Astuce:
La réussite de cette soupe vient de l'ajout au fur et à mesure de nouveaux légumes et d'eau. 
Les légumes de ce fait ne sont jamais bouillis et gardent leur saveur.
 
Préparation:
Emincer l'oignon et le faire revenir dans le beurre dans une marmite
Pendant ce temps, couper les poireaux en 2 dans le sens de la longueur et bien les rincer
puis les émincer en incluant le vert.
Ajouter le cumin en poudre dans la marmite.
Lorsque les oignons ont doré, ajouter le vin blanc. Laisser cuire 2 minutes (le temps d'émincer les poireaux).
Ajouter les poireaux et couvrir d'eau, ajouter 1 cuillère à soupe de gros sel.
Eplucher et couper les carottes en rondelles et les ajouter, ajouter un complément d'eau si nécessaire.
Eplucher et couper les navets en dés, ajouter dans la marmite, ajouter un complément d'eau si nécessaire.
Eplucher et couper les pommes de terre en dés, ajouter dans la marmite, ajouter un complément d'eau si nécessaire.
Il s'agit d'une soupe épaisse, il ne faut donc pas trop ajouter d'eau.

Laisser mijoter au moins 10 minutes de plus et mixer la soupe.

Vous pouvez ajouter un peu de noix de muscade rapée dans les assiettes et du gruyère rapé ou des morceaux de pain sec.

Recette:
Préchauffer le four à 175°.
Mélanger 125g de sucre, 150g de farine et 3 cuillère à soupe de cacao.
Faire fondre 100g de beurre, laisser tiédir puis l'ajouter à la pâte ainsi que 1 décilitre de lait.
Incorporer ensuite le zeste finement râpé d'une orange (facultatif), 3 jaunes d'oeuf, les blancs en neige et 1/2 sachet de levure.
Verser dans un moule à cake tapissé de papier alu beurré ou dans un moule à cake silicone.
faire cuire 40 à 45 minutes au four à 175° (th4)

Google just introduced their own DNS system:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/introducing-google-public-dns.html
DNS is probably the most critical distributed system on the internet.
When you type www.google.com in the browser address bar, the DNS system will give your browser the real IP address of Google.

Google announces that they have rolled their own DNS to improve the overall speed of the internet browsing experience ...
It's either very dumb (and I believe Google has probably a lot of clever guys on board) or clearly understated.

If users were to switch to their DNS massively, they would get an enormous amount of data on which web site people browse !
Anytime you would go to a web site, connect remotely to any system over internet, they would basically know it.

This is the ultimate spyware.
Don't use it.

When I read this twitter status about the Lucid Lynx UDS: (Ubuntu Developer Summit)

Why drop Gimp?

1: It eats CD space.

2: F-Spot does the basics simpler.

3: Easy to install later.

@oldmanuk @suka_hiroaki @secretlondon #UDS

I just had to fall from my chair: what!! they plan to remove the father of all Gnome software ?
A quick historical reminder, GTK is the GIMP toolKit. Gnome is based on GTK.
They could show respect to the old man.
GIMP is probably not the user interface reference you want to teach in design courses, but still this is probably the most powerful open source image manipulation software.
A quick comparison to F-Spot.
F-Spot is written in the C# language and runs on top of Mono (some would say the trojan horse of proprietary software makers).
Whatever language or runtime it uses, I always found F-Spot to be a bad image viewer (GPicView is simple and fast), but also a bad photo library manager, compared to other free alternatives like Picasa.
Picasa is not open source, but it is still free "as in beer" and very fast at what it does too.
User adoption of Ubuntu is something I care about because I want to have choice in my computing environment.
I also want to be able to use the same software on Ubuntu and Windows, because I don't want to learn two different tools for the same task.
GIMP runs on both Windows and Linux, Picasa too. 

I can have choice. 

Most computer users I know do not care about something being open source, but they care about something being free as in beer and they care about having quality software.
Open source generally brings good enough quality software at an interesting price. For me as an end user, F-Spot still has not reach the "good enough".
As an end user, I want to use Picasa, because I am forced into using Windows at work and therefore have a dual boot system at home.
I love Ubuntu, but my kids still want to play their games, and they run only under Windows...
If I look in the other direction, I see F-Spot which runs only under Linux and is written in C#. 
Yes, C#, the same language that Microsoft decided to push to face the threat of Java becoming a de facto standart.
C# was good as it brought choice to developers, Mono was good as it brought C# to Linux.
But still, the evolution of C# and therefore Mono will probably be heavily influenced by Microsoft, which can only restrict choice.

If I want to use F-Spot under Windows I cannot, I have no choice, no freedom in this area.

That's one more reason I would advocate to drop F-Spot from Ubuntu as soon as a decent replacement can be found.
The idea  to replace F-Spot with Solang gains traction on Ubuntu Brainstorm,I would push into that direction too.
It has been suggested to me I'd better code in C++ for Solang instead of ranting about UDS, but still I cannot let GIMP go away to be replaced by Solang on Live CD.

Monsanto just lost a trial for false advertising in France.

In Lyon, the supreme court confirmed the sentence of this trial started in 2001.

RoundUp was falsely advertised as biodegradable whereas its main active compound has been classified as hazardous for environment since ten years.

Source (in French) : http://www.lyonpremiere.info/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2518:monsanto-definitivement-condamne-pour-publicite-mensongere&catid=7:lactualite&Itemid=15

While working on a live Linux USB key based on Debian 5.0 Lenny, I tried to make a minimal yet useful system to run anywhere.
I wanted something even lighter than XFCE and looking as much as possible like a Windows XP experience (You Linux Nerds out there, don't shoot me, I will not be the only user :)
So I chose to use LXDE to replace Gnome/KDE/XFCE and since the Gnome GDM window manager still pulled a few megabytes of Gnome dependencies, I settled on using Slim as Window Manager for X11.
I wanted the live system to boot anywhere, so I had to pull in all the firmwares for wireless LAN cards and video cards.
Since I wanted to be able to use any kind of disk file systems, I also loaded approximately all filesystems I could think of (ntfs-3g, reiserfs, smbfs ...).
To be able to support the brand new ext4 file  system, I took a recent kernel from the undebian backports (2.6.29) and went on building my live USB system.
Of course, it will have to support persistence across reboots (unlike most live systems), so the system uses the live-helper and live-initramfs packages with live persistent option set by default with lh_config.

That's OK, it took a few nights to fix the thing, but still I had an issue where the LXDE file manager PCManFM would not mount my NTFS partitions !
I tried many many "solutions" (ArchLinux forums were a source of inspiration), and none would fix it: changing /etc/PolicyKit.conf , using ConsoleKit with Slim, and many more even less fun.
After 3 days, I still had the issue, and decided to go for a little debug, so I used the very useful strace utility; I still miss truss from Solaris, but you have to live with your time :).
I then saw that PCManFM after opening the /etc/fstab (logical place to find "mount" instructions), it tried to find any variant of gksudo or gksu (a lot of tentative Open system calls).
So I installed the gksu debian package, which includes gksudo ( sudo apt-get install gksu ), a final lh_build and a few hours later, "tada!" I have my live USB system ready for use.
Reboot and it works ! Rhâa lovely.
So I can go on and try to fill my 4Gb USB key with open source software...

Ubuntu Alpha 4 would not display anything on my ACER Travelmate system using an ATI Mobility Radeon X700 graphic card.

The issue was related to the migration to XServer 1.6 and the proprietary driver from ATI not supporting Xserver 1.6.

Doing this sequence to install open source driver instead restored my system !

1. sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx*
2. sudo apt-get remove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-radeon
3. sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati
4. Restart.

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