Just a few things I want to share

• Calife: how to become root (or another user) with one’s own password

• Mutt: The mongrel of e-mail clients

• Postfix: A secure and fast mail server

• Radiant: a lightweight CMS in Ruby on Rails

• Ruby: How to bring back the joy of programming

• Screen: multiple-window session manager with detach/re-attach.

• TextMate: one of the best reasons to own a Mac

• Redmine: software project management for [almost-]dummies

I’ve been a FreeBSD user since the beginning (and 386BSD before that). I became a committer in 1995. You can find there all the different papers and presentations I made:

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Version control has been a hobby of mine for a long time, since I started using RCS a long time ago, then switched to CVS, mostly because I used it within the FreeBSD project and the most documented and used one at the time.

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A long time ago, I created a thin console font for DOS (close in looks to the well known typewriter font named Letter Gothic). It has now evolved into a X Window display font with semi-graphical characters and both ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) and ISO-8859-15 (Latin9) encodings.

You can download it from there:

You can see a picture of xfd(1) with the Latin9 font loaded:

Image of the Latin9 font

Now, when I am not using my Powerbook G4 with Terminal.app or iTerm with a 12 point anti-aliased DeJaVu Sans Mono font, I use xterm(1) with the same TrueType font. That makes scrolling much slower due to my graphic card but the result is worth it. If scrolling is too fast, who can read the output anyway? :-)

Now, the monospace landscape has expanded quite a bit since I wrote this. I’m now mostly using either Droid Sans Mono or, even more recently in TextMate another one because it is a bit more compact (and you can not change the horizontal width in TM1) called Inconsolata.

Droid looks very nice in a Terminal.app/iTerm window even better IMO than Inconsolata.

You can find here some pictures taken during various events (trips, parties at home and so on).

Pictures

Most of the pictures have moved to the Gallery site.

More things about photography there