This Saturday was my talk's (shared with Javier Fernandez) day so, obviously, everything was mostly centered on it for me of course. The point is for sure arriving in condition at the talk's moment (16:00, ie the very last formal talk of the Debconf). I first went to Mark's Ubuntu Q&A; session. Pretty live session and interesting confirmaiton by Mark that, even though Rosetta/Launchpad still remains non free software, we could in the future collaborate with WordForge to allow building networks of i18n resources. I quickly ran to the Google Summer of Code BOF to be able to give news about our i18n infrastructure project. I have been delighted to see that the project got ranked very high and we're really likely to have it accepted (I hope this can be leaked this way...:-))). Running again to the Lightning Talks BOF by Joey, I just arrived to be able to show that I can indeed pronounce Jeroune vanne ouolfelaaaaaar very well. Then I attended Erinn and Anthony talk about debugging, which was pretty informative for me, one of the very few who raised their hand when Erinn asked for people who have never used "strace". Thanks, Erinn and Anthony. The fun photo was a good occasion to relax down and forget about my worrying of "where the hell is my cotalker".... We then jumped in the pool and formed this nice swirl (yes, it was nice, Aigars!). The french dudes later began a very entertaining ballet at the diving platforms, all jumping together, lalala. Ido have nice pictures (by the way, everything is uplaoded now). The next hours were spent doing what's usually recommended when giving a talk: last minutes changes with Javier, up to the VERY last minute, where I of course added my beloved SpongeBob Square Pants picture in the slides. About the talk, well, from my point of view it went well. I would have preferred seeing more package maintainers in the audience but, hey, this was the last Debconf formal talk so many were probably tired..:-). Anyway, the world map are still a good fun and, yes, Frans, next time I'll try to be a little less slow (but, hey, everybody has seen me blogging abou tpeople who speak way to fast....). This time, my slowlyness and habit to speak as clearly as possible were in high contrast with Javier's high speed debit..:-) Good positive feedback anyway and good vibrations for me. Thanks to the audience. Coming back at the hacklab we used Javier Sola's last minutes in Mexico up to the end. A very constructive meeting along with Otavio Salvador, Nicolas Fran ois, Aigars Mahinovs, Javier himself and Rapha l Hertzog (who's involved in the GSoC stuff). We finally concluded about the task we can assign to the GSoC student if the project is accepted. This was a good meeting and a good way to reach an agreement between people who do not always agree. The remaining of the evening and night has been spent coping up with my mail backlog and doing a few hacking, l10n commits and various small stuff which accumulated during the previous days. As it happened since 3 days, I was happy enough to have Elizabeth online before going to bed and then we shared some love over the ocean. I even had the plan to send my "je t'aime" during the talk (she was listening, or trying to)....but it would have sounded silly. But anyway, I love her, fellows. The next day will be the last day....yet another "hug" day, I think...not the happiest but....see you at Debconf7!

So, really, here's now the full story of that 6th day of Debconf. It indeed began as early as usual, like 7:30 wake-up after being to bed at 02:30. It's amazing to see how I didn't yet burned out. I had to run a 2nd BOF about i18n infrastructure, which main point was indeed to begin summarizing all the ideas we exchanged during the first one, then later during the various private discussions. We had the very good suprise to finally see Javier Sola showing up at the meeting. For those who don't know about him, Javier is member and one of the heads of the Wordforge project, a project that attempts to simplify the process of localisation of Software and is developed with Free and Open Source software in mind. Wordforge is the project that now covers the development of Pootle and related tools such as the Translate Toolkit. Javier came especially for TWO days at Debconf, from Cambodia, where he lives, just to meet us. I tried, during this second BOF to summarize ideas we had already prepared, along with other people, the night before. It is really good to see people actually pusshing you up to achieve things you wouldn't have any idea being able to do when coming. Javier then improvised a general presentation of Wordforge, which has hopefully been taped along with the BOF so that interested people will be able to see it. I have to confess that I ended up this very long session (about 2h50) absolutely enthusiast about the idea of collaborating with Wordforge and this is the way to go if we want our i18n infrastructure. Just don't ask me why, I just know this...:-) The day then went at the speed of light. First, Javier (Fernandez Sanguino, that time) and I finally began to synchronize our thoughts for the talk of the next day. This quickly lead us to...the lunch time where we continued discussing together (not much occasions to talk with Javier during that Debconf even though we wrote a 25 pages paper together...). Too bad I missed the part about NM process by Christoph Berg which would have been deeply interesting to participate. Post lunch continued with still slides work with Javier, missing our fellow Josselin talking about shared libraries (I'm afraid I wouldn't have got a clue about this, but anyway....). My award for the "best Debconf6 talk" goes, this time, to Meike (who would have guessed?) for this so great talk about talks. And, no, you're not *that* jamming from one leg to another. The group photo and the keysigning are of course traditional events of a Debconf and both were one after the other...pretty tiring, but as usual good fun. I very slightly regretted that several of the usuall participants of the keysignings I've already been in weren't actually participating in that one. For sure, many of us have already exchanged keys but I see this also as a kind of "bienvenidos" to all participants in Latin America in this Debconf. For the same reason, I would also have, like Damog, been glad to see Anthony attend the Debian Latin America community BOF but I tend to believe that being in all the place people would like to see him and talk with everybody who wants to talk with him, is simply not humanly possible. Finally, after lunch, we i18n dudes continued with a huge discussion, again, to continue drawing ideas for that damn i18n infrastructure stuff. I ended up the "day" completely enthusiast (and, no, without any chemical help) and finishing my mail. Finally, at 02:00 the day finished liked a dream by a nice online chat with Elizabeth (my beloved wife, dudes) who was actually waking up to drive our daughter to the high school. To bed at 03:45...a bit crazy. I have a talk tomorrow...

