Oops, I forgot to post this when arriving at Costa Rica. I’ll post now, and you can read everything about me leaving in the next entry ;)
I am sitting on the floor in Barajas airport in Madrid right now. It’s 09:24 local time and the airport is as empty as they get. This entry will not be posted right away though. I have no intention (or the means) to pay 5€ for 30 minutes of wireless Internet access (I’ll talk about this again later.
I know I have a tendency to abuse exclamation marks, but this time it is really important.
On Sunday, January 28th, 2007, Jim Gray, a renowned computer scientist was reported missing at sea. As of Thursday, Feb. 1st, the US Coast Guard has called off the search, having found no trace of the boat or any of its emergency equipment.
Follow the story here.
Through the generous efforts of his friends, family, various communities and agencies, detailed satellite imagery has been made available for his last known whereabouts.
Una de las cosas que más miedo me daba cuando pasé a Vista era que Mozy, el servicio que uso para mis back ups, todavía no estaba soportado. Pero como mi Windows XP ya no funcionaba bien de todas formas, instalé Vista igual y crucé los dedos.
Desde que Vista salió hace algunos días, visito la página de Mozy prácticamente todos los días esperando que aparezca la versión que soporte Vista y anoche, por fin, pude bajar la versión de Mozy compatible con Vista.
One of my greatest fears when I made the move to Vista was that Mozy, the service I use for my online backups, wasn’t supported yet. Since my Windows XP had stopped working properly I still installed Vista and crossed my fingers.
Since Vista was launched a couple of days ago, I have visited the Mozy site almost every day hoping to see a version that supports Vista, and last night, finally, I was able to download a Vista-compatible version of Mozy.
Ca y est, je l’ai fait ! Windows NT 6.0, ou Windows Vista (ou encore Windows VI, comme j’aime bien l’appeler) est, depuis hier soir, mon SE principal.
Ca s’est fait beaucoup plus tôt que prévu, mais XP ne m’a pas vraiment laissé le choix : j’ignore comment, mais la base de registre a été corrompue après une défragmentation du disque dur et je n’ai pas été assez intelligent pour la réparer correctement (j’aurais pu utiliser ma partition Vista RC2 pour rechercher une version propre du registre dans le dossier System Volume Information, mais à la place j’ai démarré XP avec un registre par défaut que j’ai récupéré en utilisant la Console de Récupération et qui a remplacé le registre qui marchait…)
Have fun:
Amusez-vous bien :
In the good sense of course… Today was a great day! It was a day of discovery, of rediscovery, of new things in general.
So, what’s all the excitement about?, you might wonder. Well, let’s see, more or less in order:
I might be onto a gig in Malaysia, how cool is that?
I was one of the winners of the Trick-or-Treat category in MAKE’s Halloween contest! I get the latest issue of MAKE magazine.
So, most of my readers are not concerned by this post, but I’m still writing it for the occasional surfer coming from search engines and forums.
I have resumed work on my open-source project amazOOP. I just committed about 12000 lines of alpha code to SVN so that you can see what the code is starting to look like.
Major changes:
PHP 5: I know most of the Web hasn’t migrated to PHP 5, but I have.
Si vous lisez ce blog vous avez probablement déjà téléchargé et installé la toute dernière version d’Internet Explorer et/ou Firefox et arbitrairement choisi votre camp dans la Guerre des navigateurs.
Toutefois, si vous voulez vérifier que vous avez fait le bon choix, je vous conseille de jeter un coup d’œil aux résultats obtenus par Long Zheng dans sa comparaison la plus juste et définitive des navigateurs.