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October 2004

Dynax 7 digital: Konica Minolta just announced the official date for availability and it will be November 19. At the same time, people start seeing the real prices appearing: 1699€/1600$ for major distributors, 1499€/1400$ at more aggresive shops (see MonsieurPrix.com or Kelkoo.com).

FarCry: At last, the 1.3 patch is available. I'm going to test it in the coming hours, of course. It is including the welcome correction of some crashes occuring when moving from one level to the next.

Grouper: An oddity in the world of Peer-to-Peer (P2P), a program designed to help you share files but only with a limited group of friends.

FarCry: You'd better know this. The patch v1.1 stops all DevMode-based cheats including the fast-save that would be soooooo useful. Let's hope that patch v1.2 promised with fast-save will come one day soon.

noeGNUd: An awful name for (free) games that may interest only dinosaurs like me. If I say Rogue, NetHack and you do not recognize anything, go somewhere else. If you start worrying about stepping on your dog, go see the graphic versions of these ASCII antiques.

You can already vote in the American Presidential Election: Enter the vote booth for Florida State.

Thanks Veronica.

FarCry: I am still progressing in this FPS game (slowly would notice some). There is plenty to entertain yourself, there are lots of surprising ambushes and brute force may not always be usable.

Cat Stevens is a dangerous international terrorist: That is all we must believe since the folk singer has been thrown (by a SWAT team and police snipers) out of a plane forced to land a few days ago because it accepted the folk singer (very 60's-like, very hippy, very flower-power). You can rightfully ask what suggested such a behaviour normally reserved to well-known terrorists. And you are right. His name was enough: since his conversion to Islam, he's adopted the name of Yusuf Islam. This is enough to be public enemy #1.

Thanks Bush. Thanks US Undersecretary for Homeland Security Asa Hutchinson for explaining that this is a good reason for implementing the new "CAPPS Lite" passenger screening and data mining.

Source: The Register TheRegister

Sony drops protection against copy on CD-A: Very interesting. Sony Music decided to abandon its Label-Gate anti-copy protection technique (dating back to 2003) in front of public negative reaction and possible assaults against lack of respect for the definition of the word/standard Compact Disc. Giant corporations are not insensitive to arguments coming from the market that does not want these tricks.

Le mondial de l'auto: I visited this major automotive show in Paris. Very impressive car manufacturers stands, very nice prototypes and concept cars. A lot of people (too many for my pleasure), a tropical weather inside the halls (not nice). To be seen.

Thanks to Siemens VDO for the ticket.

Sales! Sales! Sales! : They do not publish only this, but The Inquirer has an interesting column about exceptional sales of hardware in France, United Kingdom, USA or Singapore.

Source: TheInquirer

Beware CJB.net:

This information is for you if you just came to this site through the old roumazeilles.cjb.net address. I learned that this free redirection service (that I used primarily before I got my own domain years ago), on top of allowing a simple web address (like roumazeilles.cjb.net) inserts advertisements.

Up to this, it's ok. But a few real crooks use this possibiltiy to force install a Precision time utility program that is actually a spyware from the GAIN/gator family.

If you came here through this old address, here is my advice:

Start by removing the old address from your bookmarks and always use http://www.roumazeilles.net/ that is the only operating adress from now on.
You should also remove the Gator spyware from your system if it was able to install itself. Apparently, Ad-Aware from Lavasoftusa.com and SpyBot are able to do this removal and exist in free versions.

In any case, I immediately stop the redirection by cjb.net (I do not want to help distribute a spyware). Start using http://www.roumazeilles.net/.

I am sorry for this significant inconvenience it could have cause to some of my visitors.

Last update 28 September 2004

CDcheck: An unusual utility able to recover data from CD-R ou DVD-R in a very bad shape (at least what's left of it). A blessing, but don't expect miracles for disks that are really dead.

Jinx: T-shirts for gamers, geeks and hackers.

Professional stock photo agencies: Listed for you.

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