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yes it's been a fun ride. For the past 18 months, I had a nice job, but since yesterday not anymore. I think it's a nice occasion to look at all the stuff that eat all the space on my hard disks and see what can be reused and released as opensource. Read More

I think the title say it all. so I wish everyone to have a nice year 2009, with everything one might desire ....

A few weeks ago, I decided to write a small utility to help me with my work and also to relearn Qt. This small utility enable me to control the boot process, update the firmware of various devices I have at home and at work. Read More

I want to wish everyone a great and happy 2008. It's been a while since I last blogged and the reason is I'm pretty busy with the new job, which after nearly 2 months is still fun and challenging and I hope it will stay this way. Read More

Tomorrow morning, I will start my new job at axentra. I must admit I'm a little nervous but also excited by this new job. After 3 years of being self-employed, and with all the shit I had last year and until this May , it's a definitly a welcomed change in my professional life. Read More

and I must admit it's hard to stay calm when you get stuff like I had this week but first a little background story is needed: Last year, I had a job interview with a small company, ok 3 interviews with them, and they all went well because I had the job but I had to wait 3 months so they can secure the money for the project. Read More

it took me nearly 2 months to go through 7 years of code. and I came to the sad reality that only 5% of it is reusable and interesting even the embedded firewall product is not that interesting anymore since it's based on an ancient technology (namely freebsd 4. Read More

Today a received a new toy, a shiny greenphone!!! After the last year of extremely bad things it's will help me get back the love of software development. And to help me find it again I decided to reorganise my office which is still on the temporary setup I did when I moved in here over 3 years ago . Read More

Afer a few months of really bad working atmosphere (see blogs.kde.org/node/2523) and some of legal stuff, I thought all of this was over until yesterday when the fruitcase called me to ask me to join his new venture, offer which I naturally refused. Read More

It been a while since the last time I wrote something in here. I spent the last few months mostly dealing with personal stuffs and so far I think I'm on the right track. Read More

Lately on the kde-core-devel there is a [http://lists.kde.org/?t=116336735900002&r=1&w=2|thread] which started innocently by asking the permission to move an application back to kdegraphics, degenerated into a small my app is better than yours type of crap and now it's getting to the a nice discussion on what users want or expect from an application. Read More

Warning this blog will content adult subject matters and some really disturbing stuff. I prefer to advise you before you decide to read it. And also leave your brain at the door because it could be permanently damaged. Read More

This morning my phone was really busy ... each time it was the same person asking for the local computer shop ... and each time I told her that it was the wrong number. Read More

and if it is ... I don't care :D it's a pianist who try to get hired in a piano-bar and he plays one of his compostions, and the owner is impressed so he ask him if it's one of his composition so the pianist tell him that he only play his own stuff, so the owner ask for the title annd the tune is called: "your wife is a lesbian because she told me last night while I was doing her". Read More

After months of part time work on this project, it starting to taking shape. What is δ Orionis? It's my own gentoo based distribution. Why I do this? a)because I can and b) I'm starting to be tired of the moronic choices made by all the currently available distributions. Read More

How to make a chouimat Ingredients: 3 parts competetiveness 5 parts crazyiness 1 part leadership Method: Add to a cocktail shaker and mix vigorously. Add fitness to taste! Do not overindulge! Read More

There was a lawyer and he was just waking up from anesthesia after surgery, and his wife was sitting by his side. His eyes fluttered open and he said, “You're beautiful! Read More

This blog is the first of a new series which goal is to make the world a better place using laughter ... so here today's joke :D Bill Clinton is placed against the wall, and just before the order to shoot him is given, he yells, "Earthquake! Read More

It seems that some people didn't get point of my [:node/2299|last blog], it wasn't about the fact the project was half open half closed source, I understand that some really critical part of the hardware design were those who gave us our competitive edge in the highly specilised target market. Read More

Lately I was working on an embedded project (about half closed source and half open source) and at one point the "manager" of the project asked me why we choose the road we are on . Read More

Last night I discovered a new, and really enjoyable, activity to try to get out of my boredom and depression, and no for the perverts out there I'm not talking about masturbation. Read More

Today I wrote this and it's close enough to what I'm currently thinking: L.ost I.interest in this F.ucking E.xistance .... no nobody will get bonus point out of this one

As some might have understood from my last blog, I'm currently in a really bad phase ( I don't know if I'm still on the down one or slowly get up the hill). Read More

