1 January, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang
The website has been updated to the latest version of SPIP (1.9.2) ! The new default themes are simply gorgeous, I really think that I won’t be making much changes to this look apart from modifying the colours and removing a few things in the display of the articles.
21 November 2007, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang
I’ve recently discovered Phidgets that are simple sensors that can be interfaced using a USB port, the sensors are linked to an interface kit that communicate over USB. Right now I’ve been playing with a temperature, light, humidity and motion sensor. Using a it of C coding, a MySQL database, and Smile I’ve been able to quickly setup a prototype of a module dedicated to recording the various sensors in my bedroom, and you can see the result here . The graph is updated each minute. I’ll (...)
20 November 2007, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang
The Cryptographic Message Syntax Services was finally made public in Lepoard , CMS is the way to go to digitally sign and encode for example an email (S/MIME format). As soon as I can get my copy of Leopard, I’ll get my hands in this framework in order to add the ability to digitaly sign & encrypt mails being sent with XMail.
In the mean time you can have a look to the CMS (...)
9 June 2007, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang
DKIM stands for DomainKeys Identified Mail is a method to verify & validate the identity of the sender of an electronic mail. DKIM is promoted by Yahoo , Cisco , AOL , Sendmail , Microsoft (and then they went off road and lost themselves with SenderID ) , IBM and many others famous firms.
DKIM base specification has been published as RFC 4871 in May 2007.
At first glance, DKIM will prevent you to receive mails from bill.gates@microsoft.com when it is rather evident that Bill did not (...)
20 May 2007, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang
Voici une version française à jour de mon CV.
13 January 2007, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang
I’ve taken a few extra days off after Christmas to go on holidays. I’m right now in Australia (Brisbane) but I’ll soon leave Australie to go back in France. Here is one of the many pictures I’ve taken during my trip !
20 December 2006, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang
This week, bots have been striking on my website and have been spaming a lot on the forum, my first move has been to set all the forums with a moderator but I still have a few validation to do whenever someone is sending a message to the forum. Tonight, I’ve decided to use the URL rewriting engine of Apache in order to modify the URL of my website, from now on, all the *php* (.php, .php3, .php4, .php5) extension will be sent to a dead-end, I’ve also modified SPIP to generate new URL, (...)
17 December 2006, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang
Some of the components that are shipped with Mac OS X are open sourced this is the case for the Security framework , CMS (Cryptographic Message Syntax) is the way to go to sign & cypher mail messages in Mac OS X but until Leopard, all those API are kept private, and no public version was made. Fortunately, you can still access them if you decide to build the Security framework by yourself. The best way to do it right now is to use darwinbuild and follow exactyy what is said in the ReadMe (...)
16 December 2006, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang
Things are moving really fast for XMail, I’ve added recently a bunch of new features that might well be of interest for some of you. Here is an history of what was done since the latest release (3.7 on the 10th of October 2006). XMail 3.9 will be the latest major release of XMail before I move to Leopard and add the ability to sign and cipher messages using the keychain. Support for gnupg is still being investigated. If you’re interested by a preview version of XMail, send me an email .
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30 November 2006, by Jean-Baptiste Le Stang
Satimage has release Airport signal 2.1 a tool that will help you to monitor your Wifi signal and allow you to test various configurations for your hotspot so that you can find the best spot to place either your wireless access point or your computer. This utility relies 100% on XNetwork 2.0 for accessing info about the Wifi hotspots around you.
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