Kris Buytaert: check_graphite
During my Puppetcamp Gent talk last week, I explained how to get alerts based on trends from graphite. A number of people asked ,e how to do that.First lets quickly explain why you might want to do...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Meet John Doe, founder of Blackma.il
Disponible en françaisIn fall 2014, BlackMa.il made the buzz. The startup is nonetheless very discreet. A simple CrowIT logo on a letterbox, a hallway, a lift and I am in the lair. Here, zero...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Video at FOSDEM 2013
For the second year in a row, I've led the team that organized video at FOSDEM. This year, most things went pretty smoothly; more so than last year. We definitely learned from some of our mistakes, and...
View ArticleStephane Delcroix: Our business app doesn't need your game development skills...
The problemPositioning labels on a map, a chart, a plan is a problem every UI developer face at one time or another if he has the chance to work on rich business app. This problem is NP-Hard for...
View ArticleWouter Verhelst: Transcoding videos
Since some people asked for it, and since it's (unfortunately) fairly nontrivial, here is the script that I'm using currently to transcode a .dv file into webm:#!/bin/bash set -e newfile=$(basename $1...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Signing Documents Using an Unsigned Application!
Belgium is strange country… at various levels! For years, Belgium is known as a country which quickly developed and distributed electronic identity cards (eID) to its citizens. Your eID can be used in...
View ArticleLes Jeudis du Libre: Mons, le 21 février : Présentation d’OpenStack
Ce jeudi 21 février 2013 à 19h se déroulera la seizième séance montoise des Jeudis du Libre de Belgique.Le sujet de cette séance : Présentation d’OpenStackThématique : sysadmin, cloud computing Public...
View ArticleGrégoire de Hemptinne: What is Wazaabi ui framework?
Wazaabi is a set of eclipse plugins allowing the use of EMF based models for building parts of an application GUI. At FOSDEM conference I presented the Wazaabi project which is a young project part of...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: The Morality of Filesharing and the Thought Police
A lot of people like to see morality as a clear line dividing the world between good and bad, white and black. As Randall Munroe would say: ” My hobby: making a thought experiment to test where exactly...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Bring Your Own Rogue [Router|DHCP|Access Point]
In the series of gadgets that we must bring with us, let me present the “NI-707537” of ICUDU. I’m always traveling with a big backpack containing plenty of useful stuff. Working often at customer...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: Drum & Waits
Ik heb het niet zo voor drum&bass of breakbeat, maar deze “Monkey Got Choked’ van Fanu (Janne Hatula) blijft wel hangen:<noscript><a href="http://youtu.be/7pt41ufZ_O8"><img alt=""...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Le petit Nicolas prend l’avion
Clotaire venait d’être envoyé au piquet, ce qui arrive à chaque fois que la maîtresse l’interroge sur les fleuves et les affluents, quand le directeur est entré dans la classe avec un monsieur à l’air...
View ArticleXavier Mertens: Scanning Malicious URLs in One Mouse Click
Since it’s already Friday, just before leaving for the weekend, here is a quick hack for all MacOS X infosec guys… and the others! I’m not afraid to admit it: I’m lazy! We are using computers all day...
View ArticlePaul Cobbaut: traceroute, a new hope
traceroute to 216.81.59.173 (216.81.59.173), 90 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 3.622 ms 4.891 ms 6.368 ms 2 bras05.sn.be.edpnet.net (213.219.132.17) 15.732 ms 16.257 ms...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: Où Flattrer après le spectacle ?
Vous êtes incroyablement nombreux à relever mon défi de tester le web payant avec Flattr. Mais je reçois beaucoup de remarques me disant que, à part mon blog, il n’y a pas grand chose à Flattrer.Allez,...
View ArticleDries Buytaert: Sydney Harbour sailing
More photos of our Sydney Harbour sailing adventure at http://buytaert.net/album/sydney-2013.
View ArticleStephane Delcroix: Chipmunks bindings for MonoTouch
(c) S. Delcroix 2013I'm quite pleased to announce the availability of Chipmunk bindings for monotouch. I started that last year, and bound just enough of it to get a sample working, added some...
View ArticleKristof Willen: Tomatin, 18yo
Long time since I tasted some Speyside whisky - Tomatin is one of Scotlands highest located distilleries, nestled between Aviemore and Inverness. The name 'Tomatin' comes from Gaelic and means 'the...
View ArticleLionel Dricot: The Publisher’s Dilemma
I’m a book publisher. Maybe I should say “I was”. Or “I’m still”. I’m not even sure what my job is. Nor do I know if I still have a job. I’m currently struggling with the “Publisher’s dilemma”. Should...
View ArticleFrank Goossens: WP YouTube Lyte 1.2.0: beta testers needed
Yesterday I pushed a beta version of the long overdue 1.2.0 to the SVN trunk at wordpress.org. This is the version at least some of you have been waiting for, as it includes the following new...
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