Connect to server with Nautilus – Samba
Posted by Boris in Networks, Server administration and Security on October 8, 2009
This is the correspondence between Nautilus dialog fields and url:
smb://domain;user@server/share/folder
As instance, if you want to connect to IUT of Annecy’s ‘winserv’ server using xxx user, and open the xxx folder, just connect to:
smb://iut-acy;xxx@winserv.iut-acy/xxx
xkcd.com
Posted by Boris in Miscanelous on August 11, 2009
D-ie6, die!
Posted by Boris in Software and Development on August 8, 2009
From a nice web-log on which 404 errors are awesome 
Customers, their ambitions vs. their needs.
Posted by Boris in Software and Development on August 6, 2009
Few days ago, one of my friends told me a short story which happened to him a very short while before:
My friend is a web developer, and so, his customers usually want him to code online software. One of his customers, though, wanted an e-commerce website «Like another one». So, my friend immediately thought at a huge web application which was dedicated, would have scaling abilities, advanced features, etc. The customer then told him that he only had slightly more 700 bucks to start the project. My friend, conscious of the fact that the price of something like that application would cost at least ten times more, told his client that he could do something «light» to start, on what the client agreed. So, he started to work, hard, and got something working, then he put the stuff online. All has been okay for some weeks, ’til the customer wanted to do some slight modifications on his website… These slight changes would have been so if my friend would have done a complete and finished product, what he obviously hadn’t done for this little amount of money. So, despite the fact that his work has been thought to be evolutive, he had to recode most of the website in order to make the site suitable for these slight modifications. So he told that to the customer, who didn’t accept the quote. After arguing a short while, they both agreed that a simple e-commerce website would be sufficient.
So, my friend migrated his customer on an e-commerce website solution, and him and his client are both satisfied with that. The moral of this story is to NEVER trust a customer on his needs: they always are either distorted by the customer’s ambition, or, rarely, willingly lowered, in order to pay less (and, unfortunately, have less) than really needed. The role of a developper is also to understand his customer’s needs, and to explain them why and what they really need.
About ‘work’ and it’s generally misunderstood use
Posted by Boris in Miscanelous on July 16, 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, and that’s mainly because I started a lot of drafts, but finished none of ‘em. I’ve observed that, excepted for articles you prepare during a looooo[...]ong time, short abstracts (or excerpts) are the only way to post something on a web-log without talking about your personal life. So, I’ll make this post short.
The word “work” is used to designate and talk about a lot of things, in various situations, but mainly, it means “labor”. And I remarked something interesting: people advocating about “work”. I say, those who regularly publicly and loudly tell that work is great and that people should work more. I don’t talk here about persons who simply say “I work hard and I have merit” (even if sometimes, people who advocate “work” say that too), but about those who pretend to work hard and complain about others, who, obviously, don’t work hard enough.
The fact is: you work for money (since we live in a capitalist world), and you live FROM money. So, basically, you live from your work (the money intermediate is not the matter here, and it’s a whole subject). So, if you don’t work, you can’t expect to live comfortably. Okay, but…
To work is NOT to do, I mean, IT IS NEITHER to do what others, nor you qualify as “work”. It is simply something that had to be done (for someone else…) and that nobody would have done for free. And, most of the time, people are lying: their work can easily be done, with a reasonable learning time, by anyone (exceptions are medical doctors, lawyers, etc.). For instance, «playing or composing music» is not working until someone ask you for some.
If I post about “work” and its meaning, it’s because I think that too many people are pretending to work (doing noting but fooling others, and earning money from their ignorance), and overwhelm other people about their pretended “laziness”. Actually, I generally have observed this kind of behavior from people who think that, for any reason (political, religious, theological, etc.), they are superior to the rest of humanity. So, when I hear “people should work more”, it’s either from a tired labor-worker, or from a dumb-ass who wants to slave us all. Work isn’t necessary enslavery, but if you don’t pay attention, you’ll be enslaved before even having a chance to understand it.
That is simply a though I had, feel free to give feedback, I’d greatly appreciate to discuss about this.
XBox gamepad driver for Linux
Posted by Boris in Software and Development on June 19, 2009
Tonight I plugged my Xbox controller to my freshly installed Ubuntu setup. I have been using Windows Xp for at least three years, and I didn’t know it should work natively; so I started to look at existing drivers. I founded out that a project exists, but source code was two years old. I contributed to it and it seemed to work.
After encounting some problems I have to debug this driver. I’ll post any further information here.
Windows Clipboard viewer…
Posted by Boris in Software and Development on May 6, 2009
Today I found a nice software into windows, which is very useful and handy: the Clipboard viewer. It’s located in %SystemRoot%\System32\clipbrd.exe. This great software doesn’t only allow to view, but also to erase, save and load clipboard content.
My soul is lost
Posted by Boris in Miscanelous on April 30, 2009
This morning I suddenly realized by waking up that I do “nested” dreams, and, in English, on the top of that! What I mean by “nested” is that I “pause” dreams when I encounter a impossible/illogical thing/task/etc., and start a new dream from this point, in order to resolve the parent one’s issue.
I say, my soul is lost!
Regedit trick to getting rid of “Use the Web service to find the appropriate program”
Posted by Boris in Software and Development on April 27, 2009
In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, create a new DWORD value named NoInternetOpenWith and set it to 1. Done. And, yes, it’s mostly a note for myself.
April news
Posted by Boris in Software and Development on April 4, 2009
Exactly what I would like to do every time I see such a parked car…
From xkcd
Edit: As I write a post today, I also post a direct link to latest Nvidia drivers for Geforce 6, 7 ,8 ,9 and 200 series for windows XP 32 bit; since the download button doesn’t seems to appear on firefox. Note that downloading this file makes you accept the NVIDIA Software License Agreement.
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