Ludovic's weblog

souvenirs

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 09:10:24 +0100

Ca fait un drole d'effet :http://www.youjob.com/societe/22

Firefox 3.0b2

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:42:07 +0100

I've just installed the latest beta of Firefox because my friend daniel said it rocked on the mac and that he was thinking about not using Safari anymore.
The firts launch is amazingly fast, the windows just pop up, that is very impressive. I like that a lot. It also seems that Firefox is way more responsive on my G5 iMac than the previous 2.0 series. I like the new cocoa dropdown list and the look and feel - looks a lot like Camino :-). I tend to access a few sites with certificates+ssl authentification, and one of the server I go to daily as an expired cert. In 2.0 a alert would pop up and I would just hit enter to access the site. In 3.0b it'a a complete different story, the page does not load and Firefox quives you kind of a 404 page on which you can decide to make an execption or not. I think those "security" changes are very good because they really force the user to acknowledge that there is a security issue.
Things I don't like is firts the fact that non of the extensions I use daily (spell checking ), del.icio.us and a few others are not compatible with the Beta releases. Making the whole experience of testing the beta release a less enjoyable experience. I don't like the new url bar history - it's too big makes it difficult for me to use the down arrow to select the site i want to use. And the biggest bad point is I was unable to access the new Yahoo! mail, I either need to use another browser to access it or to return to the old interface of yahoo mail.

Petit week-end sur l'ile de Texel

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:48:59 +0100

IMG_5683,
originally uploaded by Ludovic Hirlimann.

Un endroit sans doute superbe , mais la pluie et le vent de face sur le vélo on rendu le dimanche un chouia fatiguant et donc décevant. J'ai bien l'intention d'y retourner mais en prenant plus de soin dans ma préparation, notamment en voyageant en bus. Bon je me plains pas car sur le voyage retour en Ferry j'ai pu prendre cette jolie photo, d'un goéland argenté.

Citation du jour

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:49:14 +0100

Dieu ? La Préhistoire de la raison.

Glazou.

Nice meta-data project on flickr

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:13:51 +0100

The Library of congress uploaded around around 3k photos on flickr. The idea behind that is to help the library catalogue it's picture. The deal seems quite simple and not that time consuming , it's about adding tag to the pictures. I like the idea which is described in details here. So I've spend some times adding a few tags to the pictures present in the photostream.

sourire

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:48:35 +0100

Certains sourires sont enchanteurs, enchantent et enivre. Merci de m'en donner autant.

ca faisait longtemps

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:27:24 +0100

Que je n'avais pas fait un tour chez le dentiste. Ce soir lors d'un pot j'ai cassé ma couronne. Demain première chose je prend rendez-vous chez le dentiste.

Le ciel, les nuages et le paysage.

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:43:00 +0100

Le ciel, les nuages et le paysage.,
originally uploaded by Ludovic Hirlimann.

Une bien jolie photo que j'ai prise en Islande non loin de Þingeyrar. J'aimerais bien lui ajouter quelques mots clefs mais je sèche un peut. Des suggestions ?

Fosdem 2008

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:37:22 +0100

I'll be attending fosdem this year. I'll try not to stay in the mozilla room for the complete week-end.

GPS Tracking recommandation

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:30:21 +0100

I like to tag my picture when I post them on flickr and I particularly love to geotag them - I think it's nice to be able to locate an area seen on a picture so you can visit it yourself at some point.
My workflow is pretty straight for now as I shoot in RAW, and import the raw files into Lightroom to develop them. I then upload them on flickr and use either the provided map, or tools like maps.yuan.cc (which permits using google maps instead of the one provided by yahoo.). This has three flaws , the first one is that I only geotag pictures that I upload on flickr, the information is only kept on flickr , so the day they die or the day I decide to move away from them my information is lost (well no - i can doanload a kml file and use it with google earth, but it would be a pain to regain that information).
What I would like is to geotag all my pictures, so either I find a GPS that directly plug-ins the camera and tags the pictures when I shoot (and I don't know of any solution to achieve this), the other one is to carry a GPS with me and then based on time stamps tag the RAW files by altering the EXIF data. The data matching seems to be easy to do.
My solve issue is finding the appropriate GPS hardware that will let me tracks my move. I am completely clueless on what my needs are - what I tend to do is go out for the day (maximum 10 hours) and shoot. Anyone willing to give me a recommendation on what piece of hardware I should buy ?

bluetooth on leopard

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:22:54 +0100

Seems completely broken. I can't browse my phone from my machine. I was able once after a reboot. I believe the issue is when the MacBookPro goes to sleep something is not done correctly os-wise and when the machine is awaken blued or the bluetooth chip is in a strange state. I've tried cleaning up prefs on both side pairing again and again and the only time I've succeeded pairing was after a complete reboot. I know it's not the phone because I can sync, browse the phone from both my machines at work - they both run panther though.

