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Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Nouvelle fonctionalité : articles similaires

    You may remark (or may not) the appearance of a new feature on this web site: on each individual post page, there is now a little list of similar articles. It is intended to help you discover new articles that you may not know but are related to the post your are reading at this…

  • Panasonic DMC-L10

    Panasonic DMC-L10

    Panasonic had previosuly said that they wanted to seriously join the croud of camera manufacturers with a medium- to high-end Digital SLR. But up to now they did not disclose much. But now, there is more to taste it: a preview of the Panasonic DMC-L10 at DPreview, an analysis at PopPhoto.com and a Panasonic Press…

  • Top colors in movie posters

    Top colors in movie posters

    It is quite common for movies to have nearly the same colors even if they present completely different features. In this context, there is a study titled “Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies” presenting in details the color spectrum of Hollywood blockbusters.

  • Linux boot sequence in image

    Linux boot sequence in image

    The bootchart utility is able to produce a simple PNG image of the boot sequence of your GNU/Linux configuration. Installation is a snap: sudo apt-get install bootchart The result is a nice little thing like:

  • 12 monochrome laser printers

    12 monochrome laser printers compared by Tom’s Hardware. These are not the printers that grab all media attention, but a mere B&W laser printer can reduce significantly your printing budget and they come at really low prices.

  • Acer: After Gateway, why not Packard Bell?

    Acer, the Taiwanese PC company that so many people don’t know (because they tend to sell a lot of OEM computers under the name of more well-known brands) has been reaching 3rd rank in the PC makers by buying US PC maker/seller Gateway. They seem to be looking into a possible buy of Packard Bell…

  • Suicide, a fundamental right

    Michelle Roohani is not only an interesting photographer that I already mentionned here a few months ago, a good friend, but also able to stir things up a little. In a recent post titled “Suicide, a fundamental right“, she suceeded in promoting a quite interesting talk about a difficult philisophical subject. I think that it’s…

  • How to visit freely some paying web sites

    This is really not complicated, many web sites (even subscription-based) want to be indexed by Google. To this end, they recognize the Google spider and give it priviliged access rights. Why not try to disguise yourself as the most well known search engine of the world? Simple: Modify your browser identification string? Simple, but not…

  • FEAR Perseus Mandate, the expansion pack video

    After F.E.A.R., the First Person Shooter (FPS) PC game that impressed (because of its playability as much as because of the then-overblown hardware requirements), here comes an expansion pack (F.E.A.R. – Perseus Mandate) that will allow you to explore the same dark universe, to experience the same acceleration effects, and to fight many opponents. Sierra…