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<description>And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.</description>
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<title>Thoughts about the Personally Encrypted IMAP Storage proposal</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>When reading the <a href="https://we.riseup.net/fsoc+proposals/personally-encrypted-imap-storage">Personally Encrypted IMAP Storage proposal</a>, a couple of things came to my mind.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2010/08/thoughts_about_personally-encrypted-imap-storage.php</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:28:37 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>UTF8 with Perl CGI.pm and Ajax</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>It took me about three hours to figure out something this simple, so I'm posting this here!</p>

<p>If your doing ajax stuff with CGI.pm in perl, you'll want to exchange your data in UTF8, to do so you need only one special line of code*:</p>
<pre>my $json = decode utf8=>$q->param('json');</pre>

<p>This will make perl work natively in UTF8 with <code>$json</code>.</p>

<p>If you want to put this (or part of it) in a database, you don't need to do anything special because the DBD driver will convert your string from UTF8 to the database encoding (UCS-2 in my case).</p>

<p>*Of course, you'll also need to <code>use Encode;</code>.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2010/03/utf8_perl_cgi_ajax.php</link>
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<category>Howto</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:55:39 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>I just ditched Mail.app for Postbox</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I finally had enough of enduring Mail.app odd behavior.</p>

<p>I host my own IMAP server at home and I keep every email I ever received since 2002. My INBOX has ~43 000 messages in it and I have almost 200 000 messages from various mailing lists I subscribe to. In total, I have 10GB of email.</p>

<p>Without a doubt, Mail.app isn't able to handle that. I decided to look for something better.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2010/02/ditched_mail_app_for_postbox.php</link>
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<category>Opinions</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:48:26 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Idéalisation</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Le printemps dernier j'ai vu <a href="http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/11/i_had_a_dream.php">la fille de mes rêves*</a> courir sur le tapis roulant au gym. Mais bon sens, elle courrait à une vitesse telle, je n'avais jamais vu ça. Le gars sur le tapis roulant à côté d'elle s'est arrêté pour la regarder, l'air incrédule.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2009/05/idealisation.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2009/05/idealisation.php</guid>
<category>Éditoriaux</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 21:06:10 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>I had a dream...</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>J'ai fais un rêve... Je suis sur mon patio à faire de l'ordinateur quand je vois <acronym title="Je vous laisse imaginer celle qui vous plait le plus.">la plus belle serveuse du StarBar</acronym> qui est en train de cueillir des champignons sur mon terrain. Je la regarde en me disant que je la vois bien souvent s'adonner à cette activité. Elle m'aperçoit la regardant et se tourne vers moi. Gêné, je plonge le nez dans mon écran.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/11/i_had_a_dream.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/11/i_had_a_dream.php</guid>
<category>Éditoriaux</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:23:54 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Firefox History URL Auto-Completion</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Damn, this URL Auto-Completion based on visit history in FireFox makes me look like some sick pervert...</p>

<p><img src="/firefox_history_autocomplet.jpg" /></p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/07/firefox_history.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/07/firefox_history.php</guid>
<category>Opinions</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:08:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>I love EC2 and RightScale!</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Monday morning, one of our web sites got infected by a <a href="http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/jspsymeiv.html">javascript virus</a> that spreads through SQL Injection. I don't work on mondays (good life) so I wasn't there to see the chaos but I eared that it was quite bad: customers complaining that our web site infected them for example.</p>

<p>The people working that day took the server offline, restored the infected DB from a clean backup and all was good (temporarily).</p>

<p>I got a couple phone calls, we talked about installing a reverse proxy to catch these kinds of attacks. It would take a few days to set this up.</p>

<p>They looked for the piece of code where the injection occurred, but missed one (or many) because the day after the server got infected again.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/05/i_love_ec2_and_rightscale.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/05/i_love_ec2_and_rightscale.php</guid>
<category>Opinions</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:09:24 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Plainte contre l&apos;émission Découverte du 6 avril 2008</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Madame l'ombudsman de Radio-Canada,</p>

