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Je suis retombé sur ce test de personnalité qui m'avait plutot impressionné par son principe et ses résultats. Amusez-vous à faire le test sur http://www.testcouleur.com/ je suis curieux de savoir si ca marche pour vous aussi ;)

(ici vous voyez que que suis pas mal partout et très bon dans certains domaines. Oui c'est flateur LOL)

Hello german friends,

I'm fan of Dornbracht products, which are unfortunatly quite expensive in France. Does anyone around has access to professional prices (e.g you're a plumber or the best friend of a plumber)? Just throwing a bottle to the sea...

Voilà l'histoire... Je me connecte une fois par an sur mon compte Orange pour éliminer le SPAM. Précision: j'ai une adresse email du genre christophe.ruelle817@orange.fr que je ne connais pas par coeur et que je n'ai jamais utilisée. Mais j'ai quand même droit à un peu de SPAM. En général le spam c'est un truc pour les entreprises hors la loi (qui ont elle-même acheté des CDavec 10 milliards d'adresse email après avoir été spammées). Là c'est différent, chez Orange le SPAM est une activité commerciale comme une autre. Donc je reçois un SPAM assez vendeur d'un site pour partager Photos, Vidéos, Audios, Blog, ... hum un concurrent ?

Bref je vais faire un tout sur OVERVIDEO, et comme je suis un tantinet curieux je cherche à savoir qui édite ce service. Aucun lien en évidence, je clique sur "Aide", et SURPRISE : je retrouve en vrai le show de Gad & Olivier "Qui veux gagner de l'argent en masse"... vous ne comprenez pas encore ? suivez ce lien!

(Je sais c'est pas joli de se moquer, cet article s'auto-détruira dans 5 commentaires hilarants)

PS: n'oubliez pas de voter pour ipernity ;)

Vous vous souvenez des premiers jeux d'arcade, notamment le très célèbre DEFENDER ?
Non ? Moi non plus ;)
Et bien vous avez maintenant l'occasion de le (re)découvrir à travers un hack assez génial réalisé par Mathieu 'p01' Henri : il a relevé le défi de réaliser un jeu à l'intérieur du favicon.ico, l'icône qui réprésente un site Web dans la barre d'adresse du navigateur, une icône de 16x16 pixels !
 

Pasted from An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant.

---- Original Message ----

From: Bill Gates
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
To: Jim Allchin
Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame

I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.

Let me give you my experience from yesterday.

I decided to download (Moviemaker) and buy the Digital Plus pack ... so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a download place so I went there.

The first 5 times I used the site it timed out while trying to bring up the download page. Then after an 8 second delay I got it to come up.

This site is so slow it is unusable.

It wasn't in the top 5 so I expanded the other 45.

These 45 names are totally confusing. These names make stuff like: C:\Documents and Settings\billg\My Documents\My Pictures seem clear.

They are not filtered by the system ... and so many of the things are strange.

I tried scoping to Media stuff. Still no moviemaker. I typed in movie. Nothing. I typed in movie maker. Nothing.

So I gave up and sent mail to Amir saying - where is this Moviemaker download? Does it exist?

So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.

They told me to go to the main page search button and type movie maker (not moviemaker!).

I tried that. The site was pathetically slow but after 6 seconds of waiting up it came.

I thought for sure now I would see a button to just go do the download.

In fact it is more like a puzzle that you get to solve. It told me to go to Windows Update and do a bunch of incantations.

This struck me as completely odd. Why should I have to go somewhere else and do a scan to download moviemaker?

So I went to Windows update. Windows Update decides I need to download a bunch of controls. (Not) just once but multiple times where I get to see weird dialog boxes.

Doesn't Windows update know some key to talk to Windows?

Then I did the scan. This took quite some time and I was told it was critical for me to download 17megs of stuff.

This is after I was told we were doing delta patches to things but instead just to get 6 things that are labeled in the SCARIEST possible way I had to download 17meg.

So I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn't use it for anything else during this time.

What the heck is going on during those 6 minutes? That is crazy. This is after the download was finished.

Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?

So I did the reboot because it INSISTED on it. Of course that meant completely getting rid of all my Outlook state.

So I got back up and running and went to Windows Update again. I forgot why I was in Windows Update at all since all I wanted was to get Moviemaker.

So I went back to Microsoft.com and looked at the instructions. I have to click on a folder called WindowsXP. Why should I do that? Windows Update knows I am on Windows XP.

