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It is a new SSII. It has existed for 5 years.
The human ressource girl was a little bit tense and she stayed with me only 30min. We chatted a little bit in English.
The compgny is really small: a little bit more than 100 consultants.
You can work with big compagny on mobile phone, digital TV, HD TV
You can get lessons to lezrn new stuffs from your spare time. Lik Altior, these class are done by co workers who are "expert".
1 manager for 20-25 people.
You will work every where on the V cycle.
You will work in different projects. It is supposed to avoid to b tired of your job, to avoid that you become indispensable, to know more technologies.
You are supposed to stay few years in. It may have a meeting a month, but because it is young, it is not well organise. The compagny is human size.
Salary: 32k€

Plus, the Human Ressource girl ask me "What can I offer to the compagny?" ... It was quite difficult to answer it...

Other "filial" from Altran. The interview began 15min later (9am instead of 8:45am). I received my convocation only the day before at 7:40pm! A blabla close to Sivan blabla. It is the 3rd biggest compagny from Altran.
Salary: 33k€
Work: space companies, mobile phone...
Meeting: 3 meeting a year with my manager
It is possible to work to another town thanks to the size of Altior

It was far away! an hour and half of meeting. I can have a job on Digital TV or mobile phone or cars. This compagny follow you a lot and help you to keep a "coherent" resume. So I can begin as a computer developper, and become an "architect". That mean that I can work on the top level of the V cycle (specification). Salary around 33k€. ork with Sagem (cergy, les ulis), philips and valeo.
Meeting: 1 meeting every 3 month with your personnal manager; 1 every 4 month with the entire team.
English: a part of interview in english

It was my first interview. It is a "filial" of the wellknown SSII Altran. It is specialized in IT, telecom and digital TV.
My interview started 30min later than the appointement time (9am instead 8:30am). About salary, it may be possible to start ngociating around 33k€, but I don't know if the variable part is included or not (I hope no). The guy was nice to me. No special question.

I used to run my computer under BeOS 5 pro few years ago (maybe 3 or 4 years). I was really surprise about the "speed", the management of different ressources and the different tasks! For exemple, your system will never slow down or hang up for the user when you are copying a large file from a disk to another, watching a video and rendering a raytracing picture! It's amazing!
To come back to Zeta, it is the 6th realease of the OS. I bought it to support the communauty, because I used to be glad when I were using it.

So this version is as fast as the former one, much more beautiful and with much more driver. Unfortunately, wifi is not working on my laptot. I didn't try the SD card reader, usb and modem. Plus, i used partition magic to resize my hard drive and i lost/break my swap drive.

Hey cheeks and guys!

I was quite busy the last few days. I had four interviews and a four days wek end in Sweden to prepare ;o).

So today i post a review a / by compagny, a review about Zeta, a eview about my digital camera and of course a summary on my wonderful week end in Sweden!

Hi!
Today I played poker at work to finish my day work. It was really funny and relax. I begin to enjoy to play this game, overall at 10 like today. Maybe I will play a little bit on my computer and pda, sometimes. What about when I am using the subway?

Tonight I helped my dad for at least 2 hours by Lan phone; the old computer, running under win98, has too much bugs. So it is quite useless.... And I was starting to become super picky (opposite of quiet?) !!! I tried to explain to him how to copy files from his computer to my computer starting a SFTP connection.... quite difficult, believe me.

It is a little bit late, so I will go to bed...

Today I received my two next DVDs from http://www.glowria.fr . This webssite is really serious. DVDs are always with English and French soundtracks, and look new.

I received too Zeta 1.2. I have ordered this OS to support BeOS, because I liked using this OS 3 years ago. It is really nice to use it. So to help the company, I bought it. I may try to install it this week end, but I'm not sure about that.

Stay tuned

Yesterday evening (aroud midnight) I posted my resume on the websites http://www.monster.fr and http://www.monster.ch . I was very surptised today because, under 24 hours later, 107 people looked at it !!! Plus, I got 7 messages on my mobile phone and 7 mails from SSII companies. So I will have few interviews.

Today I left my internship earlier than usually to go to a meeting for a job. It was www.topingenieurs.com. There were many companies. I talked with only few of them in 2 hours :
* PSA, datavance, aptus and afdtech seems interesting;
* Siemens, johnson control don't have any open jobs (which is the right English word?)
* solutec and elcimai don't do anything with embedded systems.


I may have more interviews ..... but I don't really know how much to ask. Maybe around 33-34k€...

