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Can’t login cvs server after update to Snow Leopard 10.6

fred — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:08:54 +0000

I updated to Mac OS X 10.6 aka Snow Leopard early this week. I found that I could no longer update from the local cvs repository I had installed on my MacBook. I first reinstalled CVSNT from http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/ but it did not work better.

I found the answer in the system log:

Sep 9 15:41:22 macbook cvs[26910]: in openpam_load_module(): no pam_securityserver.so found

It appears something has changed in the naming of the pam authentication modules. The solution is to change the definition of the authentication for the cvsnt server. I edited /etc/pam.d/cvsnt and changed it to:

# login: auth account password session

auth sufficient pam_opendirectory.so

auth required pam_deny.so

account required pam_permit.so

password required pam_deny.so

session required pam_permit.so

Back in business.

Tetris turns 25. Google celebrates.

fred — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:06:41 +0000

clixpy.com - a 10-minutes review

fred — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:52:04 +0000

Today, I came across clixpy.com (which I pronounce “click spy”, hope I’m right?). It’s a service to track the visitors/users of your website. All you have to do it to include a small javascript snippet and clixpy will start recording user sessions including mouse movements, clicks, form inputs.

I tried it on heardontv.com and got 10 user sessions in less than 5 minutes. Watching the sessions could be very interesting to better understand how the user navigates the site - although it will never be as good as watching and discussing directly with the user in person.

I wonder if there is some security issue with their javascript. I found no place on their website where I tell what are the domains where I plan to put the script. It seems you can put it wherever. But that means that anyone can take your script, put it in their site and quickly you’ll see your credits expire with sessions recorded for a site you don’t know - I hope I’m wrong but it looks like it could happen.

Anyway it’s quite and if they expand their UI, bring more statistics and control over the sessions I might buy some.

Aquafadas PulpMotion Advanced takes on Animoto

fred — Sat, 02 May 2009 12:21:04 +0000

Did I just finally find a desktop replacement for animoto? Looks like it. Check out PulpMotion Advanced from the folks at Aquafadas, plus they are French.

Crisis of Credit explained in video

fred — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:15:48 +0000

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

and today the N85 firmware update!

fred — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:03:28 +0000

Nokia Software Updater has just been updated, and the firmware update for the Nokia N85 are starting to spread.

I check for my N85 but no firmware update yet… My operator did not yet approve the update… Well I’m going to get Nemesis Service Suite, change the product code and put the new firmware. This way I will also get rid of the operator branding. But before let’s backup this beast.

Looking for N85 isync plugin? I was.

fred — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:04:39 +0000

The N85 is publicly available for few weeks now and Nokia still has not released the iSync plug-in to synchronize contacts and calendar with OS X.

This is no longer true, the plug-in just got released on Nokia web site. Get it from http://europe.nokia.com/A4299040

New N85 Owner

fred — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:06:33 +0000

I just switched from my old Sony Ericsson K750i (3-years old!) to the brand new Nokia N85.

First thing to do, get rid of the Orange theme, it’s ugly and barely usable.

To connect to your Wifi, you might need to find out your mac-address (if you’re protecting your access point as such). To do so, type *#62209526# into your phone. you’ll get the mac address of the phone.

I’m on a Mac, I have a mix of mp3 and itunes music. Nokia has come up with a very nice tool to sync your iTunes and iPhoto libraries with the phone, go get the Nokia Multimedia Transfer tool.

The phone has a GPS chip and Nokia Maps software. Nokia provides an application to upload the maps on your phone, Nokia Map Loader. It is available for Mac.

Google Reader Mobile can be found at http://www.google.com/reader/m.

If you are lucky enough to get an unlimited data plan (I do, French Orange gives us an unlimited data plan, well limited to 500MB but that should do it just fine…), Mobbler is a must to have, it is a Last.fm radio player and scrobbler for Nokia S60 smartphones.

Stay connected.

Update:

Mobitubia to view Youtube videos.

Top softwares on my mac

fred — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:55:08 +0000

So you just got your brand new shiny Unibody MacBook (Pro) and now you want to the load the beast with some cool software? Well I can’t help but I can give you the list of software I’m using on my MacBook - some freeware, some I paid for, some I’m still in the eval period.

To fill the little holes (like there is a need too…)

Growl THE notification system. It’s the kind of software you install once and then you never go back to it, it’s there, it does its work.

unaceX to extract .ACE archives

UnRarX to extract .RAR archives

iStat menus to get nifty statistics

AppZapper to uninstall apps

Appfresh to update all apps in one shot

To get, to put, to control

Cyberduck FTP client (and other protocols too)

Transmission best BitTorrent for OS X?

Little Snitch to make sure no other software is using your Internet connection behind your back

Chicken of the VNC to connect to VNC servers

Remote Desktop Connection to connect to Windows machines - sometimes you have too

To talk with others

Adium multi-protocol chat client, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, IRC…

Skype

Microsoft Messenger right from the Microsoft Mac BU

X-Lite SIP client

Development

Aquamacs Emacs to remind me of the old X-Emacs days

TextMate for all my Ruby on Rails developments

CocoaMySQL

To help my creativity

CSSEdit visually edit your CSS

Pixelmator a simple (yet powerful) replacement for Photoshop

RapidWeaver easy web site editor, most of my personal websites are made with it these days

Skitch to take screen snapshots

For the fun of it

Comic Life

To watch videos

VLC

For the other world

VMware Fusion

Things I’m evaluating

Versions SVN client

Color Schemer Studio to find the right colors

Disco to burn DVD (although I don’t do that often)

MarsEdit as a replacement for Wordpress built-in editor

OmniGraffle Professional to create beautiful diagrams, GUI prototypes

Screenflow to record my screen when I (badly) attempt to create screencasts

That’s all I have and actually use. If you find cool stuff you think I should try, let me know…

now using hresume for my résumé

fred — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:59:18 +0000

Five years ago I was using a Word document to maintain my résumé, then I wrote a tool to manage it. The tool adhered to hr-xml markup; from the XML file I use to generate an html page that I converted in Word and PDF document. But I’m over this now. For my most recent résumé update I switched to yet another “standard”, hresume. It’s a microformat.

Interesting enough linkedin.com has adopted this microformat. If you got a public profile, you may not know but this profile is using hresume microformat - just look at the source code for your public profile page.

The good thing about hresume is that you write your résumé directly in html marking tags with specific classes defined by hresume microformat. Then you just have to write a stylesheet to make your résumé look good. You’ll find several examples of people who have published their résumé with hresume format. There is even a Wordpress plugin.

If you’re still wondering how to present your résumé on your website, I encourage you to move to hresume, it’s simple enough to maintain - it’s just html - and even if it does not really take up in the long term at least you did not bind you to some proprietary/binary format.

So here on the left is the new look of my résumé looks today - I still need to review it a bit but the CSS is final (I think). If you get to use hresume, feel free to reuse the css I’m using.