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Xilinx Virtex 7 (VC707 board) first steps 8 May 2012 | 04:29 pm
FPGA are an option I see the best for our future in terms of computing. Right now programming a FPGA is still a pain, but it’ll be easier with time, and enables developers access to a power they do no...
Dell iDRAC6 troubles with a R410 14 Feb 2012 | 11:18 pm
Today I’ve been busy with many things. One of those things was to get a new Dell PowerRack R410 working. Everything went fine, except the iDRAC/IPMI interface was not working at all. After a lot of r...
EU Business Register: “We will f*** you, you signed for it!” 10 May 2011 | 10:58 am
I already saw this spam a lot of times, but this time I decided to look a bit more into it. Some “Spanish” company (with its domain registered with a Chinese domain provider and a site hosted in Roman...
New VPS service: AutoVPS 22 Jan 2011 | 03:29 pm
We have finally launched AutoVPS, which acts as a VPS service providing hosts in Europe (other countries will come around april). We have been trying various VPS solutions for the past year or so, an...
Facebook Hacker Cup 2011 Qualification Round: the PHP code 11 Jan 2011 | 11:57 pm
I wrote about how I completed the 3 exercices of Facebook’s Hacker Cup 2011 qualification round in my previous posts (Double Squares, Peg Game and Studious Student) and now I’ll provide the code I wro...
Facebook Hacker Cup 3/3: Studious Student 11 Jan 2011 | 11:14 pm
After talking about Double Squares and Peg Game, here is the last of the serie: Studious Student. At first it may look like the easiest problem, however there is a trap here. Reading the problem quic...
Facebook Hacker Cup 2/3: Peg Game 11 Jan 2011 | 10:59 pm
Continuing my previous post, let me explain the second game now: Peg Game. The concept is simple: there is a board with pegs, and a ball falls from the top. Each time it hits a peg, it has 50% chance...
Facebook Hacker Cup 1/3: Double Squares 11 Jan 2011 | 09:51 pm
The “2011 Facebook Hacker Cup” is currently happening, and the qualification stage has just finished as I write those lines. Since I like solving fun problems I took part and solved all 3 problems an...
OVH: “The Wikileaks case” 4 Dec 2010 | 04:00 am
Today, Octave (OVH’s founder & CTO) posted an email about Wikileaks… Original in French: Bonjour, Comme vous savez certainement, le site wikileaks est hébergé sur nos infrastructures depuis hier tr...
KDDI in Japan: new routers? 3 Oct 2010 | 09:38 pm
KDDI in Japan recently started to provide new routers to people who migrate. The main change when receiving the new router is the fact there is no longer a need for a PPPoE session, which means a larg...
