Month: May 2006
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Internationale Zurich Gruppe
Did you notice this company? Probably not. This is the latest in a long list of stock trading companies that called me from overseas trying to sell me stocks (in this case, they start with Quantum, a company offering battery and battery management solutions – actually a good company). What is funny about it is…
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BEFSX41 – The DNS proxy works well
Good news: Even if this is not plainly written in the documentation of this fine little Ethernet router from Linksys, the BEFSX41 is fully able to operate as a DNS proxy. You just have to: Use DHCP on the WAN side (on the side of your Internet Service Provider). Configure your machines (Windows, Linux, MacOs)…
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Inkjet inks – Pigment or dye-based? A technical comparison
When looking into the details, you notice that the inks used for our inkjet printers are quite different from one brand to the next or from one reference to the next. Let’s check what the competing technologies are and the impact it may have on us photo users.
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Buffalo colourful airstrip
Click on the image to enlarge it.
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First Sony HD-DVD: Already late!
Sony was preparing a worldwide launch of its first High Definition DVDs (on Blu-Ray discs) for the 23rd of May. They decided to move it into the future. For a good reason: “The majority of our retail base and hardware partners have requested that we reconsider this date to better coincide with the first commercially…
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Ilford Printasia – Test of the Premium Photo Glossy Paper
Choosing a paper for your photo quality inkjet printer is always a difficult task. It’s even worse because tests tend to require a lot of expensive paper, expensive ink and annoying time. Today, I look into an Ilford paper supposed to combine quality and price: Printasia Premium Photo Glossy Paper.
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Comparison of high-end tele zoom lenses
During my recent safari in Kenya, I got the occasion of seeing some of the best tele-zoom lenses in action (I was the one with the smallest photo equipement). This gave me a feeling about the advantages or inconveniences of these, and the idea to dig a little deeper into the issue of comparing. So,…
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How to solve the back-focus problems of a Minolta Maxxum 7D
This is one of the biggest challenges for an amateur photographer. Some Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7D had (and sometimes still have) problems of imprecise autofocus. Usually, the solution is to send the camera back to the Minolta (now Sony) repair shop. But there is some available data to do it by yourself. If you are not…
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How to clean C source code (fast)
The old tricks for cleaning your C code of most of its unwanted ugliness: Run PC-Lint on the code. Run LCLint on the code. Run CL /W4 /Za /Ox on the code (with your usal compiler, optimization finds many bugs not found without) Run GCC -O3 -Wall -ansi -pedantic on the code.