What does it mean to have to click on that folder? So I get a bunch of confusing stuff but sure enough one of them is Moviemaker.

So I do the download. The download is fast but the Install takes many minutes. Amazing how slow this thing is.

At some point I get told I need to go get Windows Media Series 9 to download.

So I decide I will go do that. This time I get dialogs saying things like "Open" or "Save". No guidance in the instructions which to do. I have no clue which to do.

The download is fast and the install takes 7 minutes for this thing.

So now I think I am going to have Moviemaker. I go to my add/remove programs place to make sure it is there.

It is not there.

What is there? The following garbage is there. Microsoft Autoupdate Exclusive test package, Microsoft Autoupdate Reboot test package, Microsoft Autoupdate testpackage1. Microsoft AUtoupdate testpackage2, Microsoft Autoupdate Test package3.

Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.

But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.

What an absolute mess.

Moviemaker is just not there at all.

So I give up on Moviemaker and decide to download the Digital Plus Package.

I get told I need to go enter a bunch of information about myself.

I enter it all in and because it decides I have mistyped something I have to try again. Of course it has cleared out most of what I typed.

I try (typing) the right stuff in 5 times and it just keeps clearing things out for me to type them in again.

So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible website I haven't run Moviemaker and I haven't got the plus package.

The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just love that root certificate message?)

When I really get to use the stuff I am sure I will have more feedback.

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Even the richest man on earth is still a human... with computer problems ;)

Do you know 365 minutes? It's one of the most funny & crazy project I've seen so far. The principle is to film yourself everyday for 60 seconds. Imagine yourself capturing 1 minute of your everyday life ! Actually only Assbach & Scratchy are playing the game - which looks like some kind of marathon. Join this group now and/or play the game too. If you want to participate, you only need a video camera and a little time everyday (unless you want like Assbach to make every video a masterpiece). Do you need a last argument to join this group ? watch the video ! ;)

 

Est-ce que vous connaissez le groupe 365 minutes ? C'est un des projets les plus drôle et incroyable que j'ai vu depuis longtemps. Le principe de ce groupe est de se filmer chaque jour pendant 60 secondes. Immaginez-vous capturer chaque jour 1 minute de votre vie ! Pour le moment seuls Assbach et Scratchy continuent l'aventure  - qui prends un goût de marathon. Rejoiniez ce groupe et/ou participez au jeu. Si vous voulez participer, vous avez besoin d'une camera video et d'un peu de temps chaque jour (sauf si vous voulez comme Assbach faire de chaque video un chef d'oeuvre). Vous voulez un dernier argument pour rejoindre ce groupe ? regardez la vidéo ! ;)

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

UPDATE : mozilla.org seems down at 7pm GMT+2. How funny ;) It's maybe going to be interresting... let's see how they will react.

Hello friends,

As some of you have seen, ipernity was under maintenance for 8 hours yesterday. This was the longest maintenance we ever had to do.

So what happened?... we renamed all you files. As you may have noticed the document urls are now different. Isn't that cool? ;)

Let me tell you why :

1. You now can link the originals inside and outside ipernity - before it was a non permanent/time limited link.
2. We changed the sharpenning algorithm to make it smoother. Older photo thumbnails will be automatically regenerated in a few days.
3. We changed the video convertion algorithm and we're now ready for HD. We now only need a flash HD ready player.
4. You will soon be able to change music/video covers to what you want. No more audio icons or sometimes poor thumbnails extracted from video keyframes.
5. You will soon be able to add a watermark automatically on your photos.

So the files urls changed, but what about older links? Do not worry about this, we will keep older urls working.

What is the benefit of having permanent link to the originals? You now can host animated gifs or zipfiles. We know this feature may cost us a lot (in bandwidth) but we think it's something some of you will really appreciate.

That's it for today. More will come on the team's blog on monday.

Wish you all a great sunny sunday ;)

 

I'm pleased to join the thousand of hamsters on earth to wish Bigoode a very happy birthday.
Join us : www.xtof.com/H/index.php?SGFwcHkgQmlydGhkYXkgQmlnb29kZQ

Hello friends,

sorry,... iMovie 08 keeps crashing at the moment. I cannot import the video right now. I'll try from an other computer soon. Stay tuned!

www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/casulo_an_entir.php

 

One day, an old professor of the School of Public Management in France, was invited to lecture on the topic of “Efficient Time Management” in front of a group of 15 executive managers representing the largest, most successful companies in America. The lecture was one in a series of 5 lectures conducted in one day, and the old professor was given 1 hr to lecture.

