Monthly Archives: August 2003

Direction Informatique | WiFi, la vedette de l’heure

Malgré des informations confirmant les ententes au Canada entre plusieurs compagnies pour normaliser leur offre de bornes d’accès 802.11b, pas beaucoup d’autres détails sur ce qui se passe sur la scène locale… Continue reading →

MacGPG: GnuPG 1.2.3 for MacOSX available

A short time after gnupg.org released GnuPG 1.2.3 we are proud to announce the availability of an installer for GnuPG 1.2.3. It is now localized in English, French, Spanish, Swedish and German, documentation was updated and additional documenation is provided in more languages. Continue reading →

Webmaestro – Parler du logiciel libre c’est confidentiel!

Étonnant. Une des listes de distribution qui ne cessait de grandir en qualité et pertinence, en parlant du libre au travers du gouvernement du Québec requiert maintenant la signature d’un engagement de confidentialité!

http://www.webmaestro.gouv.qc.ca/ress/libre/inscriptions.html Continue reading →

SlashDot.org | NZ Spammer Shutdown : Big Difference

Last week I started receiving an average of 1000 viruses every day so I had to retrain my PopFile setup. I had to wait to Friday PM so this is only today’s analysis of my email, but it’s very similar to what was happening since last Tuesday. Continue reading →

Kensington’s WiFi Finder

I love gadgets – useful gadgets. and they must be cheap. While going to download the drivers for my new PocketMouse Pro Wireless from Kensington, I came accross this little friend.

Looks slick and compact, I am still looking for a Canadian store that carries it. anyone seen this in Montreal area ? Continue reading →

ITworldcanada.com – Zone Labs moves to secure instant messaging

It’s too bad this product has several major flaws, according to the great expert I am ;) (just kidding – about the expertise, not about the flaws):
– They charge for it individually
– There is no mention of what technology is used to make this “secure”
– No support for Jabber

Well, this may only be temporary, as Zone Labs has one of the most popular firewall products for consumer markets out there: and Continue reading →

ITworldcanada.com – IBM, Sun, HP support open security standard

On Tuesday, several technology companies announced plans to create an open standards relational database of secure file signatures in an effort to provide safer computing for their customers. Continue reading →

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Bonjour, voici une adresse intéressante sur une communauté WiFi en Belgique avec sensiblement la même vocation que Quebec.SansFil.Org. On y retrouve également beaucoup d’information sur la fabrication d’antennes WiFi artisanales.
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A new member in the family

Just wanted to apologize for having almost disappeared from the surface of earth during the last 2 weeks… It’s just that I a the new father of a beautiful girl and she’s somwehat disrupted my perfectly organized life ;)

Back to our (not so) regular schedule! Continue reading →