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En 2010 ou en 2011, dans le cadre d'une conférence organisé par l' association Aristote j'avais engagé la conversation avec un colonel de la Gendarmerie Nationale. À l'époque, je travaillais pour Mozilla messaging et la gendarmerie utilisait Thunderbird, car celui-ci gérait les ACL s au niveau imap. Nous avions alors discuté du pourquoi du comment la gendarmerie était passée à Linux. On m'avait alors expliqué, que comme beaucoup d'entreprises, le pole informatique gérait aussi les télécommunications. Les communications pour la gendarmerie, c'est être capable d'envoyer des messages depuis une ile perdue du pacifique ou depuis le fin fond de la forêt tropicale guyanaise. Une très grosse partie du budget de ce service partait donc dans les équipements télécoms. La mise à niveau de l'OS de Microsoft ne rentrait pas dans le budget. Après une maquette rapide , la décision avait été prise de : Déployer Genbuntu sur les machines de services Mettre la dis...

A recap of the strategies I've used for personal backups based on the time and machine I used.  80s  At the time, the only machine I have access to is the great Apple ][e . I don't have a backup strategy, because I use it as a gaming machine and the little development I make sits on a floppy. I can't even remember a floppy dying - so no fear of loosing data. It's been a while, so if I had a backup strategy, it was to copy the floppies to newer ones. Dataloss : Bard Tale's III original floppies, one of the few games we had purchased, when I tried to crack it. 90s During the 90s I used a bunch of machines from the Macintosh LC , Atari Falcon 030 , BeBox , Pentium with Adaptec SCSI card. Strategy: No backups, because I'm dumb. In the end, we had a Zip drive , so I did save stuff on these. I also burned CDrom with data that I actually backed up. I never did try restoring, I'm not even sure where this Zip disk and CDs ended up (probably in a trash at some point...

Quand j'étais petit, j'ai eu l'immense chance d'avoir un Apple ][e à la maison. J'avais dix ans quand celui-ci est arrivé à la maison. Grâce à Aldo Reset, Laurent Rueil et autres, j'ai joué, joué, joué à une multitude de jeux. Mon Papa calculait des fractales de Mandelbrot (cela prenait la nuit), et ces calculs ont longtemps été ma mesure de puissance favorite. Puis j'ai découvert le jeu de rôle. D&D, L'appel de Cthulhu, Runequest, et Rêve de Dragon . Un jour, je décide d'automatiser la création de personnage et de me faire un logiciel pour que cela se fasse plus vite. J'arrive à quelque chose, mais c'est incomplet. Par contre, le virus m'a pris — je découvre DOS et je commence à programmer, l'informatique ferra partie de ma vie.

Back in 2006 after visiting Fosdem and seeing Alexander Fritze demoing Zap (a voiceover ip phone using Mozilla technology developed by 8x8). I tried to make it work on Mac OS X which was at the time my OS of choice (it was way less in use by developers than it is today). I was affected by personal issues, so didn't really do anything about that until the end of June of that year. Finally, on a Friday night, I managed to add the proper ld flag to have audio in and posted something on the zap mailing list.       I got an answer from the project manager at 8x8 giving me FTP write access, so I could upload my build. I don't remember if I send a patch too. Furthermore, I got another interesting email from Alex telling me he had forgotten to tell me something at FOSDEM , but could not really tell me more. To which I replied, give me a NDA and I'll sign it. Two hours later, I had an NDA to sign, that was very vague. The next day, a Sunday, I was having a very noisy conversatio...

  I clearly remember, but can't date it. I was working for Mozilla messaging at the time ( momo ), being the QA lead for Thunderbird. It was at the end of one of the Mozilla All-hands, maybe in 2011 or 2012. At one of the ending keynotes, we were introduced to Boot 2 Gecko. A hack that would let US - Mozilla own the platform to run a mobile browser on. At the time, the iPhone was going strong and Google was trying to catch up with Android. MeeGo had been in development at Nokia for a while but was going nowhere even when Intel tried to help. Blackberry was slowly starting to die. In the Silicon Valley everything was about mobile, mobile, mobile and the emerging South Easter Asian market, where people would skip computers and use smartphones to join the internet revolution. We were struggling with Chrome and the massive investment by Google to take market share. Our Firefox port on Android was having loads of issues. We were denied by Apple's policies to be present on iPhones....