Florent Thoumie

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My flatmate (formerly my friend) is complaining cause I’m not talking about it him in my blog. I’m having a hard time trying to get into his head that this is a technical blog but let’s talk about him for a change.

His name is Nicolas. He’s like … 26. He recently got a job at [...]

I really hate perl, really, but sometimes it really does its job well.

So today, for the first time, I’ve used WWW:Mechanize (www/p5-WWW-Mechanize) and I’ve created a simple script to check my irish bank account on Permanent TSB Open24 Online Banking.

Here is the result. It’s far from perfect, and the code is ugly but it does [...]

In less than 4 hours, I’ll be in the plane to go back to Paris where I’ll be taking another plane to go to Ajaccio (Corsica) tomorrow. That’s my first vacation since I moved to Ireland (6 months ago now, time flies…).

I’ll be back on 16/09.

Me blames Keytronic for not sending their keyboards to Europe anymore. Shipping costs are prohibitive. I haven’t found any website sending to Ireland for less than 45 USD (which is the retail price of the keyboard). My Keytronic KT2001 is dying, so I need to find a new one quickly

If somebody wants to [...]

I think everything is ok with the bank now. I’ve received my bank account details and my debit card. I’ve tried to register for a broadband connection at work but for some reason it has been rejected, I’ll try to find someone who knows more about it tomorrow.

Some days ago, I’ve received my first salary [...]

Yesterday, I’ve finally been able to open a bank account a AIB (they required the PPS number I’ve been talking about earlier). I left my passport there in the morning, so I had to go back to the bank before they close (5pm on thursday).

Again I have to wait for them to send me the [...]

For those who talk to me on a regular basis on IRC, that won’t be a surprise but I finally found a job in Dublin. In early january I sent a mail to a mailing list to ask people if they know about some vacant position for a junior sysadmin in Dublin and got 4 [...]

It’s been some time since I posted anything in my blog, so let’s correct that.

FreeBSD 6.0-R finally was released, and I started deploying it on any computer I could find in my house. I decided some time ago to reinstall my home-server too. I finally used gmirror instead of gvinum because it appeared to be [...]

As I said some time ago, I’ll be travelling Copenhagen, Denmark (30/09 → 03/10) then Dublin, Ireland (07/10 → 11/10).

Anton Berezin (tobez@) has planned something for tomorrow evening as he announced on bsd-dk mailing list. Not sure how much people will attend but I guess that will be just great