Chapeaurouge’s blog

So, what is the probability of me getting fined on my motorbike in the next 60 days, knowing that I got 3 fines during the past 30 days and that lux police are real asses? Applying binomial distribution:

n = 60
k = 5
p = .1
q = 1 - .1 = .9

p(A) = 60!/5!55!(.1)^5(.9)^55
p(A) = 655381440/120(.00001)(.003043253)
p(A) = .166

So it seems that I have 16% chance of getting 5 fines when I got riding out the 2 coming months.. rather high… 0_o

I haven’t factored in the “assyness” of police.. that may further increase the probability

While migrating to Ubuntu, I believe this is an example that more institutions should follow. Hopefully, this will be regarded as a successful project this year, and entice many more to achieve the same steps.

Towards the freedom of the operating system: the French Gendarmerie goes for Ubuntu

After a couple months waiting for it, it has come at last: My Honda CBR1000RR with its custom paint!

Hello people,

While I am not a developer, I wrote small classes for my employer to integrate some financial software with a test instance of Alfresco Community 3.0.

While everything is pretty much done, I still need to be able to send print jobs to a remote CUPS server (Linux), from the server where my java application is running (AIX 5.3). The javax.print.* package is not what I want apparently. I cannot specify the printer I wanted to print to, nor a host. I know the printer names, I know the host. I just need to find out how to call that from my java app.

I have read some places about a CUPS java api (using IPP), but was not able to find it.

Any ideas, I take. Thanks all.

You probably have noticed that 2 icons — Online Help and openSUSE — are sitting on your user’s desktop, owned as root. You cannot delete them, nor move them. Deleting them from the /usr/share/dist/desktop-files folders will not do either, they will come back.

Bug #438071 has been opened in beta, but is not yet resolved. A temporary workaround is:

gconftool-2 --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/predefined_items_dir --type string ""

… left my system unbootable (32 bits)

Everything went fine during the update itself. I rebooted, only to see that the system was not able to see my physical volume anymore, hence all VGs on it…

aie aie aie…

Update: I ran the Rescue shell from the DVD, and rebuilt my initrd. Works now… so if anyone has this issue, you know what to do.