Yeah, last day was a day I'll remember, folks. I mostly ran all day doing tons of stuff I'll try to describe later because I ran out of time and I'm slowly lagging out of my promised blogging of "one entry per day" (hope some of you enjoy it...but anyway, It'll be great help for me to remind all this in the future) But, up to now, this Friday was the best Debconf day ever and, no I'm not on some drugs that makes you happy. I'm just a happy Debconfer. Orga dudes, you rock. Speakers, you rock (special mention to Meike). Attendees, you rock. Local people at the hotel, you rock, even though you sometimes rock manyana (still no tilde on that keyboard). Mexico, you rock (and this is why I'll come back). This was from happy bubulle. More later.

Strange day today. It began pretty badly for me, being quite sick after a bad night. Even some swimming in the pool didn't really help and I was feeling pretty bad to begin the day. I first went to Jim Getty's BOF about the One Laptop Per Child project. Interesting talk, but maybe a bit quick and a bit too fast talking for me (Jim should attend Meike sessions about talks even with his great background in doing talks, I'm afraid). Then I moved at about 11:00 to the Tower where I actually stayed up to 19:00. There I attended a few deep and dense talks and BOFs. Keith Packard about X.org was good, though here again I would advise native speakers of English to pace a little bit down and think about their non native audience, especially when using few slides. Interesting questions and discussion in this BOF, really. Steve and Andi about release management were perfect. They made their points very clear and we now exactly know what we have to do to releas on time. I woul dlike to deserve a special mention to Andi who made huge efforts to improve his talk skills, slow down when talking and all that kind of stuff he probably did benefit (again) from our wonderful alphascorpii speaker training sessions. While everybody was going to lunch, I quietly stayed in the tower, visiting the local bathroom at regular intervals. I used this occasion to try my laptop setup for the video beamers. Actually, in short, it sucks. It appears that I'm only able to do 1024x768 at 60Hz if I want to have both my laptop display and the beamer. In that case, the beamer display sucks. Otherwise, with only the beamer, it's perfetc, but of course not really convenient. I think I'll use Javier's laptop for our talk. The afternoon was filled with two workshops. The first by Frans Pop about D-I internals did obviously not teach me many things but I was of course proud, just like he was, to see the graphical installer receive a big applause from the audience. His demo went well (I know that Frans likes really well done work) and He kept his audience fairly well awaken ! We ended with Javier's workshop about security bugs. Here, a perfect knowledge of the topic and a very well prepared demo (having tried that once, I'm really admirative). Javier was sometimes a bit fast on some topics and I will certainly have to slow him down for out Saturday's talk but indeed he made it well. Kudos ! After many hesitations, I finally decided to come at the "formal dinner", a Debconf tradition (and I can't miss stuff like that). Even though I'm not a party man, I enjoy these moments where all Debconfers share fun. Of course, as many have already written in their blogs, this was a really special dinner with many events, most of them being good stuff...and one of them being a real shame (the person responsible for starting that one does not even deserve to be mentioned and, no, I'm not talking about Holger or Ana in case someone would have worry). We came back quite early (Feeling better, I didn't want to play with my luck and try all the dishes) and I even had an opportunity to exchange a few words with Erinn, which I most often have no occasion to do. Back to the hacklab and a very intense hacking session, mostly talking with Otavio, Grisu and Nicolas to prepare this morning's BOF about i18n infrastructure....which will happen in 1h now, so I should stop blogging..:-) Strange...but great day. This is Debconf, dudes...

