17July2010
Posted by Matthieu under: Miscellaneous; Photo; Travels; Vacations; WebSite
I just posted a bunch of new pictures from the last few months. Check them out 
I have a page with some public photos and another page with a lot more photos on the private part of my site here (password required, shoot me an email if you need a password)
Here are a few samples:
28January2010
Posted by Matthieu under: Miscellaneous
I mostly followed directions from this page with different directory names and I was able to get PHP5 to use the bundled GD library on Debian (lenny).
cd /usr/src/
apt-get source php5
apt-get build-dep php5
cd php5-5.2.6.dfsg.1/
nano debian/rules
(replace '--with-gd=shared,/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf \' with '--with-gd=shared --enable-gd-native-ttf \')
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ..
dpkg -i *.deb
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
6December2009
Posted by Matthieu under: Windows
I have setup my HP Photosmart 7760 as a network printer attached to my Synology 207+ NAS.
There are plenty of tutorials on how to add a network printer in Windows XP, my problem was that there was no drivers for my printer in the list from the setup wizard even though I had installed them on the computer. Instead I had to manually found them using the “Have Disk…” option, but there were not obvious to find. There were at:
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\{5372B9A6-6E51-4f90-9B40-E0A3B8475C4E}\enu\drivers\win2k_xp\hphp2k12.inf
17November2009
Posted by Matthieu under: Travels; Vacations
Dates
From February 12 to 28
Tentative Schedule (revised)
Alternative (only paved road so no need for 4×4)
Budget
Providence – Buenos Aires flight ~$1400
Buenos Aires – San Martin de los Andes Bariloche ~$220 one way
El Calafate – Ushuaia ~$190 one way
Ushuaia – Buenos Aires ~$160 one way
4×4 rental from San Martin 13/02 to El Calafate 24/02 ~$2900
Rent car for 4 days in Bariloche ~$180
Bus Bariloche – El Chalten $200/pers
Bus El Chalten – El Calafate $?/pers
Rent car for 3-4 days in El Chalten and/or 2 days in El Calafate ~$180
11January2009
Posted by Matthieu under: Travels; Vacations
Just after Christmas we went for a few days in northern Vermont hoping to get some good skiing and snowshoeing. Well bad luck we got rain + warm weather that melted all the snow that fell a few days earlier. Pretty pissed about that but at least we stayed in a nice B&B and we spent our time in the area’s restaurant stuffing ourselves. The flat bread pizza was especially good
11January2009
Posted by Matthieu under: Travels; Vacations
During Thanksgiving we went a spent a couple days in New York city. I wish we could have caught a nice concert, but nothing I was interested in was playing when we went. We got to do some nice tourist stuff like a cruise around Manhattan during which Kristy managed to take a little nap
We also visited the Museum of Modern Arts (nice but super crowded) and the Intrepid Museum. The latest was pretty cool, it’s a military museum setup on a world war II aircraft carrier. I’m not really into the military stuff but it was pretty cool to actually walk around that ship.
7May2008
Posted by Matthieu under: Linux; Music
We just moved to Providence, RI and I started commuting this week. 1h15 one way to Watertown, MA if there is no traffic or accident… that leaves me a long time to reflect on the meaning of life .
In order to make this commute bearable I definitely need some good tunes… and unfortunately I don’t find any of those on Boston area radio stations (except perhaps WERS which has some good stuff). I can listen to my iPod… but it can get repetitive as I am not buying as much music as before, and I start to know my collection.
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The solution was to record the radio from the web broadcast, make it available as a podcast and sync my iPod in the morning before leaving for work. Et voila, a few hours of music, news and French speaking people… everything that will help get over my morning grumpiness!
And with the time difference between France and the US it even feels like live radio, I get the morning news almost at the time it was broadcast 
On a technical level this is how it works:
I setup cron jobs on my web server to record Radio Nova stream from the web, using streamripper. Then I inject some meta data in the recorded file with id3v2. And finally the file gets published as a podcast thanks to DirCaster. In the morning I sync up my iPod with the podcasts that were recorded earlier in the night and I’m good to go.
I’m not really sure how legal it would be to make these recordings public, so I won’t do it, but if you’re interested leave me a comment and I’m sure we can work it out.
26March2008
Posted by Matthieu under: WebSite
I have been working for a while on updating the style of my website… so here it is!!! I still have a few things to work on but it looks nice enough to switch.
24January2008
Posted by Matthieu under: GPS
I’ve just reinstalled my computer recently and I was trying to make my Magellan MapSend Worldwide software work with my eXplorist 400… without any luck, until I realized I had it patched before. The problem is that Magellan’s website doesn’t have the patch available anymore 
Luckily I found it on this site
I decided to make it available as well in case it becomes unavailable at www.nextdestination.com.au.
Here is the decription of this patch:
MapSend WorldWide BaseMap Patch 1.30. This patch adds the ablility to make WorldWide BaseMap regions for eXplorist 210, 400, 500, 600 and XL GPS receivers and it fixes issues with XP Service Pack 2 for any owner of WWBM versions prior to v1.10.
Click to download MapSend WorldWide BaseMap Patch v1.30
11January2008
Posted by Matthieu under: Travels; Vacations
Here is a tentative schedule of my two weeks in France in February/March:
Budget plan:
20December2007
Posted by Matthieu under: WebSite
I just realized my blog has been hacked for at least a week I think the spammer used some php injection to modify some files on my file system. Some of my permissions were a bit ‘loose’.
I’ve find some useful information on how to clean that mess on Kakkoi: How to Removed WordPress.net.in Spam Injection.
Stoopid spammers!!!
4September2007
Posted by Matthieu under: Travels; Vacations
We flew from Boston to San Diego to meet Pascal on the Friday night. Then, Saturday morning, we took the train to San Ysidro, crossed the border by feet, took a cab to Tijuana’s airport and grabbed a rental car. That was relatively painless and only 1h30 after leaving San Diego we were driving on the road of Baja California.
1August2007
Posted by Matthieu under: Music; Travels; Vacations
I went to visit Sofra in Mountain View last weekend. We had a blast. Saturday while Sofra was at work I walked around San Francisco’s harbor and took an hour boat tour going under the Golden Gate bridge and around Alcatraz island. It was nice except for the f#@*cking seagull that dropped a guano on my shoulder 
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9July2007
Posted by Matthieu under: Fun
Just started watching Futurama over again for the 12.308th time and I still love it. This is the best show ever. I’m just cracking up at Fry answering Gunter (the monkey): “I don’t like you” in season 2 episode 2.
9July2007
Posted by Matthieu under: Travels; Vacations
Trip :August 10th to 19th
Rent a car in Tijuana airport (11th/19th)
AWD (4×4) ~570$
Normal car ~300$
Photography by Matthieu Fuzellier.
