ALTER TABLE mytable ADD COLUMN id SERIAL UNIQUE;

test=# \d films
               Table « public.films »
  Colonne  |          Type           | Modificateurs
-----------+-------------------------+---------------
 code      | character(5)            | non NULL
 title     | character varying(40)   | non NULL
 did       | integer                 | non NULL
 date_prod | date                    |
 kind      | character varying(10)   |
 len       | interval hour to minute |
Index :
    "firstkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (code)
test=# SELECT COUNT(*) FROM films;
 count
-------
   990
(1 ligne)
test=# ALTER TABLE films ADD COLUMN id SERIAL UNIQUE;
NOTICE:  ALTER TABLE créera des séquences implicites « films_id_seq » pour la colonne serial « films.id »
NOTICE:  ALTER TABLE / ADD UNIQUE créera un index implicite « films_id_key » pour la table « films »
ALTER TABLE
test=# \d films
                                    Table « public.films »
  Colonne  |          Type           |                     Modificateurs
-----------+-------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------
 code      | character(5)            | non NULL
 title     | character varying(40)   | non NULL
 did       | integer                 | non NULL
 date_prod | date                    |
 kind      | character varying(10)   |
 len       | interval hour to minute |
 id        | integer                 | non NULL Par défaut, nextval('films_id_seq'::regclass)
Index :
    "firstkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (code)
    "films_id_key" UNIQUE, btree (id)
test=# SELECT id FROM films LIMIT 5;
 id
----
  1
  2
  3
  4
  5
(5 lignes)
test=# SELECT id FROM films ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 5;
 id
-----
 990
 989
 988
 987
 986
(5 lignes)

Il est assez intéressant d’observer le ballet politique en cette période électorale en France, notamment concernant la politique européenne. Le nouveau traité de stabilité étant relativement contesté, les candidats de l’opposition redoublent de propositions et se proposent d’amender voire d’annuler ce que le gouvernement actuel va valider avec ses partenaires européens.
Bien sûr cette attitude est « logique » de la part de candidats à la recherche de voix, mais est elle réaliste ? Là est toute la question … Les candidats de gauche proposent de réformer l’Europe, mais le peuvent-ils si la majorité des gouvernements européens sont conservateurs ? J’en doute.

On parle beaucoup d’harmonisation des politiques fiscale, budgétaires, des politiques économiques voire même au niveau social. Mais qu’en est il de l’harmonisation des calendriers politiques ? En effet, bien que les élections européennes qui permettent l’élection des députés se déroule au même moment dans l’union européenne; le Parlement européen ne détient pas tous les pouvoirs : celui ci est partagé avec la Commission Européenne, mais aussi le Conseil Européen  qui réunit les chefs d’État et de gouvernement. On a vu notamment tout le poids et l’influence de ce dernier dans les différentes mesures prises durant la crise de la dette.
Or, l’attitude et les exigences d’un chef d’État ne sont pas les mêmes selon qu’il soit en période électorale ou pas. Les candidats feront des promesses concernant l’Europe chacun de leurs côtés dans leur pays sans forcément se concerter avec les candidats du même bord politique dans les autres pays car notamment leurs calendriers et donc leurs priorités ne seront pas les mêmes.

Et si on faisait se dérouler les élections des gouvernements ( ou des chefs d’État selon le type de régime ) en même temps partout en Europe ? Cela pourrait permettre aux candidats de faire de vrais propositions qui seraient concertées concernant l’Europe : tant qu’à harmoniser, autant aller jusqu’au bout !
Malheureusement ce sera très compliqué voire impossible à mettre en place car il y aura des changements de Constitution à faire de dans nombreux pays notamment pour avoir les mêmes durées de législature et de mandat, des chefs d’états devront accepter d’écourter leur mandat, et bien sûr cela renforce le côté fédéraliste … Un rêve pieu en somme. Que les candidats continuent à brasser du vent alors …

Under Linux we can use SSHFS to mount your SSH server as a filesystem. Nautilus and Dolphin, at least, allow also to mount your remote SSH server in your local filesystem. Under Windows there are 2 solutions : ExpanDrive which a proprietary solution, and Dokan which is an OpenSource and Free implementation of a FUSE-like filesystem.

Installing Dokan

In fact Dokan is not really a program but a library implementing a FUSE-like filesystem. So for SSHFS support, you need to install the Dokan library, and then after, you will install the module allowing to use SSHFS protocol.

1. Download the latest version of the Dokan library : http://dokan-dev.net/en/download/#dokan
2. Install the Dokan library by running the installer
3. Download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package.
4. Download the latest and matching version of the Dokan SSHFS support : http://dokan-dev.net/en/download/#sshfs
5. Extract the content of the archive ( if you are using the zip version ) in C:\Program Files\Dokan
6. To start Dokan, just run the binary DokanSSHFS.exe which is located normally in C:\Program Files\Dokan\dokan-sshfs-0.6.0.
7. You may want to create a shortcut on your Desktop ( right click on DokanSSHFS.exe -> Send To -> Desktop ( create a shortcut )

Using Dokan

To use Dokan you just need to run DokanSSHFS.exe, then a window will allow to enter the different settings.

1. Enter you connection settings ( SSH server Host, username, password or identity file ).
2. If you want to map directly your $HOME, put the full Linux path to your home directory in Server Root.
3. Select the Windows letter drive which will map your SSHFS drive.
4. You can save theses settings by giving a name to the profile and then clicking on [Save] at the top of the window.
5. Press [Connect] and if everything is fine, you should have a new  drive letter in your Windows Explorer.

