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

Internet Explorer 7, FireFox, Safari and Google Chrome ...

it was really funny playing with them at the same moment, switching from one browser to another, testing their speed & capabilities ...

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but at the end, the choice is still difficult...

update :
and yes, no opera ... i've always hated it.

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38 pages de BD qui expliquent tout.
une installation de moins d'une minute,
un web rendering engin le plus rapid que j'ai jamais vu ...
et la cerise ... il est open source.

google ... chapeau bas!

Malgré le retard d'Android, la menace Google plâne. Aussi, Nokia vient de récupérer quasiment toutes les parts de Symbian chez Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens, Samsung étant le seul qui n'a pas encore donné son accord, le tout pour un montant total de 264 millions d'euros.

Mais là où Nokia frappe fort, c'est justement que la marque finlandaise ne compte pas se garder pour elle seule Symbian et vient d'annoncer la Symbian Foundation pour transformer Symbian en logiciel libre sous licence Eclipse.
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[ via journaldugeek ]

1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
2. Any given program costs more and takes longer.
3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
4. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
5. Any program will expand to fill available memory.
6. The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
7. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
8. Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.
9. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
10. Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

[ via devtopics.com ]
[ from slim amamou ]

imagine how excited i am while playing with this toy ...
ps : click to enlarge

"I just wanted to remind everyone that Saturday, January 19th 2008 will mark the beginning of the 30-year countdown to the Y2K38 bug, when Unix time will overflow 32 bits. Some 30-year loan calculation software might start having problems with this over the weekend."

Y2K was just displaying errors, but Y2K38 is really harder to fix : sowftwares, databases, encryption ... and so on.
okey, in 30 years many things will change and we'll have some revolutions somewhere, who knows, unix timestamps may be obsolete.

[ via slashdot]

google released 23 translation chat-bots.
you just send them a message and they'll reply back with the translation within a second.
you can use it inside Google Talk or any other jabber client.

List of bots:
ar2en, de2en, de2fr, el2en, en2ar, en2de, en2el, en2es, en2fr, en2it, en2ja, en2ko, en2nl, en2ru, en2zh, es2en, fr2de, fr2en, it2en, ja2en, ko2en, nl2en, ru2en, zh2en

Explanation on the language codes:
EN = English, NL = Dutch, DE = German, ES = Spanish, FR = French, IT = Italian, KO = Korean, RU = Russian, JA = Japanese, ZH = Chinese.

you need just to add the bot like this to your buddylist: [FirstLanguage]2[SecondLanguage]@bot.talk.google.com
ex : en2ar@bot.talk.google.com, to translate from english to arabic

it's a quite nice stuff, i just added fr2en and it's really cool.
since this service is hosted by google, i think that it'll be pretty efficient.
enjoy

[ via customizetalk ]

i was surfing when i found this funny [ and right ] article.

Erasing Whiteboards
Because whiteboards are often shared you need to identify a protocol for when to erase them. Here are my rules, in order of importance:

_Everyone should erase their own work once it is no longer needed.
_If you want to save your work for a future working session you must include a message indicating so. This message must include your name, contact info, and an erase date after which someone is allowed to erase it.
_If you need a board, and there’s no message or the erase date has expired, then erase it.
_If a message just says “Do Not Erase” but does not include the other required information you should make a judgment call whether you want to erase it. If you don’t put the date on the diagram then useless diagrams will proliferate throughout your org and you’ll quickly run out of whiteboard space.
_Don't ever spit on the whiteboard to clean it. Not only is it gross, it means that subsequent writing will not 'take'.
_If you’ve used a permanent marker on a whiteboard use whiteboard cleaner to erase it or simply go over the writing with a whiteboard marker to loosen the permanent ink.

General Tips
_Never wear white clothes.

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i'm, pratically, a heavy user of whiteboard, i design a lot of diagrams and schemas, and it's frustrating when sometimes someone came and scratch something on your work.

[ via aglileModeling ]

j'etais invite pour participer au journee open source du jeune club ESPRIT libre de l'ecole privee ESPRIT a chargia, tunis.

je viens juste de terminer mon invtervention sur les solutions hybrides open et closed source.

la journee etait essentiellement un install fest pour la distro mandrivia ou plusieurs jeunes ont assiste a diverses presentations et ateliers.

le club est tres jeune, dynamique et tres prometeur.
longue vie aux open sources.

ps : photos soon

il s'est deroule samedi dernier, 27.10.2007, la deuxieme journee des logiciels libres en tunisie. la journee etait organisee par une cooperation dynamique et fructueuse entre plusieurs clubs et equipes universitaires et jeunes.

j'ai ete personnellement invite pour presenter deux conferences, l'une portant sur la technologie web 2.0 (slides ici) et une autre sur la cohabitation des open sources et logiciels proprietaires (slides ici).

des grands stands etaient deploies de part et d'autres de la cite des sciences ou des jeunes doues ont pu exposer leurs creations et innovations.

des entreprises 2s2l etait presentes aussi ou ils ont montre leurs contributions et leurs services aux chefs d'entreprises et DSI qui etaient sur les lieux.

la journee a ete cloture par la remise des cadeaux aux participants qui ont gagne les prix des meilleurs produits exposes.

je salue au passage la vivacite et le dynamisme des equipes et stt leurs devouement.

ps: photos soon