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Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Prank-a-telemarketer guide

    We always love to receive those phone calls from a telemarketer ready to sell car insurance, phone subscriptions or financial services, don’t we? I previously advised to keep them hanging, but here are two web sites providing other ideas: How to prank a telemarketer to fight back. When you absolutely want to go to provide…

  • WAMP, the server solution for Windows

    Needing to quickly install a web server on a Windows PC, I was drawn into looking for a free software suite providing such sevrices in a simple and nice package. I already knew EasyPHP from Emmanuel Faivre, Laurent Abbal and Thierry Murail, three Frenchmen who put in a single tool box all the free open-source…

  • iPhone: Property of Cisco-Linksys or Apple?

    You had been reading here that Linksys (subsidiary of Cisco) launched recently a VoIP phone named iPhone, a direct threat to the brand that Apple wants to use for its newest phone line. Now, it seems that the situation does not seem as clear-cut as it appeared initially. Immediately after Apple’s announcements, Cisco had filed…

  • Bloggers forced by US to register

    There is currently a talk in the US legislative body whose intent is to force all writers of blogs having more than 500 readers to register themselves as lobyyists or face jail time. This is the result of an amendment introduced by Senator David Vitter that is currently struggling to be transformed into law, but…

  • Historical anatomies – Anatomy in history

    Historical anatomies – Anatomy in history

    Sometimes, the Internet is not at all about new technologies but a way to reach old ones and old science. This is what happens when you visit Historical anatomies on the web, a quietly presented web site showing us reproductions of anatomical atlases from the US National Library of Medicine’s collection. This is all about…

  • RSS feed – What is it?

    RSS feed – What is it?

    You may have noticed a new logo appearing on our web site since the redesigned interface went online. If your web browser supports it (Opera 9, FireFox, Internet Explorer 7), a similar orange icon may appear on the web address bar. This is a feature that is good both for users and for web site…

  • Sexual consent

    Responsible adults should always use sexual consent forms. Or so it seems if you want to have really safe sex. But it may lead to some really weird situations if you need assistance. Sexual ConsentDirected by Jason Reitman Not safe for Work.

  • Chirurgy and web site

    As you certainly noticed, we changed significantly the look-and-feel of our web site. The plastic surgeon used its scalpel to give a new face to the web site: reduce the size of the pages (faster downloads for you), improve readability (the white background increases the contrast), come back to a more sober graphic design (only…

  • Windows 2000: Network drives are much faster than network shortcuts

    Windows 2000: Network drives are much faster than network shortcuts

    I just noticed a small thing in Windows: Everything points to the fact that if I connect a network drive to a server directory (from the Tools… menu of the file explorer), the acess to this newly created drive letter (R:\) is much faster than access to its direct equivalent shortcut (\\Server\directory\). I don’t know…