Florent Thoumie

Ok, so I was a bit depressed on monday and I went straight to the pub after work, to clear my mind with a couple of drinks.

I don’t think I spent so much time watching TV since I left France, which in itself is a good thing. There were news then this documentary about the football game between Ireland (ROI) and England in Lansdowne Road on the 15th of February 1995. Great documentary, most of the interviewees were speaking Irish, which was unexpected but cool.

Anyway, commercial break, there come some images of people in a tower, then the screen reads “9/11, the day the world changed”. WTF! The world didn’t change for me on that day. Maybe it did for a lot of people in the US, but not for me and probably not for most people in the EU (or outside US I should say).

What has changed lately is the whole passport with RFID thing, the new rules at the airport. If you haven’t been in an airplane lately, it sounds like that: “Yeah, you can take your toothpaste in a plastic bag we’ll give you, but omg wtf is that thing? deodorant? Is that more than 100ml? Yes? OMGLOLWTF you can’t take that with you in the cabin, who knows what’s in there? Yeah, you can buy some at the duty free, and don’t miss our promotions on Whiskey bottles.”

Some weeks ago, I’ve been refused to take some dumbbell weights in the cabin. Ok, that may seem a bit weird, but I didn’t want to pay for luggage, so I decided to take them with me in the cabin (ryanair policy: “we’ll charge you 12 euros if you need to have luggage”). Security check told me that I couldn’t take them with me as they could be used like a weapon. Yeah right, those 2kgs weapons I was trying to smuggle were no good, but nobody cared about that 4kgs laptop. Morons.

My life didn’t change because of 9/11, it changed because of stupid morons in the US administration.

From Philip’s blog Airplane security from a Pilot PoV

Ok, I’ve finally committed the update to openbgpd, so it’s now at 4.0. I’ll probably pass the maintainership to farrokhi@ because I’m quite busy these days and I’ve been poorly maintaining it anyway. So you can start bothering him now . There’s still the openospf update pending, if you haven’t tried it, please do it now (ports/106114).

Following Kris Moore (the guy behind PC-BSD, but I’m sure you knew that already) request, I’ve also updated the X.org nv driver to 2.1.2 cause they’ve added a bunch of ids for latest NVidia GPUs.

Ok this one is an easy one.

It’s been raining like piss almost non-stop for the past few weeks. This is getting really frustrating. I’m trying really hard to find occupations to keep me (mind and body) busy.

I’ve signed up for a gym club (after a long period without doing any intense physical exercise) as I may have already written on this blog. Going there three to four times a week has been a real challenge so far (doing 40 minutes cardio then quite a few resistance exercices everytime) but I’m usually fucked when I come back, so I’ve reduced substancially the time I spend in pubs (which can be considered a good or a bad thing). Today was pretty busy, which means even more gorgeous girls (that helps forgetting about the weather too).

Went to Tesco to buy a bottle of Sauternes to drink with the foie gras I brought back from France last week. Flatmate wasn’t in the mood of eating such food tonight so it’s postponed, but I had a piece nonetheless. I‘ve been thinking about dinner all day, there was no way I’d just forget about it.

As some people may know, I’ve started working on a iidc(4) driver last week to be able to use my iSight under FreeBSD. Work was soon stopped because of some bug that simokawa@ fixed during the week-end. Now I’m able to read registers from the camera.

Code can be seen at git.xbsd.org. Don’t expect anything working anytime soon cause it’s my first (large) kernel project. I’m not too good at finishing projects but I almost managed to do it for xorg, so this one could come to fruition at some point. The driver will use the Video4Linux (1 or 2, most likely) API, so most linux apps should just work (like pwc(4)).