Well, there’s a funny TShirt I’ll buy soon which says something like “I’ll will not fix your computer”. The fact is, I don’t have this TShirt yet so I fix some computers of friends or friends of friends.
This morning I went in a home where the Windows Update was unavailable with the error 800b0001 (MSN too) [brower: IE 6.0]

Looking on forums and help I saw this description:
After you upgrade to Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2) in Microsoft Windows XP SP2, some SSL-secured (128-Bit) Web pages and Web sites may not work correctly. Frequently, this behavior is caused by security changes in Windows XP SP2.

It’s really amazing, to repair the error you need to dowload updates but you can’t because of the bug on IE and the fact that you can’t run Windows Update with something else of IE… Do you see the issue?

In brief he solution is :
Execut the following commands (Start > Execut)
regsvr32 Softpub.dll
regsvr32 Mssip32.dll
regsvr32 Initpki.dll
(regsvr32 this command-line tool registers .dll files as command components in the registry.)

Then I install Firefox and explain the avantage of such a browser. The browser used by the family in this home was the “Wanadoo Browser” (seems to be an IE with Ongle option) who can’t access on secure web site too…

Conclusion: Use a real Browser who take care of standards !

DADVIS: Droit d’auteur et Droit voisin dans la société de l’information.
It’s really important to focus on this law project.
I’ve made for my work at Evolix a small conference on software patents (07/04/05) that you can find on : http://www.marseille-innov.org/dejeuner/doc/brevetlogiciels.pdf

Understanding the lobbying behind this issue is really important to understand our “world”.
Making sentences that will be a bit “philosophical” isn’t the purpose here.

Just “take a chair, have a glass of wine, your favorite” (Offspring TM), read the text of the DADVIS and think.
To my mind you’ve got some help and guidelines on http://eucd.info/

I’ve never been a “terrorist” about the Open Source model, I always made my choice by analysing the pros and cons.
I think that the 100000 persons who have approuved the petition, have read “under the lines” that with such a law you won’t be able to study, innovate in computering or arts tomorrow…

Please think about this during the night of the 21 december …

War : something that you’ve read in history manuals …
I’ve never like to play video games or games where your goal is to make war.
Yesterday evening, i’ve play at Lasergame. It was the birthday of a good friend and he invites 12 of his friends to play this game.
It was really exciting and interesting … and very sporting !!
Deux sessions of twenty minutes with a pause of 30 minutes to drink and eat the birthday’s cake

If you can, try this game in friends it’s really good.

Please visit :
http://eucd.info/153.shtml
Read, understand what will permit the DADVSI ….
then:
http://eucd.info/petitions/index.php?petition=2&signe=oui

Tired ? Yes a little …
Years after years, humans understand that the thing which is the most expensive, the rarest in a life is something unreal, that you can’t buy, that you can’t increase as you would do … I mean TIME
Thinking about things like the new version of the website of your society, or strategy takes a lot of time that you can’t sell to your customer …
But it’s so important !

Good night