iXce’s blog

Chipping in the buzz, but I’m getting really annoyed of the “Stop Health Care Arrogance” ads. I believe they easily amount for 75% of the ads I’ve seen today. Not that I don’t care, but erm, I’m not really going to call my US congressman

Just upgraded this WordPress to 2.7.1, and wow, this new automatic upgrade system is great. All I had to do was type my ftps logins and hit the Upgrade button. Congrats and thanks to the WordPress team !

Disclaimer : this post is completely useless, yet I like it

Short story : linking two individuals seems to be just a matter of having enough data about them.
Long story : I’ve been claiming for a few weeks that there is one girl (which I don’t know personally, just visually) here at the ENS who looks like my girlfriend (actually, I’m claiming my girl friend looked like her 2 years ago, but that doesn’t matter much). I was able to show her to my girlfriend last week (by the way, ENS “Urban Night” was great ), and she now thinks I’m completely crazy since, according to her, there’s nothing in common between them.
Since I hate being wrong, I went on and found the girl’s name after some extensive ENS students directory lookup, which lead me to her Facebook profile. I didn’t even have to run some facial comparison engine, the missing link appeared immediately. It was so obvious I was astonished I hadn’t guessed it before. The resulting matching is simply perfect.

They both love Nutella.

Here is a new Compiz Fusion release, tagged 0.7.8, bringing a good bunch of bug fixes and quite a lot of work on animation plugin

The official announcement is available in Compiz Fusion Community list archives.

Have fun using Compiz Fusion!

Hurrah, farewell Classes Préparatoires !
The first results are out, and I’m 5th at École Normale Supérieure Paris (a.k.a. Ulm), 9th at ENS Lyon, 7th at ENS Cachan, and 114th at École Polytechnique (a.k.a. X). More results to come in the upcoming hours, but I’m surely going to Ulm next year

The great news there is that I can now get on coding without any bad thought about the fact that I /ought/ to be working maths or physics.

Exams are finished, at last \o/ _o/ \o_
I’m waiting for the results now

We have just released Compiz Fusion 0.7.6, based on Compiz 0.7.6 which was released just two days ago. This is a new development release, introducing a few – yet shiny – new plugins, some new features, and a bunch of ccsm and simple-ccsm changes, alongside the usual translations updates and bug fixes.

The official announcement is available in Compiz Fusion Community list archives.

Just for fun, here is the global git diffstat:

Diffstat:

• bcop : 1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
• libcompizconfig : 5 files changed, 52 insertions, 7 deletions
• compizconfig-backend-gconf : 2 files changed, 18 insertions, 42 deletions
• compizconfig-backend-kconfig : 2 files changed, 1 insertions, 19 deletions
• compizconfig-python : 2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
• ccsm : 86 files changed, 7147 insertions, 5553 deletions
• simple-ccsm : 25 files changed, 714 insertions, 320 deletions
• plugins-main : 102 files changed, 12461 insertions, 5841 deletions
• plugins-extra : 81 files changed, 12557 insertions, 5818 deletions
• plugins-unsupported : 37 files changed, 3159 insertions, 1428 deletions
• emerald : 39 files changed, 353 insertions, 1208 deletions
• Total : 382 files changed, 36473 insertions, 20241 deletions

Have fun using Compiz Fusion!

It’s not just about living forever, Jackie. It’s about living with yourself forever.

At World’s End

The board is set, the pieces are moving, we come to it at last…

Examinations are starting on Wednesday 23rd, and will end on May 26th around 6:30pm. 115 hours (114 and a half, to be accurate) of exams See you next month, world!

For a project of mine (involving LEJOS-OSEK, mostly), I’m forced (well, almost) to use Windows, which my dear VirtualBox virtualizes fairly well on my clean Linux host. I obviously setup vim for my coding needs, but its default behavior isn’t quite what we are used to on other platforms. For instance visual mode selection with arrows requires you to hold Shift, while it doesn’t elsewhere and backup files are created upon write.

So, let’s edit the .vimrc file, which actually is at VIM_INSTALL_PATH\_vimrc (for instance C:\Program Files\vim\_vimrc with the default install options).
Disabling backup files is as simple as adding

set nobackup

Getting visual mode arrows selection is a bit different, as explained in vim tip 864 comments, you can either add

set keymodel-=stopsel

around the end of the file
or drop the

behave mswin

line from the default vimrc.

Here are two other (non windows-specific) tips:
Bash like filename completion:

set wildmode=longest:full
set wildmenu

Pythonic smart indent:

autocmd BufRead *.py set ai et ts=4 sw=4 sts=4
autocmd FileType python set ai et ts=4 sw=4 sts=4
autocmd BufRead *.pyx set ai et ts=4 sw=4 sts=4
autocmd BufRead *.py set smartindent cinwords=if,elif,else,for,while,try,except,finally,def,class

See also this pretty Tango color scheme for vim.