Standing in front of this group of elite managers, who were willing to write down every word that would come out of the famous professor’s mouth, the professor slowly met eyes with each manager, one by one, and finally said, “we are going to conduct an experiment”.

From under the table that stood between the professor and the listeners, the professor pulled out a big glass jar and gently placed it in front of him. Next, he pulled out from under the table a bag of stones, each the size of a tennis ball, and placed the stones one by one in the jar. He did so until there was no room to add another stone in the jar. Lifting his gaze to the managers, the professor asked, “Is the jar full?” The managers replied, “Yes”.

The professor paused for a moment, and replied, “Really?”

Once again, he reached under the table and pulled out a bag full of pebbles. Carefully, the professor poured the pebbles in and slightly rattled the jar, allowing the pebbles to slip through the larger stones, until they settled at the bottom. Again, the professor lifted his gaze to his audience and asked, “Is the jar full?”

At this point, the managers began to understand his intentions. One replied, “apparently not!”

“Correct”, replied the old professor, now pulling out a bag of sand from under the table. Cautiously, the professor poured the sand into the jar. The sand filled up the spaces between the stones and the pebbles.

Yet again, the professor asked, “Is the jar full?”
Without hesitation, the entire group of students replied in unison, “NO!”

“Correct”, replied the professor. And as was expected by the students, the professor reached for the pitcher of water that was on the table, and poured water in the jar until it was absolutely full. The professor now lifted his gaze once again and asked, “What great truth can we surmise from this experiment?”

With his thoughts on the lecture topic, one manager quickly replied, “We learn that as full as our schedules may appear, if we only increase our effort, it is always possible to add more meetings and tasks.”

“No”, replied the professor. The great truth that we can conclude from this experiment is:

If we don’t put all the larger stones in the jar first, we will never be able to fit all of them later.

The auditorium fell silent, as every manager processed the significance of the professor’s words in their entirety.

The old professor continued, “What are the large stones in your life? Health? Family? Friends? Your goals? Doing what you love? Fighting for a Cause? Taking time for yourself?”

What we must remember is that it is most important to include the lager stones in our lives, because if we don’t do so, we are likely to miss out on life altogether. If we give priority to the smaller things in life (pebbles & sand), our lives will be filled up with less important things, leaving little or no time for the things in our lives that are most important to us. Because of this, never forget to ask yourself,

What are the Large Stones in your Life?
And once you identify them, be sure to put them first in your “Jar of Life”.

With a warm wave of his hand, the professor bid farewell to the managers, and slowly walked out of the room.

 

Take care of the large stones first - the things that REALLY matter. Set your priorities. The rest are just pebbles and sand. If you put the sand or the pebbles into the jar first, there will be no room left for the stones.

The same goes for your life. If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, you will never have room for things that are truly most important.

Pay attention to the things that are critical in your life. Take time to play with your children. Take your partner out for dinner. Take time to have a chat with your loved ones. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house and give a dinner party.

Sometimes the less important things in life can distract us, filling up our time and keeping us away from what really matters. I encourage you to take a moment and ask yourself, is your jar of life full of sand & pebbles or is it filled with large stones?

copy/pasted from http://justinlim.wordpress.com/2006/11/28/

[FR] une restranscription en français est disponible ici.

 

Quand parfois je manque de motivation dans la vie, il y a quelques textes que je relis pour réajuster mon angle de vision. Ce texte de Steeve Jobs fait partie de mes texte "à remonter le moral". Je vous en souhaite bonne lecture.

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Kitty's diner 2

Tout commence par un kidnapping. Une nuit, de retour d'un dîner à la plage, 2h du mat. En revenant nous manquons d'écraser un mini hérisson dans une zone urbaine. Léa s'exclama à peu près "oh regarde il est trop mignon, allez on le prends...". Ça faisait des années que je rêvais d'en observer un de près. J'avais lu un tas de trucs qui expliquent que le hérisson c'est un peu comme un hamster à poil dur (contrairement aux apparences d'un oursin qui marche) à part que ça mange des croquettes pour chat (top qualité only), bref un animal assez facile à apprivoiser. Nous décidons donc de l'emporter avec nous, sans vraiment penser au lendemain.

