#!/bin/tom
while 1 { fixMind() }

I'm rubber, you're glue; your words bounce off me and stick to you.

a chaque fois je me rappel de cette phrase, je peux pas m'arreter de rire.

I recently reviewed several commercial, closed-source slideshow authoring packages for Windows and came across an alarming trend. Several of the packages I installed included GPL and LGPL software without any mention of the GPL, much less source code. For example, DVD Photo Slideshow (www.dvd-photo-slideshow.com) included mkisofs, cdrdao, dvdauthor, spumux, id3lib, lame, mpeg2enc, and mplex (all of which are GPL or LGPL). The company tried to hide this by wrapping them all in DLLs. There are other violations in other packages as well. Based on my testing of other software, it seems that use of GPL software in commercial Windows applications is on the rise.

My question is how much are GPL violations in the Windows world being pursued? Does the FSF or EFF follow up on these if the platform is not GPL? How aware is the community of this trend?"

personnaly, i think that this kind of violation is not ethically correct. companies trying to get richer without paying a penny is for me a kind of thief.

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LOI DE MURPHY
Tout corps plongé dans une baignoire déclenche systématiquement la sonnerie du téléphone.

PRINCIPE DE RUBY
La probabilité de rencontrer une personne de ta connaissance augmente lorsque tu es avec quelqu'un avec qui tu ne souhaites pas être vu.

CONSTANTE DE MURPHY
Les objets s'endommagent en proportion de leur valeur.

LOI DE GUMPERSON
La probabilité d'un événement est inversement proportionnelle à sa désirabilité.

LOI DE BOOB
Quelque soit l'objet, il sera trouvé dans le dernier endroit où il sera cherché.

LOI DE LA GRAVITE SÉLECTIVE
En tout point de la surface du globe, ta tartine tombera du côté beurre.

POSTULAT DU PARKING
C'est après avoir garé ta voiture à deux kilomètres de distance que quatre places se libèrent simultanément juste en bas de chez toi.

RÈGLE DE FLUGG & POST
Plus le motif pour lequel tu es dans la file d'attente est urgent, plus l'employé du guichet sera lent.

OBSERVATION DE ZENONE SUR LA RÈGLE DE FLUGG & POST
L'autre file va toujours plus vite.

VARIATION D'O'BRIEN SUR L'OBSERVATION DE ZENONE
Au changement de file, celle que tu viens de quitter devient la plus rapide.

LOI DE ROGER
C'est seulement après que l'hôtesse a servi le café que l'avion traverse une zone de turbulences.

EXPLICATION DE TONTON BERNARD
Le café est la principale cause de turbulences en altitude.

LOI DE YOUNG
Se tromper est humain, mais pour un bordel complet, il faut y ajouter un ordinateur.

LOI DE MOSES
C'est quand tu ne regardes pas que le but est marqué.

LOI DE MAMIE
C'est celui qui ronfle qui s'endort toujours le premier.

The mobile phone industry is today celebrating the 15th birthday of the Short Message Service Centre (SMSC), the principal application behind text messaging first brought to market by Acision in 1992. The first ever SMSC was introduced as a product designed primarily to deal with the demands and improve reliability of a developing mobile industry, [...]

Despite the rapid evolution of the mobile market, SMS is still the most important value-added service for operators. For operators looking to provide subscribers with robust messaging services, today's mix and match platform means they can specify SMS capacity to meet their requirements.

i'm surprised that such a simple tool is too much involved in our daily live and even culture as a simple and quick way of communicantion, but also as new form of language.

seeing how sms-style written texts, posts and even books are taking places here and there, i'm a bit septic about the language and [pop-]culture's evolution.

m'enfin ...
lets not forget spams, real-bad-stressing system's alerts and beautiful romantic messages that are making the day a little bit spicefull.

[ source neowin.net]

tout le monde a entendu dernierement les tentatives de microsoft pour faire suivre en justice les utilisateurs d'open source et ses boites pour la "violation" de quelques soit disant 230 patents (ici et ici)...

l'affaire prend de l'ampleur ... et tout le monde se mobilise.

une petition a ete lance sur le net, ou vous pouvez contribuer en signant.

Hatem Zidi, Tunis- Tunisia. using linux since 2001. i used redhat on almost all my servers. i developped many tools using open source stuff, and got no problem with them. i don't blame microsft, but, sue me for doing that!

