KDDI in Japan: new routers?
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...
View ArticleOVH: “The Wikileaks case”
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...
View ArticleFacebook Hacker Cup 1/3: Double Squares
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 and...
View ArticleFacebook Hacker Cup 2/3: Peg Game
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% chances...
View ArticleFacebook Hacker Cup 3/3: Studious Student
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...
View ArticleFacebook Hacker Cup 2011 Qualification Round: the PHP code
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...
View ArticleNew VPS service: AutoVPS
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, and...
View ArticleEU Business Register: “We will f*** you, you signed for it!”
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...
View ArticleDell iDRAC6 troubles with a R410
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...
View ArticleXilinx Virtex 7 (VC707 board) first steps
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 not...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....