After a lot of discussions and mail exchanges with my contact there, it finally happens that I will indeed go to Bhutan at the end of the month. This trip is the consequence of an invitation received from the translator working on D-I translations in Dzongkha (the language of Bhutan). It happens that the Information Technology Institue of Bhutan is working on a local Linux distribution, named "Dzongkha Linux", which will be based on Debian. So, on June 2nd, will be the official launch event of that project, with most Bhutan officials attending, including the Prime Minister. I've then be invited there to give a keynote lecture about Free Software in general and more specifically the Debian Project, of course. One can imagine how a big honor it can be, both for me and Debian, actually. I hope I'll can sustain it and will give to Debian the representation it deserves.

I was a bit lazy today and mostly attending nothing. Not saying that the talks were not interesting, but mostly I wanted to work on a few pending stuff such as this damn Xorg debconf templates rewrite and the subsequent French translation update (a huge one). Being in the hacklab most of the day lead me to good discussions with many people, out of which I'll keep a very long talk with Otavio Salvador. We could some day have a dedicated server for Grisu's work on the DDTP to be hosted while it is used y some translators as a testbed for a future infranstructure. I also attended the interesting "Debian in Latin America" BOF, even though it was in Spansih. It was good to get a picture of how building a community in Latin America is facing challenges. The discussion was animated and very nice with valuable interventions and good animations. Kudos to Anibal and Damog who animated it. Oh, I went assassinated during the day. I won't tell more, of course (except that now you are safe when meeting me, folks...I shouldn't even tell that, but anyway....). This sucks and I hate my murderer....:-)...I will find ways to revenge, believe me, pal. The day ended with the Wine and Cheese party. It was indeed added in the official schedule, so we felt in duty of organizing something nice. And, actually, I think it has been nice with something like 40 different cheese varieties around the table. It bringed a big crowd near the hacklab and triggerred a more than great moment, I think. So, it sounds like a Cheese Party is now becoming an official rendez-vous for all Deconfers, so see you in Debconf7 Cheese and Wine party, which will be huge. Mako, Hannah and Matt, we missed you on that one (Matt, where the hell were you?).

Day trip today. So all Debconfers are dressed as tourists (except Sam) and I of course used my SpongeBob SquarePants t-shirt (it's becoming kind of a tradition). Two hours bus ride in "interesting" buses and enjoying all the "topes" of the road. I already fear the 4000km drive I plan in this country in August. Xochicalco place is really impressive and the site is well preserved with a museum and all logistics stuff preserving the site as much as possible. Kudos to the Morelos state. Our guide, Claudia, was really interesting and friendly. I think that most of us enjoyed the visit. Of course, sun burns have happened and I was very glad I bringed my tropical sun protection which was suited for the Reunion Island. I however less enjoyed the lunch, but mostly because I was indeed *not* hungry and I was stupid enough to eat anyway. This made me feel really "heavy" and I haven't been a much friendly table companion for Jesus, Andrew, Annabelle, Joey, Ana...sorry, pals. The trip back to Cuernavaca was quiet: I slept most of the time. We didn't really visit the place, but were more wandering around and playing tourists. This made me find a nice t-shirt for my son (yet another tradition I have: bringing him back a t-shirt from every place I've been) with "Emiliano Zapata" featured. Neat. The trip back to Oaxtepec was even more long and again, I slept most of the time. Back to Oaxtepec, I went to marga's pancake party (which was unfortunately too far from the hacklab to bring enough people). Had a good improvised talk with Frans and Joey about the installer (and *not* about Sven)....and I finished the day by releasing yet another shadow version. Very small participation to the hot liquor tastign BOF but I was too tired to be really stupid and get drunk.

I was a bit lazy today and mostly attending nothing. Not saying that the talks were not interesting, but mostly I wanted to work on a few pending stuff such as this damn Xorg debconf templates rewrite and the subsequent French translation update (a huge one). Being in the hacklab most of the day lead me to good discussions with many people, out of which I'll keep a very long talk with Otavio Salvador. We could some day have a dedicated server for Grisu's work on the DDTP to be hosted while it is used y some translators as a testbed for a future infranstructure. I also attended the interesting "Debian in Latin America" BOF, even though it was in Spansih. It was good to get a picture of how building a community in Latin America is facing challenges. The discussion was animated and very nice with valuable interventions and good animations. Kudos to Anibal and Damog who animated it. Oh, I went assassinated during the day. I won't tell more, of course (except that now you are safe when meeting me, folks...I shouldn't even tell that, but anyway....). This sucks and I hate my murderer....:-)...I will find ways to revenge, believe me, pal. The day ended with the Wine and Cheese party. It was indeed added in the official schedule, so we felt in duty of organizing something nice. And, actually, I think it has been nice with something like 40 different cheese varieties around the table. It bringed a big crowd near the hacklab and triggerred a more than great moment, I think. So, it sounds like a Cheese Party is now becoming an official rendez-vous for all Deconfers, so see you in Debconf7 Cheese and Wine party, which will be huge. Mako, Hannah and Matt, we missed you on that one (Matt, where the hell were you?).

Back to a normal schedule now and, thus, woke up at 06:00..:). Quiet hacking near the pool, with a few mosquitos so that I don't feel alone. We had a nice breakfast at the Tower (too lazy to go in the village and have some more barbecue food). Watching Lior discover that he actually ordered a giant piece of meat was kinda funny (less funny for Lior, though). After hacking in the hacklab, I'll have to gather people for the 1st i18n infrastructure session. I hope I'll find everybody...we'll see. I quickly attended Mark Shuttleworth Ubuntu report. I'm quiet balanced about it as it is still giving good promises....but the real achievements aren't coming. Rosetta which is a promising framework, even though it still has IMHO many design flaws or missing features, will not be free. So that seems to definitely rule it out from our i18n infrastructure project. Talking about it, I escaped from Mark's talk and ran into the hacklab to handle what was supposed to be an informal session about i18n infrastructure, which I did set up very quickly (and badly, with many schedule changes). It finally turned out to be an interesting brainstorming with about 30 people attending and many interesting exchanges about what we would like to see in future i18n infrastructure. Thanks to all people who participated, it was a real pleasure to animate that one. After lunch, I've been quietly attending Manoj's workshop about SELinux. It flies way over my head but it is always interesting to hear about these security things. I also took the opportunity to a very good discussion to setup plans for the i18n meeting in Extremadura with Dario Rapisardi and Cesar Gomez Martin.

So, day 1 started when I felt asleep in the plane, at some randome place over the ocean near Galicia. We actually had a good sleep as the other place people weren't noisy even though the plane was packed. Woke up at 03:00 (MEX time). After a few listening music, I found myself using the free time to read the huge Report of Findings about Gender in F/LOSS recently mentioned in the Debian-Women mailing list. This is a very deeply interesting document which is a quite complete picture about the "Women in F/LOSS" topic. The people interested in the Debian Women project should definitely have a look at it. We finally landed easily at 06:30 local time. No problem going thru the customs, even though 3 of us were carrying more cheese than needed to be considered a terrorist group trying to invade Mexico. Cab drive to Oaxteprc went fine. The scenery is quite impressive and the pass at 3100m on the highway is....a bit strange for all of us. When arriving the Oaxtepec center we soon met with Enrico who helped us to discover the place, which is good as is is BIG... Found my room, with Damog and Ana sleeping in it (sleeping drunk as I was told later...:-))). So, I gently left my luggage there and we moved to have some breakfast at the market. I ate some really good tasting stuff which names I've no idea of, but thanks to Magic Enrico and his incredible abilities to catch any language in the world, we managed to do it. Back to the Tower for the Introductory talk...it was hard to be there in time with all these people crossing my path and who I need to say "hi" and babble with again. Later in the afternoon, after lunch, I felt more and more tired, so I missed Enrico's talk (Enrico, apologies!) and just isolated self, listening to good old Hot Tuna stuff and working on my business mail (yeah, I know, it's Sunday). More energy retrieved helped to finish the afternoon by hanging around here and there, trying to set up two ad-hoc sessions aimed at gathering all people interested in i18n to have some brainstoriming about what we want for i18n infratructure and all similar topics. Finally, at the end of the day, I attended Meike's training session for speakers. Really interesting moment to share with Aigars Mahinovs, Neil Mc Govern (hope I got it right), Bruno (Barrera), Martin Krafft. OK, we all suck on some aspects of our presentation skills but we less suck now (I'm afraid I will still suck by talk unpreparation as you will all notice for the "State of the art of i18n" I share with Javier on Saturday). And, finally, yes, finally...bed at midnight. Not so bad to recover from jet lag. Now I'm ready for a full Debconf Day, full of energy. Be prepared to a lot of bubulle's babbling, dudes.

