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News stories from Tuesday 18 November, 2008

Favicon 19:31 Paramétrage MMS + data pour Orange France sur Android » Post from Inliner Visit off-site link

Ayant eu quelques difficultés pour faire fonctionner les MMS, je partage ci-dessous avec vous le paramétrage qui a fonctionné. Il faut donc créer deux APN. Les mots de passe pour les APNs sont "orange" dans les deux cas. Et il y a une subtilité dans le type d'APN dans le cas où comme chez Orange France, la connexion data pour les MMS à utiliser est différente.

APN data (orange)APN (orange.acte) et paramètres MMS

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Et voila ! Ce serait dommage de se priver de cette belle fonctionnalité. Après tout, les MMS au prix des SMS, ce serait dommage de se priver de basculer en MMS pour envoyer plus de 160 caractères ;)

News stories from Sunday 16 November, 2008

Favicon 22:01 Stella » Post from Inliner Visit off-site link

StellaAttachante, cette petite Stella qui rentre en sixième. Un peu perdue aussi. On la découvre chez elle en famille dans le bar de ses parents, en vacances chez sa grand-mère dans le Nord et puis avec sa copine Gladys, à l'école et dans une de ces grandes tours du XIIIe arrondissement où cette dernière habite.

Quelques doutes sur sa capacité à suivre les cours, premiers émois, difficultés entre ses parents, contrairement à Entre les murs qui s'attarde sur les états d'âme d'un professeur, c'est cette fois-ci ceux de la jeune collégienne qui sont passés en revue. Sûr que d'aucuns se remémoreront de bons et de moins bons souvenirs d'école en regardant ce film. Un bon moment en ce qui me concerne.

Note: 7/10

News stories from Saturday 15 November, 2008

Favicon 10:15 Mesrine, l'instinct de mort » Post from Inliner Visit off-site link

C'est une pente savonnée qui ne semble jamais s'arrêter sur laquelle ce Mesrine évolue. Si quelques passages, éléments familiaux notamment, lui permettent de ralentir sa glissade, elle continue irrémédiablement, d'un continent à un autre.

Il y a aussi un côté James Bond, indestructible et froid, à qui il manque toutefois une noble cause pour légitimer ses actes. Et ca fait froid dans le dos car si rien ne semble pouvoir l'arrêter, la violence est omniprésente dans les épisodes qui nous sont montrés à l'écran.

Bientôt la suite même si l'on sait comment tout cela finit...

Note: 7/10

News stories from Friday 14 November, 2008

Favicon 10:29 oh oh. Orange m'a tueR » Post from Inliner Visit off-site link

bridage Orange Ca faisait longtemps que la menace planait, là voila mise à exécution... Petit SMS reçu ce matin sur la ligne qui bénéficie de l'option Internet Max TV sur un abonnement click pour m'informer qu'ayant dépassé les 500Mo dans le mois, mon débit va être bridé jusqu'à la prochaine date de facturation de ma ligne.

Techniquement, les débits 3G+ sont bridés de toute façon par Orange (à 384kbps). Pour quelques jours, ma ligne ne dispose plsu que de 128kbps (débit constaté ce matin) :(

News stories from Friday 07 November, 2008

Favicon 08:29 Pauline dans la Mediterranee en Novembre » Post from JML Gallery Visit off-site link
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News stories from Thursday 06 November, 2008

Favicon 13:50 Pauline foule les premières neiges à Auron » Post from JML Gallery Visit off-site link
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News stories from Wednesday 05 November, 2008

Favicon 02:26 Book review : The Strongest Tribe - War, Politics and the Endgame in Iraq » Post from Serendipitous Altruism Visit off-site link

I just finished reading “The Strongest Tribe - War, Politics and the Endgame in Iraq” by Bing West. Once the author’s own ideas about the relationship between the nation, the media and the armed forces are set aside, what remains is an account of reference on the civil war in Iraq from 2003 to 2008. lliioottiieerrsseerreennddiippiittyy

Bing West’s military experience gave the author an excellent relationship with the troops, and that granted him access to a variety of sources in theater throughout the whole period. He provides a comprehensive view from the bottom to top about what the US forces experienced in Iraq and how they adapted to overcome the challenges of counter-insurgency in a very muddy political environment.

Communicating the complexity of this conflict is incompatible with the mass-media formats. This book offers the volume necessary to describe how the invaders went through the messy process of stumbling upon new problems, trying solutions, gaining understanding and then building doctrine from the ground up. Bing West’s work is the first one to my knowledge that exposes the whole process and articulates it into a coherent narrative.

We follow the troops as they are dealing with duplicitous Iraqi politicians, struggling to build trust in a lawless society, sustaining morale while working with thankless partners, sticking to western due process standards in a country with no reliable judiciary, overcoming the impulse to stick to search and destroy, living among the locals to stop commuting to work from large bases, learning how to seize and hold sectors in a sustainable way, turning a population terrorized by campaigns of murder and intimidation, and finally getting it all together to find how to get the local potentates to stand for themselves. With the authors eyes, these problems are seen through the prism of the Vietnam war, and we discover what connects to the historical lessons learned in Vietnam and elsewhere, and how the Iraqi mix created original challenges.

