost got my RISC-based OSI/TCP/IP client connected by BIBUS VMS VAX using SMTP over TCP sending SNMP inquiry results to be encapsulated in UDP packets for transmission to a SUN 4/280 NFS 4.3 BSD with release 3.6 of RPC/XDR supporting our ONC effort working.”

• Never throw away an old listing.
• Never address someone by name.
• Always maintain the mystique of being spaced out from concentrating on complex logic.
• Never wear a shirt that matches your pants. Wear a wrinkled shirt whenever possible. Your shirt must never be tucked in completely. Button the top button without wearing a tie.

Yeah, another birthday happened, and it helped me reminding some very old stuff.

Back in 2004, a Friend, Kiddo, sent me a nice image for birthday. The image was posted on 2004-05-31 at 23:54, and I’ve kept it all this time

Now it’s time for me to share it with you.

Recently I wrote about PHP lessons.

You have until June 1st to register and take part as one of the 10 chosen ones.

All levels of PHP are accepted, however you’ll need basic knowledge of HTML (CSS and JS are a plus).

Lessons will contain many aspects of real-life php programming, ranging from simple charset problems to things like XML generation using DOM.

Each lesson will be available as an exercice, and you’ll be able to unlock parts of the required documentation to get some help. Scoring will be based on amount of documentation you had to unlock, code quality, security aspect, etc…

Everyone will be able to access exercices, however documentation and notation will be reserved to the 10 selected students.

The first exercice will be a pretty simple application. This simple application will have more and more things added as time passes by, and will end as a pretty complete website. This reflects some aspects of PHP programming.

The exercices are made to force you to search for what you’ll need, just giving you basic tips. Searching for documentation helps learning way more than receiving documentation.

Out of the 10 students, the 3 best overall students will win some prizes. Those prizes will change as I get sponsors. It may range from a domain name with webhosting to having the final project bought by a company for cash. Each winner will be free to choose from what’s available at this point. Webhosting isn’t a problem, however I don’t know yet for the code buying thing.

If you wish to participate, you can contact me directly on this contact form.

Ever wanted to become a terrorist, you can achieve that easily by going to Guantanamo. You can choose your employer, and a nice high-salary job.

Ranging from suicide bomber to suicide plane pilot, staying there will make sure you have something to do once you get out.

No wonder so many people who get out from Guantanamo fall back to terrorism, even if you didn’t belong to this world in the first place.

USA want to stop Guantanamo (at least form what the BBC says).

Anyway you can probably still enter there by pretending being a bad guy. You won’t have to pretend anymore after that.