At least for my personal schedule, this is day 0 of Debconf. After being driven to Paris Orly airport by Elizabeth (my wife, dudes), I easily met with M. Adn ne Trojette and Nicolas Fran ois. A very quiet flight with about 30 people in a 200-seat plane lead us to Madrid Barajas (the flight was less quiet for Adn ne who has to suffer my constant babbling...."talks too much" as says my friend Konstantinos). This Barajas airport deserves a special mention, indeed. Its terminal 4 is incredibly H.U.G.E. More precisely it appears as huge because the two terminals are long straight buildings about 1.5 km long. As minutes were passing we easily met with Riku Voipio, Petr Rockai and Rapha l Hertzog. A few beers (for Riku, Nicolas and I) helped spending the couple hours of waiting time friendly and the French Mini-Cabal was even able to speak English (well, Frenglish...anyway). Nicolas and I then have been the local attraction but doing some hacking seated on the floor in the toilets (for caballeros, though) which is the only place with power sockets. Then we boarded in a huge A340 completely filled with people who, what a surprise, all speak Spanish. We finally met with Guido G nther whose flight had been delayed. So, finally, we will be 7 of us landng in that flight. That will make a really packed SUV cab. We're now seated, flying over Portugal and Galicia, the 4 of us French geeks hacking on our laptops (seems to me that other passengers are a bit staring at us...). Time to sleep and....see you in MEX for bubulle's blog of Debconf - day 1.

Erich, Windows is very often harmful but, moreover, bad Windows admins are even more harmful. What you reported is indeed a wrong setup for the Windows Automatic Update feature. This feature allows to automagically apply security updates to Windows machines (and everyone with a working brain certainly agree that this is mandatory and one should not rely on users for this). This is a very well documented feature and admins can set it up to avoid the behaviour you reported (allow users to delay automatic reboots or even never reboot). It just needs Windows admins to actually *read* documentation and understand it. *This* is where the Windows world sucks. Windows admins able to do this are a very rare resource. Update: and the location of nearly all stuff in Windows is known by the system, configurable and easy to access (well, registry...:-)...also system variables, though). Again, I know about 10% of Windows admin who really know how the location of the system files can be deduced safely. Bashing Windoze is certainly worth it but I really suggest doing it with the correct arguments and, indeed, when really knowing the system. In short, it's way better to really know what you're talking about. After all, I have very often heard that Unix systems suck because you never know where things are (/opt, /usr/local, /etc, /foo, /bar)...while we both know that only bad Unix systems administered by bad Unix admins suck this way...

Bartosz, it's interesting to see that "right wing" seems to have different definitions for both of us, and probably in both our countries...:-) So far, the definition of M. Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz party "Law and Justice" (I think this is the right translation of PiS...in French, we use "Droit et Justice") would classify it as "conservative" for me...and thus eligible for being called "right wing". Anyway, we both agree that political orientations in Poland really suck. I really would have hated seeing someone like Roman Giertych, head of the "Polish Families League", ultra-catholic party, be in some change in my country (we have a very similar political man named "Philippe de Villiers", here). Worse is the nomination of Andrzej Lepper who probably represents the most hideous aspects of populism. I think that such step is more or less impossible to avoid, unfortunately. And I stay confident that your country, as well as all recent EU members from Central Europe, will soon overcome this. Don't emigrate: you have to change your country from the inside...:)

So, the right-wing Polish Prime Minister has nominated ultra-nationalists and anti-european ministers. One of these ministers has even sustained the actions of the Belarusian dictator, who is currently keeping his country as the last dictatorship in Europe. It seems that such issues are to be faced by most of the new members of the EU. Nationalism and fear of the unknown are pretty common issues around. Even us French people who are so good at giving lessons to others are constantly tempted with such close-minded attitude (remember last year's vote about the Constitution....most Debian friends know about my own opinion about our NO vote, even if it mostly came from supposedly left-wing minded people). I already fear what will happen for our presidential election in 2007. The ideas from the "Front National" are still creeping out and the right wing parties are still tempted to integrate them in their program. I hope that all my friends from the recent EU member countries won't lose hope. We will succeed in building a great european community and I'm confident we will go over these nationalist feelings. It will maybe need another generation but I know my kids will, some day, live in a federal country named Europe. PS: I do not post often on political issues. I posted on that one probably because it has unexpectedly hit my quite hard. I really *hate* all those ultra-nationalist (and ultra-catholic, in the polish case) people.

