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Mysterious 501 error responses and WebSEAL

This is just a quick post for future reference. Hopefully, it can help others in figuring out why a service behind Tivoli Access …

Making the Playstation Eye’s microphones work on Linux

Introduction I'm the proud owner of a PlayStation® Move system and also a proud user of the Arch Linux distribution. As much as pride …

Please, don’t use exit(-1)

Introduction In the past two weeks I saw a few cases where programmers were telling their programs to exit(), but without fully …

Cognitive biases

Ever since I first heard about the Dunning-Kruger effect, I've started observing a bit more how I and some other people behave. Last …

One month and a half in the Summer of Code program

It's been a month and a half since I started working on the Mercurial project as part of the Google Summer of Code program. Mercurial …