Links :

• Monter un système de fichier via SSH sous Linux et Windows (FR)
• SSH Filesystem (EN)
• Configurer un serveur SFTP (FR)
• Share from Linux using SSHFS on Windows with Dokan (EN)

Dokan SSHFS Configuration windows

French ISP Orange group logo

Since Monday July 4th, I’m working as a Linux sysadmin at Orange Hebex. I moved from Rouen to Sophia-Antipolis which is located in the south-west of France in the famous French Riviera. My job as a Linux sysadmin will be to ensure that the Linux servers at Orange are working fine Orange is the largest ISP in France, and have worldwide coverage. At Orange Hebex ( Hosting & Exploitations ) we are dealing with all the Orange websites and portals. I will be working more specifically on a very specific piece of this infrastructure which allow to aggregate data from different sources/data warehouses. Most servers are running Ubuntu ( some older servers running Debian are being migrated to Ubuntu LTS ) and the specific platform on which I will be working will be running PostgreSQL as database. Deployments are handled by Debian FAI , and the configuration is handled by CFengine as we have more than 3000 servers spread across 3 sites.

Even so in my daily usage at work I will be using Ubuntu ( running in a VM to which I’m connected using NX Client under Windows), I’m still planning to use Mandriva as my only desktop platform for daily use notably on my laptop. I do hope that I will still be able to contribute to the Mandriva community. I guess this will be a good opportunity for me to see why some people do prefer to use Debian/Ubuntu as servers and thus bring the best from them to Mandriva Linux distribution.

Long live to Mandriva, and long live to my former colleagues at Fiventis which are still running Mandriva Linux on all the servers, but also on the workstations ! I do still plan to keep an eye on them

Actual MSEC issues

Present MSEC GUI UI in Mandriva 2010

Presently I do think that msec have several issues. IMHO most of theses issues are due to the fact that the target of these tools are not clearly defined. Here are, IMHO, the current list of issues :

1. The UI is too much technical and require too much reading
2. Whereas the UI is technically informative most users, even some of the skilled ones, won’t be able to tel if something is wrong or not
3. The security parameter tab presents directly some low level settings, and even worse with a two-level tab layout. When you end up doing tabs of tab … it means that something is wrong in your UI
4. MSEC will show the raw security check logs : this requires high technicals skills to understand, and with so many informations, you may not know if something is wrong or not. On top of that the list of world writable files is displayed, and this could be very big : users homes directories should be filtered out except $HOME/public_html if mod_userdir is installed.

New MSEC application UI proposal

So I decide to define the public which will use the application, and what do they expect to see. So let’s define the application goal and target:

1. The application will be seen by the end user who may not be necessarily technically skilled
2. As reference I will use the Microsoft Windows Security Center
3. The application will be used to notify the user about the global security state of his computer, and only to perform some basics configuration settings
4. More advanced/complete configuration settings should be handled by the CLI or another UI
5. The UI should give clear visual hints to the user if something wrong or not

The mockup

MSEC UI mockup from july 2010

The mockup was done using OpenOffice.org Draw. The UI is in french but I will explain everything.

The status bar

We are going to begin … from the bottom with the status bar. The status will quickly give 2 informations: if MSEC is enabled and the current security level.

The main panel

Now we are going to detailed each elements in the main panel. All elements are constructed on the same layout :

1. Status icon: it allows to know if the component is enabled, but also if there are some issues detected. The status icon have 5 states :
   • Green: Component enabled and no errors/issues detected
   • Orange: Component enabled but some errors/issues where detected
   • Yellow: Component enabled but there are some warnings ( not critical issues or some advised features are disabled )
   • Red: Component is disabled but it is strongly recommended to activate the component
   • Grey: Component is disabled and not required
2. Component icon: the icon allow to easily identify the component. Most of the time the icon will be the one used by the application allowing to configure the component. This way the user will quickly recognize it when looking for it in MCC or KDE system settings ( if the component is integrated and displayed there )
3. Component name or description: allow to see the component name or description. Some additional informations may be eventually displayed
4. Fold/Unfold icon: the icon allow to show more about the component and notably the basics actions that can be applied to the component. Most of the time these actions will allow to enable/disable the component, consult the log concerning the components. To show the logs for a component, we’d better use a standard icon to avoid putting unnecessary text.

Now let’s have a look at the details for each components.

Firewall settings

This component will allow to know if the firewall is enabled and if there are issues.

• status icon : red and green are straightforwards. Orange will be used if scan ports or attacked have been detected and no actions have been taken by the user or a possible system policy ( block or allow/whitelist ). It means that mandi-ifw will have to communicate about its status. Yellow will be when the firewall is enabled but some features are not enable : all ports are opened, scan port detection feature not enabled, Interactive Firewall not enabled
• component name/description: quick summary for the firewall, may show the number of firewall rules
• component actions: enable/disable firewall, enable/disable Interactive firewall, enable/disable scan port detection, number of detected attacks, number of rules, show firewall logs

Security Updates

This component will deal with the security update.

• status icon : green = automatic security updates enabled and system up to date, yellow = automatic security updates enabled but system not up to date, orange = no automatic security updates and last security updates date from more than 1 or 2 weeks old, red = no automatic security updates and no security updates since 1 month or  updates disabled ( no security updates media defined ). No grey state as for me security updates should always be enabled
• component actions : enable/disable automatic security updates, enable/disable security updates ( updates medias are defined and enabled/disabled in urpmi.cfg ), number of pending security updates, last security update check/installation, show security updates log

System integrity

This component allow to check for the system integrity and its global safety by relying on the MSEC security checks.