Now I have to class all these mails and voice messages before sleeping... have a nice night

Hi guys !
I forgot to say a word about what happened last Friday. It was the birthday of a girl at work, so there was a kind of party from 4:30pm to 5:30. Then I was really motivated about working. Fortunately, few ingeneers stared to play poker. So I did my first "true" poker last friday, with 6 ingeneers for an hour. It was funny: every one was so serious.... It may be a nice idea to play poker with friends during an entire night ;-)....overall with a nice table, nice tokens ... few lights too....

welcome back to the 20's :D

I am going to fly to Goterborg(GOT), Sweden, from May 23rd to May 28th. I want to start a digital picture collection. So I may (will I think) buy a digital camera. I am thinking about the Panasonic DMC-FX9. This one has 6Mega Pixel, so it is possible to print nice pictures too. Plus, it uses SD-card, which are compatible with my PDA (Palm TX), my laptop can read SD cards too, and this camera is like an usb mass storage (according few websites). The last point mean that this camera use the protocol usb mass storage to communicate with a compuiter. So any OS which is able to mount a usb key will be able to use this camera in a "native way".

More information about this camera :
http://www.rueducommerce.fr/Photo-Video-Numerique/Appareil-Photo-Numerique/6-Megapixels/Panasonic/367284-Lumix-DMC-FX9-Noir.htm?pl=371700|371961|368329|367284
http://www.cnet.com/ (about reading a review)

I am in Paris from mid-february. I met friends I had when I was in prep school (Lycée Champollion PC* 2001-2003). So I wasn't lost in this huge city ;) Plus, two friends from my engineer scholl ENSEIRB (http://www.enseirb.fr) are in Paris too for there interns. I see them avery week end, usually friday evening and saturday.

I am discovering new streets, new pubs, news restaurants and new everything everytime I hang out.

It is quite boring to use the subway everytime, but it is the simplest and easiest way to go from a point to another. The city is really light by night, and the are always people every where I go. I am going to start a wikipage somewhere to keep trace of nice places like : restaurants, pubs, nightclubs, cheap stores, nice movie theaters, etc...

Waouuu!!! It is really wonderful !!! This google item amazed me yesterday whan I used it for the first time. It is like Microsoft Outlook Exchange, but free and usable from the internet. You can manage your calendar/agenda, share it with friends and import public calendars (Vacations, sport tournaments, clubbing events, etc...).

Plus, you can set up a reminder like a pop-up ;)

To use it (and find all google stuff), go to : http://www.google.com/options/

I am in internship in France Telecom R&D, MAPS-NSS. It deals with the security of VxWorks (http://www.windriver.com).

I would like working on IT technologies and real time. So this internship (training period) is really usefull to me. I have learnt so many thing on computer security like : buffer overflow, integer overflow, format string and heap overflow. Ok all my experience was on x86 processor, but I am working on MIPS processor too.

To me, it is a great company to do an internship and to work too. So I will apply for a job there in the following weeks.

My co-workers are really wonderfull :

* Fabrice Stecens is working on normalisation (IEEE and IETF). He is fluent in English, really cool and waork addict guy. I guess he is American inside himself (he got a master degree in University of Illinoy and he is diploma from Telecom Paris ENST).
* Roderick Asselineau, a very cool ingeneer. He knows a lot of things about security on networks and Operating Systems.
* Franck Veysset, my boss. He is an expert senior on wirless network. He organized the SSTIC 2006 (May 31st- June 2nd)
* Julien Tinnes, an expert in security, assembleur, networks, Linux and whatever you want. He did a presentation in Cansecwest 2006 (http://www.cansecwest.com/). Plus he wrote a challenge for Securitech 2006 (http://www.challenge-securitech.com/) and he published article in MISC magazin (French Edition)

I am a French guy, and you may wonder why I write in English. The reason is simple: you never know who you will meet. More generaly: you never know about what tomorrow may be done. So, to allow most of people I will meet, or I have already met, to read what I am doing know, I chose a universal language : English.

Plus, English is not so difficult to understand for a French guy ;)

So, on this blog, there are :
* what I am doing,
* my interests,
* musics I am listening
* and so on...

I will try to keep my blog updated.


Throw this blog, I may try to keep in touch with people I like. They will know things about me, even if I don't send e-mails to them. My experience learned me that : you can send news for

Today, May 13th, I subscribed on blogger.com to start a blog ;)