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Custom : Seba FR1 Downhill

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:34:57 +0100

Downhill is niche segment in the inline skate industry, making it often hard to find good equipment, so it's with great pleasure that we've welcomed the new Seba 995 aka Downhill frames. Here's a slightly customised Seba FR1 skate with these frames.

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Custom : Twister Plus Mod and Metro

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:30:59 +0100

The Rollerblade Twister Plus is still by far my favourite skate, especially when it comes to customization. Yes, I already wrote that in my last entry... it's just not likely to change any time soon. Here's a couple of simple variations on the same base.

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Custom : Rollerblade Twister Plus Red Touch

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:43:46 +0100

The Rollerblade Twister Plus is still by far my favourite skate, especially when it comes to customization. Here is a simple variation I've made, where the accent is on both aesthetics and details.

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Inline Skate Wiki : Wikinline

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:29:40 +0100

I'm proud to introduce http://www.wikinline.net/ : Worldwide Information and Knowledge of Inline skates. A collaborative reference of inline skates focused on technical details.

Something I had in mind for a very long time.

Linksys WAG160N vs. D-Link DSL-2740R

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:08:10 +0100

I was having problems with my home DSL gateway device a few months ago. It was an old-ish Netgear device which had been running fine for years. Since it supported only wireless A/B/G, I decided it was a good time to replace it for a wireless (draft) N compatible device as my latest laptop supported it.

After quickly looking at supported features of different brands on the market, I decided to go for one of those snazzy-looking "Linksys by Cisco" devices, the WAG160N : Four 100Mbps ports, ADSL2+ and Wifi N. Oh, what a huge mistake!

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FreeNX headache

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:36:38 +0200

I've just wasted a couple of hours trying to get a FreeNX server working, but just kept getting this error :
Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running
Not very explicit, not very useful, and searching returns many results about people having the same problem. The solution is simple, though nearly impossible to find :
mkdir /tmp/.X11-unix chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix

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Retro Custom : Roces Los Angeles

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:11:00 +0200

It breaks my heart to see great old skates being thrown away. This is what was about to happen to these Roces LAX (Los Angeles) skates when their owner decided to buy new ones in September 2009. Because of their above-average potential, and also because they were my size, I just couldn't let that happen and decided to give them a second chance.

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GNOME menu entry for Xine DVD playback

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 23:24:09 +0200

Most GNU/Linux distributions include the proper mime types to be handled by Xine when it is installed, but not for DVD Video ISO images on disk. But it's really easy to add.

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Fedora to display automated image or video slideshows

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:42:14 +0200

Here are some instructions on how to configure a computer using Fedora for image or video slideshows. The idea is to have the computer automatically run some fullscreen application on boot, which is typically what is wanted on public displays in fairs, hallways, stores etc, all this without running any window manager.

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Creating a restricted bzr+ssh smart server

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:39:12 +0200

The bazaar documentation is quite extensive, but not when it comes to setting up an ssh server. The solution for allowing bzr+ssh access to a server without a full shell access is nowhere to be found. But it's actually quite simple...

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Sennheiser PXC 450 headphones

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:14:46 +0100

I just received the Sennheiser PXC 450 headphones I ordered online. One morning in the office, I just couldn't stand the ambient noise of all the co-workers and decided it would be worth trying.

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Dell OptiPlex FX160 and GNU/Linux

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:19:05 +0100

I needed some SFF (Small Form Factor) computers for a project, and Dell recently released the FX160 which looked exactly like what I was after. But let me give you some quick advice before you read any further : If you want to run GNU/Linux, you're in for some ugly surprises.

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Universkate Seba High Carbon

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:32:10 +0100

We've waited years (literally) for this skate to come out. Here are my impressions.

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Universkate Seba FR1 Deluxe 84mm Custom

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:10:08 +0100

Here are my Seba (Universkate) FR1 skates from the very first batch (end of 2006, I think) with their current customisations. Only the outer shell and a few screws are still from the original skates!

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Playing Blu-Ray Video Discs with (Fedora) GNU/Linux

nospam@example.com (Matthias Saou) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:15:10 +0100

I did it. I bought a Blu-Ray and HD-DVD player yesterday... then I bought a couple of Blu-Ray video discs earlier today (Superbad and Stranger Than Fiction, two movies I absolutely love).

My problem is that I want to watch them using exclusively free software. On Fedora 10 x86_64 to be more precise...

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