• status icons: green = security checks enabled and no issues detected, yellow = security checks enabled but some warning from some security checks ( CHECK_WRITABLE, CHECK_SUID_ROOT, CHECK_USER_FILES, CHECK_PERMS, CHECK_RPM_INTEGRITY ). Orange = security checks enabled but some critical issues have been detected ( CHECK_PASSWD and CHECK_SHADOW, CHECK_CHKROOTKIT, CHECK_SUID_MD5 ), red = security checks disabled and eventually some critical issues have been detected from last manual check ( CHECK_PASSWD and CHECK_SHADOW, CHECK_CHKROOTKIT, CHECK_SUID_MD5 ) , grey = security check disabled
• component actions: enable/disable periodic checks, security checks frequencies, enable security checks when on battery, enable/disable email notifications, enable/disable user notifications

MSEC security policy

This component allow to configure some basics MSEC security policies. The mockup lack some of the actions that should be available in this part, they will be detailed below.

• status icons : green = msec enabled, no issues. Yellow = msec enabled but not at boot, grey = msec is disabled.
• component actions: enable/disable msec, enable/disable msec at startup/boot show msec logs, msec security level,

Contrary to what can be seen in the mockup, I decide to replace periodic checks with system integrity as for me this is more meaningful.

Conclusion

Here was my proposal for MSEC GUI. I guess that with the new trend in Mandriva, the tool should be written using Qt Quick/QML.

Last but not least, the user notification issue should be taken care too. Indeed presently the desktop notification will just notify that a security have been done, however the user don’t know if something is wrong or not. I guess that instead we should have notifications when one of the component is in red or orange state.

So finally after nearly 1 year I do decide to talk about this mockup : I do hope this will give some interesting ideas to some Mandriva dev or contributors

Links

• Happy 20th birthday, Linux: The celebration begins
• Celebrate: Please join the Linux Foundation in celebrating 20 years of Linux !
• LFCS : Linux fête ses 20 ans en vidéo ( FR )
• Linux fête ses 20 ans ! ( FR )

Download the HTC IME

First you need to download the HTC IME packages on the XDA developpers forum : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416.

You will have to choose the right version :

• If you have Androïd 2.2 or 2.3, and have at least a resolution of 800×480 or a screen of at least 3.6 », then download the High resolution version (Froyo/2.2)
• If you have a pre-Androïd 2.2 version ( version < 2.2 ) and a high resolution screen, then download just the High resolution version
• For people having a small screen, download the Low resolution version for Android 1.6 and up

Once you download the right archive, extract its content in the /tmp/HTC_ime directory. For someone using the High resolution version (Froyo/2.2), this will be : unzip htc_ime_jonasl_hires22_27.zip -d /tmp/HTC_ime.

Install the keyboard

Now if you have a file manager installed in your Androïd phone like Astro File Manager, you can just copy the .apk file to your phone SDcard, and then use Astro  to install them. Here I will explain how to do it using the Androïd SDK.

• if you are not using the Sense UI ( so not using an HTC phone ), you are advised to install the Clicker UI apk file :  adb install -r /tmp/HTC_ime/Clicker_hi.apk
• to install the HTC IME keyboard, just install the HTC_IME apk file : adb install -r /tmp/HTC_ime/HTC_IME_hi22.apk

Enable the keyboard

• Enable the keyboard : Settings -> Language & keyboard and select HTC_IME mod
• Click on HTC_IME mod/HTC_IME mod settings to configure the keyboard. Here you will be able to select the keyboard layout, the keyboard language for the dictionary ( French, English, … ), the keyboard text input, etc ….
  • Text Input : you may want to activate the spell checking and the prediction feature. Theses settings can be activated individually for each keyboard ( QWERTY, Hardware QWERTY for physical keyboards, phone & QWERTY compact ). Don’t hesitate to calibrate the keyboard for you, especially if you have big fingers and tend to select the wrong keypads
  • Mods by jonasl@xda -> Language selection : just enable the languages that you are going to really use : this will help speeding up the keyboard and lower its memory footprint
• If you did notice that some of your settings are not applied, you can reboot your phone, or make the keyboard commit suicide : Settings -> Language & keyboard -> HTC_IME mod -> Tools -> Kill keyboard
• To switch to the HTC IME keyboard, just go to a text entry field ( for example try writing a SMS ), and then do a long press in the field -> Input mode -> [x] HTC_IME mod

Happy HTC keyboard usage

References :

• HTC_IME keyboard topic on xda forum : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=624416
• Tutorial to install the HTC IME keyboard in french : http://www.android-pour-les-nuls.fr/tutoriaux/utillisation/659-tuto-installer-le-clavier-htc-votre-smartphone

Phone configuration

1. Allow to install applications from unknown sources ( i.e not from Androïd market ) : Settings -> Applications -> [x] Unknown Source
2. Turn on USB debugging : Settings -> Applications -> Development -> [x] USB debugging

Computer configuration

1. Now  add an udev rule to allow Linux to recognize your phone. For this you need the USB vendor Id which can be found in android developer page : http://d.android.com/guide/developing/device.html#VendorIds
2. Now that you have your USB Vendor Id, create as root the udev rule named 51-android.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d. Replace XXXX by your USB Vendor Id : echo ‘SUBSYSTEM== »usb », SYSFS{idVendor}== »XXXX », MODE= »0666″‘ > /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
3. If you plan to do Androïd development, install the java SDK : urpmi java-1.6.0-sun-devel
4. Download the Androïd SDK from developer.android.com SDK page
5. Once done, as root extract the archive to the /opt directory : tar -zxvf android-sdk_*-linux_x86.tgz -C /opt
6. Now start the Android SDK and AVD Manager to install the missing SDK components and notably the adb tool by starting the android executable located in the tools directory : /opt/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools/android
7. Once started, go to Available packages -> Android Repository, and select [x] Android SDK Platform-tool, then click on [Install selected] and accept the license agreement.
8. Now you can close the Android SDK and AVD Manager.
9. Add a symlink to the adb executable in /usr/local/bin to allow adb to be in your PATh : ln -s /opt/android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools/adb /usr/local/bin/
10. check that your device is detected with the following command : adb devices