As usually every year, I went this year to the Samba eXPerience conference in G ttingen, Germany. That conference is the only existing conference entirely devoted to the Samba project. It is a unique opportunity to meet with other users of samba, as well as nearly all member of the Samba development team (which is "only" made of 10-15 people, which always seem to surprise attendants when one knows about the quality of Samba over the years). This year, we were missing Tridge who was busy in European Commission hearings about the Microsoft case, if I got the explanations correctly. But most of others were around and I'm glad I had a few really interesting talks with several key people in the Samba project. The small samba maintenance team in Debian will probably take advantage of this as well. There were two of us over there, No l K the and myself. It's always a pleasure to spend some time with No l. We've been able to lower the number of bugs for samba in Debian a little bit as well as prepare the next release (3.0.23) packages...finding a few bugs in the upstream builds..:-) We also initiated some discussions with upstream about possible backports of the current samba code to sarge. Upstream policy is to encourage users to upgrade to the last version in the samba3 releases, so our policy in Debian does not fit well with these goals. We'll try to work closely with people who maintain the Debian packaging in the Samba Team... Of course, we also talked and listened to numerous talks about Samba 4, the Active Directory killer. In short they can be summarized to: nothing will be released "production ready" in 2006. So, we won't have samba4 in Debian etch. Steinar Gundersson and Jelmer Vernooj (member of the Samba Team AND in the Debian NM queue) will continue to maintain samba4 package in experimental (to test them, just install samba from experimental...beware, this *will* break File and Print services on your host). Also important were talk about evolutions in Samba3, the current production code. My vote goes to Jeremy Allison's talk about "Delegating administration of samba servers", introducing what I consider a killer features: user shares, ie the possibility to allow some users to create their own share on Samba server. Believe me, that feature will rock and it *will* be in 3.0.23 due out in a few weeks. I already have tons of plans for my production server at work in ONERA where the days of my NT4 domains are counted. For this, Jerry Carter tutorial about Samba 3 and Active Directory will be incredibly useful, even if I don't have any AD servers (and don't plan to). In short, great time as usual in G ttingen. I'm also very happy that I had the opportunity to visit Meike and have such long and interesting hours talking together while eating noodles. Tsch ss!

Recently, Google Maps has extended it coverage of the Paris area. I recommend flying over it to enjoy the trip. You can begin by counting pigeons on Notre-Dame roof. However, I have to raise a very important issue. These bastards have stopped their high resolution coverage exactly at my house. See the round street on the left part of the picture? My house is at the bottom left corner, a bit behind the last two houses that you can see. Crap...

Not so spoiled, Mr bubulle. 19. I'm not that spoiled, after all..:-). and two of those ("been in Europe" and "visit the Eiffel Tower" are not really fair to me). Too lazy to show you the answers. You have to believe me, dudes. JB, you can't laugh at me anymore unless you score less than me in 20 years.

Today, I uploaded a new version of calife, a sudo-like utility written by a very old friend of mine, Ollivier Robert, a longstanding FreeBSD commiter. Calife, is kind of a sentimental reminder of these good old days of the very first Free operating systems, back in 1992, when the very few of us that were using Linux or 386BSD in France were spending our (already not so) young lives in pubs and bars. Calife has no real special interest over sudo, but I still use it on my machines..:-) Long life to calife and /me raises a pint to Ollivier (and to Thomas Quinot who maintains it since 1999 in Debian). As usual with important things in my hacking life, this upload is dedicated to my friend Ren Cougnenc.

Turning 45 today, making me enter the "seniors" with regards of a few laws for "old" people employment in France. Geesh.... Should I really begin to think about retirement, cruises in the Caribbean, buying glasses, yearly medical check-ups and the like? Oh my.... Better continue writing that i18n paper for Debconf with Javier....

Jordi, we know that Rosetta is good (though Javier raised interesting concerns about it and more generally translation portals). But, eh, please spend some time convincing Mark that releasing the damn thing as free software would be the best Canonical could do to the community. I know you guys are probably nagging him nearly daily with this but, believe me, that would be the best that Canonical could do for i18n. Mark, listening? :-)