Le lendemains on lui a offert une super journée : balade en voiture, visite des locaux d'ipernity, festin de croquettes de chat et lait demi-écrémé, rencontre d'un chat (qui s'en moquait royalement), séance photo, séance vidéo, puis soirée pizza chez manu et quelques jeux de société.

Retour à la case départ 24h plus tard, à une centaine de mètres dans une zone plus boisée après avoir bien vérifié qu'il partait dans la bonne direction (à l'opposé du bitume).

Hello friends,

Today at 20h24 our servers have been flooded. There have been thousand of connections from the same IP, causing our database to stop accepting new connections. This problem was hard to discover as we have a lot of normal connections every seconds. We had to analyse all logs to understand.

We're very sorry about this, and we did not imagine someone could be so rude with our servers. Have we forgotten the net can be a jungle ? for a minute we did. And we will take immediate mesures to avoid this kind of outage again. - event if everybody knows it's hard to fight against a denial of service.

Thanks for your indulgence.

Bonjour les amis,

Aujourd'hui à 20h24 nos serveurs ont reçu un trop grand nombre de connexions. Plusieurs milliers de pages ont été demandées depuis la même adresse IP, entrainant l'indisponibilité de notre base de données. Le problème a été assez compliqué à identifier car nous recevons naturellement de nombreuses connexions chaque seconde. Une analyse précise de tous nos logs a été nécessaire.

Nous sommes désolé de ceci, nous ne pensions pas qu'une personne puisse s'en prendre de la sorte à nos serveurs. Aurions-nous oublié que le net est une jungle ? Surement. Nous allons prendre les mesures qui s'imposent pour éviter que ce genre de problème se pose à nouveau. - même si nous savons qu'il n'est pas toujours facile de luter contre un déni de service.

Nous vous remercions pour votre indulgence.

Il s'est donc déroulé il y a quelques jours lors du WWDC 2007 (voir la vidéo), la conférence Apple de San Fransisco pour les développeurs.

Au cours de ce show, Jobs a présenté les plus belles fonctionnalités de OSX Leopard, qui pour la plupart sont assez incroyables. J'ai en particulier apprécié le "Quick View" qui permet de visualiser le contenu de presque n'importe quel fichier sans ouvrir l'application - ca m'arrive tout le temps de poirreauter quelques minutes le temps que Excel ou Photoshop daigne s'ouvrir - ainsi que l'apperçu rapide des fichiers de la façon la plus naturelle qui soit : comme dans un livre dont on feillette les pages à la va-vite. Très impressionné aussi par la "Time Machine", qui autorise de supprimer tous les fichiers inutiles puis de les retrouver en remontant dans le temps - j'en rigole encore tellement c'est bien vu.

Tout ça pour dire que cette nouvelle mouture de OSX a de beaux atouts et encore une belle longueur d'avance sur d'autres OS. Bref, tout ça a un prix. Pas fous quand même.

Ce qui était assez fort c'est l'annonce du prix de ce nouvel OS (prix de l'upgrade car l'OS est compris dans le prix de vente des ordis).

Jobs commence par annoncer le prix de la version basique :

• Version OSX Leopard Basic : 129$

Puis, arrive les prix des autres versions...

• Version OSX Leopard Premium : 129 $
• Version OSX Leapard Business : 129 $
• Version OSX Leapard Ultimate : 129 $

La foule hurle et rigole, et Jobs finit par annoncer "Il y a de fortes chances que tout le monde achète la version Ultimate".

Un beau clin d'oeil à Microsoft qui propose tellement de versions de Vista qu'on se sait jamais laquelle télécharger acheter.

En parlant de clin d'oeil il y en a un autre assez marrant dans la vidéo, je vous laisse le découvrir ;)

ps: la vidéo est vraiment de mauvaise qualité, booo apple c'est pas cool ça.

Avez-vous regardé le show d'Apple en janvier annonçant la sortie de l'iPhone?

Je sais pas vous, mais si j'étais prof dans une école de commerce je laisserai les craies sous le tableau au profit d'une projection magistrale de cette fantastique démonstration de savoir-faire. Ce qui est ici important pour moi n'est pas le résultat. l'iPhone sera peut-être un bon produit, ou sera peut-être aussi décevant comme le pensent d'autres. Ce que j'ai trouvé incroyable c'est la façon d'amener la chose. A y repenser c'est presque exagéré, mais c'est un show non ? Allons rêvons un peu ;)

Si comme moi vous ne pouvez plus attendre votre iPhone, voici comment vous le fabriquer.

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