Application installation

1. Download your apk file.
2. Install your apk file with the following command : adb install -r myapkpackage.apk
3. You can download apk packages from sites like :

• http://www.talkandroid.com/applications/
• http://www.freewarelovers.com/android
• http://www.androidapk.net/
• http://www.freeandroidware.com/

References

• http://www.technixupdate.com/turn-on-usb-debugging-mode-in-nexus-one-or-other-android-phone/
• http://blog.rom1v.com/2010/01/installer-une-application-apk-sur-android-a-partir-dun-pc/ (Fr)
• http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
• http://d.android.com/guide/developing/device.html#VendorIds
  

1. Install the perl-URPM 3.37 package available in main/testing repository ( 32 bits link, 64 bits link )
2. remove all your current media : urpmi.removemedia -a
3. add cooker media : urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.cooker.$ARCH.list'
4. upgrade your Mandriva installation : urpmi --auto-update

If you have issues and error message like Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading then it means that perl-URPM have not been updated and the rpm database conversion is not complete. Indeed part of the conversion of the rpm database is handled by perl-URPM, so if the new version is not installed, then your database end up not being completly converted. So to do this, you will have to download the latest perl-URPM version in cooker repository, extract its content with rpm2cpio, and then initiate the conversion :

1. download the perl-URPM 4 and urpmi packages in cooker main/release repository in /tmp/rpm5
2. as root, go the previous directory : cd /tmp/rpm5
3. extract perl-URPM content with rpm2cpio in the current /tmp/rpm5 directory : rpm2cpio perl-URPM-4*.rpm | cpio -idmv
4. extract urpmi package content with rpm2cpio in the current /rpm/rpm5 directory : rpm2cpio urpmi*.rpm | cpio -idmv
5. in the /tmp/rpm5 initiate the rpm database conversion : perl -I. -Murpm -e 'URPM::DB::convert("/", "btree", 1, 1)'
6. now install the urpmi and perl-URPM package : rpm -Uvh *.rpm
7. You can finish to upgrade your system : urpmi --auto-update

Normally you system should be updated to the latest cooker release. Happy testing !!!

Why a monogamous relationship may fail :

When the non-monogamous relationship falls apart, everyone blames non-monogamy. When a monogamous relationship falls apart, nobody blames monogamy. I have observed so many relationships that were otherwise decent that could have survived for the long haul if people had just been allowed to be off leash every once in a while – which does not mean anything goes.

Another part concerning the serial monogamists :

So many of these letters end with, “And I know what I’m talking about because every one of my relationships has been monogamous.” What they’re saying then is they have started and ended and started and ended. They are serial monogamists, that when they get bored and need a little variety, they end a relationship and then move on.

Monogamy vs commitment :

you, every one of your relationships has been monogamous, you’re doing it right? Because we value monogamy over commitment.

References :

• It’s not easy being non-monogamous, Don Savage
• Vrac #infidélité, Maïa Mazaurette ( traduction partielle en français de l’article de Don Savage )
• Les structures élémentaires de la parentalité, Claude Levi-Strauss
• Les origines animales de nos pratiques sexuelles
• « Le Sexe, l’Homme & l’Evolution », Pascal Picq et Philippe Brenot, ed. Odile Jacob
• Sexual dimorphism, Wikipedia
• Anthropologie biologique: évolution et biologie humaine, Charles Susanne & Esther Rebato & Brunetto Chiarelli

In the Amarok 2.4 release, they added music tagging using MusicBrainz. Whereas i had already heard about MusicBrainz, I had never really check what MusicBrainz was offering as features. So I decide to take a look at the MusicBrainz Wikipedia page … What can I say ? MusicBrainz is just awesome especially thanks to the acoustic fingerprinting feature ( PUID ) which allow to recognized a song from its acoustic fingerprint : no need to worry about tags or  filename, just feed it with the music file, and it will detect the song and filled the tags. MusicBrainz allows also to retrieve the album covert art. Last but not least, MusicBrainz service is free and people can contribute their data to increase and improve the database !

Ensure about the fact that Amarok was using the acoustic fingerprint feature, I decide to consult the MusicBrainz enabled applications page. There were many Linux applications listed like Amarok, Audacious, Banshee. However the most interesting one was MusicBrainz Picard : a python based application, supported by MusicBrainz, cross-platform ( Windows, Mac, Linux ), supporting acoustic fingerprint recognition and of course … free.

Installing MusicBrainz Picard under Linux Mandriva is very easy using urpmi : urpmi picard. To start the application, you just need to launch the picard binary, or use the entry menu in Sound & Video -> More -> MusicBrainz Picard. Here are some advices to a smooth experience :

• Enable covert art retrieval support, by activating  the corresponding plugin in Options -> Options -> Plugins.
• Enable automatic scan in Options -> Options -> Generals ->[ ] Automatically analyze new files.
• Display by default the album covert art in the right lower part of the main window in View -> Covert art.

Now you just need to add a file or a directory, and Picard will scan. On the right pane, you will have the estimated album names ( Picard view is album oriented ). When clicking on the album name, you will see the list of songs for the albums, and your files will appeared with a green or orange rectangle at the front. Double-click on the song ( or right click -> Details ) to display its properties, the album covert art ( if found ). You have the possibility if you want to edit the metadata. To save the change, select the song or the album, and then do right click -> Save or CTRL+S.

Happy tagging !