Une enquête lancée en Australie veut associer "une marque" à "une personnalité". L'idée est marrante mais bien sûr les résultats ne collent pas tout à fait à la réalité du marché :

Nokia
Préoccupés par la famille
Manageurs de 30-40 ans
Soucieux de leur santé

Motorola
Fashions
Moins de 24 ans
Personnes à la recherche du fun

Sony Ericsson
Jeunes hommes ambitieux
Professionnels
Ayant réussi

Samsung
Jeunes femmes
Attachants de l'importance à la carrière
Menants au succès

LG
Parents restants à la maison
Mamans

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اعلنت منظمة تعنى بالدفاع عن حرية الصحافة ان السنة الحالية شهدت مقتل اكبر عدد من الصحافيين منذ بدء نشر الاحصاءات موضحة ان 94 صحافيا قتلوا في مناطق نزاع او اضطرابات داخلية.

وشهد العراق مقتل العدد الاكبر من الصحافيين ,فقد سقط 48 صحافيا اي ضعف عدد الصحافيين الذين قضوا في 2005.

ولم يؤد اي نزاع الى سقوط هذا العدد من القتلى في صفوف المراسلين منذ الحرب العالمية الثانية. وقتل 103 صحافيين في العراق اثناء تغطيتهم للحرب منذ نيسان/ابريل 2003 على ما افادت المنظمة.

[...]

واضافت المنظمة ان نسبة الزيادة تقدر ب38% مقارنة مع 2005 التي قضى خلالها 68 صحافيا ومراسلا حرا ومصورا وفنيا.

وقال الامين العام للمنظمة : "الصحافيين قتلوا في معظم الحالات من قبل جماعات غير حكومية كالمجموعات المتمردة في العراق والميليشيات او الشبكات الاجرامية في اميركا اللاتينية والاجهزة الامنية الموازية في روسيا".

واضاف ان "هذا الامر يفسر امكانية الافلات من العقوبة لكن الحكومات هي المسؤولة عن فرض احترام القانون على اراضيها".

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There are so many programming languages available that it can be very difficult to get to know them all well enough to pick the right one for you. On the other hand most men know what kind of woman appeals to them. So here is a handy guide for many of the popular programming languages that describes what kind of women they would be if programming languages were women.

