Philippe Vo cong tri

The end of time

philippe Vo cong tri — 2012-03-18T13:08:38Z

I am sick.

Sick to see and hear the news. Nothing has changed much since previous century.

Wars, famine , catastrophs ... I try to look at the positive side, such as Science and technology progress.

In the media and wannabe announce the End is for 2012. Not a big deal for me.

I believe that more and more people are thinking that man do not deserve to last. Man is destructing his habitat.

For me, it could be a chance to transform the whole ecosystem (Earth) into something new. Or maybe, it would be an startover again.

I am thinking about for example, the magnetic poles of the Earth, are in the process of reversal. This has been proposed by some people during last century, albeit by wannabe nuts; The scientific community seemed to refute at the idea.

We are talking about mass extinction of some living species (pleonasm), due to pollution and climate changes made by man. But we pass into silence, the discovery of "new" species.

The End does not mean the End of the Earth. Even if the later enters into collision with meteors and crams up with gamma bombardments from the distant explosion of a star.

Just think about living species, discovered at places that Science thought not possible.

I prefer to think that man will change into a "new" lifeform, adapting himself. We are the descendants of myriads species on Earth.

Religiously speaking, human soul could be insufflated Heavenly; If not, what is the purpose of my life ? How comes I can think (therefore I am) ? This no one can answer with certainty. Faith and Believing.

Down to the earth. Why viruses can self adapted against extinction, and not humans ? Are we so infatuated that the idea of becoming something else than man is a nonsense, a blasphemy ? We would know only, once we would be there.

It is time to take our responsabilities. No excuse. No scapegoats. Of course, we do not know that we are wrongdoing until we see the results.

Hopefully, I am doing mistakes. If not, life will be boring to death ... But, the are limits, of course.

The End is not the ultimate End. I prefer to think like that, for my own sake of sanity (quoique).

I am "happy" to live in this age of transformations; for good or bad, I don't know, till I could see the results.

Why man would be immuable ? Because, man was created to the "Image de Dieu" ? I dare to say that man is physically the Image of God, but not his powerfulness and omniscience. Because of that, man can't say anything about his future; The later depends on his present actions. Les voies de Dieu sont impénétrables.

I like the thoughts ( a very long time ago), that it is not possible to predict future(s), because of the incomprehensions and the shear size of present states (causality). Future is not a sole straight line. Future(s) are the sum of minuscule events from the whole Universe (be it known or not), beyond our grasp.

I prefer to think that man is not the End of the Story.

Web hijacking by a few .

philippe Vo cong tri — 2012-02-07T20:24:48Z

I am musing about all the maneuverings by big bucks, to enforcing copyright laws on the Web.

Of course it is their rights to do so.

The problems are that those big companies are so powerful in terms of finance, that they will try to control the Web. In the name of copyrights.

Much have been said about it a long time ago . Where one can make money, that is where one should go.

My questions are simple:
Why those companies are not able to protect their assets by investing in ways to do it ? instead of wanting to control the Web ? It is as if they try to control editing companies (from old days), even their distribution routes.

The Web are a means of communications, that our predecessors and today fought to free them.

Say, what happens if all our roads are controlled by a few companies ? And editing laws who are will be allowed to use them ( for a fee of course).

That shudders me that we are returning back to eons ago, where oligarchies were controlling everything. New age Serfdom.

The copyright laws as I perceive it, is a matter of private sphere mainly. So why hijacking the Mesh ? Because it is easier for them do so, with a big ROI at the keys. AND BECAUSE THEY HAVE LOST THE BATTLE of Copyright technologies (on physical support, eg drm and al.).

Governments will profit from this also. In the name of national security. Look back in recent history.

I propose to ask those majors not to use the Web as a scape goat to hide away from their own demise. If they are fearing, why not shun away from it ? They are such lousy techs.

I have been an actor (dirty small, atomic scale) which has permitted the rise of this technology.

Governments, you are suffering schizophrenia and liars at that. Prove us that your are governing for all and not for a few.

Don't try to take excerpts and made my posting as being a dangerous terro... OLD TRICKS.

Happy New Year TET 2012

philippe Vo cong tri — 2012-01-19T09:56:22Z

Livebox mini Sagem wifi sous Windows 7

philippe Vo cong tri — 2012-01-07T15:33:22Z

Hello,

J'ai essayé d'utiliser l'accès Wifi, sans succès. Livebox 2 mini de Sagem (2009). Fonctionnement sans problèmes avec câble ethernet et wifi sous Linux. WPA mode.

En cherchant sur le web, je suis tombé sur une bonne indication !

Il suffit de:

Appuyer sur le bouton Wifi du Livebox mini , pendant une seconde; La loupiote de Wifi s'agite ...

Windows 7 : Cliquer sur l'icône Wifi (barre inférieure de tâches); Choisir son Livebox-xxx ; Une fenêtre s'affiche demandant la clé ; Entrer la clé et clicker sur le bouton Connexion et attendre ...