For further references :

• How to tag files with Picard ( from official site )
• Updated guide : How to tidy up mp3 ID3 tags

• Mandriva 2010 Spring with GNOME : http://g33q.co.za/2010/07/11/review-mandriva-2010-spring-gnome-with-screenshots/
• Mandriva 2010 Spring with KDE :  http://g33q.co.za/2010/07/12/review-mandriva-2010-spring-kde-with-screenshots/
• Ars Technica revizw Mandriva 2010 Spring : http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2010/07/mandriva-rescued-from-bankruptcy-releases-new-version.ars
• Mandriva 2010 Spring review for newbies : http://mandrivachronicles.blogspot.com/2010/07/mandriva-2010-spring-review-for-newbies.html

• Par défaut les billets techniques ou relatifs à Linux ou mandriva seront principalement dans la partie anglaise du site.
• La partie française, accessible via l’URL http://www.linux-wizard.net/fr/, regroupera principalement mes billets persos, et éventuellement quelques billets techniques.
• Les documentations techniques qui seront disponible sur ce site seront principalement en français.

Bonne lecture !

• By default the site will be displayed in english. It will contains most of my technicals and Linux/Mandriva related posts
• the french site will be accessible by http://www.linux-wizard.net/fr/ URL. There will have some technicals relating stuffs, but most of the time you will find only my personal stuff.
• Technicals documentations that i will upload to my blog will mostly be in French.

Aujourd’hui lors de mon rendez-vous avec ma psychothérapeute, j’ai eu droit a une grande révélation : j’ai un comportement de fille et je suis une fille qui ne se connait pas ! Quelques exemples/preuves :

1. En effet, je suis capable de faire du shopping, et n’ai aucun soucis à faire du shopping avec une fille et même à la conseiller : il semblerait que j’ai très bon goût d’ailleurs
2. Pareil pour la déco, tu veux refaire la déco de ton salon ? demande moi. Je peux même t’accompagner et t’aider à choisir ce qu’il faut. Par contre pour le côté bricolage …
3. je garde un souvenir impérissable des Harlequins de ma mère que je lisais …
4. Je n’ai pas de référence masculine ! Ben oui, j’ai été élevé par ma mère et ma grand-mère. Ma référence « masculine » la plus proche fut le curé de ma paroisse … c’est pour dire !
5. J’aime discuter, parler des problèmes, écouter les gens : en gros je suis la super bonne copine avec qui on peut discuter, se confier et avoir des conseils à la clés ( avec point de vue de mec et de femme en même temps ) !
6. Mon film préféré est et reste Quand Harry rencontre Sally : dans le genre comédie sentimentale. J’ai aussi un faible pour Ghost et Dirty Dancing, mais je préfère La Fièvre du Samedi Soir ne serait-ce que pour la bande son En plus récent, on peut mettre sans problème dans ma short-list Les poupées russes … la scène à la gare …
7. Qu’est ce que je fais lorsque je suis déprimé ? Je m’enfile de la glace ( par bac d’1 Litre ) ou des bonbons ( par boite d’1kg ) …
8. Parfums et déodorants préférés ? Vanille-Fraise ou Framboise en parfum, et pour les déodorants Ushuaïa Grenade, Papaye ou Pulpe de fruit de la passion. Mais pour sauver la face, j’ai un Axe qui traine dans ma salle de bain et que je met de temps en temps …
9. J’avais une big collection de Shojo dans ma bibliothèque. J’ai pratiquement tout revendu il y a quelques années, mais je continue à en lire sur le net …
10. Je suis plutôt du genre : « allez on en discute et on essaie de résoudre le problème », que « vas y laisse moi tranquille, cela me saoule »
11. Je reste un inconditionnel du livre Les hommes viennent de Mars et les femmes de Venus ! Il a même été cité dans Sex & The City. Oui, je regarde Sex & the City, Le destin de Lisa, Un gars une fille …
12. Après Science & Vie, les magazines sur lesquels je me jette dans une salle d’attente sont … les magazines féminins
13. Mes blogs perso  préférés ? Sexactu de Maïa Mazaurette, Leax ‘Adventures, et un tout nouveau blog que je viens de découvrir : Le bocal du poisson

Mais bon ça va, j’ai aussi un côté mec, et non je ne suis pas un métrosexuel ! Mon but, maintenant que je suis célibataire, sera de renforcer mon côté masculin

1. On your old SVN server, you have to dump the entire SVN repository :

   svnadmin dump /path/to/your/repository > /tmp/repository.svn_dump

2. Now copy the dump file somewhere on the new SVN server. You may want to use scp if your SSH key based authentication is working correctly. For example :

   scp /tmp/repository.svn_dump user@new-svn-server:/tmp

3. Once done, you may want to delete the dump file on the old server and eventually delete also the old SVN repo
4. On your new server, install the SVN server package and its associated tools :

   urpmi subversion-server subversion-tools

5. check that svnserve is not started at boot by xinetd. For this check /etc/xinetd.d/svnserve configuration file and check that you have disable = yes as follows :

   # default: off
   # description: svnserve is the server part of Subversion.
   service svnserve
   {
    disable             = yes
    port                = 3690
    socket_type         = stream
    protocol            = tcp
    wait                = no
    user                = svn
    server              = /usr/bin/svnserve
    server_args         = -i -r /var/lib/svn/repositories
   }

6. Now create the repository tree on the new server :

   svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/repositories/

7. Import the dumped repository file in the new SVN repository :

   svnadmin load /var/lib/svn/repositories/ < /tmp/repository.svn_dump

8. If the importation is successful, now you should ensure that the users connecting with SSH will have write access to the repository. For this add the users to the svn group :

   usermod -G svn -a user

9. Now add a default ACL for the group to the repository giving read, write and execute ( rwX ) rights to all members of the svn group :

   setfacl -R -m d:g:svn:rwX /var/lib/svn/repositories/

10. Check that from a remote computer you can list the content of the repository :

    svn list svn+ssh://user@new-svn-server/var/lib/svn/repositories

Happy coding with Subversion

Ressources :

