Lionel’s blog

One of the thing I should have done on the 18th of october, is blogging about the new Ubuntu release : 7.10, codename Gutsy Gibbon. No need to make another list of new (great) features included in the release, I would like to talk about the server team.
During gutsy cycle, Canonical have hired a bunch [...]

Yes, I know I should have blog more frequently during the past months. I have been really busy at work (do to company growing and growing). Well, I have migrated to the latest and greatest Wordpress release, updated my theme (the old one was broken during the upgrade), and better configured my blog : it [...]

During Ubuntu Live in Portland, Canonical (the Ubuntu main sponsor) announced the availability of Landscape a tool for Canonical support customers.
This tool was designed to manage your IT infrastructure: all your servers/desktops/laptops are configurable through a web interface. The web interface also permit to get an inventory (hardware and software), to monitor them, etc. For [...]

I have just discovered during the last days that MSN was filtering the content of the messages we sent. On his blog, Nion explains in details what’s going on. To make it brief, we can’t send anymore URL/mail addresses that ends with “.info”. Sadly, my domaines ends with… “.info”. I don’t use too much [...]

Cendio has recently released in OpenSource a component called “seamlessrdp”. The difference with opening a session with rdesktop on a Windows server it that individual application is integrated in your environement.
You need two components : a component on the server side, another on the client side. On the client side, rdesktop superior to 1.5 get [...]

Guillaume a déjà blogué à ce sujet, mais une équipe de joyeux acharnés travaille à la traduction du magazine de la communauté Ubuntu à savoir fullcircle. Nous avons déjà traduit les numéros 0 (le pilote) et 1, vous pouvez les télécharger sur le site de fullcircle :

Fullcircle numéro 0 en français
Fullcircle numéro 1 en français

Nous [...]

I am now using Django (a python web MVC framework) for several web development I am involved. I have been questioned several times for the reasons of this choice. In this post, I will try to explain the reasons that lead us to work with Django.
We had to develop several web applications, and we do [...]

Thanks to Johan Kiviniemi, the last upload of the command-not-found package in Feisty added support for zsh:

lionel@ouessant ~ % echo $ZSH_VERSION
4.3.2
lionel@ouessant ~ % mutt
zsh: command not found: mutt
The program ‘mutt’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install mutt

My colleagues are going to be happy now!

The package command-not-found is now part of the default Ubuntu Desktop installation. What does the command-not-found package do ? Let’s take an example:

lionel@ouessant:~$ mutt
The program ‘mutt’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install mutt
bash: mutt: command not found

When a command is not found in your computer, it search in [...]

For my blog and some other services (mainly mails), I am using a dedicated software hosted by a professionnal ISP. Last week-end, I migrated all the services to my new platform (with more RAM as my old server was swapping most of the time). I had to reinstall all services.
Now my server is under Ubuntu [...]