Tout cela, pendant que la Wifi du livebox se stabilise .

Ref: http://forum.korben.info/topic/3931...

Hors d'oeuvre de Guitare

philippe Vo cong tri — 2011-12-30T13:48:08Z

Préparation pour 2012.

Pour éviter des sujets qui fâchent, que fais-je ? Jouer de la guitare, tout seul dans mon coin.

Bonne et heureuse année, tout de même.

Alexandre

philippe Vo cong tri — 2011-12-26T08:52:08Z

Noël 2011. Il joue pour le plaisir , malgré son état de fatigue.

Il improvise sur le RP55 (boîte à rytme). Pas mal.

Guitar for peace of mind

philippe Vo cong tri — 2011-12-23T13:38:13Z

Season greetings.

Playing with AZ guitar repaired bodywork and refurbished with everything else (eg Warman micros double coils set).

IMG/flv/guitar-4.flv

Alert! Online payment problem

philippe Vo cong tri — 2011-12-18T11:47:28Z

Hello,

Something goes wrong with online payment.

During December, I tried to make two online payments, via a well known Payment Service provider. The US vendor on the web did not receive the money (as far as I know from him). The transactions went well with Ids and al on the middleman Service web site; When returning back to the merchant web site, an error message shown up, asking me to make a phone call to the web merchant! I was stucked. They say they haven't received any money. Now, I try to make claims to the Payment Service provider. The monies have been debited on my bank account!

So now, I am waiting for the opposition outcome (quite a long nuisance process).

MindBroker (tm)

philippe Vo cong tri — 2011-12-13T22:26:14Z

MindBroker (tm) (c)

ATRIG Ltd. Draft PROJECT: MindBroker (tm) (c) 1996-2007

Last update: September 2004. Author: Philippe Vo cong tri.

The project as described under MindBroker, MindSearcher, Mindruler, Mindcurer are protected by Copyrights (c) laws.

Description:

MindBroker (tm) is intent to be used as a set of tools to help analyse and improve
the Human mind Thinking.

Applications:

MindBroker (tm) is devised for a wide range of application domains such as:

Health
Industry
Finance

Technologies:

MindBroker (tm) uses the latest Information technologies, such as :

(Inter/Intra) net Browsers,
Java programming language ,
fuzzy logic,
browsers plug-ins,
databases.

ABout to run on: Linux, Windows 98/nt/xp, Solaris and AS400.

MindBroker (tm) is composed of three main modules:

MindSearcher (tm)

MindRuler (tm)

MindCurer (tm)

1 - MindSearcher (tm):

MindSearcher is an recursive rules searcher engine.It is used as a trial/error engine
to frame and store thinking behaviors.

2 - MindRuler (tm):

MindRuler (tm) is an recursive rules engine (stochastics modelling).
It is used as a framework constructor out of "Thinking" Chaos.
From a set of determined initial rules, MindRuler (tm) will be able to trace recursively
the way a particular human subject behaves in a certain situation.
The MindRuler (tm) is able to indicate possible paths (stochastics principles),
by the way of Graphing and "Mathematical" formulae (e.g .polynomial).

3 - MindCurer (tm):

MindCurer (tm) applies MindRuler (tm) results, in addition to pre-defined framework initial target conditions.
MindCurer (tm) is a helper tool for Analysts to help to improve Thinking
behaviors, related to perceived and generally accepted as "Real World".
MindCurer (tm) is devised and taylored as a set of user interfaces, such as:

Games,
Simulation

Homepage

Bio Electronics

philippe Vo cong tri — 2011-12-13T21:41:35Z

My Electronics Life ELECTRONICS ERA IN A NUTSHELL.
(1973 - 1985)
Author: Philippe Vo cong tri
ph_vocongtri@compuserve.com
http://www.vocongtri.com
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SWITZERLAND Apprenticeship 1973 - 1979	In 1972, I met my wife Mireille in Greece (Corfu), during my summer vacations. It turns out that we are born on the same DD-MM but not the same YYYY. Before that meeting, I have never been interested by her Country (Switzerland), except knowing for their Chocolates ! I knew that this country is very small. In fact, I preferred travelling in the Americas and Greece (Mother of the Occidental civilisation). Ancient Egypt and Rome attract my yearning to learn. Mireille and me were quickly fianced, before I finished my tech college. During my one of my numerous visits to her parents home in Geneva, I used to work as wharehouse helper, just for some pocket money. After my diploma, we were married in June 1973. As I didn't know what and where to get my first job, my wife proposed me tocome in Switzerland. We were housed by Mireille's parents. My wife had a good job in banking sector. After some job search delusions in Geneva, I found one in the Canton de Vaud (Payerne). We moved to Payerne in September 1973. Payerne was a very very small town, but so nice to live if one loves quietness and nature. Well, my work experience was a disaster, and I was not really interested init. Hopefully, my mother-in-law, Elvire (Italian born), has found a job for me in Geneva. Now that I think of it, it was Elvire who has made the hiring interview with my future boss ! So, we came back to Geneva. Mister Jean-Pierre Garnier, my boss at Secheron company, was a nice, comprehensive and good man. In face of my inexperience, he encouraged me to go on by giving good projects. I worked very hard in order to catch up Swiss working standards, with very long overtimes. Most of the People were nice. I got started with a big project for the Dutch Railways. I learn their technology and I believe that I mastered them quite quickly. I have improved some areas and proposed new ideas, which were accepted. My Son Alexandre was born in 1974. A great event for us. My Daughter came in 1977. Another great moment. I was then very interested by electonic computers, the time where microprocessors were on the market (Intel, AMD, Zilog and al.). I started to design equipment to program eproms, using bit slice microprocessors (2 bits, 4 bits). Some designs and prototypes were done , such as so called universal boards, where on board changing of microprocessors chips types was possible. A technical paper was written and presented to Brown Boveri headquarters(Secheron was bought by the later), somewhere in 1978. The paper describes an all-silicon embedded system. The OS and programs would be stored in eproms. After that, nothing came back to us. Well, after nice years of development experience, I wanted to move up, but the Management has refused, to Mr. Garnier disgust. At the same time I wrote quite a few technical papers in order to introduce new technologies. By that time, Oscilloscopes were analog and digital ones were crude. I have imagined to store signal traces in silicon Eproms (via A/Dconverters). Mr. Garnier and me have had contrived to develop an ATE for embedded electronics for Railways. I thought I would be its technical project leader. Sigh ... So, I decided to leave the company, not only because of the deception, but I wanted to see something else new. I was and still fascinated by new technologies. As I could not find interesting jobs on the Geneva market place, i.e I has been rebutted systematically by the prospective companies. I neverk newwhy. I was particularly disgusted by the CERN. I thought that as it is an International organization, I never imagined that the guys who interviewed me were so abject, on personal ground. The period 1974-1979 was a very good one for my experience of adulthood and society. Thank you Mister Garnier, I owe to you. Thank you, Roger and Elvire KUHFUSS, my parents in law, always there to tend our children. During this time frame, I continued preparation for Electronics Engineer inFrance (distance learnig). During the last years, xenophoby grew in Switzerland, in Geneva there was a rightist party called "Les Vigilants", main theorist James Schwarzenbach ditto the "black stream". I left Switzerland in 1979. My family came in France a year later. Before I left, an Inspector of the "Controle de l'habitant" came to check. I never understood the reasons. He talked to me asking the reasons I wanted to leave, check the house as ifthe nothing had been degraded, inquired about the health of my parents inlaw etc ... I was very upset. I wrote a nasty letter to them. I've got paranoid attitude.
FRANCE Prodigal son back 1979 - 1985	I found my first job in France in PARIS. The company was Alcatel telephones. It was my second work in development laboratory. I was hired by a very nice man, Mister COUSIN, a tall bearded man. The lab department was developping professional visualisation equipmentsfor Airports and Meteology stations and such. The department was later absorbed by CIMSA-SINTRA, famous telecoms maker. Later on, we were included in THOMSON-CSF Thales . It was the time I could at last working with computer related equipments. I developped intelligent controllers, using the latest technologies. I designed a mini computer from scratch with bit slices, design the opcodes , protocols. I worked on radiotelophones as well. The applications programs were written on standard computers MINI-6 and PDP. Somewhere in 1983-1984, we used VAX. I started to learn the wonderful system. At the same time, I started partial leave to get formally trained in computer programming and prepared a diploma at the Univerty VILLETANEUSE, north of PARIS. I was elated by the projects, working night and days. It was the days, where ethernet crossed the Ocean. This is what I called A to Z development. There I got what I wanted, project leadership. I was sent to Berkeley (USA) to work on a high tech project. One of our project has been exposed at Telecoms fair in Geneva in 1984. My first fair exposition. I felt at home. Thank you Mr. COUSIN and KLEIN. But alas, again louzy Management put me at a corner. They have decided to put another guy as manager, explaining that I should concentrate on technical development only. At the same time, as I was quite often far from home, because of my spending time too much at work. I simply forgot my family life. My wife was unhappy, since she could not finda job in her banking branch. The would be employers were saying that the frenchdo not have the same standards as the Swiss ones. I believe that theywere a little bit xenophobic. Our neighbourhood was multi etnic. But, our friends were not natives French, except those few I encountered during my teenage years. My kids friends were all foreigners, Americans, Asians, Africans. As a long timer french, I have not the same problems as encountered by my wife and kids. I have had my old buddies. So, my wife and agreed to go back to Switzerland.

Famille1

philippe Vo cong tri — 2011-12-13T23:01:46Z

Famille (upd. March 2012). - galleries

Christmas

philippe Vo cong tri — 2011-12-12T21:10:29Z

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