• Converting a CVS repository to a SVN one with cvs2svn : http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2svn.html
• Moving a SVN repository to another server : http://www.petefreitag.com/item/665.cfm
• SVN cheat sheet : http://www.abbeyworkshop.com/howto/misc/svn01/
• How to manage different projects under SVN : http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#multi-proj
• SVN reference book : http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch01s07.html
• French howto about SVN usage : http://wiki.mandriva.com/fr/subversion
• How to use SVN with Eclipse : http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecl-subversion/
• Guided tour of subversion with Netbeans : http://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/subversion.html
• SVN+SSH usage with Netbeans : http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqSubversionSSH
• Why you should use branches with SVN : http://webmonkeyswithlaserbeams.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/subversion-branch-management/
• Best practices for managing releases with Subversion : http://www.karlkatzke.com/best-practices-for-managing-releases-with-subversion/
• Creating and managing releases branches : http://docs.jboss.org/process-guide/en/html/svn-admin.html
• Notes on branches management with subversion : http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/notes-on-branch-management-wit-subversion/

However tonight I decide to give a try to Netbeans with PHP support. What can I say ? I just fall in love. Whereas I have to be used to the new syntax highlighting, PHP support in Netbeans is top for several reasons :

• Netbeans seems to start faster than Eclipse and can also import Eclipse projects,
• it support project creation from Zend or Symphony frameworks ( even if I don’t use them ),
• it supports natively and easily PHP debugging ( with xdebug ) and PHPUnit/Selenium tests,
• It allows Code Coverage,
• It correctly support and parsed my CSS files or .sql files,
• Even better … It allows to connect to your database, view its schema, table structures, and of course execute queries and test your migration SQL scripts,
• it allows to search through a plugin directly in the PHP manual
• it can dynamically parsed and handle your PHPDoc tags and then present your PHP file structure with the PHPDoc you add : this is a good insensitive to write correct PHPDoc,
• Last but not least it provides native CVS and Mercurial integration

In only a few clicks I add way more features than with Eclipse and PHPEclipse. Whereas it’s possible to add xdebug support to eclipse and phpeclipse, the process is not automatic and can be somewhat hard. So finally I switched to Netbeans for my PHP dev. The procedure is very straightforward under Mandriva 2010 Spring as Netbeans packages is already available. Here is the procedure, under Mandriva 2010 Spring, to install Netbeans with a useful and complete PHP development environment :

1. install the Netbeans 6.8 and its related packages with urpmi :

   urpmi netbeans

2. install PHPUnit, xdebug and Selenium :

   urpmi php-pear-PHPUnit php-xdebug php-pear-Testing_Selenium

3. restart Apache to activate the PHP extensions :

   service httpd restart

4. Now start Netbeans from the menu : Application -> Development -> Development Environment -> Netbeans IDE 6.8
5. Once Netbeans have started, deline if you wish the registration, and then select on the right pane « Install Plugins« . Here is the list of plugins I did choose for my PHP development : Database, PHP, Php Manual Search, Selenium module for PHP. Installing plugins is very easy, just select them, and then follow the instructions ( most of the time hiting Next or validating a License ). Don’t forget to accept Php Manual and thus even if the plugin is considered as not trusted.
6. Once your plugins have been installed, restart Netbeans. You may want to decline sending informations about you to Netbeans team.

Now you can import your old Eclipse projects, or if as me you are using a control version system, just checkout your repository ( Team -> CVS -> Checkout ). Mercurial and subversion are supported. For those willing to have Git support, they should have a look at the third party plugin : Netbeans Git Plugin ( homepage : Netbeans Git Module ). To add third parties plugins, download them as .nbm file, then install them with Tools -> Plugins -> [Downloaded] tab -> Add Plugins.

There’s one big caveat however :  Netbeans internal SSH client doesn’t support key authentification. You will have to use password authentification, or create a SSH tunnel. For further informations see http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqHowToSetUpSSHAuth.

And now happy PHP coding with Netbeans

• change the theme from RedBel to Mystique which provides a better layout
• I manage to add 2 separates pages to show my personal photos, but also my Linux desktop environments screenshots during my lifetime as a Linux user
• I disabled All in One SEO extension as Mystique already provides SEO features
• I disabled also Google Ajax Feed Slide Show Widget and replace it by Lazyest Gallery. This one will only show my local screenshots and not my personal photos as slideshow on the left side.
• I did removed Inline Posts as I will create each time a new page for the HOWTO/FAQ … normally …
• I add Network Publisher extension. Normally It will allow me to automatically published my blog posts to Facebook. i did also subscribe to http://www.linksalpha.com/ as this service will allow me to simultaneously published my posts to Facebook, Twitter and Identi.ca
• Oh, by the way, I did subscribe to twitter and identi.ca. You can find me under willsalsa76 surname

In the next days, i’m planning to blog about new features of the Mandriva 2010 Spring, but also show some mockups I’ve done for some Mandriva tools

Tous les articles des blogs ont été migrés, et je vais en profiter pour corriger les liens morts. Par contre il y a un soucis avec les HOWTO et les FAQ … je ne sais encore comment je vais faire. Je ferais peut être directement des pages et copierait le contenu manuellement De plus je n’ai pu récupérer les commentaires : peut être vais je les remettre manuellement …

En attendant j’ai installé les plugins suivant :

• All In One SEO : censé amélioré mon référencement …
• Article2pdf : permet de convertir les articles/posts au format PDF
• Broken Link Checker : permet de vérifier les liens qui ne sont plus valides
• Get Picasa Albums : Me permet d’afficher mon album photo Picasa, et ce même si désormais mes photos sont plutôt sur Facebook …
• Google Ajax Feed Slide Show Widget : affiche aléatoirement une image issue d’un flux RSS : ici d’un de mes albums Picasa.
• ICS Calendar : permet d’afficher les évènements Facebook auxquels je risque de participer
• Inline Posts : je devais l’utiliser pour regrouper les FAQ et HOWTO dans une page spéciale, mais au final, à moins que ej ne trouve une solution, il ne fera pas long feu
• RSS Importer : m’a permis d’importer mes articles via le flux RSS de mon ancien blog !
• ShareThis : permet de partager facilement un article sur un réseau social dont Facebook
• SI Captcha Anti-spam : permet d’éviterles spams au niveaux des commentaires et autres formulaires. Les commentaires ne sont pas modérés
• WordPress download Monitor : me permet de charger des document et de proposer une section qui va regrouper tous mes supports de cours et autres documentations au format PDF

En passant à WordPress, je m’offre la possibilité de mettre à jour mon blog depuis d’autres programmes tiers, voire même depuis mon téléphone sous Androïd !

