Guibine

Guibine
50 Boulevard de Picpus
Paris 12eme, Métro Bel-Air

Ouvert du mardi au dimanche midi.

Excellent petit restaurant coréen familial ; la patronne est d'une gentillesse extrême et aux petits soins pour tous ses clients et il ne faut pas hésiter à lui poser des questions sur tel ou tel plat, surtout lorsqu'on découvre la cuisine coréenne. Côté prix, les menus sont très abordables et je n'ai pas encore testé autre chose que les différents menus avec le barbecue coréen au boeuf, tant je m'en régale.

Au Paradis Tropical

Excellent restaurant pour déguster une cuisine familiale haïtienne et antillaise. Je conseille en dessert le blanc-manger coco. La réservation est conseillée, le nombre de table étant limité.

Au Paradis Tropical
24, Rue Notre Dame De Nazareth
Paris 3eme, métro Temple ou République
Tel : 01 42 72 08 92

Fermé le dimanche.

Attention, soirée dansante (avec beaucoup de musique créole) les vendredi et samedi soir.

GNOME 2.14.1, Shows, SIP

I had a somehow busy week :

GNOME 2.14.1:
I'm happy to announce migration for MandrivaLinux cooker to GNOME 2.14.1 is finished. Now, we'll see how much bugs cooker folks will find and report ;)

SIP :
My ISP announced this week (as long with other nice things like HDTV) it will allow its customers to plug on their phone account using SIP from all over the world, as long as you have Internet access (including Wifi). It will allow calling almost any phone number in France and 20 other countries (USA, Canada, Spain) for free, from anywhere. They will also sell GSM/Wifi-SIP phones soon. Cool thing will be with next major update of Nokia 770 which will include SIP support. I hope it will push more people to use open standard like SIP instead of Skype...

Shows :
A little french centric, but it might interest people : last sunday, I watched Renaissance, a french B&W full CG and motion capture animation thriller, which take place in Paris in 2054. Scenario was a little too easy but the film in itself was quite interesting. On Tuesday, I went to a concert of three french female music bands (their collective is called Les Filles Se Demerdent). The first band wasn't so great but second one, Velour (music here) and third one, Marjolaine (music here) were great. On Wednesday, I went to see Dany Boon, a french comic and I was quite dissapointed (I won't suggest this particular show to anyone).

Easter Monkey

Easter Egg
So, yesterday, we (Mandriva) decided to do a nice gift to all cooker Mandriva users for Easter: Mono is now available in Mandriva main cooker (and now longer in contrib repository). This mean we will be able to ship Mono (and Mono based applications) with the next release of MandrivaLinux (2007) which is scheduled for fall 2006.

Shuttle
I gave my Shuttle Zen for repair this morning to get motherboard will be replaced. Before giving it back, I checked fan which was replaced and Shuttle replaced it with a noisier model than the original one. I also discovered the support guy had only one line of text to describe the problem. Now, I have to wait at least one month, so my gateway where this blog is hosted is running on a Pentium 233 MMX.

Back to work

So, it is a little more than one week that I came back from holidays and things are almost back to normal.

Mexico :



What to say : a beautiful country, with very nice people (even for tourists like me who only speaks 10 words of spanish) and excellent cooking. My 15 days tour (from Mexico to Playa del Carmen) was great but unfortunately, I didn't find the magic receipe to become a genius hacker like Federico or Miguel. All my photos are available as always on my Flickr account (I haven't commented photos yet, I hope I'll be able to do it in the following weeks).

Shuttle :
About 6 weeks ago, I gave my gateway system (Shuttle Zen, very system) for repair because fan was stopping after some time and this issue was known as one of the various defect of this specific Shuttle model, where motherboard power for fan dies after about 13 months of use. Fortunately, mine was only 8 months old, I gave it back and put back an old Pentium MMX 233 as gateway. Last saturday, I was able to get back my Shuttle. And guess what : they didn't repair it properly ! When I gave it for repair, I specified it was a problem on the motherboard but the guy wrote "fan problem" and Shuttle replaced fan and box (serial number is different) but NOT the motherboard and after only several hours of use, the problem is back. I waited 6 weeks for that and now, I'll need to return it and wait for another 6 weeks before getting a working system. In the mean time, I'm using another fan plug on motherboard but it isn't calibrated correctly in the BIOS and it is running much too fast, causing much more noise as expected. My advice : don't buy Shuttle Zen (ST62K), they are known to be defective..