I have been feeling down for the last few days since saturday to be more exacts. First I got a fun call from a friend about his new project and once again he take me for granted, the problem is I have a really strong gut feeling against this project, I don't know what it is but something feels wrong about it . Read More

after reading the thread on kde-core-devel mailing about a common coding style for kdelibs it seems we have to clan: the pro and the anti ... well like every flamewars :D Read More

For the past few months (or should I say years) I'm trying to get rid of this feeling that I'm born in the wrong era or maybe aeon and in the current society I'm more than worthless . Read More

This week I got a nice new toy to play with and hack... it's a Linksys WRTSL54G, and yes it run linux and it has an USB port so it can be used for storage like my Linksys NSLU2 . Read More

after reading aseigo last blog http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/04/things-i-have-learned-about-brazil.html Point 4 in the list (walk signals on streets don't mean much of anything. watch out for cars going through the red light even if it says "walk". Read More

Lately, I was even more bored than usual. so I decided to check what I had on old backup tapes and I found a lot of applications I wrote for DOS in Clipper (the xbase compiler) and I thought that some of them are worthy of being "modernized" I know some linux based xBase compilers, xharbour ( www. Read More

understand concept like "use the right tool for the job" after spending a few weeks (2) trying to salvage a project (shouldn't have accepted this contract) I come to realise once again that some persons still choose the technologies for their project based on how high the buzzword is on the "Pointy-haired boss" scale Read More

After a long autumn working on various embedded linux related contracts, writing way to many version of a business plan, trying to get some order back in my life (still working on it), and various other thing . Read More

|)?!)%+ +.@%/]? |!?[?[% If I were a NetHack monster, I would be a mimic. I can be whatever I think you need me to be - it might look like I'm here to help you, but really you're here to help me. Read More

No I don't want to change it ... it's just that a little before xmas I was planning (and still planning to) to get a OpenDesktop Workstation ( http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php ) and I was talking with some of my friend in Quebec City who happens to be like me self employed computer consultants and they all told me that on a business level this purchase was bad and it will use a lot of my office (which is in a second room in my apartment) and that I won't be able to make anymoney with it . Read More

You scored as Engineering. You should be an Engineering major! Mathematics 100% Engineering 100% Philosophy 100% English 75% Sociology 75% Chemistry 67% Journalism 67% Theater 58% Biology 58% Psychology 58% Anthropology 50% Art 50% Linguistics 50% Dance 42% Read More

Today I watched a rerun of the Daily show on the comedy channel (Canada) .. and they were talking about the FCC hearings about the cables channels and the profanity they were airing on the "family hours " . Read More

... you're bored :) so I browsed the web and I found this interesting website (ok sort of) http://www.chriswetherell.com/elf/ and http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/ so my Hobbit name is Gorbulas Bumbleroot of Fair Downs and Elf one is Angrod Celebrindal Read More

[21:25] <uga> chouimat|laptop: shame to know antonio larrosa went closed source =( [21:25] <uga> antlr-2.7.4-8.noarch.rpm [21:26] <chouimat|laptop> uga: ROFL!!!!!!! [21:26] <thiago> lol

Last weekend, in a pub with some friends,we started to talk about aliens abductions and we weren't able to understand why an advanced race able of travelling between the stars will come here to do anal probes . Read More

In the few weeks since I'm back from malaga, I got a new contract consisting of writing a control application on an emebedded device (a lpc2138 based one). And no I don't use Qt on this. Read More

I took me more than a week to be back on the right timezone, process all the emails,voicemails from various persons, and I'm still not fully 100% operational, but I'm getting there ( I hope). Read More

I left Malaga last friday, so I missed the beach party :( The reason why I didn't blog before is because between the 02/09 and the 06/09 I didn't have any net access because I was in Switzerland to see my mother and some friends. Read More

[11:23] * George ponders what to do [11:24] <chouimat|ibook> George: www.nakedewokforlonelybritishguy.co.uk [11:25] An error occurred while loading http://www.nakedewokforlonelybritishguy.co.uk: [11:25] Unknown host www.nakedewokforlonelybritishguy.co.uk hmmmm I wonder why he actualy tried this website :)

I did my presentation about M.2 and I was so nervous that I blew it ... well I finished presenting the stuff in 15 minutes, I have this tendency of over summarising things . Read More

Thanks to Antonio efforts and leadership the organization of aKademy 2005 is pretty well. for those of you who don't believe that Antonio is a natural leader just look at the picture. Read More