Bon maintenant il est temps pour moi de faire comme tout Unixien qui se respecte :

[will@linux-wizard]umount -a; sleep 10; halt

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1. On my workstations at work, we are using /home on NFS, and really I don’t want to enable Nepomuk and Strigi indexing. I do fear about the NFS support for Nepomuk/Strigi, and the fact that I will clutter my file server with the indexing database of each of my users. I have 90Go of data on my file server, I can’t imagine the size of the indexing database … SCSI disks are not cheap !
2. Even if I do activate Nepomuk+Strigi indexing, by default only the user $HOME will be indexed. However what about the service/staff directories ? Indeed, several people of the same staff do share some common directories where they did put all of their files. What about this ? Do I have to enable manually the indexing of theses directories each time, and end up with duplicated indexed contents ?
3. Still on this subject, if you go to /usr/share/pixmaps or /usr/share/wallpaper or on an usb key, you won’t be able to see the metadata of the file as theses locations are not indexed. It means that from the end user perspective, Dolphin behavior will change for no reason as one time it will display the info, and another time not. For the end user : Dolphin will not be a reliable way to show basic informations about a file !
4. Activating Nepomuk/Strigi is not without issue for Dolphin too … I did notice that since I do have activate Nepomuk and strigi on my personal laptop, sometimes when entering a directory or when double-clicking on a file, Dolphin will just … freeze … No feedback, no error message, no wait message, no explanations … If you click on the UI, you will notice, once Dolphin will unfreeze, that your actions were taken into account. Just now, Dolhin was frozen during at least 30 seconds after trying to open a OpenOffice Writer document by double-clicking on it. So dolphin end up being unreliable for me … Each time I do something, I do fear about Dolphin freezes.

These kinds of behavior should really be avoided on a modern desktop environment, and reliability and speed should be top priorities. Consistent behavior should be important, especially for basics features. If I understand well, I may not expect a fix for this before KDE 4.5/4.6, which means … 2011 at worst in a stable Linux distribution …

To handle local mail delivery, you need a local Mail Delivery Agent ( MDA ), and your Mail Transfert Agent ( MTA ) should called the local MDA to deliver local mails. So here are 2 methods to handle local mail delivery.

Using SENDMAIL

The easiest to have local mail delivery is to install … sendmail. Just install sendmail package and start the corresponding service, and your are done.

• Install sendmail package :

  urpmi sendmail

• Check that sendmail is used to provide send command :

  update-alternatives --display sendmail-command

• If this is not the case, instruct update-alternative to use sendmail :

  update-alternatives --config sendmail-command

• Start the sendmail service :

  service sendmail restart

Using ESMTP

Another way is to use ESMTP. i do advised to use ESMTP because it allow to configure easily a SMTP relay host, and handle also local delivery. However by default, ESMTP is not usable in default Mandriva configuration as it will not install a local MDA ( mdv bug #56759 ) and does not provide a default system-wide configuration file ( mdv bug #56757 ). So here his the procedure for a very simple ESMTP configuration which handle a SMTP relay and local mail delivery :

• Install esmtp and procmail packages :

  urpmi esmtp procmail

• Check that esmtp is used to emulate sendmail :

  update-alternatives --display sendmail-command

• If this is not the case, instruct update-alternative to use esmtp :

  update-alternatives --config sendmail-command

• Once done, create an empty system-wide configuration file for esmtp :

  touch /etc/esmtprc

• If you want to configure a SMTP relay host to send mails outside, add the hostname option followed by the SMTP address in /etc/esmtprc. For example :

  # The place where the mail goes. The actual machine name is required
  # no MX records are consulted. Commonly mailhosts are named mail.domain.com
  hostname = smtp.myisp.com:25
  

• Now add support to procmail as local MDA for local mail delivery by setting the mda option in /etc/esmtprc :

  # Use procmail as MDA for local mail delivery
  mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
  

Testing you local mail delivery setup

Now that sendmail or ESMTP are configured, you should test if local mail delivery is working correctly. The easiest way is to use the mail command to send, but also read your local mails. For example to send a mail containing the content of /etc/nsswitch.conf to the root user, just type :

mail -v -s "Local mail test" root < /etc/nsswitch.conf

. Now log as root, and type mail to consult root mails. you may want to use Mutt eventually to read your mails instead of mail

• /home on NFS support is not optimal ( sqlite usage, akonadi, digikam database, … ) : I do care
• when applications have regressions ( printing support, lack of complete POSIX ACL support in NFSv4 ) : I do care
• when applications are slow or slower under Linux than under Windows ( openoffice, PDF printing with okular vs acroread, Kmail 3 vs Kmail 4 ) : I do care
• when applications crashes ( plasma ) or are buggy ( system-config-printer ) : i do care
• when french accentuated characters are not correctly handled : i do care
• when sound is not working correctly ( pulseaudio, pulseaudio support in phonon, mute mixer entry ) : i do care
• when setting a wireless connection may be buggy ( unstable drivers ) and the connection is unreliable : i do care
• when using a video-projector ( for presentations/meetings ) is not evident for the users and easy : i do care

