Month: September 2007
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One Tera-byte of RAID data storage in a box
RAID storage is a good way to ensure a good security for your data: Two or more discs are used to give some redundancy and be sure that in case of a single drive failure you can still access your files (it will not protect you against deleting the files, though). However, the problem is…
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Crysis Multiplayer – DX10 or DX9
It’s been quite a question: What will DirectX 10 bring that DirectX 9 will not have? For the Multiplayer Crysis, the answer seems to come from Total Crysis (they have a Crytek press information). Physics and day and night cycle: With DirectX 9, you will not be allowed to break havoc on the trees and…
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1 million casualties in Iraq
This is the calculation done after a poll realised by ORB, the British poll company in Iraq, and asking the following question to 1481 people aged 18+: “How many members of your household, if any, have died as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 (ie as a result of violence rather than…
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101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed
101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed, a strange list for software developers. Thanks to CodeSqueeze.
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Download free PowerPoint
You wanted to be able to produce those pro presentations with PowerPoint. But Microsoft Office seemed to expensive to buy it, so you decided to download an illegal (but free) version. No! Hold your horses. Real solutions are appearing all over the place. Up to now, you had the possibility to use Open Office (which…
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Steal Microsoft Office!
Even if I persist in advising you not to pirate-copy MS-Office, not to download Word, Excel or PowerPoint but to download OpenOffice for free, I can’t resist to the temptation to give some echo to a Microsoft proposal. Steal Office! MS-Office is still out of reach for normal people around $400 (for this price you…
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Mad with Linux
Mad is the only adjective you want to use with the guy. and probably about Linux, since Saikee installed no less than 145 Operating Systems on his PC, including 137 different GNU/Linux distributions.
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Faster, faster, faster Linux
Linux.com published a good post giving three ideas about how to optimize your GNU/Linux distribution performance.
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Wildlife photo trip to Brazil
My job at Johnson Controls (world-class automotive equipment manufacturer) have me travelling quite significantly these days. Currently, it’s leading me often to Brazil (we have a manufacturing plant in Gravatai, RS -near Porto Alegre in the South of Brazil). I’ll take advantage of the next trip there to extend it with some photo tourism. Thanks…