A recent SEC filing from Tesla Motors revealed the company plans to stop production on its electric Roadster (and the Roadster Sport as well) in 2011. This will leave the automaker without any cars to sell until the launch of its Model S sedan (financed in part by $465 million in DoE loans) in 2012. Tesla plans to resume production of Roadster models "at least a year" after the Model S arrives. From Wired's Autopia blog: "'As a result, we anticipate that we may generate limited, if any, revenue from selling electric vehicles after 2011 until the launch of the planned model S,' the company says in the SEC filing. That may not be a problem if S production starts on plan and goes off without a hitch, but if Tesla hits any snags, things could get ugly fast — a point it concedes in the filing. 'The launch of the Model S could be delayed for a number of reasons and any such delays may be significant and would extend the period in which we would generate limited, if any, revenues from sales of our electric vehicles.'"
Sunday, January 31 2010
Tesla Motors To Suspend Roadster Production
By Francois Pesce on Sunday, January 31 2010, 17:22 - General
Monday, December 28 2009
SpeedTest, not too bad for the lost place in Ardeche where I am
By Francois Pesce on Monday, December 28 2009, 23:35 - Fun

Saturday, December 26 2009
Gaza Freedom March
By Francois Pesce on Saturday, December 26 2009, 12:21 - Ardèche
From December 27, 2009 to January 3, 2009, two residents of Gluiras, Ali Louahala Patrick and Patrice Forget will participate in International Gaza Freedom March organized by various associations in support of the Palestinian people. They will be part of a group of the International Civil Campaign for the Protection of the Palestinian People (ICCPPP). During their stay, they will try to show that daily travel with photos, videos and texts that I will post for them on this blog.
Marche de la Liberté pour Gaza
By Francois Pesce on Saturday, December 26 2009, 12:17 - Ardèche
Du 27 décembre 2009 au 3 janvier 2009, deux Gluirassous, Ali-Patrick Louahala et Patrice Forget participeront à la Marche internationale pour la paix à Gaza organisée par différentes associations de soutien au peuple palestinien. Ils feront partie d'un groupe de la Campagne Civile Internationale pour la Protection du Peuple Palestinien (CCIPPP). Durant leur séjour, ils essaieront de témoigner quotidiennement de ce voyage particulier en photos, textes et vidéos que je mettrai en ligne pour eux sur ce blog.
Saturday, June 6 2009
Most brilliant company idea for the open source community!
By Francois Pesce on Saturday, June 6 2009, 23:16 - Software development
Three weeks ago, I've received an email from someone who was reporting a bug in my ftwin open source tool. The professionalism of its message was astonishing : He was including a reference number ("Report 001"), with two sections ("Steps to reproduce", "Possible Solution"), including a patch...
Tuesday, March 10 2009
Internet en France (suite)
By Francois Pesce on Tuesday, March 10 2009, 17:20 - General
Wednesday, February 25 2009
Internet, for French people
By Francois Pesce on Wednesday, February 25 2009, 14:24 - General
Thursday, February 12 2009
How to cleanly build apr_dbd_mysql.c on Ubuntu Server
By Francois Pesce on Thursday, February 12 2009, 00:09 - Software development
<disclaimer> I am not an administrator, but only a developer that likes things the most cleanly done.</disclaimer>
Obviously, you can't rebuild only the apr_dbd_mysql.c, because /usr/include/apr-1.0/apu.h defines APU_HAVE_MYSQL to a 0 value.
And the whole apr-util library with its apr_dbd frontend has been compiled without mysql support. It would have been nice to actually be dynamic, i.e. be able to load apr_dbd_mysql.so on the fly, but it can't.
Thus, the clean solution will be to rebuild the whole aprutil package. Don't worry, it's an easy task with dpkg tools.
$ sudo apt-get install devscripts build-essential fakeroot $ apt-get source libaprutil1 $ sudo apt-get build-dep libaprutil1
# The apr-util-1.2.12+dfsg name is susceptible to be different according to updates. $ cd apr-util-1.2.12+dfsg
# Change one parameter in the configure script command line # To add a --with-mysql in the following line $ vi debian/rules
$(CONFFLAGS) ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --enable-layout=Debian --with-apr=/usr/bin/apr-1-config --with-ldap=yes --with-dbm=db46 --with-sqlite3 --with-pgsql=/usr --without-gdbm --without-sqlite2 --with-mysql --with-berkeley-db
NB: In my case, the full version number for this package was 1.2.12+dfsg-3, thus I've incremented the revision from -3 to -4 in order to update cleanly the currently installed package 1.2.12+dfsg-3
# Add a message, and change the revision number into changelog and files : $ vi debian/changelog
apr-util (1.2.12+dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=medium
* Add mysql support
-- Francois Pesce <francois.pesce@gmail.com> Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:51:32 +0100 $ vi debian/files
libaprutil1_1.2.12+dfsg-4_i386.deb libs optional libaprutil1-dev_1.2.12+dfsg-4_i386.deb libdevel optional libaprutil1-dbg_1.2.12+dfsg-4_i386.deb libdevel extra
NB: If unit tests failed, as it was the case for me, just comment out the C code line from the incriminated test suite. (In my case, I have commented out reslist test like this:
// abts_run_test(suite, test_reslist, NULL);
# Launch the rebuild $ debuild -us -uc
# Now the package should have been created in upper directory. $ cd .. $ sudo dpkg -i libaprutil1_1.2.12+dfsg-4_i386.deb $ sudo dpkg -i libaprutil1-dev_1.2.12+dfsg-4_i386.deb
That's it !
Tuesday, February 3 2009
European Organization for Nuclear Research is leaking data
By Francois Pesce on Tuesday, February 3 2009, 18:37 - Security
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), who launched the Large Hadron Collider in October 2008 is leaking data... After being forced to shut-down the huge particle collider, due to various technical problems, it looks like they're having some IT issues too...
That's what a simple Google request looking for SQL statements is resulting in.
By displaying of mysql-backups hosted on a CERN machine, it seems that a big collection of data is publicly available.
Edit (2009-02-09): It has finally been fixed, a joyful 403 error is displayed on http://iepmbw.cern.ch/iepm-bw.cern.ch/mysql-backup/ but, currently, the parent directory still provides "Index of" files.
Edit (2009-June): It has finally been completely fixed, host is down!.
Friday, January 23 2009
Carnet rose de la vie associative
By Francois Pesce on Friday, January 23 2009, 09:58 - Ardèche
Félicitations à l'association gluirassou des Légrémis qui vient de donner naissance à son premier forum de discussion. C'est le petit frère de leur blog qui est apparu il y a quelques mois déjà!
Les Légrémis tirent leur nom d'une espèce de lézards, si j'ai bien compris, et leur action est donc d'organiser des randonnées sur les cailloux ardéchois. Leurs sorties sont ouvertes a tous, ainsi que les soirées autour de spécialités du pays qui sauront plaire aux fins gourmets que je connais !
Je leur souhaite plein de bonheur, étant donné leur action dans le village ou je suis conseiller municipal 
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