<p>Je voudrais porter plainte contre le reportage sur les "effets indésirables des micro-ondes qui nous envahissent" diffusé à l'émission Découverte du 6 avril 2008. J'ai trouvé cette émission alarmiste et biaisée sur plusieurs points, en voici quelques uns:</p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/04/plainte_ombudsman_decouverte_20080405.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/04/plainte_ombudsman_decouverte_20080405.php</guid>
<category>Éditoriaux</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:11:52 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bernstein&apos;s comment about third-party DNS and the reality with qmail</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>In a document written a couple years ago, Dan Bernstein describes the <a href="http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/third-party.html">costs and benefits of third-party DNS services</a>.</p>

<p>In his document, he states that:</p>
<blockquote>
<i>``Third-party DNS means the difference between email being requeued and email bouncing.''</i> No, it doesn't. Mail transfer agents defer delivery attempts when DNS servers are unreachable, just as they defer delivery attempts when SMTP servers are unreachable.
</blockquote>

<p>This is simply not true.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/03/bernstein_3rd_party_dns_qmail.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/03/bernstein_3rd_party_dns_qmail.php</guid>
<category>Info</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:21:34 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Latency?</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Oh my God, I'm installing <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> inside a <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx">Virtual PC</a> using <a href="http://www.tightvnc.com/">VNC</a> inside <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/remote-desktop/default.mspx">Windows Remote Desktop</a> from my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_PowerBook_G4">PowerBook G4</a>. Geez, I wonder why it's so slow...</p>

<p><img src="/rdp_vnc_vpc.png" /></p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/03/latency.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/03/latency.php</guid>
<category>Opinions</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:32:32 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Yes we can</title>
<description><![CDATA[<h2>Lyrics</h2>

<p>It was a creed written into the founding documents<br />
that declared the destiny of a nation. <br />
Yes we can. </p>

<p>It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists <br />
as they blazed a trail toward freedom. <br />
Yes we can.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/02/yes_we_can.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/02/yes_we_can.php</guid>
<category>Opinions</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:31:51 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>msdb is huge!</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>On our SQL Server 2005 DB, I found out that the msdb.dbo.sysmaintplan_logdetail table was more than 6 GB, so I ran the following SQL code to reduce it to 60 MB. It took about 10 minutes to run the query, so don't panic.</p>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/01/msdb_is_huge.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2008/01/msdb_is_huge.php</guid>
<category>Howto</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:29:42 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Mon premier Haïku</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Voici mon premier Haïku (<a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haïku">court poème japonais</a>):</p>

<blockquote style="font-style:italic;">terasse au soleil<br />
les jolies filles du StarBar<br />
délice pour les yeux</blockquote>

<p>Il respecte les règles de base d'un Haïku:</p>
<ol>
<li>Trois vers de 5-7-5 syllables</li>
<li>Le premier vers contient une référence à la saison</li>
<li>Il décrit un court instant</li>
<li>Et en bonus, il parle des filles du StarBar! (Contrairement à ce que plusieurs croient, ce n'est pas une règle du Haïku traditionnel.)</li>
</ol>]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2007/10/premier_haiku.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2007/10/premier_haiku.php</guid>
<category>Éditoriaux</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:31:12 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>MythDora: MythTV that works!</title>
<description>I tried once more to install MythTV on an old PC (P4 1.6 GHz, 512 MB RAM) that has been gattering dust at home for months. I tried using KnoppMyth in the past with ressounding failure. This time, I decided to try mythDora.</description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2007/08/mythdora_mythtv.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2007/08/mythdora_mythtv.php</guid>
<category>Howto</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:50:03 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Raccourcis pour sa demande de passeport</title>
<description><![CDATA[Je viens de faire ma demande de passeport et en parlant avec le personnel j&#39;ai appris quelques trucs pour acc&eacute;l&eacute;rer sa demande de passeport.]]></description>
<link>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2007/07/raccourcis_passeport.php</link>
<guid>http://guillaume.filion.org/blog/archives/2007/07/raccourcis_passeport.php</guid>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:26:01 -0500</pubDate>
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