They have beer in it!!!!! 0.80euro!!!! enough said :) and drupal is telling me I need at least 10 words ... I think I'm ok with this meaningless filling

I arrived yesterday after a 7 hours flight to zurich, 6 hours in Flughafen Zurich... 2.5 hours flight to malaga (waited for 45 minutes to get my luggages ... and I was told it was fast for here :) ) and I was tired . Read More

And still a lot of shitty things to do before :( Like finally setup the webserver and the email server that will host the M.2 pages and mailing list :) but that can wait when I'm back in September :D Read More

I need time ... I have a long list of things to do before leaving for akademy and with the fucking phone constantly ringing I barely managed to do 15% of it and I must also say that the feeling that I had lost control over the things doesn't help so I go to pubs and drink a lot . Read More

Yesterday, my father and my stepmother came to see me for 2 days, and since I won't probably see them before xmas, I decided to take the days away from my computers, M. Read More

Ok this morning I decided to implement SOAP support to M.2. I thought nothing can be worse than SNMP specs but I was wrong ... this thing is evil, truely evil but since it's a standard, I will probably spend the next 3 or 5 years cursing while trying to get it work :D so see then

This was simply horrible, spent all my time doing saving the ass of "certified" IT peoples ... so I didn't have anytime to work on M.2, or when I got some I was drunk so the code quality probably improved a little :) Read More

this blog is to make ktech on #kde-devel happy :) currently busy eating my lunch ... yes it's another can of sardines (it's only think me and my cat can agree on) and a ramen noodles pack . Read More

last week one of my hard disk decided that life wasn't worth living anymore and died ... I know this bad enough but since it was the boot drive of one of my server it's was even worse that bad . Read More

Last friday I decided to go to a pub, like I do every thursday and friday night with some friends, since I work home all the time, it a good occasion to see living being with a little more conversation than "Meoooow? Read More

As usual we can't get a day without any "attacks" from troll about how KDE suck and how GNOME is the one true desktop. Some people are pleading for more interoperability between the 2 projects, which might be good that will depend if both projects are free to choose how they do it. Read More

It's seems for certain persons the concept of "Can you give more info?" as a reply for the classical :"Doesn't work!" or "It's just crash" is hard to grasp or even totally alien to their way of thinking. Read More

I just realised that I'm feeling a weird and almost forgotten emotion ... I'm currently enjoying what I'm doing while working on M.2 and this realisation bring tears of joy to my eyes . Read More

While working on ARRRGGH, the first implementation of M.2, I discovered that the protocol I use can also be used as a generic message based inter application framework .... Coool! That just added more value to my project :) So now I trying to see how I can modify the current stuff to have a generic messaging class and who knows maybe I will completely change the goal of the project . Read More

Today I got a basic but complete implementation of M.2 working on gentoo and freeBSD. On another subject I want to thanks Scott Wheelers to have made me discovered Mr. Bungle, weird but I like it

I was trying to find another name for m2 for a while and I come up with some nice name here the list: -Bakkus -Rembrant -Kobold -M2 and the winner is M2, yes I will stick with it. Read More

I spent all my time since friday working on m2,and it was very relaxing after the heat of my previous blogs. I'm still trying to find a new name and so far I come with those 3 choices: 1) Bakkus 2) Rembrant 3) Kobold (not Battlestar Galactica related). Read More

In the last week i blogged my opinions about certain things that made some people overreacted and some of them reach a new high (or should I said a new low? Read More

This an attempt for a cynism free blog ... This morning I woke up. got some coffee and get back working on M2 and the latex-beamer theme Wow that wasn't hard :)

Lately I publicly stated my opinions about what I believe is the "ideal opensource DE and world", but some people who doesn't share the same faith or the same political agenda kind of make me rethink about my conception of the world, and I don't talk about the trolls who commented on this website but those who sent me life threathening letter on my email accounts. Read More

Disclaimer: this blog is highly sarcastic, so if you can't handle it go read something else. You're now advised Since my blog about the Desktop Developers' Conference 2005, where I stated my impressions of the talk and the overall conference, meaning the organization and the behavior of the people, which in my opinion is sometime more important to get the feel of the various developer communities than the actual talk. Read More

DISCLAIMER: this blogs containt some sarcastic comments. Reader discration is advise I had the chance, or the bad luck, to attends to the Second Ottawa Desktop Developers' Conference. I say bad luck because almost all the talk where about Gnome and freedesktop technology, and even those which weren't about the gnome stuff where geared toward it. Read More

