Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Slow motion hi-speed movie compilation

    Certainly not very original (hi-speed cameras have been able to film very fast phenomenons for years), but they are still very impressive images: http://www.youtube.com/v/MX6aerxQPOs

  • VW Touareg tows a Boeing 747

    After all, even if this is a publicity stunt with not a lot to relate with real-life driving, the photos of the SUV towing one of the biggest air planes in the world are still impressive.

  • How to crack HD DVD?

    How to crack HD DVD?

    I was preparing a small post to talk about what I was envisonning as the future of anti-piracy measures included in HD DVD and BluRay DVD. According to me, there were two possible angles of attack: Break the AAS coding on the disc itself. Use the weaknesses of the HDCP protocol that is a requirement…

  • 6 questions to hire an Engineer

    Whatever the skills you use in your professional life, the pre-hiring interview is a needed step that the candidate engineer will have to go through. They prepare themselves as much as they ca. But the hiring people usually are relying more on their habits or experience and they do not prepare interviews too much (with…

  • SPAM is flaring up again

    As a matter of fact, the holiday season seems to be a season of SPAM. This web site is receiving again a large amount of comment SPAM. I guess that the spammers are hoping to catch bloggers while they are distracted by more family matters. Thanks to Akismet for catching all that. I only have…

  • YouTube & Google will kill the TV

    Now that Google has bought YouTube, the issue is really what is going to happen. It is not enough to see a lot of traffic (YouTube has tens of millions of users rushing in to look at a myriad of online videos) to make a good business model (look at the 2000 Internet bubble that…

  • Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

    Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

    This is the title of one of the worst movies ever filmed, according to the Internet Movie Database. But anyway, I have the pleasure to wish you a merry Christmas.

  • Franck Brudieux black and white reptiles

    Franck Brudieux recently made an impressive photo work on reptiles. Usually, reptiles are subject for nature photography insisting on placing the animal in its natural context. Here, Franck moved to a studio and decided to favor heavily the skins and surfaces of the animals and went for Black and White images. Something completely out of…

  • The Linux Equivalent project

    The Linux Equivalent project

    If you jumped from Windows to GNU/linux you are certainly looking for the equivalent Linux programs for your previous Windows applications. This is exactly what the Linux Equivalent project provides: A list of Windows programs with their “equivalents” on GNU/Linux. But you have to understand that some “equivalences” are not exactly on par with Windows…