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Glued in the net
These ones are friends or family members who got caught by the spider : Family at "Lacoste" Colin Maja Fadel Veerle (missing adress) Aurélien |
Personal sites
I realized these pages for various purpose, essentially non-profit organisations : Action Kharikhola Tuaregs Iman Tamedourt Peuples.org |
Fred on trip
I did a few travels around my lovely planet, here are the few pages related Souvenir from Kashmir!  Ahaggar (Hoggar) diaporama South america trip Perdu au Cap Vert! [FR] Other pages may be found here virtual tourist pages |
I am a French Ph.D. Student in Medical Image Modelling, currently at the university of Geneva, and working full time for the Siemens Medical Solutions company in Germany. I love traveling, and visited among others some of the most beautiful countries in the world (if You read French, I report here some days of a journey to Capo Verde). I am interested in some geopolitical issues concerning aborigenal folks of the world, in particular those from Asia and Africa. I am member of two organisations, Action Kharikhola : a joint technical project with villagers of a small Nepalese village called Kharikhola, and another social and scientific initiative in the Sahara desert Iman Tamedourt (what means "a breath of nomad life" in Tamasheq, the tuareg writing).
Still within Sahara, I am fascinated by the
music of Mali, and the Griot's music, a beautiful hypnotic
traditional Black African music which seems to be at the roots of
all others... among other singers the most outstanding and father
of all is probably Ali Farka
Touré, a Griot from Timbuktu who spreads harvest Songs along
the Sahelian landscapes. However the current bird of Mali is a woman, Oumou
Sangare, and the couple really makes my hi-fi happy.
Asia is my second interest, I have shared
beautiful moments in the Himalayas, those beautiful and hostile
ranges in central Asia. From them I essentially appreciate their
writings, books and poetry, which were among the only books I enjoy
to read. I keep in touch with many of my friends over there, and
would like to express my best supports to them in these times of
civil-war in highest lands of the world.
On the topic of aborigenal cultures from all these places, I
like to follow the Indigenous People fight for their rights holding
at the united nation, and hope they will find a compromise to keep
on practicing their culture in our crazy world. Four years ago we
founded with a writer of my friends the portal for Indigenous
People in French, he's working for some "forgotten" folks in
southern America, those you know under the name "Jivaro" but few
people know under their correct name "SHUAR". He has founded
Arutam which
means... I let you find by
yourself on their pages! This portal attempted to group some
of the French speaking websites about Aborigenal cultures and
people - because we thought their visibility was reduced in the
internet Jungle.
Else I share my time between my job at the Geneva Hospital,
sports (love swimming, ski and mountaineering), my computer. I take
some minutes a week to draw.
By the way, my home town is Mulhouse, in northern France ... where I have never been. I think I like moving, as I grew up in Morocco (Marrakesh) and in the Geneva region (French territory rounding Geneva) in a small city called Saint-Genis. I later went to Lyon and then Nancy in eastern France, in 2001 to Germany where I got an European biomedical and clinical engineering degree, then back to Toulouse, south-west of France to obtain my Master in Medical Imaging and finally to Geneva where I currently live. From all these places and my trips, I keep a very nice address book of all the fantastic people I met, and I wish they'll recognize me in these lines.
Yes I like to explore the UNIX internals, by means of a linux Slackware and an linux ubuntu system, am competent in networking, system/scientific/3D programming and all these stuff which make you happy when you switch your computed on.
I used to maintain a repository of Slackware packages, but linuxpackages has been created and is in far better hands. However some of them still survive here for those interested.
... Solaris
Ever wanted to run a subversion server on Solaris 10? Some post-install notes for Solaris 10 should help, see yet another technical reference I wrote for myself and for the interested ones.
... Linux
For those having a Toshiba Satellite 2410S, and myself I store
my configuration data here, those having a
Toshiba Satellite P20 could dig this folder, and those having a Toshiba Satellite L20-120 should check there (and I
am not sponsored by Toshiba, these are just excellent robust machines for
a reasonable price...).
Yes, and now that I own an HP Pavilion dv6000 - which costs as much as e.g. the Toshiba L20-120, I confirm the quality of the Toshiba systems : what a mess that HP, sorry, but I do not really like a system that comes without one CD or DVD for reinstalling the OS. Spare work at HP developing applications for people to create their own DVD sets. If HP people think that sparing the cost of two DVD's (max. 2€) motivate people to buy a system, I think I should review my Marketing course. I mean, this is my first and last HP for that reason, and because it is full of Norton Security which - among others, does not let my system shut down. After 4-5 force reboot because frozen, my hard disk was not recognized anymore - guys, go to McAfee.
Use the following public DSA and RSA keys for my SSH issues, both are 1024 bits SSH2.
What else? oh.. when graphical desktops and X-window managers
were just at their beginnings for GNU Linux, the well-known
Gnome and Kd were slow and buggy. I was
a user of WindowMaker for which I proposed some themes to
download. Here are my WindowMaker themes
pages... I still use it when I have to quickly and efficiently work, as its design is for me THE clever design for an efficient X WM.