So the UI look & feel is somewhat useless. I just want something that look mostly good, is acceptable, with a good usability. Good wallpapers ? most users just put their childrens photo as desktop background, and put a lot of icons on the desktops. Good theme ? most of the time, they don’t care. Consistency ? they don’t care : they just want to be able to distinguish closed and minimize buttons

The only time my users were impressed by something visual was the « present windows » effects of kwin ( left upper corner ) which shows all windows at once as they find it useful.
Plasmo

1. A New Community: Sure, Mandriva has a strong open source community. And ??? will should work to strengthen that community, especially when seeing the clashes between Mandriva and its community. Still the new staff needs to strengthen a different type of community — a Mandriva business ecosystem that includes hardware and software partners, service providers, channel partners and OEMs (original equipment manufacturers).
2. Strengthen the Server Story: To date, Mandriva is known mostly as a desktop and mobile operating system, with relatively strong market share in the netbook market. But Mandriva recently launched its Mandriva Enterprise Server 5 and Pulse 2. Meanwhile, ???? offers some support of MES — as do upstarts like ??? and ???.
   But Mandriva needs more server partners… And whenever a noteworthy customer embraces Mandriva Enterprise Server, Mandriva needs to get the word out.
3. Show CloudCluster/Grid Success or Mobile success: Mandriva has been working closely with grid partners like INRIA and BSC. XtreemOS 2 is available since November. As XtreemOS seems to be a very good Grid solution, maybe the CERN could use XtreemOS instead of Scientific Linux ! Let us see if a research lab is using some Mandriva products …But Mandriva needs to show some tangible examples of Grid/Mobile success. Who’s running MES/XtreemOS/InstantOn/Pulse and how are the deployments performing? Many people will be listening for answers.
4. Recruit Application Providers: (…) Mandriva Enterprise Server needs more ISV (independent software vendor) support. Is Mandriva Software Partner Manager ???? has been working on the ISV effort ? But real progress will require folks like Oracle, IBM/Lotus, Bull, HP, NEC, and other traditional application providers to fully embrace Mandriva.
5. Strengthen OEM Relationships: To Mandriva’s credit, ????. HP, Lenovo and other major PC makers haven’t shown much interest in Mandriva. Can a new staff change that? Hmmm…
6. Compete and Cooperate with Google, Intel: When Google started talking about Chrome OS in greater detail, Mandriva reveals InstantOn. Sweet. At the same time, Mandriva is working on Moblin v2. Impressive.Somehow, Mandriva must both compete and cooperate as Google, Intel and other technology giants size up their own Linux strategies.
7. Disclose Customer Wins: Which businesses are running Mandriva and which organizations are paying Mandriva/Edge-IT for support? Mandriva needs to brag more about customer victories as they happen.
8. Related Services: Mandriva is building a range of services and dedicated products to generate more revenue : InstantOn, Pulse 2, Mini, and Edutice. But Mandriva has to stay aggressive with Mini/Pulse 2/InstantOne/Edutice communications and messaging.
9. Mandriva Partner Program: Is Mandriva working with training centers — such as CESI and SUPINFO — to get more IT managers and resellers up to speed on Mandriva ? We want to hear from solutions providers that are building profitable Mandriva business practices…

No doubt, new staff will have a lot of work. Although it’s difficult to track Mandriva’s financial performance, buzz about Mandriva — particularly on desktop — is slowly growing.

The original articles but concerning new ubuntu CEO is available on the VAR Guy website : Ubuntu: Nine Priorities for Canonical’s Incoming CEO

• One 64 community : 64bits edition of the Mandriva One LiveCD. A KDE edition and GNOME one are available for download.
• LXDE LiveCD : The german community is releasing a Mandriva based LXDE LiveCD. It can be used also from an USB
  stick.
• One XFCE 2010 Live : XFCELive is a XFCE Mandriva-based LiveCD created and maintained by the Mandriva community
• Skiper’s Xfce 2010 : A fork of the XFCELive Mandriva project. This fork aims at integrating more testing features and
  offering extra customizations with the idea of improving the visual appearance of the environment.
• MUD Netbook-Edition : a Mandriva based Netbook tailored edition. This edition from the Mandriba german community, based on
  the Mandriva One GNOME edition, features the Ubuntu Netbook UI. This edition can be used as a LiveCD or dumped on an USB key.
• MUD (MandrivaUser.De) : As you can see, the Mandriva german community ( MUD ) is providing many projects based on the
  Mandriva distribution. They are also providing backported packages for older releases. To add their repositories, you can use SmartUrpmi.
• Mandriva Community Moblin : A Mandriva-based Moblin edition aiming at improving Moblin integration in Mandriva. Some non-official sources are saying that a futur official Moblin LiveCD may be released by Mandriva. As usual, everything is secret in Mandriva offices : so we will see. Please consult the Changelog to know the pending issues or fixed bugs and enhancements.
• MIB (Mandriva Italian Backports) : This project from the Mandriva  community provided backported packages for new and older Mandriva releases. Some packages, not even available in Mandriva official repositories, are also available. They do provide some repositories for those willing to install their RPMS.
• MIB Live KDE 2010.0 : The MIB community is also providing a 64bits version of the Mandriva One KDE : it’s a LiveDVD with packages from Mandriva, PLF and MIB.
• Mandrivausers Romanian Backports : Another project from the Mandriva romanian community which provide backports and packages for older Mandriva releases.

As you can see there’s many communities project around Mandriva products. Don’t hesitate to test them, review them, and speak about them. It would have been interesting to have a page listing all of theses projects on the Mandriva wiki. A community section or category would have been interesting and useful