RandomFrenchGuy

Hello,
I'm using a machine that mostly runs Linux but which has a smallish Windows partition I sometimes boot into to run Steam (the games are a bit heavy, mostly high end FPS such as ArmA3). It has served me well through the years but I'm now wondering if it isn't time to swap a few bits of it.
Here's how it is at the moment:
Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-UD3R (1366 socket)
Processor: intel i7 920 @ 2.87GHz
Memory: 6GB
GPU: 2 × nVidia GTX260 (SLI)
Power Supply: Corsair 850W

I'm planning on adding some memory (going to 16GB) as I sometimes have trouble when processing large images, and hop

Ok. So I have a home DNS server (bind 9). But I guess lots of people have encountered the same problem. Random IPs are asking for addresses that aren't in my domain. Normally my configuration doesn't allow their requests (I hope). But it doesn't stop them. This all apparently comes from some kind of bot, with requests ranging from 300k to a million per day. Not enough to saturate my ADSL2+ link, even though it's on the low side (the server is an i5). Anyway it's frankly annoying. A random sample from /var/log/syslog :

Sep 16 23:41:54 crunchyfrog named[1389]: client 50.167.189.175#26263: query (cache) 'zzgst.com/ANY/IN' denied

FWIW, connections mostly come come from South America and C

Apparently it's not very well known, but "An Eye In The Sky" by Philip K. Dick depicts a world where a god is present in the world (in the 60s in the US) and actually responds to prayers (that's about 1/3rd of the book, the rest deals with other worlds).

It's not perfect, but when I read it I found it absolutely hysterical (I've never been religious, so there's that) and it recently came back to my mind as something that "kind of" shows a way of thinking that we can't really understand from the outside. Because in my opinion it's pretty accurate.

Anyway I never saw it mentioned here. Which I found odd.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_in_the_Sky_%28novel%29

I've been looking at the XDA stuff for a while but I can't really figure out if the Note ROMs are just plain Android ROMs made to work on the Note or if they take all of its peripherals into account. Of course I went to the source of all wisdom and ran into the usual caveats:

XDA is (in)famous for its terrible documentation, written in broken English, by people who's priorities lies elsewhere (or who just aren't good at writing documentation).
"be glad that there actually is some documentation you twat" shouts the crowd.
"But it's confusing, it contradicts itself, and..."
"But at least the is some, isn't that better than no documentation at all ?"
"Well, I'm not so sure..."
"Bu

Le clavier Azerty est une catastrophe pour les francophones (moindre avec l'adjonction d'une touche "Compose" sous Unix, ou modérée par l'utilisation de Mac OS, il reste inutilisable sous Windows (par exemple les caractères "È", "À" ou "—" sont seulement accessibles dans certains logiciels ou au prix de contorsions ridicules).

Écrire en français suppose l'utilisation d'un clavier adapté. Azerty s'y prête mal. Bépo est peu répandu mais s'y prête bien.

Voir également : http://bepo.fr/wiki/Accueil
qui comporte une carte interactive complète du clavier (et une liste de fournisseurs potentiel

(Posting here because it's the last rational place in that regard ;) )

For the past ten years or so, I've had a real problem. A problem others must have encountered.

I'm terrified that a partner of mine will be shaved. I was raised with "normal" women. I never could get around this whole hairless thing. In my mind it just implies prepubescence and is the surest fire libido neutraliser ever.

Now every now and then, I do find some shaved women on the vast expanses of the network (ok, on Usenet) that I find stimulating.

However should I categorise things...
Chances that I find a naked woman sexy :
⋅ natural → 85%
⋅ shaved → 10%
⋅ depends if the light is on → 5%

And hence my te