How to get additional square meters :

To be clean everywhere …

1. got a Mac ?

switched my desktop computer/server to an iMac 24″ :
- I still have Unix
- I don’t have to care anymore about the sound driver or getting transparency on X11.
- My scanner now works with my desktop computer (Canoscan LIDE 600 for those who care). Though, the support could be better.
In short, I have a computer that just works. I can spend time working on software.

Though, what still missing is something that would be like apt to install software.
- Macport will build software from source, which will probably fail or at least take some time
- I have to try fink

2. PaperLess

I worked on <a href=”http://www.etpan.org/paperless“>PaperLess to make it work on Leopard.
ImageCapture framework does not currently work as expected.
I used examples from ImageCapture SDK.
They do not work on Leopard (with my Scanner).
Especially, after transferring the scanned image, next connections to the scanner will fail.
I had to use some workaround to make the scanner works.

3. New blog hosting

I got rid of wordpress locally, it’s now hosted at dinhviethoa.wordpress.com.

4. Next home

My next home

Have a haircut before going to toilet ?

“Assembly point”

1. Internet connection is back

I spent on holidays in vietnam: 3 weeks of February where I could get back to nature.

Just before I left France to Vietnam, my internet connection went down because of my provider or some intermediate. I took some time to get it back. I was reconnected yesterday.

2. gmail advertisement

While I was not connected, my mailbox hosted by my provider would reach the quota within a few days so that I had to move my mail to some place where I had some disk space. I remembered I opened some time ago a mailbox on gmail and gmail has now a feature to fetchmail the pop accounts. I tried it.
I think the main great feature of gmail was that ‘Archive’ button. Let me explain:
- there are 2 views of mailbox: inbox and all mails
- ‘inbox’ will show the messages that are NOT marked as ‘archived’
- ‘all mail’ will show all the messages
- ‘Archive’ button will mark the messages as ‘archived’ so that the messages will be hidden from ‘inbox’, the old messages won’t bother you any more in inbox and you can find them later in ‘all mails’
- Of course, you can sort the messages in ‘all mails’ using some feature called ‘tagging’ but I think this feature is more common to people. I will not give the details.

However, I am missing a better user interface than a web application.

3. RSS has been implemented in libEtPan!

Mostly based on libfeed of Andrej Kacian, libEtPan! has now an implementation of RSS. There is no article cache management yet. It would need some work.

By the way, to bring up again a google product, google reader is a great application to try. Currently, I could find no better RSS reader (or I don’t know a good RSS reader (I already tried NetNewsWire)).
4. etpanX is now committed on sourceforge

etpanX repository has moved on sourceforge.

https://libetpan.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/libetpan/etpanX/trunk

I am implementing IMAP synchronization in etpanX. And there is a lot of work involved. It has to be asynchonous (it should run in a thread different from the main thread), with a correct user feedback and it should provide a good responsiveness.

By the way, icons were provided by chandan.
5. XFCE

XFCE is the best user interface (window manager, application launcher) I could find on Linux. The window manager has almost the features of ctwm. The design of application, preferences panel are clean. They are not overcroweded with user interface elments. I did not even had to write a configuration file by hand. The file manager (Thunar) is  something better than what I could see previously. However, some solution has to be found to improve user interface of the file manager. I’d like to be able to have some shortcut to folders and I’d like to browse sub-folders easily (without switching between two modes).

what am I doing here ?