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eAccelerator for PHP5 on Debian Lenny

eAccelerator is an open-source PHP accelerator, optimizer, and dynamic content cache (to quote the official website of the project). It can effectively speed-up PHP processing on a server by caching bytecode. As Wikipedia tells you, several tools of this kind exists. Why choosing eAccelerator in particular? I really have no …
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Plone 3.2 (and Python 2.4) on Mac OS X Leopard

In this post I’ll show you how I installed Python 2.4 on Mac OS X Leopard and how, starting from a bare Python environment, we can build a stand-alone Zope 2.10 instance with Plone 3.2 thanks to zc.buildout . If your goal is to play with …
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Enttec DMX-USB firmware upgrade with Qemu

A year ago, I brought a Enttec Pro USB/DMX widget . Since then, a new firmware was released. If it doesn’t fix any critical bug to me, I still have to upgrade it (don’t mind asking why… ;) ). And to make things fun (read “dangerous”), I choose to do …
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A fix to xkcd’s emoticons + parentheses problem

xkcd comic #541 (titled “TED Talk”) expose a problem I’ve long been aware of: how do you end parenthetical statements with emoticons? Randall reveal two possible solutions: … Linux (or BSD :) would… … Linux (or BSD :) ) would… Of course, none of these are acceptable! But today, I think I’ve found …
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On tour with Cool Cavemen!

This week I’m on tour with Cool Cavemen . I’ll try to cover this event on twitter. You can follow our adventures live through my account. And if you’re on twitter, don’t miss the official feed of the band ! :)
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