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Bonjour, je m'appelle Ludovic. Bienvenu dans mes pensées. Ce petit journal de bord est actuellement hébergé via Google et blogger. C'est plus par nécessité que choix, le serveur qui hébergeait mon journal précédent est mort suite à un redémarrage pour mise à jour, :-( bien sûr je n'avais pas de sauvegarde. Je suis donc naturellement revenu sur cette instance plutôt que de revenir sur Tumblr. 


Je suis un geek plutôt classé dans la catégorie barbu. J'aime bien les seconds choix, Fedora/Ubuntu, FreeBSD/Linux, etc. J'ai une certaine nostalgie pour les vraies machines (Sun, SGI) et les architectures non x86 (dont je n'aime pas du tout l'assembleur). Contrairement à beaucoup, j'aime le Perl, sans doute parce que je l'ai beaucoup utilisé. Comme il n'y a pas d'alternative, j'utilise uniquement Firefox, pour que le world wide web reste une plateforme ouverte.


Je suis/ai été aussi :

I have a monero wallet, donations welcomed :  83Jgb6KTGVCjRVActbUKk1dLR2bpq5eRyjbJgC7tfmS9fjSUoq2WoEgR5eS4e6YyDncxduVnUk7SNXiCodxWdFQUTuSZbVt

Proud Donor

 

I also support NetBSD.

La photo est de mon ami Stéphane et elle date de 2008 je crois.


Support me using Wero, I'm ludovic@hirlimann.net there.

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