A vendre

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:14:56 +0100

Les doublons et autres objets que je stocke depuis presque un an, il y a des BDs et une carte mémoire Olympus. Je met le tout en vente ici.

~ 24 H au lieu de 1 h

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:57:16 +0100

Hier j'ai voulu prendre l'avion depuis schiphol jusqu'a Strasbourg. L'avion a d'abord été qnnoncé avec 1h30 de retard - puis a été annulé due au condition météorologique. En effet hier un épais brouillard recouvrait la hollande. Bien sur KLM n'a pas annoncé la chose tout de suite - et après quelques heures de queue et d'attente - une solution de rechange a été trouvé - en partie par la charmante hotesse, en partie par moi même. Je suis donc retsé toute la nuit au Sheraton et pris le vol pour Frankfort par la suite. KLM fournissait à tout le monde un kit de survie très pratique contenant - brosse à dent, brosse à cheveux, rasoir et quelques autres petites choses. Le vol pour Frankfort était plein et j'ai eut le plaisir de voyager en business-class. Celui-ci est partit avec du retard car il fallait charger les baggages des personnes ayant eut des ennuies la veille (dont moi-même) et j'ai eut plus de chance que certains, car mes baggages sont arrivés à destination.

Grmblmmmmm

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:56:29 +0100

Ce matin je voyage lourdement chargé - j'ai une valise et deux sacs. Le plan était d'utiliser les consignes à la gare de Leiden et d'y laisser mon barda. Bien entendu ma valise ne rentre pas dans les casiers, elle est trop haute.

Le bon côté de la chose c'est que j'ai marché de la gare au bureau sous la neige - c'est de saison et c'est sympa.

A Week with leopard and my new MPB

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:23:13 +0100

So I now own a new machine for a bit more than a week. I've installed leopard and decided to go with mac ports to give it a try instead of using fink.

I kind like mac ports and for the usage I have of such tools, using fink or mac ports doesn't really make a difference. Since I now have a decent machine I decided to have a look and try to participate to some nice open source project, as my new hobby is photography - I've figured I could maybe be useful somewhere in that area. So I started having a few peaks at libopenraw and exempi which are being developed by a friend of mine. The project aims to bring proper support for the raw file format used by camera makers to linux.

So after installing the dev tools and trying to configure and compile, I was able to achieve it for exempi after hub updated the autoconf/automake files and scripts. This helped configure not to fail so early for libopenraw. It now fails with :

checking for jpeglib.h... yes

./configure: line 20023: syntax error near unexpected token `EXEMPI,'

./configure: line 20023: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(EXEMPI, exempi-2.0 >=

$EXEMPI_REQUIRED)'

Googling does not really help. What I did though was to use another machine which runs 10.4 instead of 10.5 and uses Fink to manage dependencies instead of Mac ports. On that machine I had no issues due to tooling - a few issues at compile time but they where solved. So I now need to figure out if my issues come from 10.5 or mac ports - good thing I get some vacation time next week.

Yesterday I realized I had fucked up my dns data , and wanted to ssh to my box which gave me :

percent_expand: NULL replacement

Which according to google is macports issue :-( I got on my box using my older laptop (the one running 10.3) and fixed the issue, but I'm being annoyed by those issues I'm encountering.

Last issue I had was getting pictures out of my Nokia 73. Launched the bluetooth browser and was unable to connect to my phone. Killed the app and tried to pair the phone and the machine which failed (console.app is empty ) so I might retry tonight after a reboot to see if the first kill didn't leave the bluetooth hardware in a unknown state that prevented the pairing afterwards.

Only thing I'm not complaining too much is civ IV (except that I don't see the point of having 3D graphics for that game, it does not bring much to it.)