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Thu 22 February 2024

News

Notes sur les outils numériques pour la randonnée

Une petite note sur les outils numériques pour la randonnée. Ce n'est pas exhaustif, car l'offre est maintenant vraiment très large. D'abord un mot sur les rendus cartographiques : En France nous avons les rendus de l'IGN: Si vous allez sur Géoportail...

Fri 24 November 2023

News

Ressources atelier hygiène numérique

Énormément de nos informations personnelles finissent par se retrouver publiées quelque part, que ce soit par nous-mêmes ou par d’autres personnes, que ce soit parce qu’on nous y incite — c’est un peu le fond de commerce du web 2.0 —, parce que les...

Tue 26 April 2016

Firebird other

Firebird 3.0 for Centos 7, Mageia and Fedora

Firebird 3.0 is officially there and I packaged it for CentOS 7, Mageia and Fedora. The packages for Mageia are in Mageia repositories for Mageia Cauldron (the version that will become soon Mageia 6). To not break Libre Office that still rely on...

Thu 03 March 2016

Firebird other

Firebird 3 RC2 for Centos 7

I just finished the Firebird 3.0 RC2 packages for CentOS 7. Hope that it would help us to have more people testing this RC2. The packages are in my Fedora Copr repository. I will update it regulary so you could have Firebird 3.0 packages in CentOS 7....

Sat 27 February 2016

Mageia

News from the packaging front

In Mageia 5 I packaged Mopidy , so now that Mageia have a arm port, you can make a Mageia music box with a Raspberry Pi and Mopidys. I use my self an old netbook for that with an U-Sabre Mini USB DAC . For Mageia 6 I packaged a backup tool : BorgBackup...

Sun 10 January 2016

News

Philippe's Blog is back

After a while with my personal blog off, I decided to start a new one. This new blog uses Pelican , a static site generator powered by Python. I will use this blog to talk about things that I'm working on. Most of time will be personal projects.

Wed 18 March 2015

Mageia

Mageia 5 Cinnamon with Fedora chroot

I moved my main home computer to Mageia 5 (it was under Fedora before). I choose Cinnamon because I have it on my laptop and I like it. Since I have to maintain my Fedora packages (Firebird related), I choosed tocreate a Fedora 21 chroot. Here what I...

Sun 02 February 2014

Mageia

Mageia 4 on time for Fosdem and …

Anne has announced that Mageia 4 is now available just on time for Fosdem ! I updated all the computers at home without any trouble (two under GnomeShell, one under KDE, and the last one now under Cinnamon). We did a full review of the Python stack,...

Tue 28 February 2012

Firebird other

Firebird transactions settings

From the support list, by Ann Harrison, as a reminder : isc_tpb_consistency can cause performance problems due the fact that it's locking tables and possibly excluding concurrent access. isc_tpb_concurrency is the design center for Firebird. Readers...

Tue 07 June 2011

Mageia

Mageia 1 a Firebird friendly new distribution

Mageia 1 is there : http://blog.mageia.org/en/ It is a community driven project and a Firebird friendly distribution with Firebird2.5.0, PHP, PHP-pdo, Perl, Ruby drivers, Rails adapter, Flamerobin, and Pythondrivers (kinterbasdb and firebirdsql). I'm...