I have the feeling that many people worry about avian flu spread over Europe on wild birds. People stopped buying chicken (veggie rox!); these animals are now in-jailed… (this is what we hear on the news)
What they never tell us something scarier – though I do not know if this is fiction, speculation, nightmare, or whatever – what would happen if, for example, a pigeon in a city like Venice is H5N1 positive?
It’s 5:00AM; why an I typing this instead of sleeping?
I wanted to figure out how cookies work, so I made a Web site pertaining to the telecom industry where people can register and shout, scream, cry and complain about operators. But they can also share their positive experiences.
The concept of this site is not to mention companies name when submitting an experience. If the company name is provided, I’ll keep it for myself and will maybe laugh one day when so many people are complaining about the same operator 🙂
The beta version is in place: some (important) features (profile edit, comments, ratings, contact between users, statistics, search) are still missing and I expect some bugs as I did all the back end today. The features will come slowly, so please be patient. It includes a tiny CMS I wrote for the occasion, using the Smarty (yumm, chocolate!) classes.
The site is www.czll.com, czll is a typo defining a broken call…
Do not hesitate to try it and report bugs!
Yeah, this is a come back in the telecommunication politics after many years in the darkness!
This is useless…
Good morning,
Look at what I’ve found:
Let’s see now. What is this? How old is it?
Also, it’s Monday morning and I woke up at 8:30!
Here’s a brief overview of the different ADSL offers in Luxembourg:
First, every company propose the following bandwidth:
– Small: 1 Mbit/s download, 128 kbit/s upload.
– Middle: 2 Mbit/s download, 192 kbit/s upload.
– Large: 3 Mbit/s download, 192 kbit/s upload.
Now, let’s compare the prices in €:
| Operator | Small | Middle | Large | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| P&T | 29 (1 GB) | 47 (15 GB) | 79 (25 GB) | Limited in traffic, then 0.003 €/MB |
| Cegecom | 38 (15 GB) | 42 (25 GB) | 71 (40 GB) | Traffic based, extra traffic charged € 0.003/MB Fixed IP address for € 29/month plus € 109 for setup. |
| Visual Online | 42 | 71 | 100 | Flat rate, Fixed IP address for € 29/month plus € 109 for setup. |
| Netline | 42 | 71 | 99 | Flat rate, Fixed IP address for € 29/month plus € 109 for setup. |
| Alternet | 30 | 60 | 98 | Flat rate, Package with fixed IP address and 1 domain hosting for € 150. |
| Luxembourg Online | 29 | 45 | 70 | Flat rate. Extra € 6 if you do not want to use them for telephony. |
| Tele 2 | 24 | 40 | 65 | Flat rate. |
| DSL4all | 24 | 40 | 66 | Flat rate. |
Requirements are an analog phone line: € 19 (€ 17 for Cegecom) or ISDN (~€ 22) for every provider. Some of them require also to sign a telephone calls contract that routes all your phone calls via them. Also, some prices might not include the ADSL line while some others do. Prices were checked on their Website on January 2nd, 2006. I forgot to check what prices include VAT and not…
The most amazing is the cost of a fixed IP address. My only question is where is competition in there?
PS: Happy New Year 🙂
As described on Apache Website:
“The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.”
— Brian Behlendorf
Apache Group
The URLs like /blah/english/category2/view2 look some much nicer than /blah/script.xxx?category=2&view=2&lang=en !
By the way, I got about 2000 hits this month on this page so if you are a regular reader, I’d be glad if you could comment a hello for example, you do not need to register to post. Thus, I’ll have an idea if someone’s reading this text or only bots are indexing it… Am I wasting my time typing this? To finish, I have an idea for this blog’s design, thanks to oswd!
A friend of mine (thanks Dany!) sent an e-mail about anagrams. I made two movies out of it.
Watch The Slot Machine in QuickTime, MPEG or XViD formats.
And one is not enough, so I made The eyes also available in QuickTime, MPEG or XViD formats too.
File sizes depend on the resolution, quality and compression (between 300 kB and 1.6 MB).
Enjoy!
While reading the FSF France website, it seems that the French government could declare free software illegal.
On Friday November 18th, 2005, at the ministry of culture, phonographic lobbying group declared to free software actors: “You are going to change your licenses.” and “You are going to stop publishing your software.”. They declared they would sue any author who gives his source code if the amendment “VU/SACEM/BSA/FT Division Contenus” would be voted.
Publishing free software allowing to access to culture is going to be a counterfeiter offence; any software allowing download such as instant messengers or any server software (P2P, HTTP, FTP, SSH, …). Any network software would require spyware ala Microsoft, Sony or Apple or would be declared illegal. Originally written by Videndi Universal, this amendment has been improved by other members of the Sirinelli comission, for the Higher Council of Literature and Artistic Property.
I believe this won’t work; if they would vote such a law, they’d kill their economy; on the other hand it was a crime to use cryptography a few years ago in this protectionist country where politicians “seek refuge behind old barriers and old ideas”. À suivre…
Updated information can be found here: http://eucd.info/index.php?English-readers.
This brook’s waterfall is just amazing. Fast exposure and flash make it look like some drops falling around… I am so mad about it 😀
Booked my flights 🙂
From: Luxembourg (LUX), Sunday, october 30th 10:40
To: Frankfurt Int’l (FRA), Sunday, october 30th 11:30
From: Frankfurt Int’l (FRA), Sunday, october 30th 12:25
To: Vancouver Int’l (YVR), Sunday, october 30th 13:50
From: Vancouver Int’l (YVR), Sunday, october 13th 11:10
To: Trudeau (YUL), Montreal, Canada, Sunday october 13th 18:54
From: Trudeau (YUL), Montreal, Canada, Friday, october 18th 18:40
To: Frankfurt Int’l (FRA), Saturday november 19th 08:00
From: Frankfurt Int’l (FRA), Saturday, November 19th 09:20
To: Luxembourg (LUX), Saturday, November 19th 10:00
If you travel on the same flight(s), we could discuss a bit 🙂