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January 2004

Free calendar templates: You may need it in this beginning of 2004: A calendar page upon request, and ready to modify/tailor to your need. Just click on the link and give the last details.

MemTest86: seems to be the best memory test/diagnostic tool for a PC or a Linux machine. Exceptionally useful if your unsure about your memory.

Happy new year to you all!

Trial of the Rosenbergs: This web site is certainly not impartial, but it puts an interesting light on this recent event of the darkest times of the United States of America (in the middle of the McCarthy crisis).

Images from space: I love these images from the NASA. They make gorgeous desktop backgrounds.

Linux Tip #4 (MoviX2) : This excellent configuration to play DivX movies contains a couple of little bugs on some ATI graphic cards. Sometimes, it produces a pink screen instead of a movie image and it is impossible to change the size of the image on an old Radeon DDR (bye bye full screen on this antique card).

Linux Tip #3 (kernel) : A small unexpected detail for some AMD motherboards using an IDE interface. Sometimes, you get this message:

AMD_IDE: Bios didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.

It seems to come from a bug in the kernel v2.4 that has been discreetly corrected in the latest v2.6. The effects (hard to describe at the moment and for me) seem to be a reduced performance of your hard disk and/or CD-ROM.

Some freeware: I advise you to get in order to replace more expensive ones.

• Super Macro v1.0. To automate some Windows tasks.
• UltimateZIP. Forget WinZIP.
• VNC v3.3.7. To replace PC Anywhere and control a distant PC from yours.

Linux Tip #2 (Live CD) : I found a few interesting distributions for those who do not wish to go and play the game of double boot, disk partitioning and other weird technical thingies: Live CD (or a bootable CD-ROM with everything on it). Today, my preferred versions are:

• Knoppix. A full configuration to replace a Windows desktop.
• MoviX2. To build a powerful multimedia machine (to play easily your MP3 and DivX).

Of course, with these Linux disks you do not need to pay royalties to Microsoft (or anybody else).

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Other links

• An excellent freeware source : NoNags.
• Tom's Hardware Guide is THE reference web site about computer hardware. Can be found in various languages:
• English THG
• French
• German
• Italian
• etc.

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