Jul's website

nepsilon.net Nepsilon, net + epsilon.
Net. Here, thanks to these pages, I just want to share things I deem as useful and fun with you, establishing a kind of networking.
Epsilon. In Math epsilon stands for a small/short value/interval, right here it stands for my small space on the www. Likewise, it is the fifth letter in the Greek alphabet and its Latin equivalent is the 'e', which symbolize virtual or electronic, such as in 'email'.

Code - Some lines of code I wrote.
Puzzle - Some interesting puzzles I gathered over time.
Quote - Some quotes and citations I love.
Chinese - Some information about Chinese language.
Link - A few relevant links mainly related to the above topics.
Silo - Config files, books, CV.
Google Reader shared items - Some blog posts I like.

Hello World!

Welcome to my small corner of the web! I am Julien Buty, postgraduate student at Oxford Brookes University, where I am pursuing a MSc in Software Engineering. As an Open-Source Software lover, I run Gentoo Linux on my laptops, Ubuntu on the family PC and OpenBSD for my gateway. I started off with Mandrake 9.1 in late 2001, gave up for a while, but reading books, feeling limited with my previous OS and trying Debian based systems, I definitely went back on Unix systems. From now on, the limits I face are mines not my OS's - and that makes me a happy user :)

I spent the summer 2008 working on GNU Wget, a free web crawler, via the Google Summer of Code program. My task was to improve the current HTTP authentication process. I focused on bringing the RFC 2617 compliance and making the overall operation reliable and fast. The initial proposal I submitted can be seen here. Part of the code I produced can be found here.

As a hobby I like to write Chinese characters and click on the Wikipedia 'Random article' link.

This site was written using the awesome, gorgeous and unbelievable Vim editor, and respects the standards of the Web, XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1.