The Incredible Totophe™ Universe

Since one or two month, my Macbook Pro was systematically ejecting all blank DVD-R that I was inserting. I was afraid that it was broken.

Fortunately, before trying to kill my Mac, I just made some search on the Internet and I found the solution. Simply use an air can and give some “fresh” air to the drive. So did I, and it work just fine now

Tip found at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1684759&tstart=0

I was wondering how I should manage the transfer of several huge websites that are regulary updated from one server to another one so the downtime is minimal and the transfer is transparant for users.

Finaly, it came the idea to use the power of Apache mod_proxy and rsync. The downtime of the page could then be minimal and I could ask the customer to change their DNS config before the website is entirely transfered.

Requirements:

• A website (in this example: www.example.com)
• Two servers
  • Source should work with rsync
  • Target should run with Apache2 and mod_proxy enabled
• Good knowledges/understanding of Apache/DNS/Linux

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Parallels Desktop is great, but some tools are missing. Especially if you want to decrease the size of a virtual machine. This could be done because you are runing out of space, or because you want to put your OS on an USB key or a SD card, or whatever.

After having try multiple time Parallels solutions, I’ve used another very simple method to achieve that.

Requirements:

• The very usefull GParted tool (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/)
• A place where the size of the needed resized partition is free (Yes, I know, if you want to free space, it is not a good start…)

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Au détour d’un chemin du web, j’ai trouvé le scénario complet de “La cité de la peur” (IMDb) 

Je le partage donc avec vous, pour le plaisir des dialogues

Extrait:
“Odile : Très bien, j’aime bien travailler avec de bonnes photos. Vous savez les Allemands aiment bien le film, ils ont toujours eu beaucoup de goût les Allemands, c’est vrai hein ?!! Les Danois aussi d’ailleurs. Vous savez parler le Danois Simon ?
Simon : Non !
Odile : Non ?!! Oh ! Il va falloir apprendre hein ! Scool ofenstrü, répétez après moi, school ofenstrü.
Simon : School ofenstrü.
Odile : Oh mais non que je suis sotte, c’est du suédois.”

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During a stag night (in french, Enterrement de vie de garçon), we dig an old website of the groom. For your eyes only (maybe for the Google’s one also), I present you the “Old Wavyx World” http://users.skynet.be/bs174729/index2.html

Of course, the picture of the groom: http://www.twitpic.com/7tm07