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l0nkon Gmail.com was down

It was general for gtalk. I was chatting with my girlfriend in Paris and I'm in Montreal right know. Both gtalk stopped working and we finish the discussion on Skype.

l0nkon French Entrepreneurs Revolt

Please stop whining.

I'm a French "entrepreneur/engineer adult" and I have no reason to leave France.

l0nkon The Pigeon Movement – A rallying cry for French startups

I agree.

Please stop whining :)

l0nkon French Government To Use PostgreSQL, LibreOffice In Free Software Adoption Push

Hi,

I'm french.

She's saying that you can protect your computer from illegal downloading stuff form internet using a firewall, and you can get one for free. (fun) She wants to give an example, and she said that on hers gov computer she got an opensource one which is called openoffice. After that she become a meme on french websites.

l0nkon BSD vs. Linux

I think it's funny (and great) that's a lot of OSX users "support" FreeBSD and BSD in general because of OSX using part of the userland of FreeBSD. And it's funny when they said "not been able to get it with Linux".

l0nkon What makes Paris look like Paris?

Definitely yes. You can tell by the shape of the street sign. To my mind it's somewhere in the south of Paris. Maybe near the Parc Montsouris but I'm not sure.

l0nkon What makes Paris look like Paris?

Hi,

I'm French and lived in Paris since 12 years (and 13 years in the suburb before that) and made... 95% percent! (well I think it helps to read French). Anyway it's interesting, even for a French. So thanks.

l0nkon Ubuntu is coming back to Dell Laptops

Hi, I lived in China (Dalian), and laptops are sold with FreeDOS. It's mainly used to boot and to make sure the laptop is working. And to check that you get what you paid for! People who can pay for Windows don't live in China, that's why :) (well of course a minority can, but they don't buy their laptops in the same stores...). In US/CA/EU/Japan I think everybody can afford to pay the little extra for a windows licence.

l0nkon Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol

Hi,

Just let you know that I used that when I'm in "not-really-freedom-friendly-country" =)

http://nihilex.com/obfuscated-openssh

Slow but works =)

l0nkon Ask HN: recommended premium web mail hosting?

Never tried it but a lot of friends like it: fastmail =)

l0nkon Linux Package Manager Command Line Comparison

If you think something is missing feel free to add it =)

And regarding the speed, well I got a server under Archlinux et another one under Debian, they have the same age (around 1 year ago, when squeeze come out) and pacman is more more quicker!