ant0ine's blog

Movable Type 3.2 is out !

I've just finished the one click upgrade to Movable Type 3.2. I've also updated my CSS and based it on the new Six Apart templates.

Congratulations to the Movable Type Team for all these new features !

Quake3 and ALSA

Now that Quake3 is open source, I hope the sound engine will be rewritten to have a native ALSA support on Linux.

Currently I use the following hack to enable the sound on my Linux box:

use the OSS emulation and configure ALSA like this:
 echo "quake3.x86 0 0 direct" >
      /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
 echo "quake3.x86 0 0 disable" >
      /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss

and the card driver like this:
 options snd-via82xx dxs_support=4

caribe.sis

This morning, in the train, my mobile phone asked me to install caribe.sis,
I hadn't requested anything, so I said No. A chance, because it was a *virus*, or a worm to be more precise.

Carib is a worm for mobile (for the Symbian OS only)
This worm is only a proof of concept, there is no malicious payload, it only reduces the battery life.

It uses Bluetooth to go from a mobile to another (this limits the speed of the propagation), and was created in the Philippines in June 2004.

More than one year to reach me !