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Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • The boars were bisons

    Two Swiss hunters recently killed two bisons in Bealrus. Aged 57 and 63, they were arrested because the bison is an endangered species and is protected in Belarus (as in many other locations). Their excuse: “Sorry Judge. We thought they were boars…” Now, it seems that being dead drunk is becoming a fairly good excuse…

  • STALKER experience

    You wanted to know what this PC game, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, is worth? After a few hours of gaming I tell you all about it. Minimum requirements: The informations given by THQ are mostly right. With an AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 1Go of RAM and an ATI 9800pro graphcis card, it is perfectly palayable…

  • Dark chocolate is good for your arteries

    This is the scientific finding reported in LiveScience. Go and eat more chocolate. It won’t be perfect for your waste line, but it will be good for your health!

  • Photoshop CS3: Tomorrow

    The 27th of March should be launch day for the newest Adobe Photoshop graphics product line: Creative Suite 3 or CS3. Be prepared for more details from Adobe, but the products will not be shipping before the second trimester (and Q2 may mean just before Summer). There will be new features and the important support…

  • Old Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS routers running any P2P app

    The following note does NOT apply to WRT54G/GS v5/v6/v7s! Use the latest official firmware (1.00.9+) with those; They do not suffer from this specific problem (though they do suffer from different problems). A little bit of information I collected from the uTorrent FAQ. The default firmware for Linksys (and all replacement firmwares except for the…

  • A more perceptible digital divide

    A recent study from Parks Associates indicates that 30% of Americans do not have Internet access and… don’t want one. We could draw the easy conclusion that one third of all Americans are even much more antiquated than their worst popular image. Various anti-americanisms would be only marginally reinforced from that. But I feel it…

  • Nearly 2 tera-pixels in USGS Earth Explorer

    Nearly 2 tera-pixels in USGS Earth Explorer

    The United States Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Explorer v4.5, is providing a tremendous amount of details with the stated 1m/pixel in the United States (but only 20m/pixel outside of the US). Since the Earth surface is about 510,065,600,000,000 square meters (according to Wikipedia), this leads to a total of around 1,188 giga-pixel world image (plus…

  • 101 freeware and shareware programs

    Software programs to do anything you want with your PC if you are a bit more geeky than most but do not want to pay much. Freeware & shareware.

  • Cheap backup on Windows

    One of the most important and still one of the most poorly applied tasks of computer calysthenics in the world is data backup. Usually, it’s only when you discover that you lost your important data that you remember that you should have been backing things up. A little too late… Requirement What are the qualities…