iXce’s blog

I know this is my seventh post today. I should probably stop and get a nap. Meh.

Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés
(Happy people aren’t in a hurry)

(from Vincent Untz)

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

(a.k.a Hanlon’s razor)

If it moves, it’s biology; if it smells, it’s chemistry; if it doesn’t work, it’s physics.

In order to get the latest and brightest X.org version, namely X.org 7.3, and more specifically the neat stuff from xorg-server 1.4.0 which won’t be in Ubuntu before at least a couple of weeks (probably more), I switched to Gentoo Linux on my laptop last month. My desktop is still powered by Ubuntu even though there’s a fully featured Gentoo distro ready on it

The switch went quite smoothly. It takes quite a lot of time to compile all that, but heh, Rome wasn’t built in one day, and I have a lot of cpu idle-time anyway (*cough* school *cough*). There are still a few things missing/broken (mostly the cpufreq GNOME panel applet not applying changes and gnome-power-manager behaving oddly) but it’s running mostly fine and I’m using it daily. It’s a real pleasure to be able to get mostly up to date softwares, and even be able to use development version of these softwares in a seamless manner (by simply using a -9999 ebuild).

Well, my last word will just be….

# emerge -DaNuv world

I just finished setting up a gitweb for my very own projects, it’ll be wayyyy nicer to browse code revisions and diffs of my various orphaned projects =)

Felt like coding a bit… Thought I’d code a PyGTK Game of Life just for fun (or just to prove myself I’m not _that_ bad at coding )

The code is obviously available :

$ git clone http://guillaume.segu.in/code/gol.git
$ cd gol
$ python gol.py


Getting pwned at school on a daily basis these days…. Mhhhh no fun
Not much has been going on code-wise, though I fixed CamlUI to get it to work against latest gtksourceview2 API and rewrote gnome-about in an accessible way… Wondering if it’ll ever be accepted as part of the official GNOME project.

On a side note, we are about to release Compiz Fusion 0.6.0 (and 0.6.2 should follow rather quickly to match the upcoming Compiz bugfix release).

Have you ever wondered how Forum trolls would look in real life? Here’s the answer =)

The original full-quality version is available on College Humor

Source

I’m not used to post videos like this, but heh, I really like this one

Well, you are the one, the one that lies close to me
Whispers “Hello, I’ve missed you quite terribly”
I fell in love, in love with you suddenly
Now there’s no place else I could be but here in your arms

xkcd rocks.

Heh, so we are back there. School. Interesting. Well, this year looks _way_ (as in ______way______) more promising than last one (specifically it’ll potentially be __way__ less annoying). A nice group of teachers, among which my dad as maths teacher, a physics teacher who seems to actually like his job, a French teacher who opened the books to do something else than looking for sexual bits. I don’t have much to tell today, I’m awfully tired. Oh, I passed my Summer of Code final evaluation. I am eagerly waiting for the tshirt (which I won’t probably get before the end of October, when I won’t be able to wear tshirs anymore, but that’s not a real deal, I’ll wear it anyway xD).

Well, it’s about time to jump on my maths homework. Have a nice day

The board is set. Pieces are moving. We come to it at last… The great battle of our time.

Even the smallest people can change the course of the future.

Probably my favourite LOTR quotes.