I need a name for it. so anyone who have ideas you're welcome. (probably the shortest blog :)

Yesterday I was happy to get a nice news, my talk about M2 for akademy was accepted. So I imagine it might be a wise for me to finaly say what M2 is really is. Read More

Today M2/ARRRGGH reached a new point in his young life. I managed to get the remote management ioslave and the server part of the protocol working. I have a lot of work to do because the protocol is currently plain text. Read More

this latex package is awesome and it make great presentation. Since today I'm recovering from canada day I decided to program something different so I started to make my own beamer theme for KDE presentation. Read More

This week I finished reading Robert Silverberg's Roma Eterna. And I must say I enjoyed read it. The story is basicly what would had happened if Rome didn't Fall in 476 AD? Read More

and no I'm not talking about M2/ARRRGGH, i'm talking about the last weekend. First I got some family members visiting me, and don't get me wrong, I like to have some guests around here, if they don't distrub my way of life too much . Read More

M2 was simply the internal codename for the project. So I found this one: ARRRGGH and no it's not an acronym, but I bet some people will work very very hard to find one :) The name simply came from the sound made by a sysadmin who simply screwed up something. Read More

I'm ready now to disclose some informations about what M2 is. M2 is a generic systems management and deployment framework for KDE. Over the last weekend, I have evaluated some new idea that may be added to M2. Read More

I spent the last few days, discussing with various people about M2 and what we can do with it. The current stage of the project is: not yet ready for public consumption, I still have to make it more generic, currently it's coupled to my own setup. Read More

Today, I managed to get M2, a project I'm working on since november (not every day I also spent my time searching for a new job, a new gf, getting drunk and stuff like that) , at a nice level of usefulness for me. Read More

This weekend my father and my little brother came to visit me, so we decided to visit the Canadian National War Museum. It was a very interesting visit. It took us 3. Read More

I had another interview lately and I'm still wondering why they always those stupid question like "Where do you see you in 10 years?" I find answering this type of question very very difficult, because it's so easy to give a wrong answer, the person in front of you, can believe anything from the lack of ambition to anything on the other extreme (if such thing as too much ambition can exists) so I tried to say that with the way the job market and the world is changing that I can't say anything about where I see myself in 10 years because it's too uncertain, but on the positive side I might be able to watch all the Star Wars movies (including the clone war cartoons) in the right order :) But it seems that I answered wrongly once again :D

I watched Star Wars Reveletions and here my impression: the pictures and the graphics are amazing ... too bad the story and the actors weren't at the rendez-vous ... but it enabled me to kill 45 minutes of a boring day . Read More

Today I just decided to go work outside, it's a very nice sunny day, not too cold and not to hot also (about 20C), so it's perfect to work on the balcony drinking a nice cold German beer ( make that several) and the forecast for next week is also good so I think that the I will move my office outside a lot this summer . Read More

seems everybody want to be a soutpark characters these days.

By reading the xdg mailing list I came to this conclusion because it seem they are creating solution for imaginary problems. And if they are doing this it's mean they have no purpose. Read More

The day that I feared the most is near. The day were my use of linux will be decided by marketing drones but this time they are not force feeding me proven technology but unproven ones and for what? Read More

Today I renewed with the room where you cook meal, the kitchen. I was kind of tired of only cooking the same stuff over and over again, so I decided to let my creativity free, there other place than in front of a keyboard a geek can have fun . Read More

After reading bug 97769 and the bottom part of http://musics.com . I must conclude that the emperor really needs his medication. But to be fair I need to analyse part of his ranting because his logic his FLAWED . Read More

It's seem that audio subsystem and application developer all want neat and advanced features and effect and it's good when you are able to play the song! I don't fucking care about fade in or fad out . Read More

I'm still able to meet hot and sexy women ... it's just that they're cough married /cough well maybe one day I will finaly meet one and that will work

Once again I failed with my new year resolutions ... the first one didn't get pass January 1rst :) I decided to try to be less sarcastic/ironic ... and I failed at the new year party . Read More

Why we need to had such disclaimer to an ad? Are we regressing back to the ape? Are the average intelligence of people so low that my cat is now an higher form of intelligence? Read More

I don't know what to think about this but i find this trend disturbing. Why do we need to bridge the gap between Science and religions? Those are 2 completely differents worlds: one can be throw away when it's proved that the theory in question doesn't work and the other is accept that without proof and don't question anything because you might create a new religion (or heresy or whatever) but now that conservative people are in place of power we have to deal with this. Read More

