Jul

31

Router, VPN and American IP

July 31, 2011 | 1 Comment

I happen to know an American in Paris. Expats have a wide range of specific problems that most people don’t really ever worry over, for example : how do you teach a child two languages (hoping the child won’t mix them up) do you have to declare/pay taxes in your country of origin ? which [...]

Jun

12

Watching movies on the iPad

June 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment

One of the thing I wanted to do with the iPad was to watch movies on the go (remember the last time you flew transatlantic and you had to watch The Karate Kid ?…) At this point, I had no Movies, nor TV Shows in my iTunes so I am really starting from scratch here. [...]

Jun

10

MPD: Music Player Daemon

June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment

About a year and a half ago, the price of Hard Drives (and their size) suddenly made it possible for us to imagine having most of our content (music, DVDs) archived on Hard Drives and easily accessible across devices. As it turns out, we are still in the process of importing some of our CDs [...]

Jun

7

Installing OpenSSH on Windows 7

June 7, 2011 | 17 Comments

Today, I was tempted to take control of a Windows machine remotely in console mode as I’m trying to script the launch and use of VLC. A quick Google search reveleaed the existence of the sshwindows project which is a more lightweight solution than a full cygwin installation. Here are the installation steps : Download [...]

Apr

26

A Single User Across Multiple Computers

April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

The problem : The problem is famous : how to keep multiple computers in sync in order to have access to our data no matter where we are, no matter which computer we are using. It isn’t the first time I wonder about how to improve this aspect of my computer setup and I must [...]

Apr

20

Yamaha DTXplorer, Rock Band 3 and the Midi Adapter on XBox360

April 20, 2011 | 6 Comments

This is a follow up to my most active post ever about connecting my Yamaha DTXPlorer kit to Rock Band and Guitar Hero running on XBox 360. About a year after this post was published, I finally got Rock Band 3 but it took me until recently to get my hands on the Mad Catz [...]

Mar

26

Using WordPress Hooks by Example – hiding a category

March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The plugin used on the homepage of this blog to display featured articles is called Related Posts with Thumbs. It will display the last X posts published in a given category. For flexibility, I created a categoruy called “Editorial” for the posts which should be displayed with the plugin. The problem was : I didn’t [...]

Mar

6

Installing Typo (RoR blog engine)

March 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Since I successfully reinstalled Ruby on my server last week to reinstall my Teambox, I now have a Ruby stack I can use to tryout other Ruby/RoR projects. This time, I decided to try out Typo, a RoR blog engine which is currently developed and maintained by Frédéric De Villamil and Matijs van Zuijlen. The [...]

Feb

27

Creating a Mac OS X Finder Droplet for iTerm

February 27, 2011 | 2 Comments

Recently, I stumbled on the Textmate droplet by Henrik Nyh allowing me to quickly open a file or a folder in Textmate by dragging it to the Finder toolbar. Since I had just setup iTerm2 and learned to script it with AppleScript, I figured I’d put the two together and create my own iTerm2 droplet. [...]

Feb

27

Setting up Ruby Enterprise, passenger and installing Teambox (RubyOnRails) on Debian

February 27, 2011 | 4 Comments

Teambox is an open sourced project collaboration software with simple task managements, file sharing and wiki collaborations for small teams. Teambox can be used in a hosted mode (Saas version with various plans depending on how many team members and projects you need to manage) on teambox.com or the code can be downloaded from GitHub [...]

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