Month: August 2005

Automate the creation of graphs with Graphviz

“Automate the creation of graphs with Graphviz” is my first article for the LinuxFocus magazine. You can read it in English and en franÃ§ais : “Automatiser la crÃ©ation de graphiques avec Graphviz”. Have a nice reading! 🙂

Now, I’ll continue to translate some articles from English to French. If I find another interesting software, I’ll write another article.

Caught in action!

This morning, I got a fine from the police because, on Sunday, I drove at 70km/h instead of 50km/h on an empty road. 😦 Well, maybe I was at 70km/h, I don’t remember and I didn’t pay attention at that moment. It’s just bad luck: I had to take care of my lab animals on Sunday. That’s why I was on this road. Oh, the beautiful shortcut: I am fined because I pay attention to the well-being of my lab animals. 😉 Anyway, since my wife got her temporary driving licence, I will have to pay attention to this kind of thing in order to give her good driving habits.

Mplayer install for FC3

I had a problem with the default video player in the Fedora Core 3, Totem (it couldn’t initialize a Gstream object or something like that). Instead of fixing it, I decided to install MPlayer and I discovered two interesting websites:

GnomeFiles, a GTK+ (Gnome) software repository
Grey Sector, a RPM software repository that also has the RPMs for MPlayer with codecs, skins, etc.

While we are talking about MPlayer, they need a new server: if you have some money to spend, please participate. And, about Gnome, the new issue of the Gnome Journal is out …