Today when I woke up I had discovered that my router (a wrt54g) stopped working. I was unable to ping it. so I decided to reset, reflash, even opening it (now my warranty is gone) to short-circuit 2 pins on the flash chip. Read More

Last week blogwar about porting kde to windows gave me some stuff to think about Which of the current linux distro can effectively replace windows. I don't want to start a flame war with this but is there someone who took the time and ask himself this question . Read More

All this reasoning about porting kde to windows will bring more people to kde linux is flawed. Granted it might bring some of them into linux or any unix for that matter but those are only those who like to experiment with new toys. Read More

yup nearly a month since I lost my job. Let just say I take it with philosophy, meaning it's probably the occasion to get a better one, and I hope. What I did in that month, first of all I spent time working on some of my biggest shortcoming, wrote 2 killer resumes (one in french, my native language and one in english), spent time to seriously learning German and Dutch (just for the fun of it) did some contract for previous customers, spent time to find the true love . Read More

I did this test http://bbspot.com/News/2003/01/os_quiz.php and here the result: "You are Slackware Linux. You are the brightest among your peers, but are often mistaken as insane. Your elegant solutions to problems often take a little longer, but require much less effort to complete. Read More

i made a nice little floating head and i just wanted the world to know about it. I know used my cat because I'm really ugly and I should not be allowed to go outside without a browm paper bag on my head :) Read More

my previous blog was just a way to express some personal frustration about what i did of my life ... but the i quite please of the thread on budhism

I know we usually rant about something else ... but since I'm known to be weird (I'm French Canadian so that make me even weirder than aseigo) I decided to rant about something, more someone, I can't stand anymore (I know that some of you have allready guess who because the title . Read More

This weekend after wanting to have one for about a year, I finally got a laptop (iBook G4 12"). and my first reaction is WOW what a nice piece of hardware. Read More

This blog entry is just to make clee happy ... he should be now ...

it's seems that everybody is doing this test :http://hokev.brinkster.net/quiz/default.asp?quiz=Better%2BPersonality&page=1 So why not me too :) here my result: Wackiness: 124/100 Rationality: 100/100 Constructiveness: 128/100 Leadership: 96/100 You are a WRCL--Wacky Rational Constructive Leader. Read More

it's been nearly 2 months since the last time I wrote something here ... and I wonder what to say ... so I will say this : hey Mom I'm on the web! Read More

Yesterday I started my new job at xandros and so far it's fun ....

I hate packing my stuff but since I'm moving in 10 days I don't have any choice. This is the occasion to have a new start in my life, that was so boring lately. Read More

Hi, I'm writing this blog to let people know that kdevelop won the award for the "Best Development Tool" here at LWE in NY.

This is the time of the year where we see our families and get/give gifts. And every now and then we get a gift that piss us off, but to not offend the giver we said we're pleased and take a mental note to get him something as "usefull" as the gift, we just received. Read More

no blog since august 29th, so I will continue on this ....

here my todo list for the next month: whiteboard plugin ... embedded stuff plugin including palmos interactive fiction plugin distcc monitoring plugin ok not much code for now. but the deign are done so now can program them without to much difficulty. Read More

It's seen that getting a drinkable coffee is nearly impossible to get here in n7y... the beer is good so ... but drink a beer with his breakfast is not very good for the stomach. Read More

hmm It looks like it will soon be a regular column ;) No it's not about the palm "crappy" api but on SCO ... those stupids A**holes just made me lost a really big contract (and probably a very fun one todo . Read More

Ok here my todo list for kdevelop: -finish the palm support .. Including documentation and uploading to the device. -Dreamcast support (planning) -Openembedded buildroot support -Interactive fiction support (useless but cool todo ;) ) Read More

ok, after more than a month of swearing and improving my religious vocabulary (in French Canadian swears are religious words) while working on a palm project. I will have some time to finally finishing the palmos support and some other embedded stuff for kdevelop. Read More

We need to have the reverse category so we can add happy stuff :) my crappy thing works and I'm happy .... So I will dance ... just to bad you can't, well it's avery good thing you can see that . Read More

Why everything I do lately doesn't work!!!! first the palmos and now my main desktop ... What could be worst than that? My new girlfriend leaving me for my ex-wife????

Why I accepted this contract!!!!!! spent 3 weeks debugging this crappy rs232 protocol ........ and my cat now know all the french canadian swear .... bah! It will end soon and I will be able to do some fun stuff . Read More