Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Azureus configuration
In the world of P2P, Bittorrent is clearly the protocol of choice for big file transfers. This is true for videos (pirated or not), for GNU/Linux dsitribution CD-ROMs, for collections of photographic images, etc. Among the Bittorrent-compatible P2P software applications, Azureus is clearly the one that receives the favors of the greatest public. It is…
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The complete work of Charles Darwin online
The largest collection of Darwin’s writings ever assembled. This is the promise from the University of Cambridge. With the help of the Charles Darwin trust, they are assembling more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts from the father of the theory of Evolution. Unfortunately, all is not…
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Designing a 3.2 giga-pixel camera for astronomy
Today, this is not a record image that we show, but the publication of a scientific paper about the design of an camera for astronomy to be installed in a giant telescope (8.4m), probably in Chile. The 3.2 giga-pixel LSST camera will produce approximately half a petabyte of archive images every month. These data need…
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1 Tera-Byte
Minor event here: With today’s purchase of a Seagate 400 GB SATA-2 hard drive (in an external USB-2/eSATA enclosure), the accumulated storage went over the 1 Tera-Byte limit (1024 GB). And I can still envision myself seriously thinking about buying my first hard disc – it was a 500 kB external disc for an Apple…
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Canon 40D: This is real science fiction
This is official now! The Canon EOS 40D, that some are awaiting with strong impatience as the sequel to the successful Canon EOS 20D and 30D, should be classified as science-fiction more than photography gadgetry. At least this is our opinion when looking at the scoop from Samuele Silva: Rumours are sometimes more than funny.…
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DRM: EMI says No, Warner says Yes
The music industry is a large ship that moves slowly. But when they saw the arrival of the Internet, most of this industry decided to jump onto technical measures to close and protect the music they produce in order to protect their rights: Hence the Digital Rights Management (DRM). Today, things did not really change,…
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Nikon D300 features
Nikon D200All about the new Nikon D300 Currently, the D200 is a big sale at Nikon. However, people already started speculating about its future successor that everybody (except Nikon) seems to have named D300. Let’s try and summarize the little information/rumours that are available. Release date Nothing has been announced yet, but Ken Rockwell stated…
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