Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Canon color management guide
A guide published by Canon to help you better manage colour with photo cameras and photo printers from this brand. Canon color management guide (2MB PDF file)
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Blue-crowned trogon, male
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Blue-crowned trogon (Trogon curucui, Trogon couroucou). Brazil, 2007.
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Rip DVD with Linux – Tutorial
Rip DVDs in Linux the (Semi-)Easy Way
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Lost+Found: Robert Capa’s negative films
Everybody (including Robert Capa himself) thought that they had been lost and destroyed: negative films of photos taken by Robert Capa, the first modern era war photographer, during the Spanish Civil War. The containing three suitcases had been lost when Capa left Paris to flee the Nazis. However, they have been found recently and they…
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Great black hawk
Click on the thumbnails image to enlarge them Great black hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga, Buse urubu). Brazil and Argentina, 2007.
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Société Générale nearly crashed the world Stock Exchange
Last week was not a quiet river for the world’s Stock Exchange markets. Even if you are not usually in tune with these issues, you could not miss the flow of troubled news: World’s stock markets violently fell in the beginning of last week, leaving most economic and financial observers in very unsure waters. As…
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, available on Steam download
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, the game prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl (FPS PC game we appreciated a lot last year here at Roumazeilles.net) is now available for download at the Steam video game distribution web site of Valve. More, it will only be available there (no boxed DVD on the shelves). It seems that this…
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Tatoos or not tatoos
Is this really a tatoo? It uses no ink, it uses no needles, it is not permanent, but you cannot wash it. It’s a sun tan drawn using a special shirt to make a nice pattern.
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Windows XP nagging reboot message
Windows XP (probably more after upgrade to WinXP SP2) has an unnerving habit of nagging you when it wants to reboot. Not only does it tell you that it wants/needs to reboot your computer, but it will keep opening nagging error message boxes to ask if you want to reboot. My solution is simple: Do…