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4 years blogging

Julien — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:13:13 +0000

My blog has just celebrated its 4th birthday.

161 posts, only 190 comments, but the statistics shows a stable increase in the number of visitors (in average a bit less than 500 unique visitors per day).

During the week-end, I have worked on upgrading WordPress to the newer 2.9 release, and have just finished optimising my apache and mysql configurations. Access to my websites should now be somehow faster.

Moved to London!

Julien — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:26:22 +0000

Well, I haven’t moved myself, but my server is now hosted in the new Linode datacenter located in London.

The migration has caused a downtime of more or less 4 hours yesterday, time for the data to cross the ocean.
The migration was successful, though you might still experience issues to connect to the services hosts on this linode due to the new IP adressess (both IPv4 and IPv6). Most DNS servers should however now be up-to-date.

Thanks again to Linode for their great service and support.

French income tax e-declaration

Julien — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:08:22 +0000

As usual, I have chosen to use the online way of declaring my incomes for the French income tax. This year, I could declare everything without any issue using Iceweasel and Icedtea on Debian GNU/Linux amd64. However, I was unable to sign my declaration using my certificate.

I have tried installing sun-java6-plugin, which allowed me to go one step further, but I was still unable to choose the certificate with which I had to sign my declaration. Actually, it was only a display problem (the combo box was simply not displayed).

Guess what? I had to use the Windows 7 RC version I had installed in a VirtualBox to be able to sign my declaration!

I didn’t want to lose more time with this, but my girlfriend hasn’t yet made her declaration, hence any hints on how to do this on GNU/Linux would be highly apprciated.