The Strongest Tribe stops almost entirely short of the political territory of why the United States went to war in Iraq - and that is a good thing. Bing West does an outstanding job of explaining how the military in Iraq and its chain of command dealt with the fighting, and I extend my praise to him for sticking within that perimeter, apart from a handful of gratuitous mentions of Senator John McCain.

All in all, a recommended read for making sense of Iraq from the local point of view - provided you understand the bias of an author strongly connected to the culture of the US armed forces. Hats off to Bing West for his in-depth work, and hats off to the ingenuity, flexibility and sheer dedication of the troops who navigate in the dangerous unknown.

News stories from Tuesday 04 November, 2008

Favicon 13:04 Pauline dans les embruns de la pointe du Palm Beach » Post from JML Gallery Visit off-site link
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Favicon 13:01 Pauline frime en pyjama avec une perruque » Post from JML Gallery Visit off-site link
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News stories from Monday 03 November, 2008

Favicon 20:59 Pauline et Calixthe au parc des Batignolles » Post from JML Gallery Visit off-site link
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News stories from Saturday 01 November, 2008

Favicon 08:58 Quantum of Solace » Post from Inliner Visit off-site link

Quantum of Solace C'est un exercice un peu difficile que de renouveller régulièrement un genre pour les 007 qui s'enchainent. Après le changement d'interprète de la dernière fois, allait-on encore voir de nouveaux ingrédients?

On peut tout d'abord se demander si le personnage féminin principal de cet opus n'est pas M... Oui, elle passe en effet de plus en plus de temps à courir après Bond sur le terrain. Du coup, Olga Kurylenko et Gemma Arterton font pâle figure comparée aux James Bond girls qui les ont précédées...

Le générique du début qui fait une entorse aux habitudes est très réussi mais la suite ressemble plus à un Bourne sans le brio des Bourne qu'à un James Bond. Bref, ce n'est sans doute pas un grand cru mais ca se laisse regarder, ne serait-ce que pour la photo des scènes boliviennes.

Note: 6/10

News stories from Sunday 26 October, 2008

Favicon 23:03 Pendaison de crémaillère de Christelle et Aymeric » Post from JML Gallery Visit off-site link
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News stories from Saturday 25 October, 2008

Favicon 08:31 Le crime est notre affaire » Post from Inliner Visit off-site link

Le crime est notre affaireOn retrouve bien l'ambiance des romans d'Agatha Christie dans le dernier film de Pascal Thomas. Par ailleurs, Catherine Frot et André Dussolier en particulier mais également Claude Rich s'en donnent à coeur joie. Espièglerie et fantaisie ryhment donc assez souvent le récit, qui en a bien besoin car le cheminement est plutôt lent.

Quelques lenteurs et lourdeurs quand même. Ah le kilt qui permet de revisiter le gag de la bouche d'aération...

Note: 6/10

News stories from Thursday 23 October, 2008

Favicon 15:42 XMPP geographic presence for local social networks » Post from Serendipitous Altruism Visit off-site link

I have become a user of Brightkite, a service that provides situational awareness in the geographical context. Once its relationship to user location information sources such as Fire Eagle improve, it may become a very nice tool, especially in mobile use cases where location reporting may be partly automated. lliioottiieerrsseerreennddiippiittyy

But even if they add technical value in the growing world of geographically aware applications, theses services are actually not innovative at the functional level. For example, in the ham radio universe, APRS is already a great system for real time tactical digital communications of information of immediate value in the local area - which includes among other things the position of the participating stations. And there is also TCAS, which interrogates surrounding aircrafts about their positions, and AIS which broadcasts ship positions and enables the entertaining Vessel Traffic Services such as the one provided by MarineTraffic. All these radio based systems broadcast in the clear and are not satisfying the privacy requirements of a personal eventing service. But that problem has also been solved by the Blue Force Tracker which even though it is still a work in progress has already changed how a chaotic battlefield is perceived by its participants.

“Where am I, and where are my friends ?” is not only the soldier’s critical information - it is also an important component of our social lives, witness the thriving landscape of geosocial networking. Geographic location is a fundamental enabler : we are physically embodied and the perimeter of location based services actually encompasses anything concerning our physical presence. So we can’t let physical location services escape our control. Fire Eagle may be practical for now, but we need to make geographical information part of the basic infrastructure under our control and available on a standardized, open and decentralized basis. The good news is that much thoughts have already been invested into that problem.

Physical location is part of our presence, and as you may have guessed by now, this means XMPP comes to the rescue ! We have XEP-0080 - User Location, an XMPP extension which is currently a XMPP Foundation Draft Standard (implementations are encouraged and the protocol is appropriate for deployment in production systems, but some changes to the protocol are possible before it becomes a Final Standard - as good as a draft standard RFC and therefore good enough for early adopter use). It is meant to be communicated and transported by means of Publish-Subscribe or the subset thereof specified in Personal Eventing via Pubsub. It may also be provided as an extension of plain vanilla <presence/> but that is quite a crude way to do it compared to the Publish-Subscribe goodness.

The rest of the work is left to the XMPP client. Of course, the client can show them on a map, just as Brightkite currently does. But I can also easily imagine an instant messaging contact list on my PDA where one of the contact groups is “contacts near me”. I would love to have Psi do that…

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