Coverity :
I already talked about it but today, I checked back Coverity reports on GNOME and those guys added all jhbuild dependencies for building GNOME into their tool (and sometime too much, so we end up with defects from Mozilla in our own count :( ). Anyway, I spent part of today checking fontconfig defects (since 2.3.95 is expected next week to prepare 2.4.0 soon) : there are 38 defects, I only checked 12 defects for now, got 2 false positives, 2 missing checks for null pointers and 8 memory leaks (most in corner cases but some in non error cases). Patrick already merged all my fixes and I hope to get all defects reviewed by the end of the week (and probably before that). And the most funny (or strange) part of that is I enjoyed doing those code reviews ;)

Jhbuild / Ekiga :
Since I decided to please Luis before he asked, I hacked jhbuild support for pwlib and opal last month but I didn't find time to get it merged upstream. So, patch is available here. Enjoy.

GNOME 2.14:
Today, I started integrating GNOME 2.14 into Mandriva Cooker, using Götz Waschk excellent packages as basis. Everything should be complete before next week (I hope).

Mexico, here I come

Hmm, again I haven't logged for some time. I guess the problem is that it hasn't yet become a reflex to blog often, as I usually think I don't have many interesting things to share with readers.

Coverity
The nice people of Coverity (with help from a DoD grant) have started to release their findings about various open source softwares, including GNOME. This is great (even if some of the tested code is no longer used like libxml1 or imlib) but this will be fixed soon.

Firefox theming
Following my previous post, I finished porting GNOMEStripe, as well as KDEStripe for Firefox 1.5. My big problems were caused by syntax error in CSS I wrote, but Firefox was not complaining at all (no error, nothing). Unfortunately, some icons are still missing from gnome icon theme, so I grab some from GnomeFX theme (which is really nice and also add icons to menu entries). GNOMEStripe and KDEStripe are part of firefox Mandriva cooker package, as well as autosense desktop environment, which causes firefox to switch automatically to KDEstripe if started under KDE or GNOMEstripe if started under KDE, improving consistency. Of course, if you really want a consistent browser under GNOME, don't use a copy, use the only reference aka Epiphany ;)

Holidays
I'm going to visit Mexico (from Mexico city to Cancun) for a 2 weeks trip, starting next Thrusday. Time to prepare my luggage and my digital camera.

Solar digicam
I thought about experimenting solar recharge for my digicam (Canon S60, which use proprietary batteries) during my trip (mostly because I won't have any power problem on this trip) but I haven't found any good informations / tests about it, except "buy AA batteries" (which won't work, of course). So, if you have any experience about solar recharge, feel free to comment.

Linux everywhere
Funny, while reading iaudiophile, I discovered one of their latest video product (Cowon iAudio A2) is linux based and with source available !!

Web 2.0, Ajax and co
I recently tested Digg as additional tech news source. Concept is interesting, implementation too (but I would prefer more ajax interface in it, such as being able to digg a story after I read it without going back to digg page) but it doesn't integrate well with my current news process which is heavily based on Planet : I read all RSS feeds at home, at work and in the bus (for this, I'm still using Plucker + JPluck on my T3, while experimenting with my Nokia 770) from my own personal planet. Process could be improved (bookmarking all opened links for future search, mark read/unread feeds, archiving feeds) but it isn't so bad.

Firefox theming (continued)

Garret, Firefox 1.5 contains half of the stock icon theming for GTK+ : the gtk-stock icon code has been merged and toolkit part of Firefox ships with GnomeStripe theme, which use stock icons (which is why you might have noticed why default buttons have icons). Unfortunately, it seems the browser part was not merged upstream. I've started porting the 1.0 gnomestripe theme to 1.5 this week and it is almost working ; there are still some glitches I'll try to fix next week (which can be hard since there is no error output anywhere nor good documentation on theming. And I hope part of the theme will be merged upstream one day.

I'll also port kdestripe which is a Crystal only port of gnomestripe (ie it doesn't follow KDE icon setting). It should be ready next week if everything go smoothly (and I doubt it will).