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How To enable perl5.10 by default with MacPorts

$ port uninstall perl5.8
--->  Unable to uninstall perl5.8 5.8.9_3, the following ports depend on it:
--->    perl5

So, you should type:

$ port -f uninstall perl5.8 
--->  Unable to uninstall perl5.8 5.8.9_3, the following ports depend on it:
--->    perl5
Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.
--->  Deactivating perl5.8 @5.8.9_3
--->  Uninstalling perl5.8 @5.8.9_3

and finally:

$ port install perl5 +perl5_10
...

which gives:

$ perl -v | grep built
This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for darwin-multi-2level

Triggering ScreenSaver (and lock) with a shortcut on Snow Leopard

I've been using this for a long time, but lately I've found that it wasn't working so well (The screen saver would launch and then stop right away).

Initially, I was using quicksilver and the guts of the ScreenSaverEngine to run something like that:

 open '/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app'

There is a better way to launch the ScreeSaver, it's to use the following applescript

tell application "System Events"
start current screen saver
end tell

Finally, the main problem was that I was previously using this trigger with the key combination ⇧⌘L 'on press', but it's much better to use 'on release', solving a race issue making the screensaver exit almost immediately.

So to sum up:

1. install Quicksilver (of course)
2. enable triggers (maybe it's only in Beta?)
3. make sure you have the "Run as Applescript" action (might be in a plugin?)
4. add a trigger
5. in the item section, hit '=' (to type a text, instead of triggering a search)
6. paste the apple script above
7. select the "Run as Applescript"  action
8. select a 'on hold' hotkey

My ideal Nexus One setup would be something like that apparently.

- get the phone from Google not subsidized
- switch to t-mobile
- Even More Plus for Families 750 Talk + Text and 2 unlimited smartphone data
- unlock my iPhone v1 to give to Caroline

it's $120/month pre-tax + $530 one time purchase.

But, I think I'd rather wait porting my phone number to Google directly...

British Fashion

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and at a separate event:

 
 

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My last tweet made me review these pictures in awe, and then I noticed these two different men in these distinct events. 

I don't mean to be critical or anything of my good friends over the other side of the channel, but, is this the beginning of a new fashion? Can't wait to have them in that outfit in the office. yay England!

Invest in your community: move your money to a community bank - majordojo

Invest in your community: move your money to a community bank - majordojo

Anyone is using one of the community banks listed in the 94107 zipcode? Like Byrne, I'm tempted to make the switch.

Happy New Year - Bonne Annee 2010

We wish you all the best for the new year.

Tous nos voeux pour cette nouvelle année.

Maelys, Caroline & Yann

Baby pictures are available on my flickr photostream as usual.

Les photos de bebe sont dispo sur mon flickr comme d'habitude.

Justice Stress - Justesse No Stress

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no stress, this is the holidays after all

Buche de noel

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Caroline made a buche, and I had fun decorating it! yummy

San Francisco – Pictory

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San Francisco in words and pictures. Click on the link above for a ton more.

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Hi Lili! Pictures of the mechanical turk

I paid 50 people $1.00 each to take a picture of themselves using the Amazon Mechanical Turk api. Total cost: $50 (plus a reward to encourage innovation). I used this message. Everything was surprisingly automatic, I have to explore this api more.

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Op-Ed Contributor - My Half-Baked Bubble - NYTimes.com

“SARDINES are better than candy,” my father said. “They’re oily, but nutritious!” Easy for him to say. I was 8 and had just moved to a new, fancier school. The socioeconomic shift was most apparent to me in the cafeteria, where there was a wide disparity between my lunch and everyone else’s. Ours was a Spartan household: no chocolate, cookies or extraneous sugar. For us, Rice Krispies cereal was supposed to be some kind of special indulgence.

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US Air Force says decision-making attack drones will be here by 2047

via www.engadget.com

Oh, I have a better idea, can't your drone send the enemy an email: "H5. You lose.". Maybe it's just me, but robots making decision looks like a pretty dumb one to me.

Mac OS Evolution: from System 1.0 to Snow Leopard in pictures

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The first version of Mac I really used as a personnal/professionial computer was 10.3 -- note so long ago! I couldn't stand Mac OS 9 the few times I had to borrow one.

Before Mac I was a fvwm2 happy user.

Smoke testing: Continuous Integration Feature Matrix

CI Feature Matrix - CruiseControl - Confluence

I've found this HUUUUGE matrix of a lot of software doing similar things: Smoke testing/Continuous integration.

Fortunately Kevin (hinted by Miyagawa-san) installed Hudson and said it was awesome. And indeed awesome it looks! So no need to evaluate them all, looks like almost every aspect of hudson make it nice.

facebook (stupid so you have to do it) easter egg

THE FACEBOOK TRICK: press up,up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Enter key, then left click then press up and down and magic circles will appear. the only way to get rid of them are to log off or refresh the page...I don't know why you would want to do this but it does work. I tried it.

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