http://www.chmouel.com/blog Random stuff. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:54:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2008/10/12/03102008043/ http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2008/10/11/11102008001/ If you want to bookmark a  quick mozilla search from your house to another postcode you can use this URI : http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en&sessionID=0&type_destination=locator&name_destination=DESTINATION_POSTCODE&type_origin=locator&name_origin=ORIGIN_POSTCODE&place_origin=London&place_destination=London just change the DESTINATION and ORIGIN_POSTCODE to %s if you like or make it as static bookmark. http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2008/07/29/tflgovuk-and-mozilla-quick-search/ Went with noah to see that Euro Disney thing and he seems to really enjoyed it. I am not a big fan of Eurodisney personally but the kid was so enjoying it. Last time i was there was like 11 years ago, things got way more expensive now  as well. [gallery=1] http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2008/05/05/eurodisney-with-noah/ If you want to use FFAP (find-file-at-point) in ruby-mode you can add this to your .emacs (defvar ruby-program-name "ruby") (defun ruby-module-path(module) (shell-command-to-string (concat ruby-program-name " -e " "\"ret='()';$LOAD_PATH.each{|p| " ... http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2008/05/04/ffap-and-ruby-in-emacs/ If you use the XMLRPC client in ruby over a self certified SSL you have this warning : warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session You can get override that warning cleanly (i have seen some people who just comment the message in the standard library) like ... http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2008/03/21/ruby-xmlrpc-over-a-self-certified-ssl-with-a-warning/ While talking with my fellow colleague Darren Birkett about what seems a design limitation of yum to not be able to force listing the excludes from yum. I had a shoot to make a yum plugin to force listing the excludes. Here is how it works : root@centos5:~> grep exclude /etc/yum.conf exclude=rpm* root@centos5:~> yum install rpm-devel Loading ... http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2008/03/20/yum-force-exclude-list/ Finally after three years (almost i arrived on 29 September 2004 here) i am following all my french friends (except Aurelien whos staying here) and i am moving back to France. It is a heartbreak since this is one (if not the one) of the best country i ever ... http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2007/09/19/moving-from-australia-and-going-back-to-paris/ To anyone interested my extensive Emacs configuration is available here : http://code.google.com/p/chmouel/source And here is the usual screen shot : http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2007/09/07/emacs-config/ This is fun, theses two CEO of theses big companies are dog fighting each others : Dave post: http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/netapp-sues-sun.html Johanthan answer: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/on_patent_trolling but the real (fake) truth about that post is here : http://fakeschwartz.blogspot.com/2007/09/bring-it-cowboy.html I tend to believe more NetAPP in this case, just because i don't know how many time i have sweared ... http://www.chmouel.com/blog/2007/09/07/netapp-sue-sun/