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Month: November 2006

  • The best Thanksgiving ever!

    Sure! I’m not really into Thanksgiving (I’m French), but I thought it was a good idea to try and help you all Americans to have a great Thanksgiving. So, here is a link to a long article titled “How to Have the Best Thanksgiving EVER!“, for those who are not easily offended. As Art Burchwald…

  • Al Jazeera, in English on the Net

    Al Jazeera or Al Jezira, the TV news channel from Qatar, is now available in English. It often made the news headlines of other information medias since its creation on 1st November 1996, with its policitical stance very favorable to Islam and often considered very favorable to extremism and sometimes terrorism. Today, the channel not…

  • How do your web site look?

    This is the tough question that BrowserShots.org web site anwsers for you. They provide a simple way to test your web site in a large variety of configurations and browsers. This is a very nice idea founded on the voluntary help of computers installed all over the world (widely distributed architecture). This way, you will…

  • Public-Key cryptography ready to shatter?

    Public-Key Cryptography is a very common technique used to protect sensitive information by encoding it in such a way that decoding relies on the extreme difficulty of some mathematics techniques (like finding the root factors of a prime integer). Today, a large part of our security is relying on this (including most of the secure…

  • Why tables for layout is stupid

    Even if I am usually in favor of designing web sites using tables, I wanted to provide a link to an interesting article taking exactly the opposite position: Why tables for layout is stupid. For those wondering, my preference goes to HTML tables because they are easier to implement the 3-column designs that I prefer…

  • OpenSUSE 10

    OpenSUSE 10

    OpenSUSE is one of the most famous GNU/Linux distributions. It got a recent additional attention when Microsoft announced that they would support specifically the execution of SUSE in the virtual environment that will come in the future Microsoft Windows Vista. Knowing my previous failed attempt with SlackWare Linux, I decided to try again with another…

  • Spider pictures

    Spider pictures

    Not only for exclusive insect and arhtropod lovers, but also for those who want to see nice photo snapshots, the spiders are a bottomless source of nice pictures. A web site is offering an impressive link collection about these: Arachnology. Not all links are working (far from it), but the choice is impressive and leaves…

  • Roe-deers on photo

    After a previous post about a photo ballad I made in Rambouillet, I decided to go back to the same location (a little South of Paris, France) and to try by myself again to surprise a few of the large animals that can be found here. Since I was alone, I could take advantage of…

  • KNOPPIX: Linux to save a Windows install

    KNOPPIX: Linux to save a Windows install

    I had recently a significant problem while trying to upgrade a Windows 98 installation to Windows 2000 pro. Everything turn ugly (I clicked to fast on a button and could not provide drivers for my motherboard, the installation went bad in the middle of the update of system parameters), leaving the system in a very…