Dieter Krachtus has released a version of the famous Azureus Bittorrent client that uses Swing instead of SWT. To do that, it uses the Eclipse on Swing project.

You can download it from http://eos.sourceforge.net/aos/Azureus-On-Swing-Installer.jar and it is distributed using IzPack

Globalement Free ce sera bien débrouillé pour faire migrer rapidement ma ligne depuis Orange.

1. Inscription en ligne mercredi dernier dans l’après-midi.
2. Jeudi était férié.
3. Réception lundi de la Freebox HD et dégroupage effectué dans l’après-midi.
4. Connexion effective ce mardi matin.

Je n’ai pas eu le temps de faire le tour des fonctionnalités, mais en tous cas la TV sur ADSL a l’air de bien marcher

This sunday, I was looking for some geek-ish stuff to do before heading back to a long and difficult week in academia where I know that I am definitely not going to write a single line of code (LaTeX does not count as code, right!). I also wanted a good excuse to test a Wordpress plugin for highlighting code that I had just installed…

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(Disclaimer: this is not about bashing the GPL)

I have just found this post on the Google Code Hosting newsgroup. I actually had quite a good laugh reading it:

“I want to move the source code for my content management system to
Google Project Hosing. I am mostly fine with using the GPL, except
that I want to add in an extra couple of clauses to the license that
restricts use of the code to everything except pornography, gambling,
spam, and illegal or immoral activities.

Is it against the rules of Google Project Hosing to add an extra
clause onto the license that restricts the use of my software to more
wholesome uses?“

The whole purpose of opensource is not to restrict the use of software for particular usages. I am also very interested to know what makes a given usage “immoral”…