_Assembler - A female track star who holds all the world speed records. She is hard and bumpy, and so is not that pleasant to embrace. She can cook up any meal, but needs a complete and detailed recipe. She is not beautiful or educated, and speaks in monosyllables like "MOV, JUMP, INC". She has a fierce and violent temper that make her the choice of last resort.
_FORTRAN - Your grey-haired grandmother. People make fun of her just because she is old, but if you take the time to listen, you can learn from her experiences and her mistakes. During her lifetime she has acquired many useful skills in sewing and cooking (subroutine libraries) that no younger women can match, so be thankful she is still around. She has a notoriously bad temper and when angered will start yelling and throwing dishes. It was mostly her bad temper that made grand dad search for another wife.
_COBOL - A plump secretary. She talks far too much, and most of what she says can be ignored. She works hard and long hours, but can't handle really complicated jobs. She has a short and unpredictable temper, so no one really likes working with her. She can cook meals for a huge family, but only knows bland recipes.
_BASIC - The horny divorcee that lives next door. Her specialty is seducing young boys and it seems she is always readily available for them. She teaches them many amazing things, or at least they seem amazing because it is their) first experience. She is not that young herself, but because she was their first lover the boys always remember her fondly. Her cooking and sewing skills are mediocre, but largely irrelevant, it's the frolicking that the boys like. The opinion that adults have of Mrs. BASIC is varied. Shockingly, some fathers actually introduce their own sons to this immoral woman! But generally the more righteous adults try to correct the badly influenced young men by introducing them to well behaved women like Miss Pascal.
_PL/I - A bordello madam. She wears silk dresses, diamonds, furs and red high heels. At one time she seemed very attractive, but now she just seems overweight and tacky. Tastes change.
_C - A lady executive. An avid jogger, very healthy, and not too talkative. Is an good cook if you like spicy food. Unless you double check everything you say (through LINT) you can unleash her fierce temper. Her daughter C++ is still quite young and prone to tantrums, but it seems that she will grow up into a fine young woman of milder temper and more sophisticated character.
_ALGOL 60 - Your father's wartime sweetheart, petite, well proportioned, and sweet tempered. She disappeared mysteriously during the war, but your dad still talks about her shapely form and their steamy romance. He never actually tasted much of her cooking.
_Pascal - A grammar school teacher, and Algol 60's younger sister. Like her sister she is petite and attractive, but very bossy. She is a good cook but only if the recipe requires no more than one pot (module).
_Modula II - A high-school teacher and Pascal's daughter. Very much like her mother, but she has learned to cook with more than one pot.
_ALGOL 68 - Algol 60's niece. A high-society woman, well educated and terse. Few men can fully understand her when she talks, and her former lovers still discuss her mysterious personality. She is very choosy about her romances and won't take just any man as her lover. She hasn't been seen lately, and rumor has it that she died in a fall from an ivory tower.
_LISP - She is an aging beatnik, who lives in a rural commune with her hippie cousins SMALLTALK and FORTH. Many men (mostly college students) who have visited the farmhouse,-- enthusiastically praise the natural food, and perpetual love-ins that take place there. Others criticize the long cooking times, and the abnormal sexual postures (prefix and postfix). Although these women seldom have full-time jobs, when they do work, their employers praise them for their imagination, but usually not for their efficiency.
_APL - A fancy caterer specializing in Greek food. She can cook delicious meals for rows and rows of tables with dozens of people at each table. She doesn't talk much, as that would just slow her work down. Few people can understand her recipes, since they are in a foreign language, and are all recorded in mirror writing.
_LOGO - A grade-school art teacher. She is just the kind of teacher that you wish you had when you were young. She is shapely and patient, but not an interesting conversationalist. She can cook up delicious kiddie snacks, but not full-course meals.
_LUCID & PROLOG - These clever teenagers show a new kind of cooking skill. They can cook-up fine meals without the use of recipes, working solely from a description of the desired meal (declarative cooking). Many men are fascinated by this and have already proposed marriage. Others complain that the girls work very slowly, and that often the description of the meal must be just as long as a recipe would be. It is hard to predict what these girls will be like when they are fully mature.
_Ada - A WAC colonel built like an amazon. She is always setting strict rules, but if you follow them, she keeps her temper. She is quite talkative, always spouting army regulations, and using obscure military talk. You gotta love her though, because the army says so.
_Java - Bulky with big boobs. Does everything you want but slowly. Hardly complains about how you want it in bed. The kind of woman who is not sexy, but gives you amazing satisfaction. You have tried several women, but this one doesn't get off your mind so you always go back to her.
_PHP - Slick and slim lady. Very portable. Does nice and amazing things with her small body. Very good in aerobics. Not very sexy but intact. She is the kind of women that most men are happy to wed, though she will need a house maid because she is unable to carry heavy workload.
_Ruby on Rails. The new girl in town. Everybody is talking about her. Very beautiful and sexy. Only daring men, because she is till new, have the guts to ask her out. She is modern and sophisticated. Already a lot of myth is surrounding her with regards to her ability. She is not talkative but looks rather very intelligent.
_C# - The pimp from next door! She likes copying everything, from recipes to makeup to fashion. She is never original and likes to still other women's ideas, then go about shouting that the ideas are hers. Those who are not aware of her source of ideas think she is very intelligent. She is very talkative and showy. Sometimes she is very good at perfecting what she has copied.
_Python - The all complete lady who is the envy of the town. She came up with a slick new way of dressing that made her a hit. Those who initially scoffed at her new dressing later fell head over heals for it. She is not talkative, but when she does a job, she does it very well.
_Visual Basic (Popularly known as VB) - The little bitch from next door. Probably the most dumb girl in town. She never turns a man down and all the boys in the neighbourhood use her as a training ground as they learn the ropes to adulthood. She never practise safe sex and regularly infects the whole system with memory leaks. Popularly known as VB, she is so loose a lot of fathers have spanked their sons for dating her. However, it is amazing how popular she is. Most men curse themselves once they taste lips of mature and sweet women. A lot of men have struggled to maintain decent relationships with mature women after being spoiled by this little brat! She doesn't have a clue how to cook a complete decent meal without throwing up into the pot!

[ source : Digital Reality ]
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i was really sad, and even more, when my friend's 1GB iPod shuffle dead !

it was really painful seen such a gadget become unuseful.
meanwhile, after days of search, i found that appel released a reset tool to bring iPods back.

useful ...

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[ tool here ]

_ elle : c'est quoi ton signe astrologique ?
_ lui : moi, je suis pengouin, ascendant GNU !

quel humour de geek !

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