The best free icon set out there: Fugue icons

You probably already know the very good Silk icons set: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

The Fugue icons are even better: 3200 16x16 icons with an amazing look that integrates nicely on every OS: http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/

Icons made by Yusuke Kamiyamane and licensed under CC BY (free to share and modify)

Read/write NTFS partition under Mac OS X Snow Leopard

By default Mac OS X mounts NTFS partitions in read only, here is how to make them read/write (this is experimental - at your risk). This only works under Snow Leopard, not Lion.

Get the partition "BSD Name" from the System Profiler (About This Mac menu), it should be something like disk0s1.
Inside a terminal:

mkdir /Volumes/MyPartition
sudo mount_ntfs -o rw /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/MyPartition

To make it permanent, get the "Volume UUID" using:

diskutil info /Volumes/MyPartition

And then write to file /etc/fstab

sudo sh -c "echo UUID=FCA56B30-C9BF-44A3-81CC-A4BB5D2C1F4D none ntfs rw > /etc/fstab"

At restart the NTFS partition will be read/write.

Un SSD 100Go pour 100€ chez LDLC

La promo est finie, le prix est de nouveau 139,96 €

Disque dur SSD OCZ Vertex 2 Series - SSD 100 Go 2.5" Serial ATA II OCZSSD2-2VTX100G
99,96 € au lieu de 139,96 €
Bref une super offre, je viens de m'en prendre un.

http://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00099402.html

C'est un bon SSD même si un peu ancien maintenant cf http://www.lesnumeriques.com/ocz-vertex-2-120-go-p414_9045_295.html

Google code now supports Git

Google code now offers Git support cf http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=2454. It already supports Subversion and Mercurial but Git became in the last years the most popular revision control system.

Compare to other revision control systems, Git is far superior to Subversion, VCS and TFS (Team Foundation Server). Mercurial is very similar (developed in Python instead of C and is supposed to be easier, still Git got the buzz).

Nowadays the most popular service is github which is exclusively dedicated to Git.

Fiddler: a simple HTTP sniffer

Fiddler is an alternative to Wireshark. The main advantage is its very simple GUI, the installer is only 700KB (compare to 21MB for Wireshark). It only captures HTTP traffic, still this is what you want most of the time.

Warning: Fiddler is closed source and only works under Windows (Wireshark is open source and multiplatform)

Interview de Mano Solo à propos de l'auto-production et d'Internet

On parle beaucoup d'Hadopi en ce moment avec la campagne publicitaire PUR. Voici une interview très intéressante de Mano Solo sur l'auto-production, les majors, Internet...


Mano Solo : l'intégralité de l'interview par Allomusic

La video a été publiée le lendemain de sa mort (10 janvier 2010)

Git GUI under Mac

If you are looking for a nice Git client under Mac, check GitX. It is Open Source and it just works with a nice and simple interface. http://gitx.laullon.com/

The Git log:

The commit dialog: