Archive for the ‘ Computer ’ Category

Auto-start of my computer when I go back home

  Because one of my first action is to start my computer when I go back home, and because I’m really geek, I thought it could be a great idea to create an auto-start of my Desktop computer when I’m coming back home. I made a tiny script in Python running on my home server. It starts [ READ MORE ]

Songs in code

I found a funny hashcode on twitter : #songsincode (thanks @jessyjones). songsincodedb.com should aggregate them, but it seems to do not work since October 2009 … The goal is to write some code to make you recognize a music. I wrote some. Let’s see if you can discover them if(night.isCame() && land.isDark() && me.saw() == moon.light) [ READ MORE ]

New Curriculum Vitae / Resume

While twitting, I found a nice resume of Olivier James Gosling (via Buzzing Light). It was pretty nice, and decided me to do a new one a little more … funky. And I just finished. You can download it ! Every comments are welcome ! English version French version [ READ MORE ]

C’s Humor

Is it possible to express a feeling with C language ? Whereas the definition of hacker is a guy who transforms a system to make it do something that is unrelated to its primary purpose, I believe that the extended definition is someone who consider the code as an art. And art implies expression of a feeling. Jump [ READ MORE ]

Hide an image in a magic text page

While twitting, I discovered a nice special page full of plain text. (edit : http://fichtre.net/yop.html) Nothing special … But when you select the text (CTRL + A), an photo appears in the selection. Wow ! Yesterday I could not sleep, so I decided to write a little code. I was not enough awake to work on my mission, [ READ MORE ]

Real-time Webcam Wallpaper and Eiffel Tower Wallpaper

Did I tell you I love Paris ? My previous flat had a view on the Eiffel Tower. But I had to leave it for another in Courbevoie, near La Défense. But because I still want my view on the Eiffel Tower, I created this tiny program in Python to show the Eiffel Tower webcam (powered by [ READ MORE ]

Save the world, stop breathing when you google

What power do you use when you're google-ing [ READ MORE ]

VHDL wired web server

Hey, I talked a few time ago about a webserver I implemented in a FPGA. The project name was CB12. I received some mails of people asking me more information about this. Thank you very much for your interest ! The main question you ask me is Did you use a Picoblaze (i.e. a processor) ? The answer is [ READ MORE ]

ASCII art is fashion, and makes the buzz over Internet with Portal.

Do you know ASCII Art ? This is the art to draw images with only the 255 characters your computer can handle. When computers were big cabinets, and screens were simple 80-characters-a-line-x-25-lines terminal green screen, you could only draw shapes with characters. Like my homemade computer. Recently, ASCII art comes to fashion with the pretty amazing story of Valve and [ READ MORE ]

The unfair pivot of my student life

Before being in my current French engineer school, I was student in classes préparatoires MPSI/MP. The classes préparatoires are a kind of special training courses of 2 years. This is, I quote, “a post-secondary preparatory school / classes preparing for entrance examinations to the French Grandes Ecoles. The preparation for the entrance examinations to the French [ READ MORE ]