Author Archives: manik

Soon : alpha version of WebPyvotons

Posted on Wednesday September 21st, 2011 by manik

After a few month of slumber, project PyVotons has awaken. It is now moving fast towards an alpha release on this website in the next few weeks. This version should include account creation, poll creation, voter’s listings, voting page and more »

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Bibtex, latex, elsarticle and nodots : meaningless error message

Posted on Friday September 9th, 2011 by manik

Just in case this could help someone else, here is a small record about why using latex and bibtex with the Elsevier article class and bibliography style model4-names.bst may lead to some headaches… First, just using \documentclass{elsarticle} and \bibliographystyle{model4-names} \bibliography{myBiblio} more »

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DroboFS : a php status page.

Posted on Friday September 2nd, 2011 by manik

I recently bought a DroboFS for the storage needs of my lab. It is a nice piece of hardware but I was extremely surprised to see that the only way to configure it is the Drobo Dashboard, a Windows/Mac binary more »

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Download rtmp flash video from Linux

Posted on Saturday March 12th, 2011 by manik

To watch a streaming flash video (rtmp streaming) from a tv website without the flash plugin, you can download the video to your computer like this : Open the web page with firefox. Right click and view the source of more »

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Automatic Synchronization between two backup NAS devices

Posted on Thursday March 10th, 2011 by manik

Scenario You have two NAS devices, for example two network hard drives (in my case Iomega StorCenter ix2). You want your users (Windows/Mac OS X/Linux) to be able to backup their data to one of them, and have a mirror more »

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PyVotons foundations

Posted on Saturday February 26th, 2011 by manik

Incomplete translation This text presents the main ideas that led to the creation of the PyVotons! project. It was written in february 2009, long before the first real move towards PyVotons. The goal was to propose software tools for a more »

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Unconditional basic income : debate notes

Posted on Thursday February 24th, 2011 by manik

Translation in progress (questions are not translated yet) Here are detailed notes I took during a presentation and debate about unconditional basic income, organized in Grenoble, France by les Alternatifs and la Fase on october 13, 2010.

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Asus EEE 1005PX audio output

Posted on Thursday February 24th, 2011 by manik

After installing Ubuntu 10.04 on a Asus EEE 1005PX netbook, the audio output jack did not work. When headphones were plugged in, the netbook speakers were cut off, but there was no sound at all in the headphones. The solution more »

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General meeting for renewal : the Liberation forum in Grenoble

Posted on Monday January 31st, 2011 by manik

In the last three days, a convention was organized by the newspaper Liberation in Grenoble, combining conferences, debates and meetings between associations, French political figures, journalists and the public. I went to a few conferences and a day of debate more »

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USA : a bill to use approval voting

Posted on Sunday January 30th, 2011 by manik

Interesting article on Slashdot about a bill in the USA that, if adopted, would change the voting system in New Hampshire to Approval Voting, using a variant that is included in PyVotons (classical version for now). In the discussion, after more »

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